Schröder Bank

This article describes the Bremer Bank JF Schröder KGaA, which closed in 1931. For the private bank Otto M. Schröder Bank founded in Hamburg in 1932 , which is also known as Schröder Bank, see there. Also the closed bank Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. , see there

Bank JF Schröder KGaA was a private Bremen bank that became known in connection with the Great Depression and had to close in 1931.

History of the bank

Obernstrasse 2 to 12, photo from 2012

Obernstraße and Hankenstraße in 2006

The Bremen bank clerks Johann Friedrich Schröder and Albert Ernst Weyhausen (born 1879) founded the Schröder and Weyhausen bank in 1905 in Bremen-Mitte, Langenstrasse No. 1, right next to the Bremen market square . The bank was mainly involved in shipping. In 1919 the Bremer bank EC Weyhausen was taken over and in 1920 it was merged to form the JF Schröder KGaA bank . The bank soon became the main bank for the city of Bremen and for many local companies. In 1919 JF Schröder became chairman of the supervisory board of AG Weser and in 1921 Schröderbank organized the Bremen shipyard concentration. In 1923 the bank moved into the new building at Obernstrasse 2 to 12. In 1928, Schröder was involved in the establishment of Bremer Hansebank AG .

During the global economic crisis from 1929 and after the bankruptcy of the Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei in July 1931, the house bank of the entrepreneur G. Carl Lahusen had to close in July 1931 despite support measures. The state of Bremen restructured and took over the company as Norddeutsche Creditbank AG .

building

→ Main article : Bank and department store Obernstrasse 2–12

The building between Obernstrasse 2 to 12, Hakenstrasse 4, Kleine Waagestrasse 1 and Langenstrasse 3/5 was built from 1917 to 1922 according to plans by the Bremen architects Friedrich Wellermann and Paul Frölich . In the style of the interwar period, many elements of historicism are still visible, especially the two baroque gables. The four-storey red stone-faced building served as the Schröder Bank's bank building until 1931 and the Norddeutsche Kreditbank until 1973 . In 1973 the Bremer Landesbank / Kreditanstalt Oldenburg-Girozentrale took over the house. From 1990 the Bremen Stock Exchange was housed here.

From 2000 to 2003, the very extensive conversion into a department store for Peek & Cloppenburg took place according to plans by Manfred Schomers and Rainer Schürmann. Modern architectural elements complement the historicized building forms very sensibly. In 2000 the building was placed under monument protection.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Eckhard Wandel: Banks and insurance companies in the 19th and 20th centuries (Encyclopedia of German History; Vol. 45). Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-55072-1 .

Web links

• Early documents and newspaper articles on Schröder Bank in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 22.5 ″  E