Siegfried Gropper

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Siegfried Gropper (born June 2, 1921 in Landsberg am Lech ; † October 6, 1997 ) was a German lawyer and bank manager .

Life

After graduating from high school, Gropper did military service until 1945. He then studied law and political science at the University of Munich , took the trainee examination in 1948 and the assessor examination in 1951. In 1950 he received his doctorate with the thesis The confiscation of motor vehicles - legal bases and legal consequences for Dr. jur.

job

In 1951 he joined Bayerische Kreditbank (one of ten regional companies of Deutsche Bank ), was appointed director in 1956 and head of the branch in Munich with the Bavaria division. He was thus a member of the second management level at Deutsche Bank and one of around a dozen branch managers. When Deutsche Bank tried for the second time in 1959 to merge BMW and Daimler-Benz into a large automotive conglomerate, he spoke out emphatically against such a merger. In view of the growing burden on the construction industry with guarantee obligations in domestic and international business, he proposed state measures which, among other things, have been implemented in the medium-sized export guarantee program.

In 1972 he was granted general power of attorney for Deutsche Bank AG. He was thus one of about 10 fully authorized directors of the second management level. In addition, he held various supervisory board mandates, including chairing the supervisory board of Ackermann-Göggingen AG and the mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill in Bayreuth (until 1976). He was a member of the supervisory boards of Bayerische Elektrizitätswerke AG , Hutschenreuther AG in Selb, Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg (PWA), P. Gossen GmbH in Erlangen and Augsburger Kammgarn-Spinnerei (AKS). He was also the deputy chairman of the board of directors of the stationery manufacturer Faber Castell in Stein near Nuremberg and a member of the advisory board of Lech-Elektrizitätswerke , Kaut-Bullinger & Co. in Munich and Karl Richtberg KG in Regensburg.

Volunteering

He took on voluntary tasks in numerous committees of the economy and in social institutions, some of which he supported financially. He was a member of the working committee of the Bavarian Bankers Association , member of the board of directors of the Münchner Handelsverein , member of the admission office for securities at the Bavarian stock exchange and honorary judge at the Regional Court of Munich I, Chamber for Securities Adjustment.

Gropper was a member of the board of the AOK Munich, board member and treasurer of the St. Marien-Ludwig-Ferdinand children's home as well as a member of the board of trustees of the Lebenshilfe for the mentally handicapped child. He was also the first chairman of the board of the Society of Friends and Patrons of the German Alpine Club , and since 1948 a member of the Turner-Alpen-Kränzchen e. V. (Section of the German Alpine Club) and treasurer of the Society of Friends of the Kammerspiele .

Honors

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  • Bavarian Main State Archive BayVO StK 2702
  • Lending file for the Order of Merit

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal for the entire credit system, Volume 26, p. 116 Online
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bank Annual Report 1976 , pp. 9–10. (PDF, 18 MB)
  3. ↑ Groppers personal folder at TAK (PDF; 26 kB)
  4. ↑ Bundesanzeiger, vol. 41, number 7 of January 11, 1989, p. 157
personal data
SURNAME Gropper, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg am Lech
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1997