Karl Herzfeld (banker)
Karl Herzfeld (born February 9, 1883 in Hanover ; died June 13, 1970 in Munich ) was a German lawyer , banker and association official with a Jewish religious affiliation.
Life
Karl Herzfeld was one of three sons of Gottfried Herzfeld (born August 17, 1864 in Braunschweig ; died October 25, 1902 in Hanover), a son of the Braunschweig rabbi Levi Herzfeld . His mother was Jenny Meyer (born July 29, 1851 in Hanover; died December 30, 1934 there), a daughter of the Hanoverian rabbi Samuel Ephraim Meyer . Karl's brothers were Rudolf (born September 19, 1872 in Hanover; died March 5, 1939 in the United Kingdom ) and Otto Herzfeld (born 1873; died July 29, 1887 of diphtheria ).
Karl Herzfeld studied law and earned the Dr. jur. He then worked as a court assessor. He was decommissioned in order to join the Gottfried Herzfeld banking house built in 1874 as a partner in 1902 .
In the 1920s, Karl Herzfeld - one of around 6,000 Jews living in Hanover at the time - was one of the city's leading Jewish personalities. The private banker was chairman of the Association of Hannoverscher Bankfirmen eV, a member of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry and deputy chairman of the Association of German Private Bankers eV based in Dresden .
Karl Herzfeld survived the Holocaust and died in the Bavarian capital in 1970.
See also
literature
- NN : Dr. Karl Herzfeld , in: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , Vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without year: 1929] (without page number)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c N.N .: Dr. Karl Herzfeld , in: August Heitmüller (draftsman), Wilhelm Metzig (concept): Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature , Vol. 1, printing and publishing company Heinrich Osterwald, Hanover [without year: 1929] (without page number)
- ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : Beginnings and Rise of the NSDAP , in Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft , 1994, ISBN 978-3-87706-364-4 and ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 455-461; here: p. 461; Preview over google books
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SURNAME | Herzfeld, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, banker and association official of the Jewish faith |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1883 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1970 |
Place of death | Munich |