Karl Max von Hellingrath

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Karl Max Ferdinand Maria Freiherr von Hellingrath (born January 2, 1905 in Landau in the Palatinate , † May 7, 1977 in Munich ) was a German lawyer. From 1946 to 1954 he was President of the Bayerische Staatsbank .

Career

He was the son of the later Bavarian Minister of War, Philipp von Hellingrath . After graduating from high school in 1923, von Hellingrath studied law in Erlangen and Munich at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , where he passed the state examination. In 1926 he was entitled “Soviet State. Development and Legal Structure of Soviet Russia (USSR) ”. In Munich he joined the Catholic student union Rheno-Bavaria . Later von Hellingrath married Maria Johanna geb. Freiin von Puthon and went into the Bavarian civil service. In July 1936, Hellingrath became a member of the supervisory board of Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG as ministerial director . There he represented the German state as a shareholder.

In 1946 von Hellingrath became President of the Bayerische Staatsbank , but temporarily suspended his office as his denazification process had not yet been completed. When state central banks based on the American model were to be founded in place of the Reichsbankanstalten in Germany , Hellingrath managed to keep the old system in Bavaria , which provided for a “dual function as the house bank of the Bavarian state and as a bank for the private sector”. In 1951 he was appointed to the BMW supervisory board. On June 30, 1954, he resigned from his position as President of the State Bank, as the Bavarian State Parliament had - against his recommendation - converted the management board's employment contracts to a private-sector basis. His successor was Alfred Jamin. From 1954 to 1955 von Hellingrath was personally liable partner at the Berlin trading company in Frankfurt am Main.

Hellingrath has always been - also internationally - as well networked. In 1964 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit . He was the father of a daughter.

Publications

  • Karl Max von Hellingrath: The Soviet State. Development u. Legal structure of Soviet Russia (USSR) Ebering, Munich 1930

literature

  • Handbook of the nobility in Bavaria, 1963, Degener publishing house

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Federal Archives
  2. ^ Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. Annual report on the three academic years 1922/23, 1923/24, 1924/25. Munich 1925.
  3. ↑ List of the members of the supervisory board
  4. ^ A description of the tasks of the Bayerische Staatsbank by Hellingrath in Die Zeit
  5. ↑ As also smugly remarked by 'Der Spiegel'
personal data
SURNAME Hellingrath, Karl Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellingrath, Friedrich Karl Max Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1977
Place of death Munich