Johannes Zahn (banker)

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Johannes Carl Detloff Zahn (born January 21, 1907 in Aachen ; † September 14, 2000 ) was a German bank manager.

Life

Zahn's parents were the lawyer Hans Zahn and his wife Käthe geb. from Cossel .

Zahn attended the humanistic high school in Barmen . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University . On October 22, 1925 he was active in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . On June 18, 1926 recipiert , he was sent to 10 rackets and two saber games on July 20, 1928 inactivated . He moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1929 he passed the legal traineeship exam in Cologne. In the same year he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. 1930/31 he was an assistant at Harvard University , where he earned the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science .

Banking industry

From 1933 to 1934, Zahn was a legal clerk at the Central Association of the German Banking and Banking Industry . Assessor since 1934 , he established himself as a lawyer in Berlin in 1935. At the same time he was managing director of the German Institute for Banking Science and Banking . From 1937 on he was legal counsel and later department director of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft . During the Second World War he served in the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945 . From 1940–1943 he was administrator for British and American banks in Belgium. In 1946 he joined the CG Trinkaus banking house in Düsseldorf. The following year he became a co-owner of the bank. Until 1971 he belonged to the financial institution as a personally liable partner and most recently as a senior partner. When the Trinkaus and Burkhardt banks merged in early 1972, Zahn moved from active management to the board of directors, which he chaired for a long time. When the elections of the first German directors for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund came up in Mexico City in September 1952 , Zahn was given the task of being the managing director of the Federal Republic of Germany and Yugoslavia at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Washington To represent DC. In August 1954, Zahn resigned from this post at his own request in order to be able to concentrate more on his work as a senior partner in the CG Trinkaus banking house. The focus of his work at Trinkaus & Burkhardt was international business and securities .

Honorary positions

Zahn rendered great services to the improvement of economic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and its (western) neighboring states. He made a decisive contribution to reducing the distrust of Germany in the first post-war years. A large number of mandates and functions in important organizations confirm his committed work in this area. From 1960 to 1976 he was the Royal Norwegian Electoral Consul for North Rhine-Westphalia, for many years President of the German-Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and Vice-President of the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain . He was a member of the official Franco-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Paris) and the Foreign Trade Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Economics . From 1967 to 1977 he was President of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Börse . As chairman of the committee for corporate law , he participated in the reform of the German stock corporation law . He was also involved as a co-founder and later Vice President of the German Association for Protection of Securities . He sat on many boards .

Private

Joachim Zahn was a brother. He was married to Lotte-Viktoria Brandeis from Mühlheim since 1938 . One son is Philipp Zahn , a board member at MAN.

Honors

Publications

  • Foreign trade banking technology
  • Payment and payment security in foreign trade
  • The private banker
  • Business leadership and contract ethics in the New Company Law (1934)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128 , 819
  2. ↑ a b c d Johannes Zahn I , in: Die Tübinger Rhenanen , 5th edition (2002), pp. 190–191
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The fiduciary transfer and administration of corporate rights, especially shares, Kuxen and GmbH shares .
personal data
SURNAME Zahn, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zahn, Johannes Carl Detloff (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2000