Heinrich Martin (banker)

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Heinrich Martin , called Hein Martin (born August 15, 1890 in St. Ingbert , † March 31, 1968 ) was a German banker .

Life

Martin was the son of the powder manufacturer Georg Karl Heinrich Martin from the Saarland. One of his cousins ​​was Benno Martin , who was police chief of Nuremberg during the Nazi era. After attending elementary school in St. Ingbert (1896–1900) and high school in Speyer (1900–1909), he studied law at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Würzburg from 1909 to 1913. During his studies in Munich he was a member of the Corps Franconia Munich.

From 1913 he was a member of the 7th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment, with which he took part in the First World War as a first lieutenant from 1914 to 1918. During the war he submitted a dissertation supervised by Christian Meurer , with which he obtained the degree of Dr. jur. et. rer. pole. acquired.

Since the 1920s, Martin lived as a banker in Munich , where he became a partner and commandant and from 1939 sole owner of the private banking company Martin & Co. located at Fürstenstrasse 1 . Among other things, he was financial advisor to the former Bavarian royal family and to the NSDAP politician Gregor Strasser . When he joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1932, he was a member (membership number 873.923), and from 1940 to 1945 also of the DAF. Martins Bankhaus suffered a total loss on April 24, 1944. In 1945 he moved the headquarters of his bank to his apartment at 47 Bavariaring.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Martin partner of Bankhaus Hartog and board member was the German Effecten- und Wechsel Bank in Frankfurt. He was also a member of the supervisory boards of the Palatinate powder factories (1926–1937), the Süddeutsche Lederwerke (1928–1940), the Aschinger Gaststättenbetriebe AG in Berlin (1936–1945) and Anton Seidl GmbH in Munich (1940–1945) as well as the Reichsbahn Central Committee (1933-1938). He also served as deputy president from 1935 to 1938 and as president of the Munich Stock Exchange from 1939 to 1945 , where he had been a board member from 1923 to 1934.

Politically, Martin - who had already belonged to the relatively moderate Strasser wing of the party before 1933 - moved further and further away from the NSDAP. During the Second World War he belonged to the resistance group around Franz Sperr .

On November 10, 1948, Martin was assigned to group V ("exonerated") as part of the denazification by the Munich II Chamber of Justice.

Martin liquidated his banking house in 1962 by transferring it to the Bayerische Staatsbank. He spent the last years of his life on a small farm in Schleedorf.

family

Martin was married to Julie von Müller, a daughter of the physician Professor Friedrich von Müller (physician) . The marriage resulted in three daughters (Ursula, Lore and Nanette) and two sons (Hubert, Fritz). The son Fritz died in World War II. Hein Martin died on March 31, 1968 (document: family register)

Archival tradition

In the main state archive in Munich there is an officer personnel file on Martin from the time of the First World War (OP 8206). In addition, documents relating to him are kept in the office of the Federal Archives in Bayreuth (load balancing archive).

Fonts

  • The position of the port u. Coastal Sea in International Law , Würzburg 1918. (Dissertation)
  • “Stock exchange, banks and balance sheets. From a lecture by Dr. Hein Martin, Munich “, in: Bank Archive. Journal for banking and stock exchange , year 1939, Berlin, pp. 210–214.

literature

  • Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich: repression, elimination and the question of reparation, Munich 2003, p. 295.
  • Manuel Limbach: Citizens against Hitler. Prehistory, structure and work of the Bavarian »Sperr-Kreis«. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019 (= series of publications by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , Volume 102), ISBN 978-3-525-31071-7 .
  • Dieter J. Weiss: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869–1955). A political biography , 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manuel Limbach: Citizens against Hitler. Prehistory, structure and work of the Bavarian »Sperr-Kreis«, 2019 , p. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Hein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1968