Heinz Ansmann

Heinz Ansmann (born January 19, 1906 in Grandorf ; † March 30, 1999 in Meerbusch ) was a German banker . The bank operating under his name took a leading position among German private banks in the field of issuing industrial borrower's note loans after the currency reform .

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Heinz Ansmann began his law studies in 1925 and was admitted to the bar at the Berlin Regional Court in 1932. Not deterred by the global economic crisis , he immediately began his career in the banking industry. First he worked in the redevelopment department at Dresdner Bank in Berlin, then in 1933 he moved to the consortium department as an issuing specialist.

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Heinz Ansmann was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940, but then released again and worked as financial advisor to the General Commissioner for Finance and Economics in The Hague in 1940/41 . In 1942 he returned to Dresdner Bank and in 1943 he returned to the Wehrmacht.

After the end of the Second World War, Heinz Ansmann participated in the reconstruction of the German banking industry and the economy, first in the syndicate department of Dresdner Bank Hamburg, then as co-manager of the branch in Düsseldorf. In 1948 he went into self-employment; In 1953, the well-known banking house Heinz Ansmann was founded in Düsseldorf. The old bank building designed by the architects Hentrich & Heuser is still located directly on the Hofgarten opposite the Thyssen high-rise .

In addition, he was early involved in AIDS research with the Heinz Ansmann Foundation named after him. The foundation has been supporting AIDS research since 1986, for example with the prize awarded every two years and by financing the Heinz Ansmann endowed professorship for AIDS research at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf .

literature

• Heinz Ansmann, banker. Memories of sixty years of German economic history, v. Hase & Koehler Verlag, Mainz 1993