Gustav Overbeck (banker)

Gustav Overbeck as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Gustav Overbeck (born February 21, 1893 in Hildesheim , † February 7, 1952 in Hamburg ) was a German banker.

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Overbeck joined the Hanover branch of Dresdner Bank as an apprentice in March 1914 . From 1920 to 1923 he was one of several managers of the Linden deposit bank in Hanover . He then acted as head of the organization department in Hanover from 1923 to 1925.

From 1925 to 1927 Overbeck was head of the Dresdner Bank branch in Göttingen ; He then returned to Hanover, where he was one of several managers of the branch from 1929 to 1934 before working in the lending business at Dresdner Bank's Berlin headquarters from October 1934.

After Overbeck had been a deputy member of the Board of Management of Dresdner Bank from March 1938 to July 1941, he became a regular member of the Board of Management in July 1941, which he remained until 1945. In this capacity he was responsible for the credit committee, industrial processing and advertising units. Since late autumn 1943, Overbeck was also a member of the North Board of Directors of Dresdner Bank and head of the command post at the Berlin headquarters.

From the end of May to October 1945, Overbeck was the only board member of Dresdner Bank who remained in Berlin . He then went back to Hanover, where he was officially suspended. In 1947 he became a member of the management of the Dresdner Bank Central Office for the British Zone of Occupation . He was then taken into custody by the Americans and used in the Nuremberg trials .

From 1948 until his death, Overbeck was a member of the management of Hamburger Kreditbank .

literature

• Johannes Bähr: The Dresdner Bank in the economy of the Third Reich , 2006, p. 608.