Heinz Osterwind

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Heinz Osterwind (born May 28, 1905 in Krefeld , † July 31, 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German bank manager. He was a board member of Deutsche Bank AG (1957–1971).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1924, Heinz Osterwind completed an apprenticeship in the Krefeld branch of Deutsche Bank and then worked for the bank in Sofia and Paris. From 1930 he worked for industrial and international business at the Berlin headquarters of Deutsche Bank. He married in 1935. In 1937 he was granted power of attorney, in 1939 he became a department director. In 1941, Osterwind was given a management position at Kontinentale Öl AG , an oil company in Romania controlled by Deutsche Bank. He was also the delegate of the Board of Directors of Concordia Industrie Holding AG in Romania.

After the end of the Second World War and a denazification carried out (classification "unencumbered"), he worked again for Deutsche Bank and headed the Rheydt (1947–1951) and Munich (1951–1953) branches. In 1953 he became a board member of Süddeutsche Bank AG , based in Munich; after reintegration into the Deutsche Bank, he was its board member from 1957. He was responsible for the international business and the cash management of the entire bank, he also looked after the branch districts Frankfurt, Freiburg and Mainz. He was involved in 25 supervisory boards of very different companies, including AEG . He was chairman of the supervisory board of the AKA export credit company, which he founded. In 1970 he retired and was Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank until 1978.

In 1938, as an authorized signatory in the Berlin branch, Osterwind wrote a critical report for Deutsche Bank on the "Aryanization in Austria" and the effects on the banking business.

In 1954, he was from Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and appointed at the Cologne Order Basilica on December 8, 1954 St. Andrew by Lorenz Jaeger invested, Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy.

Honors

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  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who ?, Volume 17 , Schmidt-Römhild 1971, p. 798
  • Who's who in Finance and Industry , Marquis Who's Who 1977, p.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b People: Osterwind, Heinz , Deutsche Bank , January 25, 2014
  2. Harold James, Avraham Barkai: The Deutsche Bank and the "Aryanization" , CH Beck 2001, p. 136