Siegfried Falk
Siegfried Falk (* 1874 in Rheydt ; † December 5, 1941 in Düsseldorf ) was a German banker .
Siegfried Falk was the son of the textile merchant David Falk (* in Bergheim) and Anna Rosenberg. In 1905 he married Edith Simon from Osnabrück, the couple had three children.
Siegfried Falk did an apprenticeship at the Cologne bank Sal. Oppenheim . He then worked at the David Baumgarten jun. in Aachen and in the Gustav Hanau bank in Mühlheim. Around 1903 he founded the Siegfried Falk banking house in Düsseldorf, Steinstrasse 20 , which he expanded into one of the leading private banks in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . He held supervisory board mandates for several major corporations and was also active in the Jewish community, in the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith and in B'nai B'rith . His bank was the publisher of a weekly stock market review.
In 1938 he became chairman of the Jewish community in Düsseldorf . When he received the order to report for deportation , he and his wife committed suicide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de/fileadmin/files/Dokumente/d_mug_jahresbericht_2010.pdf
- ↑ Weekly stock exchange in the holdings of the DNB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Falk, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheydt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1941 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |