Sparkasse Essen

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Logo of the savings banks  Sparkasse Essen
Headquarters of the Sparkasse Essen
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Seat III. Hagen 43
45127 Essen
legal form Institute of public right
Bank code 360 501 05
BIC SPES DE3E XXX
founding 1841
Association Rhenish Savings Banks and Giro Association
Website www.sparkasse-essen.de
Business data 2019
Total assets EUR 8.681 billion
insoles 6.51 billion euros
Customer credit 6.301 billion euros
Employee 1,297
Offices 51
management
Board of Directors Thomas Kufen (Chairman Member)
Board Helmut Schiffer (chairman),
Stefan Lukai (member),
Oliver Bohnenkamp (member),
Arnd Brechmann (representative according to §15.2 b SpkG),
Martina Naujoks (representative of the board according to §15.2b SpkG)
List of savings banks in Germany

The Sparkasse Essen is a public savings bank headquartered in Essen . Your business area is the city of Essen.

history

Former savings bank building on Rathenaustraße, 2013

In today's Essen area, 21 savings banks were established between 1839 and 1925. In addition to Werden (1842) and Kettwig (1842), Sparkasse Essen was one of the first establishments . It was founded by the Mayor of Essen, Bertram Pfeiffer , and received the state charter on January 20, 1841. One of the founding members was Heinrich Theodor Sölling , who was CEO of Sparkasse Essen from 1851 to 1866. He was followed in this office from 1866 to 1889 by Friedrich August Christian Sölling . In the founding year, the still insignificant small town of Essen had around 6,500 inhabitants. But thanks to technical successes in hard coal mining, such as the first breakthrough of the marl boundary in Essen at the Graf Beust colliery one year earlier and the emergence of the Krupp cast steel factory , the company found itself in the early stages of industrialization. In the first year of the Sparkasse's existence there were 43 savers, 16 years later there were already 3,150 savings books, whereby the population had tripled to 20,000 inhabitants during this time. Since there were no social systems yet, saving the citizens was of interest to the city, because then they could not become a burden on the municipal treasury so quickly. On the other hand, with the help of the Sparkasse, the sharp rise in residential construction, the expansion of the urban infrastructure and industrial medium-sized companies were financed.

The Sparkasse was initially based in the old town hall, which was opposite the Marktkirche , on the south side of the old flax market on the corner of Kettwiger Strasse . It was built in 1840 and replaced in 1878 by the larger town hall by Peter Zindel in the same place. But before that, the Sparkasse moved into its first own building on Theaterplatz / corner II. Hagen. At the time of inflation and the stock market crash , the Sparkasse had a representative, large brick building built by the architect Georg Metzendorf on Rathenaustraße at the end of the 1920s , which is still there today in a modified form and converted. It was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Essen in 1985. In 1975 what is now the third new building for the Sparkasse headquarters followed on III. Hagen.

The merger of the community savings banks with today's Sparkasse Essen resulted from various incorporations of individual communities in the Essen district into the city of Essen. The previously independent institutes continued to operate as branches of the Sparkasse Essen. The most recent takeover took place in 1976 when Kettwig was incorporated.

organization structure

The Sparkasse Essen is an institution under public law . The legal basis is formed by the Sparkasse Act North Rhine-Westphalia and the articles of association issued by the Sparkasse's administrative board . The organs of the Sparkasse are the administrative board and the executive board .

With its many branches, the Sparkasse Essen maintains the densest network for financial services and advice in Essen. The Sparkasse Essen is one of the largest employers in the city.

Subsidiaries are S-ProFinanz, the insurance agency of Sparkasse Essen, S-Service-Center Essen, responsible for back office services, and S-Beteiligungsgesellschaft Essen, which is involved with start-ups and existing companies with equity stakes. Then there is the real estate center. Sparkasse Essen has been involved in real estate financing and marketing since it was founded and has a wide range of know-how and experience.

In the S-International-Rhein-Ruhr, based in Essen, the Sparkasse Essen bundles together with the Sparkassen Bottrop, Dinslaken-Voerde-Hünxe, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Ennepetal-Breckerfeld, Gladbeck, Hattingen, Mülheim ad Ruhr, Oberhausen, Sprockhövel, Vest Recklinghausen and Wesel have the know-how in all questions of international business as well as interest and currency management.

Foundations of the Sparkasse Essen

Sparkasse Essen has set up four foundations that act as initiators, project sponsors or financial helpers to help them master the challenges that the community is facing due to financial hardships. With the Foundation for the Promotion of the Elderly, the Disabled and Young People (founded in 1978), the Sports Foundation (founded in 1999), the Philharmonic Foundation (founded in 2004) and the "Gut für Essen" Foundation (founded in 2012), it supports small and large projects from different areas of everyday life. What they all have in common, however, is the charitable purpose and commitment to a better quality of life. The Foundation for the Promotion of the Elderly, the Disabled and Young People has received donations worth € 39 million since it was founded. B. for the construction of homes and workshops for the disabled or to combat youth unemployment.

Business direction and business success

As a savings bank, Sparkasse Essen operates the universal banking business . It is the market leader in Essen in the private and corporate customer business. Sparkasse Essen reported total assets of EUR 8.681 billion in the 2019 financial year and customer deposits of EUR 6.51 billion. According to the 2019 Sparkasse Ranking List, it ranks 28th in terms of total assets. It has 51 branches / self-service locations and employs 1,297 people.

In the network business, Sparkasse Essen works together with Provinzial Rheinland Versicherung , LBS , DekaBank , S-Broker, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen and Deutsche Leasing .

literature

  • Wysocki, Josef: Essen Sparkasse History: Example of a Micro-Historical Analysis , Stuttgart, 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
  2. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 20, 2016: Kruppians had the highest credit balance - the Sparkasse looks back on 175 years of history [...]
  4. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; Retrieved January 5, 2017
  5. ^ History of the Sparkasse Essen / Chronik (detailed description in: Wysocki, Josef, Essener Sparkassegeschichte: Example of a micro-historical analysis , Stuttgart, 1993.)
  6. ↑ Sparkasse Essen Annual Report 2013
  7. ^ Foundation for the promotion of the elderly, the disabled and young people
  8. ↑ Sports Foundation
  9. ^ Philharmonic Foundation
  10. ↑ Good for Essen Foundation
  11. ^ Good for Essen Foundation in the WAZ
  12. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '25.2 "  N , 7 ° 0' 32.7"  E