Kurt Hirschland

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Kurt Martin Hirschland (born May 14, 1882 in Essen , † January 2, 1957 in New York City ) was a German-Jewish banker as well as deputy chairman of the supervisory board and member of the supervisory boards of several banks, collieries and companies, including Friedrich Krupp AG . He was also a city ​​councilor for the city of Essen and a board member of the Jewish community in Essen.

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Kurt Hirschland was born in Essen as the son of the banker, city councilor of the city of Essen and commercial councilor Isaac Hirschland . After attending the Burggymnasium , he completed an apprenticeship in banking at home and abroad. In 1905 he was responsible for the business of the Simon Hirschland Bank, founded by his grandfather Simon Hirschland in 1841 . After the death of his father in 1912, Kurt Hirschland and his brother Georg became the owner of the private bank. As a banker, he sat on the central committee of the Reichsbank.

Kurt Hirschland married Henriette Hildegard Simons (1889–1968) from Düsseldorf , with whom he had two daughters and two sons. He also received the honorary title of Commerce Council.

Hirschland was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of several banks (including the Dresdner Bank ), companies and industrial companies as well as deputy chairman of the board of several coal mines. From January 1927 to January 1934 he was a member of the supervisory board of Friedrich Krupp AG. He then withdrew from banking for health reasons.

The academic courses for commercial science and general advanced training as the forerunner of the Essen Adult Education Center were supported by Hirschland with its own lectures and courses.

In 1936 Hirschland emigrated to the Netherlands . After he had already been in the USA in February 1936, he drove with his wife on the Bremen from Southampton to New York on December 5, 1936 , where they arrived on December 10, 1936 and also returned to Essen. In 1938 the Simon Hirschland Bank was forcibly liquidated and the business was integrated into the Burkhardt & Co bank (today HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt ). After his family, who were also Jewish , fled the National Socialists to New York in 1938 , Kurt Hirschland emigrated to Switzerland in 1939 , where he spent the years of World War II . In 1950 he finally emigrated to New York, where he died seven years later.

literature

  • Uwe Keßler: On the history of management at Krupp: from the start of the company to the dissolution of Fried. Krupp AG (1811-1943) . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-515-06486-6 , pp. 203 f .
  • Hermann Schroeter: History and Fate of Essen Jews: The Hirschland Family from Essen . Essen 1980, p. 174 f .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data on the person and family in the Euregio family book
personal data
SURNAME Hirschland, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschland, Kurt Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, local politician, entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1957
Place of death New York City