Gustav Strupp

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Gustav Strupp
Representative residential and company headquarters Strupps in Meiningen
Strupp's life's work - the “Bank for Thuringia” in Meiningen
Gustav Strupp's grave in Meiningen Park Cemetery

Gustav Strupp (born July 9, 1851 in Dreiässigacker , † December 4, 1918 in Meiningen ) was an important banker and influential politician . He was a co-founder of the bank for Thuringia in Meiningen, financial advisor to Duke Georg II and vice-president of the Meiningen state parliament .

Life

Gustav Strupp was born in 1851 as the eldest child of a wealthy Jewish family in Drei 30acker, a district of Meiningen today. The Strupp family founded the IM Strupp trading company in Meiningen in 1715, specializing in the grain trade. Renamed to BM Strupp in 1740 , a bank was added in 1742 , which was based in Meiningen. In 1857 Gustav started school at the Meiningen boys' school and in 1861, after the family moved to Meiningen in the same year, he switched to the Bernhardinum grammar school . There he graduated from high school in 1868 . He then acquired the right to study at a leading university after another year at the grammar school in Eisenach .

When the Franco-Prussian War broke out , Gustav received a draft order , but was later dismissed because the men were only required to do military service at the age of 20. At first, the war prevented his planned law studies, after which he had to devote himself to banking because of his father, who was seriously ill, and in 1872 joined the Molonear bank in Berlin-Lichterfelde . When his father Mayer Strupp died in December 1873, Gustav returned to Meiningen after earning a doctorate in law from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin for 300 marks. Together with his uncle Anselm Strupp and his mother Ida, he continued to run the BM Strupp Meiningen banking house with branches in Gotha and Salzungen . He received the power of attorney for the bank from his father shortly before his death. After the death of his uncle Anselm in 1877, his widow Thecla became co-owner of the bank. Thecla Strupp (born September 7, 1833) was born in Hirsch and was born in Cochem ad Mosel. Together they opened another branch in Hildburghausen .

In 1879 Gustav Strupp married Fanny Bloch , who was ten years his junior and whose father owned the Bloch & Co. banking house in Nuremberg . From 1881, Gustav made extensive new investments by bringing numerous companies to the Berlin stock exchange and, with a majority of shares, he became chairman or member of 28 supervisory boards . After the death of his mother in 1883 and the departure of his aunt Thecla from the company in 1885, he continued to run the bank together with his younger brothers Meinhold and Louis. Gustav soon became an important figure in the Meiningen and Thuringian economies and was considered the wealthiest citizen in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen . In 1895 he became chairman of the Meiningen Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In social life he also belonged to numerous associations and boards.

The companies converted into stock corporations included (excerpt): The Am Kreuzberg brewery in Meiningen (1881), the malt factory in Mellrichstadt , the Munich ironworks , the “Dalmatia” coal company in Vienna , the salt and salt bath in Salzungen, the wagon factory in Gotha , the “ Sächsischer Hof ” hotel in Meiningen, the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin and, in the porcelain industry, the works in Hermsdorf (Thuringia) (1888), Rauenstein (1900) and Selb ( Hutschenreuther / 1902). Gustav Strupp combined all of the porcelain works he ran to form the Strupp Group . In Hermsdorf he was made an honorary citizen in 1896 because of his services.

Having achieved great wealth, Gustav Strupp then founded several foundations together with his wife Fanny , which benefited the poorer population and children in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen. The couple continued to make numerous donations for the common good.

In 1897 Strupp was elected to the Meiningen municipal council and in 1903 to the Saxony-Meiningen state parliament, to which he belonged until his death. His constituency in the state parliament was Schalkau- Rauenstein. In 1905, Dr. Gustav Strupp, together with his brothers Meinhard Strupp and Louis Strupp, converted the BM Strupp bank into the Aktiengesellschaft Bank für Thüringen, which he led as chairman of the supervisory board until 1918. The architect Karl Behlert built a new building for the bank on Leipziger Strasse from 1906 to 1908.

In 1910, Strupp had a magnificent palace ( Strupp Villa , also by Behlert) built on Bernhardstrasse near the Meininger Theater as a company and residence. It was during the communist era as a cultural center and later as a community center used is since under monument protection and now owned by his heirs. Gustav Strupp found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Meiningen.

Foundations (selection)

  • BMStrupp wood and coal foundation for the poorer people, capital 20,000 marks, 1885.
  • Strupp Foundation for Loans for the Poor People, 20,000 Marks, 1889.
  • Fanny Strupp Foundation in favor of the Georgen Hospital in Meiningen, 20,000 marks, 1904.
  • BMStrupp Foundation for Public Libraries , annual opening or expansion of two libraries in Saxony-Meiningen, 1907.
  • BMStrupp Foundation for local arms in Drei 30acker , 1909.
  • BMStrupp Foundation for the “Charlottenhall” children's sanatorium in Salzungen (Bad Salzungen) , 1912.

Honors

literature

  • Kuratorium Meiningen: Lexicon on the history of the city of Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag Meiningen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
  • Meininger Mediengesellschaft mbH : The art lover and generous patron . In: Meininger Heimat-Klänge. Issue 6, December 2008.
  • Angelika Schleindl: Traces of the Past, Jewish Life in the Cochem-Zell District. 1996, ISBN 3-929745-35-6 , p. 200: Family tree of the Hirsch family.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Strupp  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files