Salomon Marx

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Salomon Marx (born May 29, 1866 in Schwerte ; † October 24, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German industrialist , banker and politician .

Life

1000 RM share in Internationale Handelsbank KGaA from February 1925

After attending schools in Hoexter and Soest Salomon Marx studied at the Universities of Freiburg , Berlin and Marburg law . In 1888 he passed the trainee examination. He then held various commercial positions in Danzig , Koenigsberg , Cologne and for Deutsche Bank in London . From 1896 to 1905 he was managing director of the North German Electricity and Steel Works in Danzig. In 1906 he became an industrial adviser to the Darmstädter Bank . As a self-employed banker, he founded the Salomon Marx banking company in 1912 , which was renamed S. Marx & Co. in 1920 and the Internationale Handelsbank KGaA in 1921 . In 1928 it was merged to take over the Nordische Bank in Berlin. After the death of Salomon Marx, the Internationale Handelsbank KGaA was renamed Grundbesitz- und Handelsbank KGaA in 1937 and dissolved in 1939.

Salomon Marx was the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Consul in Berlin . He was a member of numerous supervisory boards of German companies. Among other things, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Carl Lindström and Portland-Cement-Werke AG in Schwanebeck and a member of the supervisory board of Engelhardt brewery , the Groterjan & Co. AG brewery in Berlin, Deutsche Bank and UFA .

In 1908 he became an honorary member of the Corps Borussia Danzig , of which he was a member of the senior management from 1908 to 1926.

politics

In 1918, Salomon Marx founded the Citizens' Council of Greater Berlin, on whose initiative the Reich Citizens' Council was constituted on January 5, 1919 as the top organization of around 300 citizens' councils that had emerged in the course of the November Revolution as a counter-movement to the workers' and soldiers' councils in many German cities . Marx was one of the financiers of Waldemar Pabst's Freicorps . He was close to Eduard Stadtler and the Anti-Bolshevik League which he had founded . He withdrew from the German National People's Party , in which Marx was a member of the main board, as early as 1919 because it did not distance itself clearly enough from anti-Semitism .

Fonts

  • Covering our war costs, 1917
  • The Organic State Principle, 1919

literature

  • Marx, Solomon. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1202.
  • Hans Nehlep (Ed.): Album Academicum des Corps Baltica-Borussia Danzig 1860-1970. Berlin 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agenda of the Ordinary General Meeting of Deutsche Bank 1925 (PDF; 580 kB)
  2. ↑ Reichsmarker opening balance of the UFA from June 1, 1924 (PDF; 859 kB)
  3. ↑ Klaus Gietinger: Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Murder - Political Background (PDF; 2.8 MB)
  4. ↑ HISTORY / GERMAN JEWS: Forty noble names . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1970 ( online - June 15, 1970 ).
personal data
SURNAME Marx, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist, banker and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Swords
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1936
Place of death Berlin