Maximilian Geiger

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Maximilian "Max" Geiger (born November 28, 1896 in Dillingen ad Donau , † February 5, 1974 in Bad Wiessee ) was a German banker.

Life

Max Geiger joined the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Munich in 1919 . In 1936 he was appointed director, in 1948 he was promoted to the board, later spokesman for the board. Later he was chairman of the supervisory board. In 1976 Anton Ernstberger succeeded him as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Hypo-Bank. He held other supervisory board mandates, such as at Erste Kulmbacher Actien-Exportbier-Brauerei , Rosenthal-Porzellan AG , Mechanical Cotton Spinning and Weaving Mills Augsburg and others. a.

As chairman of the supervisory board, he and the spokesman for the board of Hypo-Bank, Anton Ernstberger , were significantly involved in the purchase of the Essen Westfalenbank and the Stuttgart private bank Stuber in 1970 . With the purchase of the Berliner Kindl Schultheiss brewery , they built a beer empire through the Bavarian mortgage and brewery together with Löwenbräu in Munich, Paulaner-Salvator-Thomasbräu-AG , Erste Kulmbacher Actien-Exportbier-Brauerei , Dortmunder Ritter Brewery and Elbschloss-Brauerei Exchange bank on. They positioned the bank as co-owners of textile companies ( mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill in Augsburg ), construction companies (Heitmann & Littmann in Munich), mortgage banks (Württembergische Hypothekenbank Stuttgart), the porcelain factory Rosenthal and the investment company Allfonds in Munich. A year earlier, they bought the shares in the Waldhof paper mill from the investor Hermann Krages and merged them with the Aschaffenburger Zellstoffwerke to form Germany's largest paper trust, Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg .

In 1968 Max Geiger was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the Papal Order of Knights on July 8, 1968 in Munich by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Honors

literature

  • Adolf Layer: Max Geiger: (1896-1974); a great man in the Bavarian economy , 1984
  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (ed.): Who is who ?: The German Who's Who , Volume 15 - Berlin: Arani, 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Wait a minute " , Der Spiegel 44/1969, October 27, 1969
  2. ^ "Fifth Radl" , Der Spiegel 34/1970, August 17, 1970
  3. ^ "Big bankers from Bavaria" , Die Zeit October 17, 1969 No. 42
personal data
SURNAME Violinist, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geiger, Max (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dillingen on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1974
Place of death Bad Wiessee