Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft

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The Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft AG (common abbreviation ERKA or RKG) was the group bank of the richly owned United Industrial Companies AG (VIAG) .

In 1917 a “statistical office for war societies” was set up at the German Reich Treasury , which later became the German Reich Ministry of Finance to balance the surplus and needs of war societies. In order to wind up the war societies after the end of the First World War in 1918, this "statistical office" was transferred to the Reichs-Kredit- und Kontrollstelle GmbH , whereby the German Reich took over all the shares in the GmbH and in 1923 it was transferred to VIAG, which on March 7th 1923 was founded in Berlin as the umbrella company for previously directly held industrial holdings of the German Reich, transferred.

In 1923 the name was finally changed to Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft mbH , which was converted into a stock corporation in 1924 . Samuel Ritscher became director . In addition to its ongoing banking business, the company was mainly active in the areas of industrial and trade credit , issuing business , asset management and the financing of German imports and exports . In the 1930s it developed into one of the five major Berlin banks , but unlike them had no branches.

Annual reports ( Germany's economic situation at the turn of the year ... ) on Germany's economic situation were published every year .

literature

  • Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft (Ed.): The Stock Corporation Act 1937 . Berlin 1937.
  • Walter Hofmann: Publicly owned private bank. A brief history of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft AG. Mainz 1980.
  • Edeltraud Volkmann: The development of the state banking system in Germany from 1924 to 1928 with special consideration of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft AG. Dissertation A (May 27, 1977), Academy of Sciences of the GDR
  • Landesarchiv Berlin: Reports on the economic development of Viag and its affiliated companies. 01. Management. A Rep. 249. United Industrial Companies Public Company (Viag). Finding aid. A Rep. 249 No. 18. (1934-1938) Old archive signature: C Rep. 105, No. 27595. Zug.nr .: 2734
  • Landesarchiv Berlin : Annual reports of the affiliated companies 1939-1941 / 42 . 01. Management. A Rep. 249. United Industrial Companies Public Company (Viag). Finding aid. A Rep. 249 No. 3. (1926) Old archive signature: C Rep. 105, No. 27586 Zug.nr .: 2734
  • Landesarchiv Berlin: Annual reports of the affiliated companies 1925. 01. Management . A Rep. 249. United Industrial Companies Public Company (Viag). Finding aid. A Rep. 249 No. 8. (1940-1943) Old archive signature: C Rep. 105, No. 27588 Zug.nr .: 2734
  • Landesarchiv Berlin: Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft AG. u. a. with an annual report for the 1941 financial year. 04.02. Finance. A Rep. 249. United Industrial Companies Public Company (Viag). Finding aid. A Rep. 249 No. 16. (1942, 1946) Old archive signature: C Rep. 105, No. 27592 Zug.nr .: 2734
  • Marc Perrenoud, Rodrigo López, Florian Adank, Jan Baumann, Alain Cortat, Suzanne Peters: La place financière et les banques suisses à l'époque du national-socialisme: Les relations des grandes banques avec l'Allemagne (1931–1946) . Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War - Commission Indépendante d'Experts Suisse - Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Volume 13. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-0340-0613-6 .
  • Harald Wixforth: Expansion through “ Aryanization ”? - The business expansion of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft in the "province" . In: Bank historical archive. 35th year (2009), issue 1.
  • Ingo Köhler: The “Aryanization” of the private banks in the Third Reich: repression, elimination and the question of reparations. Series of publications for the journal for corporate history. Publishing house CH Beck. Volume 14. Munich 2005.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ DIW - contributions to structural research. Duncker & Humblot, 5 (1968), p. 69.