Rudolf Löb

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Rudolf Löb with his wife Martha, b. Drews (1877-1962)

Rudolf Löb (also Rudolfo Loeb and Rudolf Loeb, born November 21, 1877 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † January 30, 1966 in Boston ) was a German-Jewish banker and partner in the Mendelssohn & Co. banking house as well as an advisor to the German government .

Life

Rudolf Löb came to Berlin as a child and attended the Askanische Gymnasium there , which he left in October 1893 with a certificate of qualification for one-year voluntary service .

He then completed a two-year apprenticeship in the Berlin banking business Hugo Mankiewicz & Co. In 1896, Löb joined the Berlin bank Mendelssohn & Co. , became sole authorized signatory in 1913 and partner in 1919.

As a banker, he became a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Verkehrskredit-Bank AG Berlin and Bayerische Vereinsbank Munich, and since 1924 was an advisor to several government cabinets. After the deaths of Franz von Mendelssohn and Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in 1935, Löb was the first non-family member to become senior partner at Mendelssohn & Co.

Under pressure from the National Socialists, in which Reichsbank Vice President Friedrich Dreyse also participated, he, Marie von Mendelssohn, Paul Kempner and Fritz Mannheimer left the bank on December 5, 1938 . Marie von Mendelssohn transferred her shares to family members classified as "Aryan" . On December 31, 1938, the Mendelssohn bank went into liquidation. After negotiations between Löb and Hermann Josef Abs , the active business was taken over by Deutsche Bank as part of an " Aryanization " process.

Löb was the Belgian consul general. In 1923 he became a sustaining member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , which also included many other shareholders and authorized signatories of the Mendelssohn & Co. banking house . He was also a member of the Society of Friends .

In 1939 Rudolf Löb emigrated to Argentina and in 1948 to the United States .

Works

  • Karl Brandt, Walter Eucken , Wilhelm Gerloff, Rudolf Löb and Karl Lange. Self-sufficiency . Five lectures. On d. 1st rally d. "German Federal Government for Free Economic Policy" held. Introduced by Carl Petersen. Bln., Rowohlt 1932. DNB

literature

  • Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the "Third Reich" - repression, elimination and the question of reparation , Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9
  • Löb, Rudolf , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 451
  • Sebastian Panwitz: The crane's house. The private bankers of Mendelssohn & Co. (1795-1938). Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95565-263-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Förster: The unexplained end of the Mendelssohn banking house. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 17, 1997, accessed June 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ See letter of application from Löb to the Mendelssohn & Co. bank dated December 12, 1895 in the LBI New York archive , Löb collection (AR 4057).
  3. ^ Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the "Third Reich" , p. 246
  4. ↑ Widow of Franz von Mendelssohn the Younger
  5. ^ Paul Kempner, 1889–1956 lawyer, banker. Short biography on the Mendelssohn Encyclopedia and DNB page
  6. ↑ Membership directory KWG
personal data
SURNAME Löb, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeb, Rudolfo; Loeb, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1966
Place of death Boston