Oskar Stübben

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Oskar Stübben (born October 1, 1877 in Aachen ; † February 5, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer and bank and insurance manager.

Life

Oskar Stübben was a son of the well-known architect and town planner Josef Stübben . He began studying law at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and was active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen in 1898 . As an inactive , he switched to the University of Montpellier , the University of Grenoble and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . To the Dr. iur. after receiving his doctorate , he entered the Prussian civil service in 1900. On July 1, 1907, he became head of the Deutsche Pfandbriefanstalt in Posen . He was appointed by Alfred Hugenberg , a specialist in the Eastern Trade Mark . After the First World War and the end of the monarchy , he was in 1919 District of Recklinghausen , 1919-1933 Financial President in Braunschweig and president of the Brunswick State Bank , the fire and life insurance companies and the state savings bank. In 1933 Stübben was dismissed from his offices.

His leave of absence or his retirement was preceded by a massive smear campaign against him. This was carried out by the National Socialists with the help of the Braunschweigische Landeszeitung . He also defended himself against this in court. The NSDAP had also held public assemblies in Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel and incited them against Stübben. At a party meeting on February 15, 1932 in Schöningen , Kurt Bertram (member of the state parliament, NSDAP) declared, "As with Stübben, the Third Reich will also clean up other vampires of the German people". Since 1930, the NSDAP ruled Braunschweig with the "civil unity list". Stubben, who was politically neutral, was a thorn in their side. Since he was Catholic , he was vilified, among other things, as a left-wing center man .

When DaNat-Bank u. a. collapsed due to failed loans and the confidence of the entire German banking system was shaken, a wave of withdrawals started on accounts of all credit institutions and the German banking crisis began. Not only the private banks were affected, but also the state banks of the individual countries of the German Reich. A committee of inquiry was therefore set up in Braunschweig, which also investigated Stübben. But he could not prove any wrongdoing. Stübben was able to demonstrate that he had successfully managed the state bank. The Braunschweigische Staatsbank was almost the only one not affected by the events after the bankruptcy of the DaNat-Bank and did not need the newly created acceptance and guarantee bank . The policy of the Reichsbank under its President Hjalmar Schacht (1923–1930), who had gone over to the "national opposition", was not entirely to blame for the banking crisis . This Stübben had criticized most violently after his statements in the personnel files. This is also a motive for the "political bustle" against Stübben.

The committee of inquiry was also a point of attack by the National Socialists and the state newspaper against Stübben. He therefore led a lawsuit against the newspaper and its editor in January 1932 over two instances for defamation. He had applied for an injunction against the national newspaper to stop spreading some allegations. This involved the worst defamation against Stübben in relation to the committee of inquiry. He won both instances. Stübben had applied for leave on January 2, 1932. He justified this request by stating that his health was in poor health, not least because of the allegations made against him. The new Brunswick Finance Minister Werner Küchenthal granted this request. Küchenthal had switched from the DNVP to the NSDAP. He had previously been a Minister in the Marquordt Cabinet when he was still a member of the DNVP .

After that, the National Socialists launched an extermination attack against Stübben. They blocked all payments to him and initiated various investigations against him. Applied for was u. a. a penalty order for foreign exchange offenses. He was accused of failing to offer foreign currency to the bank for purchase within the statutory deadline. However, the district court made it clear that there was no intent, but at most negligence and refused to issue a penalty order even after rectification.

His opponents tried a different approach. He was accused of having unjustifiably kept royalties to himself. As President of the State Bank, Stübben was a member of numerous supervisory boards of companies in the region. Here he received royalties in considerable amounts. He paid 25% of this to the state bank. He was accused of not being allowed to accept any money as a civil servant. Stübben took legal action against the reduction in his salary. He was represented by the Jewish lawyer Mielziner (in the law firm Magnus, Salomon and Mielziner , Braunschweig). The whole thing dragged on for almost a year without a trial. During this time Stübben received no money. At the end of 1932 he reached a settlement in order to get at least some money. He waived 4/5 of his pension entitlement and paid around 50,000 Reichsmarks to the country.

Stübben died in 1943 at the age of 65.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 2247.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 126/238.
  3. ↑ Curriculum vitae in his personal files Lower Saxony State Archives Signature 12 New 13 No. 26012
  4. ↑ Trial files in the Lower Saxony State Archives Wolfenbüttel Signature 37 A New, Fb. 8 Zg. 46/1964 No. 319 I and II
personal data
SURNAME Stübben, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer, bank and insurance manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1943
Place of death Berlin