Richard Dammann

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Richard Dammann (born February 5, 1890 in Hanover ; died September 22, 1939 in São Paulo ) was a German banker and art collector who emigrated to Brazil at the time of National Socialism . In particular, he collected works by Wilhelm Busch .

Life

Richard Dammann was born in the early days of the German Empire as one of the sons of the Jewish banker Max Dammann. After attending the Leibniz School in Hanover , he completed a commercial apprenticeship, during which he also worked in Berlin and London .

After returning to his hometown in 1913, Dammann joined the Dammann Bank, which his father Max and his brother Gustav had founded in Hanover in 1879 . After the First World War , he took over the management of the bank in 1919 and continued the bank's involvement in the potash industry and trading in the corresponding Kuxen . The house run by Dammann underscored its supra-regional importance through its own publications such as [...] the Kali-Kuxen-Handbuch as well as through the highly acclaimed Kali annual reports .

Richard Dammann took on tasks such as chairing the Association of Hanoverian Private Bankers and was also on the board of the Hanover Stock Exchange when he was elected a member of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK).

In his private life Richard Dammann was an art collector who mainly devoted himself to the work of Wilhelm Busch . For his private collection he mainly acquired oil paintings, drawings based on nature, picture stories and caricatures by the artist.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Dammann lost all public 1933 honorary positions . Nevertheless, in February of the same year he took over the post of second head of the Jewish community in Hanover and was responsible for the Jewish welfare system .

Also in 1933 Richard Dammann - like his colleague Ludwig Silberberg - resigned from their offices there at the general assembly of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanover. After 1945, Dammann's brother Fritz explained that the former syndic of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanover had campaigned intensively for the " Aryanization " of Dammann's bank. In fact, however, Richard Dammann and the co-owners of Gebr. Dammann liquidated their bank, which, according to a statement from the bank to the private banking business group (WGPB) on December 12, 1935, was taken over by the Hanover branch of Deutsche Bank on April 1, 1936 .

In the meantime, Richard Dammann had already prepared his emigration in autumn 1935 and finally sold his art collection to the Wilhelm Busch Society . He and his family were able to emigrate to Brazil in January 1936 , where Dammann died a few years later.

See also

literature

  • Ruth Brunngraber-Malottke, Peter Schulze : Richard Dammann (1890-1939). Portrait of a Wilhelm Busch collector. In: Wilhelm Busch Yearbook 1995 , at the same time communications from the Wilhelm Busch Society , ed. from the Wilhelm Busch Society. Hannover, 1995, ISSN 0342-1473, pp. 6-14.
  • Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation (= series of publications on the journal for corporate history , vol. 14). 2nd Edition. At the same time dissertation in 2003 at the University of Bochum. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 , passim ; limited preview in Google Book search.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Schulze: Dammann, Richard. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 90; online through google books; same content also in the City Lexicon Hannover
  2. ^ NN : Oppressive memory. In: Stefan Noort (Ges.-Ltg.), Viktoria Ernst, Pia-Felicitas Homann, Klaus Pohlmann (Red.): Looking forward. Jumps in time from 150 years of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce. Edited by the IHK Hannover, with contributions by Hannes Rehm and Horst Schrage , IHK Hannover, Hannover 2015, p. 22ff .; here: p. 22.
  3. ^ A b Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation (= series of publications on the journal for corporate history , vol. 14). 2nd Edition. At the same time dissertation 2003 at the University of Bochum, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 , passim; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Dammann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and art collector, particularly of the works of Wilhelm Busch
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1939
Place of death São Paulo