Karl Herzfeld (banker)

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"Dr. Karl Herzfeld ”;
Drawing by August Heitmüller , around 1929
The "Gottfried Herzfeld Bank Store" at the corner of Schillerstrasse and Andreaestrasse in Hanover;
in the foreground on the left the bank Adolph Meyer

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

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ 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
personal data
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