Hans Arnhold (banker)

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Hans Arnhold (born May 30, 1888 in Dresden , † September 8, 1966 in Lausanne ) was a German-American banker.

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Hans Arnhold was the fifth of six children and the youngest son of the Dresden banker Georg Arnhold and his wife Anna nee. Beyer (1860-1917). Eduard Arnhold and Max Arnhold were his uncles. Like his brothers Adolf (1884–1950), Heinrich (1885–1935) and Kurt (1887–1951), he joined the family business Bankhaus Gebrüder Arnhold and took over its Berlin representative office. In 1931 he played a leading role in the partnership with the S. Bleichröder bank . Shortly after the company's main building in Dresden, the Berlin part was also “ Aryanized ” in 1938 .

Arnhold and his wife Ludmilla geb. Heller and daughter Anna-Maria first to Paris and to the USA in 1939 to emigrate , where he led the New York branch of Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder built the new headquarters of the company. The couple's large art collection and library on Avenue Maurice Barres in Paris was confiscated in 1941 by Reichsleiter Rosenberg's operations staff, and in 1945 only part of it was found.

Hans Arnhold Center

Hans Arnhold Center

In Berlin, the Arnhold family lived in a large villa on Wannsee from 1926 , which Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk appropriated in 1939 and which later served as the officers' club of the American army in Berlin. Funded by Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold's daughter Anna-Maria and her husband Stephen M. Kellen , this became the Hans Arnhold Center of the American Academy in Berlin in 1998 .

literature

  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus : Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Volume 1, Saur, Munich 1999, p. 178
  • Dieter G. Maier, Jürgen Nürnberger: New Home Brazil - The Escape of the Levy and Arnhold Families according to their letters from 1933 to 1945 (= Jewish miniatures 199), Hentrich and Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95565-194-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Ziegler: The Dresdner Bank and the German Jews. (= The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich, Volume 2), Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57781-5 , p. 148 ff.
  2. ^ The Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume contains descriptions of 195 objects. See also the 37 entries in the Lost Art Database
  3. ↑ American Academy in Berlin: Hans Arnhold Center ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanacademy.de
personal data
SURNAME Arnhold, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American banker
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1966
Place of death Lausanne , Canton of Vaud , Switzerland