Ludwig Delbrück

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Ludwig Delbrück (born February 11, 1860 in Berlin ; † March 12, 1913 in Berlin - suicide) was a German banker.

Life

Loan for 1000 marks from Deutsche Wasserwerke AG on May 25, 1898; with the signature of Ludwig Delbrück on the Supervisory Board

Delbrück was the son of the banker Gottlieb Adelbert Delbrück . In 1886 he became a partner in the Delbrück, Leo & Co. bank , which his father co-founded , founded the "Deutsche Wasserwerke AG" in Berlin in 1889 and in 1891 joined the Society of Friends . In 1910 the Delbrück Bank merged with the older private bank Gebrüder Schickler to form the Delbrück, Schickler & Co. bank , of which Ludwig Delbrück became a partner. As a result of this merger, Delbrück became the imperial cask administrator (court banker). In addition, he was a member of the shareholders' committee of the bank of the Berliner Kassenverein . As one of the leading Prussian private bankers, Ludwig Delbrück belonged to numerous supervisory boards. At times, Delbrück was the only member of the supervisory board of Friedrich Krupp AG who did not belong to the family. From 1904 to 1913 Delbrück was a member of the supervisory board of the Hypothekenbank in Hamburg . In contrast to his father, Delbrück was critical of the joint stock banks.

Relations with the imperial family went beyond the financial sphere. Numerous imperial hunts took place on the Madlitz estate, leased and inhabited by Delbrück . In return, Delbrück was made a member of the Prussian manor house for life in 1908 . In the following year Delbrück was a member of the Immediate Commission for Administrative Reform and the National Debt Commission.

Delbrück was a founding member in 1911 and, until his death, 2nd Vice President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society . In this function he was also a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society from 1911. Politically, he was conservative. Therefore, like the heavy industrialists, he left the Hansabund in 1911 . Delbrück was also a member of the German Fleet Association and since 1910 treasurer of the Carnegie Foundation for lifesavers.

Ludwig Delbrück, who was certified to be "extremely nervous" in the last years of his life, hanged himself on March 12, 1913 in his own bathroom after the blessing of two of his children in the Holy Trinity Church. The background for this step is unclear, the financial circumstances were well ordered at death. Delbrück was buried in the cemetery of the Jerusalem and New Church III in front of the Hallesches Tor . His son Adelbert Delbrück (1898-1979) became a partner in the family bank, the successor institution to the since 2004 ABN AMRO belonging Delbrück Bethmann Maffei AG is.

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  1. ↑ 1871-1996 Hypothekenbank in Hamburg, Ed. Hypothekenbank in Hamburg, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3000006605 , p. 158
personal data
SURNAME Delbrück, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1913
Place of death Berlin