Heinrich Kirchholtes

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Heinrich Kirchholtes (born January 3, 1886 in Wiesbaden , † July 23, 1959 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) was a German banker.

Life

Heinrich Kirchholtes studied law and political science at the University of Bonn . In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Bonn . He took part in the First World War as a reserve officer . After the second state examination , he settled as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main . He married a daughter of the banker Karl Sulzbach and on January 1, 1920 became a partner in the Frankfurt banking house Gebrüder Sulzbach .

He was a member of the supervisory board of the AG for construction works, before. Georg Lönholdt und Söhne GmbH in Frankfurt am Main, the Braunschweigische Landes-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in Braunschweig, the Consolidierte Alkaliwerke Westeregeln , the Deutsche Hypothekenbank Meiningen , the Eisenbahn-Bank in Frankfurt am Main, the Eisenbahn-Rentenbank in Frankfurt am Main and the Kaliwerke Salzdetfurth AG in Salzdetfurth . He was a member of the board of directors of the Graz Tramway Society in Graz and was a member of the mining board of the Roßleben trade union in Roßleben and the Thuringia trade union in Hegendorf.

In 1937 the Sulzbach Brothers banking house had to be " Aryanized " under pressure from the NSDAP . Heinrich Kirchholtes took over the sole management. In doing so, he succeeded in getting his brother-in-law Walter Sulzbach adequate remuneration at the expense of Kirchholtes' capital account. Since then, the bank has been called Bankhaus Heinrich Kirchholtes & Co. In May 1938, Kirchholtes also had to pay the silent capital contributions from Harry Cahn, Edmund Sulzbach and Hilda Lipstein, née. Bring Sulzbach to pay off.

After the Second World War , the bank continued business. In 1968, after 112 years of existence, the bank was taken over by Sal. Oppenheim .

In 1949 Heinrich Kirchholtes became a member of the action committee of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR) .

literature

  • Kirchholtes, Heinrich. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 925.
  • Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich . In: Series of publications on the journal for corporate history , Volume 14, 2nd edition, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Renkhoff: Kirchholtes, Heinrich . In: Nassau Biography: Short Biographies from 13 Centuries , 1992
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 16 , 433
  3. Esther Braunwarth: Intercultural Cooperation in Germany Using the Example of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation , 2011, pp. 107-108