Olof Aschberg
Olof Aschberg (born July 22, 1877 in Stockholm , Sweden , † April 21, 1960 in Menton , France ) was a Swedish banker .
Life
Aschberg's parents were Herman Asch and Rosa Schlossberg and belonged to Judaism . He received commercial training in several European cities such as Hamburg, London and Paris. Aschberg began his entrepreneurial career in the Swedish textile business. But he soon switched to the financial sector.
In 1912 he was the founder and majority owner of the Swedish cooperative bank AB Nya Banken and its bank director until 1918. With his excellent contacts to the Russian Finance Minister Pyotr Bark (1869–1937), as his representative in the USA, he was able to successfully borrow 50 from the Tsarist Empire Placing millions of dollars.
But his sympathies were with the Bolsheviks . Alongside Jakob Schiff and others, he financed the revolution and the early years of the new Russian government. To this end, he himself founded the guarantee and credit bank for the East in Berlin. He was also an advisor to Aaron Schejnmann (1886–1944), President of the Central Bank of the Soviet Union . To support its work with financial investors abroad, the Russische Handelsbank was founded with Aschberg as CEO.
As a friend of Willi Münzenberg , he was also a financier of his newspaper projects.
Aschberg icons collection
A collection of 245 Russian icons plus about 30 (since 1953), one of the largest collections outside the Soviet Union, goes back to its donation in 1933 to the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm . According to his own account, Aschberg bought the icons at flea markets.
Works
- The ryska revolutions och vad vi skola lära därav , 1918
- En vandrande jude från Glasbruksgatan , 1946
- Återkomst: memoarer II. , 1947
- Guestboken , 1955
- Gryningen till en ny tid: ur mina memoarer , 1961
literature
- Antony C. Sutton : Wall Street and the bolshevik revolution , 2001. (pdf; 600 kB)
- David Ash: The Role of Evil in Human Evolution , 2007, pp. 182f. ( Online at Google Book Search ).
Web links
- Olof Aschberg in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- The New York Times: Says was aids Russia from August 4, 1916
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd Koenen: The Russia Complex , p. 124
- ↑ Elizabeth Heresch: Secret Files Parvus: The Bought Revolution , S. 178th
- ^ Institute for Contemporary History: Officials in the Third Reich , p. 141.
- ↑ Margarete Buber-Neumann : "Freedom, you are mine again ..." The power to survive , Georg Müller Verlag, 1978, p. 171ff.
- ^ Astrid von Pufendorf: Otto Klepper (1888–1957): German Patriot and Weltbürger , p. 196.
- ^ Ostkirchliche Studien, Volume 52, Augustinus-Verlag, 2003, p. 222.
- ^ Carl Marklund: The Icons of "the Red Banker". Olof Aschberg and the transactions of social capital , published on balticworlds.com on June 18, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aschberg, Olof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1960 |
| Place of death | Menton , France |