Inge Lore Behre

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Inge Lore Ursula Behre (born as Inge Lore Ursula Petri on February 13, 1920 in Insterburg ; died on January 23, 1987 in West Berlin ) was a German economist and banking supervisor .

Life

She came from an East Prussian civil servant family and studied economics in Königsberg , Göttingen and Erlangen and graduated in 1942 with a business degree. From 1943 she worked for the auditing company Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG . In 1943 she married. Her husband died in 1945 and the marriage resulted in a son.

In 1948 she did her doctorate on "Stages on the way to determining the essence of money". In the same year she was hired at the Landeszentralbank Niedersachsen in Hanover . From 1951 to 1962 she was responsible for banking supervision in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance.

In 1962 she was appointed head of the credit unions department in the newly established Federal Banking Supervisory Office (BAKred), where she also became the President's deputy from 1971. From 1975 to 1984 she was the third president of BAKred at the suggestion of Hans Apel , succeeding Heinz Kalkstein and Günter Dürre . At the beginning of her term of office, the Herstatt Bank went bankrupt , the biggest crisis in the German banking system until then. Then she fought for tighter controls on banks, minimization of risks and greater transparency; however, the amendment to the 1976 Banking Act fell short of its demands.

She became known for drastic reprimands from bank executives, some of whom she issued “bans on activity”. It had to solve another major crisis in the spring of 1983 when the private bank Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. (SMH) also got into a crisis due to the bankruptcy of IBH Holding . Behre arranged the rescue of the bank with the help of the liquidity syndicate bank and a write-off of the debts of the 20 largest creditors of SMH.

Behre had planned to retire at the end of 1982, but remained in office after the vote of no confidence in Helmut Schmidt in order to avoid any uncertainty in the financial markets. She did not retire until 1984 and shortly thereafter experienced the renewed amendments to the Banking Act, which she had prepared in terms of content.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gabriele Metzler : Women Who Made It - Portraits of Successful Careers . Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-430-1655-04 .
  2. ↑ Inge Lore Behre in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  3. ^ Der Spiegel : Obituary on February 2, 1987, digitized version
  4. ↑ a b Der Spiegel: “In the past you would have shot yourself” , January 16, 1986. Digitized
  5. ↑ Rudolf Herlt: supervision without intervention. In: Die Zeit online. February 17, 1984, accessed June 7, 2017 (print edition 8/1984).
personal data
SURNAME Behre, Inge Lore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behre, Inge Lore Ursula (full name); Petri, Inge Lore Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and banking supervisor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1987
Place of death West Berlin