Hans Rinn (bank manager)

Hans Rinn as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Hans Willi Rinn (born March 4, 1899 in Heuchelheim , Upper Hesse; † February 1993 ) was a German bank manager and industrialist.

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Youth and times of National Socialism

Rinn was the son of a farmer. He left high school in 1918 with the upper secondary qualification. He then joined Dresdner Bank , where ultimately u. a. a department in the branch office took over.

In 1931, Rinn moved to the Berlin headquarters of Dresdner Bank , where he was Carl Goetz's assistant from autumn 1933 to the end of 1934 . At the end of 1934 he was appointed head (directorate department head) of the consortium department (consortium office). From February 1939 until the end of the Second World War , Rinn then headed the stock exchange department (head of the stock exchange) at Dresdner Bank. Since spring 1935, Rinn has held the rank of deputy director and since spring 1935 that of a director of Dresdner Bank.

Rinn, who had been a member of the NSDAP since April 1941 , did not have to take part in the Second World War due to a shoulder injury.

post war period

After the war, Rinn first found his livelihood as a director at the cigar factory Rinn & Cloos , which belonged to his uncle Ludwig Rinn (1870–1958) and was the market leader in the German cigar market at the time. Rinn brought the company's products to customers by bike in a backpack.

In addition, Rinn tacitly continued to work for the Dresdner Bank, for which the shares from the Frankfurt vault of his bank were unloaded by bicycle at the branches. Since the stock exchange prices in the British zone of occupation were higher than those in the American zone , he transported IG Farben shares to Hamburg for weeks , where he sold them at a high profit. In the spring of 1946 he was caught there and arrested by the Americans who detained him in the district court of Gießen for illegally continuing management functions at the dissolved Dresdner Bank . After he was sentenced to one year in prison by a military court , he had to serve nine months in the Butzbach prison.

Shortly after his release, Rinn was arrested again and kept in the Nuremberg witness prison until December 21, 1947 as a witness for the Nuremberg trials .

In the post-war period, from 1952 to 1964, Rinn was CEO of Hamburger Kreditbank , one of the four legal successors of Dresdner Bank, which were later absorbed into the same. In addition, Rinn sat on the board of numerous companies. In 1965 he belonged to the Spiegel according to 22 board members, u. a. as chairman of the board of directors of the Dortmund knight brewery, the Dortmund Elbschloss brewery, the Glückauf brewery, the wool yarn factory Tittel and Krüger Spinnerei AG. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bank for Industry and Commerce, Jurid Werke GmbH, "Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG , Phrix-Werke AG , Export Kredit AG, Deutsche Erdöl AG, Deutsche Hypothekenbank, and Dom-Brauerei Carl Funke AG, the Erdöl-Raffinerie Emsland trade union, Hitdorfer Brauerei AG and Hüttenwerk Salzgitter AG. Rinn also owned a 500 acre estate near Quickborn in Holstein, where he bred horses.

In the early 1990s it was established that Rinn had several millions of his assets - u. a. in the form of gold bars and Kruger Rand - moved to Liechtenstein .

literature

• Who is who. 1972.

Web links

• Witness literature on Hans Rinn on the website of the Institute for Contemporary History