Martin Murtfeld

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Martin Murtfeld (born January 12, 1935 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German banker and promoter of international cultural exchange.

Career

Murtfeld completed his studies in economics , banking, finance and statistics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a degree in economics and a Dr. rer. pole. from. He completed a post-graduate degree at the Institut des Sciences Politiques , Paris.

In 1961 he joined the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau , Frankfurt am Main, and devoted himself to balance of payments and long-term development loans to southern Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America . He advised on the establishment of development banks, u. a. in Singapore , and was a member of government delegations and the Interministerial Capital Aid Committee, Bonn.

In 1971 Murtfeld moved to the headquarters of Deutsche Bank , Frankfurt am Main. As a member of the executive board for the Group's international commercial business, Murtfeld was responsible for the Group's business with the Middle East , Africa and Latin America . Later, risk management , financial institutions and country risk are added around the world. In 1982 Murtfeld became a member of the International Advisory Group on debt settlement in Mexico and then Brazil, and in 1991/92 he chaired the “London Club” for Bulgaria. He was also a member of committees at the UN, the IIF , Washington DC, the Paris International Chamber of Commerce and an expert at the Interministerial Committee on Investment Guarantees, Bonn. He served on the boards of directors of London joint venture banks for Brazil , Mexico and Saudi Arabia and an equity fund for Mexico.

Murtfeld was elected First Vice Governor of the Council of Europe Development Bank , Paris, as a candidate of the federal government from 1995 . He carried out a fundamental reorientation of lending and deposit business , treasury as well as risk management and auditing. The aim was to consolidate the bank's reputation in the international financial community and with rating agencies (triple AAA).

Martin Murtfeld

Since 2002, consultations have taken place on the initiative of international institutions on corporate governance ( China ) and system issues of housing finance ( Serbia and   Ukraine ). As a lecturer at the Institute for Banking and Finance at the Free University of Berlin , Murtfeld taught "Rating" (WS 2002/3) and "Banking aspects of international financial institutions" WS 2004/5). His lectures deal with questions of financial markets and real estate finance as well as European integration.

Awards

Publications (excerpt)

  • Interesting markets for plant export. KfW in Latin America. In: Übersee-Rundschau. 23rd year, issue 1/2, 1971
  • Strategies in International Commercial Business. In: The Bank. 1987
  • The World Bank's cooperation with commercial banks. In: 'The World Bank. German Society for the United Nations. ' Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-927192-00-7
  • On the role of private banks in the deleveraging process. In: International Monetary System and Global Economic Development (= Edition Dräger Foundation, Volume 12). Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1651-9
  • with Henry T. Azzam: Promotion of Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Financing in the Arab Gulf States. In: German companies in the Arab Gulf States. Schaeffer Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8202-0596-9
  • Financing Social Projects in Support of Convergence. In: Global Monetary and Economic Convergence. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Marshall Plan. Robert Triffin-Szirak Foundation. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 1998, ISBN 1-84014-541-2
  • Corporate Governance Ratings. In: RATINGaktuell. Issue 05/2003, Bank-Verlag, Cologne 2003
  • On home finance from a commercial bank perspective. UN-HABITAT and European Building Societies Association. Berlin. www.eubv2004.com/.../5_02_Murtfeld_ Statement.pdf
  • Thoughts on “Europe” - Lecture in Baden-Baden on April 14, 2014. https://www.wguth.uni-freiburg.de/forschung/data/data/wgsp_dp_2014_01.pdf
  • TV interview by Mr. Faisal Islam, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News, London, In: The 1 trillion mark note - symbol of Germany's fears. posted November 12, 2011. Quoted in: Faisal Islam: The Default Line. Head of Zeus Ltd., London 2013, ISBN 9781781854105 , pp. 298, 312 f.

Cultural engagement

Martin Murtfeld represents a model of the universal banker that takes into account the overall economic well-being and the culture of his area of ​​activity. Together with his wife Margarethe, collector and former gallery owner, he devoted himself to painters and musicians from Brazil, Central and Eastern Europe and, most recently, from France.

Individual evidence

  • Together with Margarethe Murtfeld: Kveta Pacovská - Open Space. Fondation M. von Cronenbold / Benteli Verlag, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-7165-1251-6 .
  • Together with Margarethe Murtfeld: Découverte et engagement - Un témoignage personnel. In: Hélène de Beauvoir. Artiste et femme engagée / artist and committed contemporary. Musée Würth France Erstein. Swiridoff Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-89929-357-9 , pp. 13-15
  • About the photographer and sociologist Gisèle Freund : alumni-initiative-kunstpaedagogik.blogspot.com/.../12...; "Flashes of the Future - The Art of the 68ers ..." Ludwig Forum Aachen 2018, pp. 461-3 , ISBN 978-3-8389-7172-8
  • The beginnings with Pavarotti and Rostropovich. In: Festschrift for the 30th anniversary of the Society of Friends of the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Ed. Alte Oper Frankfurt 2014, pp. 25-27
  • Martin and Margarethe Murtfeld, passeurs de culture. www.fafapourleurope.fr/wp-content/.../Lettre-AFDMA-04-16.pdf
  1. ↑ Interesting markets for plant export. KfW in Latin America . In: Übersee-Rundschau 23 . Issue 1/2, 1971.
  2. ↑ Promises kept and broken | Unlock the benefits of ratings. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ Květa Pacovská: open space . Paris, ISBN 3-7165-1251-6 .
  4. ↑ Lukas Gedziorowski: The Beginnings of a Great Photographer - Exhibition Gisèle Freund - May 1, 1932 . In: Journal Frankfurt . ( journal-frankfurt.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Marie-France Bertrand, Carmen Sylvia Weber, Musée Würth (Erstein, Bas-Rhin) .: Hélène de Beauvoir: artiste et femme engagée = artist and committed contemporary: [exposition, Erstein, Musée Würth, 30.01 - 09.09.2018] . Erstein (Musée Würth), ISBN 978-3-89929-357-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Murtfeld, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and promoter of international cultural exchange
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main