Paul Mankiewitz

Paul Mankiewitz (born November 7, 1857 in Mühlhausen ; † June 22, 1924 on his estate Selchow near Storkow / Mark Brandenburg ) was a German bank manager and spokesman for Deutsche Bank from 1919 to 1923 .

Today a listed country house Selchow , which Mankiewitz had Alfred Breslauer built in 1913

Life

After completing an apprenticeship at the Gustav Hanau bank in Mülheim , Mankiewitz joined Deutsche Bank in 1879 and became a deputy member of the Management Board in 1891. In the same year he joined the Society of Friends . In 1898 Mankiewitz was promoted to the board of directors of Deutsche Bank and in 1912, together with Oscar Wassermann, managed their stock exchange business. From 1919 to 1923 he was chairman of the board ('spokesman') of the bank .

He was involved in the financing of the Rhenish - Westphalian heavy industry , among other things as a member of the supervisory board of Phönix AG for mining and smelting operations and as a director of the Humboldt colliery .

During the First World War , he advised the Reichsbank on the financing of the war costs and, after the end of the war, on dealing with the reparation claims .

As director of Deutsche Bank, Mankiewitz was one of the early supporters of Eduard Stadtler's anti-Bolshevik league , which propagated national socialism. On January 10, 1919, Mankiewitz organized a meeting of the fifty most important representatives of German capital in the Berlin flight association building, at which the so-called anti - Bolshevik fund of German entrepreneurs was founded. From this fund, with a nominal 500 million Reichsmarks, large sums of money have been flowing into groups and projects that "by whatever means worked anti-Bolsheviks".

Paul Mankiewitz 'had three sons:

• Werner Mankiewitz (Berlin April 3, 1893 - Buenos Aires November 11, 1962): Became a banker and partner in the private bank J. Dreyfus & Co. Had to emigrate to Argentina in the 1930s;
• Hans Mankiewitz (born November 14, 1894): Was a businessman and director of the German trust company for the movement of goods. Emigrated to Great Britain;
• Kurt Mankiewitz (born May 24, 1891): Studied engineering.

Paul Mankiewitz was of Jewish faith. The grave of the Mankiewitz family is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

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1. ^ Eduard Stadtler: As Antibolschewist 1918/19 . Düsseldorf, 1935, pp. 12–13, 47 ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• Manfred Pohl :  Mankiewitz, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 37 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Biography of the Historical Society of Deutsche Bank