Joachim Entzian
Joachim Wilhelm Eduard Entzian (born July 9, 1891 in Berlin ; † February 25, 1968 in Davos ) was a German bank manager. Among other things, he became known as a leading figure at Dresdner Bank during the Nazi and post-war years.
Life
Joachim Wilhelm Eduard Entzian was born on July 9, 1891 in Berlin as the son of the Reichsbank accountant Otto Hermann Entzian and his wife Karoline Wilhelmine Elise. Kalesky was born at Solmsstrasse 43. In his youth, Entzian attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Berlin, where he passed the final exam in autumn 1910. After working for six months at the private bank F.W. Krause & Co. in Berlin, he studied law and political science at the universities in Berlin and Greifswald . On August 16, 1914, Entzian passed the legal traineeship before the examination committee of the Stettin Higher Regional Court and was then referred to the Grimmen District Court for training with effect from October 1, 1914.
Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, Entzian joined the Kaiser Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 2 in Berlin as a war volunteer. With this he took part in the battles off Ypres. He was later promoted to sergeant and after serious illness from the hospital he was assigned to a mobile court martial in Belgium. This command came to an end when he was released from army service in the summer of 1916.
In October 1916, Entzian began working as a trainee lawyer at the Royal District Court in Grimmen. In 1917 he did his doctorate at Frommhold in Greifswald with a commercial law thesis on the del credere commission for Dr. Jur.
From May 1920 to October 1926, Entzian was a legal adviser in the so-called peace department of Deutsche Bank , which dealt with the financial settlement of the international obligations of the Weimar Republic, in particular those arising from the Versailles Treaty . In 1922 he was admitted to the bar at the Berlin Regional Court . In November 1926, Entzian moved from Deutsche Bank to Danat-Bank , which after its collapse in 1931 was taken over by Dresdner Bank . From 1932, Entzian worked as an in-house counsel with a focus on foreign business for Dresdner Bank.
During the Second World War , Entzian became head of the special tasks department of the foreign secretariat, in which he a. a. was responsible for the economic plundering of Belgium and the Netherlands and for stealth deals with neutral countries. From 1939 he was also managing director of the Allgemeine Waren-Finanz-Gesellschaft, then from 1941 to 1944 also president of the board of directors of the Continentalen Bank in Brussels and deputy chairman of the advisory board of Handelstrust West in Amsterdam . He worked with Karl Rasche on this. Entzian was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Continentale Bank SA (Brussels). From January 1944 he was with the West Board of Directors in Bad Nauheim .
In October 1945, Entzian took over the foreign secretariat and the legal department for the western occupation zones at Dresdner Bank , a position in which he was directly subordinate to the management board. In this capacity he began in the summer of 1946 to institutionalize the collection of exonerating material in favor of the Dresdner Bank for a feared banking process by the Allies .
In March 1947, Entzian was finally arrested by the Allies and interned in Nuremberg until December of the same year , where he participated as a witness in the war crimes trials there. After his release, Entzian held office for almost twelve years until 1959 as director of the foreign secretariat of Dresdner Bank in Hamburg and as general counsel of the head office of Hamburger Kreditbank and Dresdner Bank AG. His long-term employee Jürgen Ponto was his successor in this position .
Entzian died after a brief illness at the end of February 1968 at his retirement home in Davos.
Fonts
- The del credere commission of § 394 BGB , Greifswald, 1917
- Tax reform 1958 , Berlin: Titz, 1958
literature
- Ralf Ahrens: The Dresdner Bank 1945–1957: Consequences and Continuities after the End of the Nazi Regime . Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58303-8 .
- Klaus-Dietmar Henke : The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich . Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57780-8 . (Four volumes)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Standesamt Berlin 4a No. 2655/1891
- ↑ a b Ralf Ahrens (ed.): Die Dresdner Bank 1945–1957 , Munich 2007, p. 466f.
- ↑ Joachim Entzian: The del credere commission of § 394 HGB . University of Greifswald, Greifswald 1917.
- ↑ Dresdner Bank AG (ed.): Jürgen Ponto: Short biography (PDF; 810 kB) . Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft eV, historical archive of the Dresdner Bank. (accessed on January 16, 2011.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Entzian, Joachim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Entzian, Joachim Wilhelm Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker and economic functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1968 |
| Place of death | Davos |