Max von Schinckel

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Maximilian Heinrich von Schinckel (born October 26, 1849 in Hamburg ; † November 11, 1938 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was an influential Hamburg banker who played an important role in the merger of the Norddeutsche Bank with the Disconto-Gesellschaft .

Max von Schinckel 1905

Life

Schinckel's mother, Emilie Charlotte Blessig (1816–1887), came from a wealthy Saint Petersburg merchant family and married Paul Gottfried Schinckel (1797–1881) from Hamburg, who had worked for Blessig & Co. since 1818 - later as a partner - there. In May 1849 the couple moved to Hamburg, where Max was born, grew up with two brothers and two sisters and attended the Johanneum secondary school. He then did a commercial apprenticeship at Burmester & Stavenhagen in Hamburg and from 1867 worked for three years in the trading company Moritz Ponfick in Saint Petersburg , interrupted in 1868/69 by the one-year voluntary military service with the Prussian Dragoon Regiment No. 6 in Hadersleben / North Schleswig, which he graduated as a reserve officer. In 1870/71 he took part in the Franco-Prussian War and resumed his position in Petersburg in the summer of 1871.

On November 12, 1872, he moved to Hamburg to the Norddeutsche Bank , where his father was a member of the supervisory board. There he was one of the youngest manager-bankers at the age of 23 and elected director in 1874.

From 1880 to 1886 Schinckel was a member of the right-wing parliamentary group in the Hamburg parliament .

In particular, overseas trade and shipping business became the core business of Norddeutsche Bank under Schinckel; he himself soon rose to become its most influential person and enabled the merger with the Berliner Disconto-Gesellschaft. The Norddeutsche Bank became a subsidiary of the Disconto-Gesellschaft; its shareholders received 40% of the shares in the Disconto-Gesellschaft for the surrender of their shares in 1895. Schinckel remained the owner of the Norddeutsche Bank, was accepted into the board of the Disconto-Gesellschaft and thus became the most influential banker in Hamburg, sponsored by Gustav Godeffroy , Adolph von Hansemann and F. Laeisz , whose family member Carl Ferdinand Laeisz was also on the supervisory board of the Norddeutsche Bank sat.

Between 1896 and 1918 he was a member of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and its President from 1907 to 1910. He became a member of the Hansabund presidium in 1909.

Bismarck unveiling ceremony, Hamburg 1906

In response to Bismarck's death in 1898, he initiated the Hamburg Bismarck Monument Comité , which inaugurated the Hamburg Bismarck Monument , the largest Bismarck monument in the world, in 1906 .

From 1900 he was also active as a landowner on a large scale. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania he became the owner of Gut Setzin (971 hectares) and later acquired Timkenberg and Sprengelshof near Teldau (607 hectares).

In the ranking of the wealthiest people from Hamburg, published in 1912, Schinckel ranks 52nd with a fortune of 4.7 million marks and a taxable annual income of 450,000 marks.

From 1901 to 1920 Schinckel was chairman of the umbrella organization of the Hamburg Red Cross clubs .

Max von Schinckel was raised to hereditary nobility by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1917 .

On March 31, 1919, at the age of 70, Schinckel resigned as owner of the Disconto-Gesellschaft and Norddeutsche Bank and combined the chairmanship of the supervisory boards of both institutes into one person. When these were absorbed by Deutsche Bank in 1929 , he was Honorary Chairman of the Deutsche Bank Supervisory Board until 1938 . Schinckel was u. a. from 1897 to 1933 (from 1910 as chairman) on the supervisory board of HAPAG , but also at Norddeutsche Affinerie , Dynamit Nobel , Guano-Werke, Norddeutsche Affinerie (Aurubis) , Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte und Maschinenfabrik , HB Sloman & Co . Saltpeterwerke and as a member of the supervisory board u. a. at A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein , Deutsch-Asiatische Bank , Woermann-Linie , Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken , Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , Phoenix AG for mining and smelting , the United Königs- and Laurahütte and from 1925 the IG colors .

Immediately after the First World War , Max von Schinckel joined the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , and became a board member of the nationalist Hamburg National Club from 1919, of which he was later honorary president. He was also a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP). His position on the seizure of power by the National Socialists was positive, but he did not appear as an active supporter of the Nazi regime and he rejected anti-Jewish policies after 1933.

family

On October 2, 1882, he married the patrician daughter Olga Clementine Berckemeyer ((1862–1936) from Blankenese , her mother Helene (1830–1895) was the older sister of William Henry O'Swald ); This made Max Schinckel a member of the circles that determine the economic and political life of the Hanseatic city. The couple had five children:

The city villa built by Martin Haller in 1891/1892 at Hansastraße 9 in Hamburg-Harvestehude served as the city residence . In 1888 he also bought the Villa Erika at Richard-Dehmel-Straße 4 on around 12 hectares of land as a country estate in Blankenese . Today the "Schinckels Park" with its meadow used for the Kreeken reminds of the family's former residence.

Max von Schinckel died at the age of 89 and was buried in the old Niendorfer Friedhof in Hamburg in the family crypt of Paul Gottfried Schinckel .

Private

In addition to hunting , Schinckel was a passionate rider. From 1877 he became a member of the Hamburg racing club and from 1892 to 1923 he led racing to great bloom as chairman. Under his leadership, the gallop derby on the Hamburg-Horn racecourse became a social highlight in Wilhelmine Hamburg, to which Kaiser Wilhelm II also appeared regularly.

As a Lutheran Christian, he was also involved in the General Evangelical Lutheran Conference .

Fonts

  • Life memories . Self-published by Hartung, Hamburg 1929
  • Address ... on January 18, 1933 , National-Klub von 1919, Hamburg 1933

literature

  • Obituary in: Hamburger Fremdblatt , No. 313 of November 12, 1938
  • Martin L. Müller:  Schinckel, Max v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 784 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Elsabea Rohrmann: Max von Schinckel. Hanseatic banker in Wilhelmine Germany (dissertation). HWWA Institute for Economic Research - Weltarchiv GmbH, Hamburg 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical Society of Deutsche Bank eV, Max von Schinckel
  2. ^ State and economy. Contributions to the history of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of the Hamburg economy. 1850-1950, page 110
  3. ↑ Bankers in the Empire: Social profile and habitus of German high finance by Morten Reitmayer (2000), page 204/205
  4. ↑ a b The founders of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation, Die Donatoren, 35. Maximilian Heinrich von Schinckel (1849–1938), page 62 by Johannes Gerhardt (PDF; 906 kB)
  5. ↑ History of the merger ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bankgeschichte.de
  6. ↑ Max v. Schinckel memoirs. Self-published by Hartung, Hamburg 1929, page 219
  7. ↑ Elsabea Rohrmann: Max von Schinckel - Hanseatic Bank man in Wilhelmine Germany (Diss.). HWWA Institute for Economic Research - Weltarchiv GmbH, Hamburg 1971, page 258
  8. ^ Siegfried Mielke : The Hansa Association for Trade, Commerce and Industry 1909–1914: The failed attempt at an anti-feudal collection policy , Göttingen 1976 Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, page 55
  9. ↑ A History of the Blessig Family, Descendants of PJ Blessig I and Emilie Charlotte Forsch, (iii) Maximilian Heinrich v. Schinckel , page 94/95
  10. ↑ see Rudolf Martin (Ed.): Yearbook of the wealth and income of millionaires in the three Hanseatic cities (Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck), Berlin 1912; Hamburg part, p. 9
  11. ^ Bankers in the Empire: Social profile and habitus of German high finance by Morten Reitmayer (2000), page 204
  12. ^ Notes on the Hamburg Red Cross history, 3rd edition, Aug. 2014, page 4
  13. ↑ Elsabea Rohrmann: Max von Schinckel - Hanseatic Bank man in Wilhelmine Germany (Diss.). HWWA Institute for Economic Research - World Archive Association, Hamburg 1971, page 300/301
  14. ↑ Nele Maya Fahnenbruck: "... rides for Germany": Equestrian sport and politics under National Socialism , Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, page 123
  15. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families , Volume 51 (1927)
  16. ↑ Elsabea Rohrmann: Max von Schinckel - Hanseatic Bank man in Wilhelmine Germany (Diss.). HWWA Institute for Economic Research - Weltarchiv GmbH, Hamburg 1971, page 286
  17. ^ Hamburg cultural authority, list of monuments, extract from Eimsbüttel, page 140
  18. ^ [38] Stadthaus Schinckel, Hansastr. 9, 1891/92 , in: Wilhelm Hornbostel, David Klemm (Ed.): Martin Haller. Life and work 1835–1925. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930802-71-6 , p. 198
  19. ↑ picture index of art and architecture
  20. ↑ A History of the Blessig Family, Descendants of PJ Blessig I and Emilie Charlotte Forsch
  21. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - Offices - Associations - Persons . 1st edition. tape 1 : Supraregional institutions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-55784-6 , p. 285 .
personal data
SURNAME Schinckel, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schinckel, Maximilian Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and politician, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1938
Place of death Hamburg-Blankenese