Max Stürcke

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Max Stürcke (born April 14, 1876 in Erfurt ; † December 2, 1947 ) was a German banker . He was a co-owner of the Erfurt private bank Adolph Stürcke .

family

Max Stürcke was born on April 14, 1876 as the son of the banker Hermann Stürcke and his wife Agnes Stürcke, nee. Klapp born in Erfurt. His father became a partner in the Erfurt private bank Adolph Stürcke in 1859 . On April 14, 1909, he married a granddaughter of the horticultural entrepreneur Ernst Benary in Erfurt .

Life

After studying banking , Stürcke was a trainee at the Swiss Federal Bank in Lausanne from 1893 to 1894 . In 1898 he was called up for military service, which he finished in 1901 as a lieutenant in the reserve of the Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5 in Düsseldorf . When the First World War broke out , he was postponed and did not have to take part in the war.

Former bank Stürcke am Anger in Erfurt

In 1901, Max Stürcke joined the family business Bankhaus Adolph Stürcke in Erfurt as an authorized signatory . The bank, located on the Erfurt Anger , was originally founded in 1827 by Heinrich Herrmann under the name of Heinrich Herrmann's exchange and banking business . In 1849 it was taken over by his uncle Adolph Stürcke († 1860) as the sole owner and continued under the company Bankhaus Adolph Stürcke . From 1859 it was continued by his father Hermann Stürcke. From 1904 Max Stürcke was co-owner alongside his father and from 1915, after the death of his brother Erich, head of the bank. Under his leadership, he expanded the banking house, which had developed into one of the most important donors of the Erfurt economy. Max Stürcke and his family soon belonged to the middle-class leadership of the city of Erfurt. Both Max Stürcke and his brother Hermann Stürcke were Freemasons . In addition, the bank was considered the house bank of the Erfurt upper middle class . Among other things, she managed the family assets of Max Weber sen. and Max Weber jun.

In 1910, with a fortune of 3 million marks, he was one of the seven major entrepreneurs in Erfurt who had made multiple millionaires. Until 1945, the Bankhaus Stürcke was, among other things, a major shareholder in Eduard Lingel Schuhfabrik Aktiengesellschaft . In addition, Stürcke was a member of the supervisory board of the mechanical weaving mill C. Graesers Wwe. & Sohn and deputy chairman of the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce .

On July 26, 1945, at the instigation of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD), like all banks in the Soviet occupation zone , the Stürcke bank was closed, all assets were confiscated and all accounts blocked. Under the leadership of Max Stürcke, an interest group was formed with six other Thuringian bankers from 1945, which aimed to reopen or re-establish the private banks and to keep the land in the previous ownership. In November 1945 the private banks achieved with their efforts that their private banks could be reopened under different names. In particular, international banking transactions, including those in the Western Occupation Zones, were strictly prohibited. In 1947, however, the forced liquidation of the Stürcke bank was initiated.

On December 2, 1947, Max Stürcke was killed in a car accident.

literature

  • Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , column 2248.
  • Steffen Raßloff : Escape into the national community. The Erfurt bourgeoisie between the Empire and the Nazi dictatorship. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-412-11802-8 .
  • Steffen Raßloff: Anti-Semitism in Erfurt between the founding of an empire and the “seizure of power” 1871–1933. In: Stadt und Geschichte, Zeitschrift für Erfurt , Issue 16 (2002), pp. 9–11.
  • Steffen Raßloff: Jewish life in Erfurt. (= City and History , special issue 8.) Erfurt 2008, pp. 29–31.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Raßloff: Anti-Semitism in Erfurt between the founding of an empire and the “seizure of power” 1871–1933. In: Stadt und Geschichte, Zeitschrift für Erfurt , Issue 16 (2002), pp. 9–11.
  2. ↑ a b 100 years of the Stürcke bank. (Festschrift) Erfurt 1949, p. 3 (timetable).
  3. ^ Walter Künzel: Acta Apostolorum Erfurtensium 1819–2009. Erfurt Apostle Community. A chronicle between a quill pen and a personal computer. Druck-Haus Gera, Gera 2009, p. 58.
  4. ↑ Anton Sterbling, Heinz Zipprian: Max Weber and Eastern Europe. Krämer Verlag, 1997, p. 126.
  5. ↑ Steffen Raßloff: Civil War and the Roaring Twenties. Erfurt in the Weimar Republic. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2008, p. 17.
  6. ↑ Steffen Raßloff: Escape into the national national community. The Erfurt bourgeoisie between the Empire and the Nazi dictatorship. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2003, p. 87.
  7. ↑ Erika Büchner: The banking house Karl Meinhardt in Meiningen. Thuringian State Archives Meiningen , Meiningen o. J. (before 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Stürcke, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1947