Kurt Kleinschmidt
Kurt Kleinschmidt (born March 5, 1904 in Höchst am Main , † February 12, 1989 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer specializing in banking .
Live and act
Kleinschmidt was a son of the doctor Emil Kleinschmidt and his wife Elsa geb. Ossuary. In his youth he attended pre-school from 1910 to 1913 and from 1913 to 1922 the humanistic grammar school in Hoechst. After passing the school leaving examination in March 1922, he studied law , economics and business administration at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (1st semester) and the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg (2nd to 4th semester). In 1923 he became active in the Corps Suevia Freiburg . When he was inactive , he went back to Frankfurt (5th to 7th semester).
After he had passed the legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main in November 1925 , he completed the legal preparatory service at courts in Frankfurt am Main , Höchst and Wiesbaden . He interrupted him for a year to work in the winter semester 1926/27 and in the summer semester 1927 as assistant to Friedrich Klausing at the law faculty of the University of Frankfurt. With a doctorate in Hans-Otto de Boor he became in 1927 a doctorate . In 1929 he passed the assessor examination at the higher court . When Dr. iur. In 1930 he headed the Kösener Congress .
After the NSDAP won the Reichstag election in March 1933 , Kleinschmidt joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party on May 1, 1933 . As a member of the Reiter-SS , he became a member of the Schutzstaffel on October 1, 1933 (SS no. 150.614). From 1933 to 1937 Kleinschmidt served as General Counsel of Deutsche Zentralbodencredit-AG in Berlin. In September 1937 he moved to the board of directors of the Mecklenburgische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Schwerin.
Shortly after the beginning of the Second World War , Kleinschmidt was drafted into the (Baden) Cavalry Regiment 14 on September 7, 1939. After eight weeks of military training in Schwerin and Parchim , he was given leave of absence by the Wehrmacht on November 7, 1939 at the direction of State Secretary Wilhelm Keppler from the German Foreign Office and was given service to the newly founded Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand (DUT). The purpose of this organization was to supply and care for the members of the German minorities from other, especially Eastern and Southeastern European countries, who were increasingly transferred from abroad to the German Reich. He had been proposed for this position as a well-known real estate and mortgage specialist. As a result, he was the second managing director of the DUT until the end of the war.
At the end of the Second World War, Kleinschmidt was automatically arrested . As a result, he was interrogated as a witness in the Nuremberg trials . In the post-war period , Kleinschmidt took part in the founding of the West German finance company in 1949 and in 1952 in the founding of the West German credit bank for building finance in Cologne. He then belonged to the latter until around 1970 as CEO and the former until the late 1960s as managing director. He also sat on several supervisory boards .
He was married to Gisela geb. v. Schultz from Gut Granskevitz on Rügen . With her he had a son and two daughters.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Archives Corps Suevia Freiburg
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 36 , 785
- ↑ Dissertation: The power of attorney granted beyond death
literature
- Who is who? 1986, p. 689.
Web links
- Institute for Contemporary History: Witness literature on Kurt Kleinschmidt in the archive of the Institute for Contemporary History (PDF; 5.0 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinschmidt, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer in banking |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | High on the Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1989 |
| Place of death | Cologne |