Rudolf Brinckmann

This article deals with the banker and politician Rudolf Brinckmann. For other people see Rudolf Brinkmann .

Rudolf Franz Karl Jacob Brinckmann (born February 8, 1889 in Smyrna , Turkey, † January 2, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German banker and politician.

Life

Brinckmann came as the son of the King. Danish consul Karl Christian Brinckmann in Smyrna to the world. At the age of 14 he came to Frankfurt am Main. After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science, economics and oriental languages ​​in Freiburg , Munich , Berlin and Bonn . In 1913 he submitted his doctoral thesis interim certificates in current commercial law to the law faculty of the University of Greifswald .

After a short legal work, he completed a banking apprenticeship in Frankfurt. He then worked for Deutsche Bank in Constantinople . In 1920 he joined the private Hamburg-based bank MMWarburg & CO . Equipped with extensive foreign language skills, he looked after the bank's international relations. He was quickly appointed as authorized signatory and received general power of attorney in 1931 as a close confidante of Paul Warburg . From 1937 to 1963 Brinckmann was a member of the supervisory board of the mortgage bank in Hamburg . When the Warburg family had to emigrate in 1938, he took over management of the bank together with business friend Johann Jacob Paul Wirtz in 1938. After the family returned at the end of the war, he and Eric M. Warburg and five other owners led the bank to a new bloom.

In 1946 he was a non-party member of the first Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein to be appointed by the occupying power after the Second World War and was a member of the finance committee there. Later he joined the CDU, whose local association Aumühle-Wohltorf he co-founded. Rudolf Brinckmann continued to work as a banker after the war. In 1952 he was chairman of the administrative board of the Landeszentralbank Hamburg, in 1964 he sat on the administrative board of the Bank for International Settlements .

Honors

• 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1968: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Order of Homayoum (Persia)
• Knight of the Legion of Honor (France)

literature

• Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of private banks in the Third Reich: repression, elimination and the question of reparations. Dissertation. University of Bochum 2003. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-53200-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Mourning a great banker , Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 3 of January 4, 1974, p. 4

Web links

• Rudolf Brinckmann in the state parliament information system Schleswig-Holstein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1871-1996 Hypothekenbank in Hamburg, Ed. Hypothekenbank in Hamburg, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3000006605 , p. 158
2. ↑ Website of the CDU Aumühle ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 1, 2012. 
3. ↑ Landeszentralbank-Advisory Board , Abendblatt.de, July 3, 1952, p. 9 (accessed July 7, 2020)
4. ↑ Without counter, cash register and safe . In: Die Zeit , April 10, 1964.
5. ↑ Federal Gazette of September 17, 1968, online at Creative Commons (PDF, 2.48 MB)