Martin Aufhäuser
Martin Aufhäuser (born May 26, 1875 in Munich , † 1944 in Los Angeles , California ) was a German banker .
Life
He was the son of the banker Heinrich Aufhäuser (1842–1917), who together with Samuel Scharlach had founded the Aufhäuser & Scharlach bank in Munich on May 14, 1870 , the balance sheet total of which had already quintupled in the first few years from 1870 to 1876. After Heinrich Aufhäuser had paid out his former partner Scharlach by 1892, the institute traded under the name Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser from 1894. The bank quickly gained a good reputation and soon counted among others. a. Duke Luitpold in Bavaria and the family of Thomas Mann as well as Neuberger and Einstein ( Alfred Einstein ) to their customers. At the turn of the century, the bank, which initially specialized in securities commission business , became a high-turnover credit institution. In 1913, H. Aufhäuser's total assets for the first time exceeded 10 million gold marks .
Martin Aufhäuser attended the humanistic grammar school in his native Munich and then completed a banking apprenticeship in Frankfurt am Main. From 1891 he worked at the H. Aufhäuser Bank. After his father's death, Martin and his two years younger brother Siegfried Aufhäuser took over the bank. In 1918 he became a personally liable partner and senior partner.
In 1918, the Berlin bank S. Bleichröder became a limited partner of Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser - also a hallmark of the concentration process at the banks since the turn of the century. The official name was now: H. Aufhäuser Kommandite von S. Bleichröder in Berlin.
From 1921, Martin Aufhäusers took a stake in the S. Bleichröder bank, which resulted in a cross-shareholding between the two Jewish banks, as Ernst Kritzler, who had been a partner in S. Bleichröder since 1917, also joined the H. Aufhäuser bank. Martin Aufhäuser also sat on the supervisory board of the Golddiskontbank , newly founded in 1924, which was founded as a subsidiary of the Reichsbank after the hyperinflation in order to provide German foreign trade with a convertible means of payment again.
Martin Aufhäuser was also a member of the board of the Munich Stock Exchange and the Munich Chamber of Commerce. In 1926 he was appointed to the Secret Commerce Council.
Since the Aufhäusers belonged to the Jewish faith, the bank was exposed to massive reprisals and it lost a large part of its customers - through coercive measures ( Jewish boycott etc.), emigration or deportation . Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser was “ forced to argue ” as a result of the so-called Reichspogromnacht at the beginning of November and in December 1938 Friedrich Wilhelm Seiler took over the bank; H. Aufhäuser was thus one of the last private banks and one of the most important to be “Aryanized” in this way.
Martin Aufhäuser was forced to emigrate to the USA in 1939, where he died in Los Angeles in 1944.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 42.
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Aufhäuser in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Felix Höpfner: Independent - Personal - Entrepreneurial A chronicle of Hauck & Aufhäuser private bankers . Ed .: Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers. ISBN 978-3-937996-31-8 , pp. 66 .
- ↑ a b Aufhäuser, Martin. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss : Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1. Saur, Munich 1980.
- ↑ Dr. Felix Höpfner: Independent - Personal - Entrepreneurial A chronicle of Hauck & Aufhäuser private bankers . Ed .: Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers. ISBN 978-3-937996-31-8 , pp. 108 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aufhäuser, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |