Kurt Gumpel (banker)

Kurt Gumpel (born December 25, 1896 in Hanover ; died April 16, 1972 there ) was a German banker , consul of Austria and as a member of various supervisory boards as well as chairman of the supervisory board in the German cement , potash and machine industries , among others .

Life

Kurt Gumpel was born in Hanover during the founding of the German Empire as a son of the Kommerzienrat, banker Julius Gumpel and Alice , née Steinberg (1874–1935).

After graduating from high school, Gumpel served from 1914 to 1918 as a volunteer during the First World War , during which he was temporarily imprisoned as a prisoner of war in Greece . During the Weimar Republic , he studied political science for two semesters in Cologne at the university there , then went through training as a banker and then joined the Gumpel bank as a partner - just like his father before him - for which he then acted with individual power of attorney .

After Kurt Gumpel converted to Catholicism and married his first wife Olga Dahl (1889–1947) in January 1921 , with whom he had two children, he also became a co-owner of the Hanover bank Ephraim Meyer & Sohn, which his father took over in 1924 . His son Peter Gumpel was first brought to Paris in 1933, returned to the family's villa in Berlin in 1935, and in 1938, after the Kristallnacht, he went to a Jesuit boarding school in Nijmwegen with the help of the Jesuit Order. There he survived the war under a false name before joining the order and going to Rome in 1946.

Kurt Gumpel was involved in the merger of the United Elektrotechnische Fabriken Lüdenscheid , at the time the largest company for installation materials in Germany, whose supervisory board chair he took over, in addition to numerous positions on other supervisory boards.

After the National Socialists seized power in January 1935 , Gumpel , who was appointed Austrian consul, emigrated to Paris and later to Portugal . During this time, Gumpel's father Julius was first deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and then deported to Treblinka , where he was murdered at the end of September of the same year.

After the end of the Second World War , the death of his first wife Olga in 1947 and the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany , Gumpel returned to Germany from Lisbon in October 1949 . His second wife was Ilse Vogelsang . Kurt Gumpel died in his hometown of Hanover in 1972.

See also

• History of the Jews in Hanover

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Ges.-Ltg.), Sybille Claus, Beatrix Schmidt (Red.), Jan Foitzik , Louise Forsyth, Lea Honigwachs, Waltraud Ireland, Hartmut Mehringer, Egon Radvany , Hanns G. Reissner, Werner Röder, Dieter Marc Schneider, Herbert A. Strauss: Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 (= International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 ), Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life , ed. from the Institute for Contemporary History and the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, Inc., New York, Munich, New York, London, Paris: KG Saur Verlag, 1980, ISBN 0-89664-101-5 ; P. 254; online through google books
2. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Church canonized former Popes John Paul II and John XXIII - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved November 21, 2016 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Peter Schulze : Bankhaus Ephraim Meyer & Sohn. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 47.