Johann Friedrich Schröder

Johann Friedrich Schröder (born July 12, 1879 in Bremen , † November 16, 1933 in Bremen) was a German banker .

biography

Schröder was the son of a master shoemaker. He completed a bank apprenticeship at J. Schultze & Wolde in Bremen and supplemented his knowledge from 1899 to 1900 in Berlin . From 1900 he worked for the Bremer Bank .

Around 1900 he met Albert Ernst Weyhausen, son of the banker E. C. Weyhausen. In 1905 they both founded the Schröder and Weyhausen bank in Bremen, Langenstrasse No. 1. In 1905, Schröder also opened a securities - commission business in which mainly shares in the German steamship company "Hansa" were traded. The bank was also primarily involved in shipping. In 1919 the Bremen bank EC Weyhausen was taken over and in 1920 it was merged to form Bank JF Schröder KGaA ; soon house bank for Bremen and for many local companies. In 1923 she moved into the new bank building at Obernstrasse 2-12. In 1928 Schröder was involved in founding the Bremer Hansebank AG .

During the global economic crisis that began in 1929 and after the bankruptcy of Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei in July 1931, the Schröder Bank had to close in July 1931 despite support measures. The state reorganized and took over the company as the North German credit bank .

literature

• Dieter Leuthold:  Schröder, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 562 ( digitized version ).
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Eckhard Wandel : Banks and insurance companies in the 19th and 20th centuries (Encyclopedia of German History; Vol. 45). Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-55072-1 .

Web links

• Newspaper article about Johann Friedrich Schröder in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .