Max Grasmann (economist)

Max Günther Grasmann (also Max Günter Grasmann ; born June 20, 1889 in Tokyo ; † March 9, 1977 in Munich ) was a German lawyer, economist, association official , banker and politician ( CSU ).

Life

Family and education

Max Grasmann, born in Tokyo, son of the forest scientist Eustachius Grasmann (1856-1935) and Anna Grasmann, née Henle (1867-1948), graduated from high school in the years 1909 to 1913 from the war and artillery engineering school . From 1919 to 1921 he studied law and economics at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , and in 1921 he was awarded a Dr. jur. et rer. pole. PhD .

The Catholic baptized Max Grasmann married Elisabeth, née Monheim (1894–1990) in 1930. The marriage resulted in two sons. Grasmann died in Munich in March 1977 at the age of 87. He found his final resting place in the Bogenhausen cemetery .

Professional background

Grasmann did military service as an artillery officer from 1908 to 1920 , most recently in the rank of captain . In 1921 he worked as a scientific assistant at the Bavarian Industrial Association . After a subsequent job at the Siemens-Schuckert he served from 1923 to 1936 as Managing Director and General Manager of the Bavarian Industrialists Association. From 1937 he worked as a director of the industrial department of Bayerische Versicherungsbank / Allianz Versicherungs AG. In 1947, Grasmann changed to the position of president of the Bayerische Landeszentralbank, at the same time he was appointed a member of the Central Advisory Board of the Bank deutscher Länder , in 1955 he resigned. Most recently he worked from 1956 to 1959 as a partner in the H. Aufhäuser Bank in Munich.

Max Grasmann also acted from 1962 to 1963 as President of the Goethe Institute , as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Leonard Monheim GmbH and the Ulmer Brewery Society, and as Japanese Consul General in Munich.

The politically committed Grasmann joined the CSU . From 1945 to 1948 he served as a city ​​councilor in Munich, in 1946 as the first assessor of the CSU finance committee, as treasurer of the CSU district association in Munich and as a member of the district executive committee, and from 1946 to 1948 as state treasurer of the CSU as well as a member of the state executive committee and the executive committee State executive committee of the CSU.

In recognition of his diverse services, Max Grasmann was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit in 1956 , the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star in 1961, the Gold Goethe Medal in 1964 and the honorary senatorships of the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.

Fonts

• China as legal and economic ground for Germans before and after the World War. Dissertation , University of Würzburg, University of Würzburg, Würzburg 1921.
• Impressions from the study trip of Bavarian industrialists to the United States of America. Bavarian Dr. u. Verl.-Anst., Munich 1928.

literature

• Der Grosse Brockhaus , Volume 5.FA Brockhaus, Wiesbaden, 1854, p. 19.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German Who's Who, Volume 16, . Arani, Berlin, 1970, ISBN 3-7605-2007-3 , p. 384.
• Alf Mintzel , Barbara Fait: The CSU 1945-1948: Protocols and materials on the early history of the Christian-Social Union. Volume 1: Protocols 1945-1946. R. Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH, Munich, 1993, ISBN 3-486-55982-6 , p. 1870.
• Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries , Allitera, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 226.

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Grasmann in the catalog of the German National Library