Volksbank Heilbronn

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Logo of the cooperative banks  Volksbank Heilbronn eG
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Head office at Heilbronner Allee 20 with Heilbronner bank
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Seat Heilbronn
legal form registered cooperative
Bank code 620 901 00
BIC GENO DES1 VHN
founding 1909
Association Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association
Website www.volksbank-heilbronn.de
Business data 2018
Total assets EUR 2,067 million
insoles 1,659 million euros
Customer credit EUR 1,317 million
Employee 323
Offices 12
Members 49,592
management
Board Wolfgang Mauch (Chairman), Timo Wachter
Supervisory board Karl Seiter (Chairman)
List of cooperative banks in Germany

The Volksbank Heilbronn eG is a cooperative bank based in Heilbronn . After several mergers with other cooperative banks, the bank's business area comprises the city of Heilbronn with the exception of the Biberach district and neighboring communities in the north and east of the Heilbronn district .

history

The Heilbronn merchant Abraham Gumbel (1852–1930), who came from a Jewish banking family , founded the Heilbronner Bankverein , a GmbH in December 1909 , of which he became the managing director and remained until his death on December 25, 1930. At the beginning, the bank association was located on Heilbronner Marktplatz (house no.2), from 1917 next to Kilian's Church on the opposite side of Kaiserstraße (corner Windgasse) in house no.34 . At the beginning of the 1930s, the Bankverein joined the Württemberg Cooperative Association .

The previous general manager Otto Igersheimer (1879–1942) became the second managing director . The Jew Igersheimer did not stay in office long after the National Socialists came to power. After Igersheimer's apartment and the bank were occupied by 30 National Socialists each on April 25, 1933 and a crowd of around 300 in front of the bank demanded that Igersheimer be extradited, the management board fired him on the same day. The next day, the Nazi daily Heilbronner Tagblatt applauded the “absolute purity of Jews in this down-to-earth banking institute”. Igersheimer's successor was authorized signatory Heinrich Wurster (1886–1964), who took over the management together with Max J. Hoffmann and remained in office until the end of 1961.

The air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944 also destroyed the bank association building, in which only one paying agent was maintained in the following years. The bank's administration was initially located in neighboring Weinsberg, then in various temporary arrangements in Heilbronn. In 1951, the reconstruction of the bank building based on designs by Hermann Denzinger (born June 17, 1914, † July 14, 1985), a German architect from Gundelsheim , was completed.

In 1956 the private bank was converted into a credit union, and in 1982 the Heilbronner Bankverein changed its name to Volksbank Heilbronn. In 1993, the bank finally moved into the current building, not far from the previous headquarters, at Allee 20, opposite the confluence with Kaiserstraße.

Volksbank Heilbronn merged with Genossenschaftsbank Untergruppenbach eGmbH in 1972 , in 1987 with Volksbank Weinsberg eG , 1992 with Volksbank Neckarsulm eG and Volksbank Untereisesheim eG , in 1998 with Raiffeisenbank Neckargartach eG and in 2001 with Volksbank Bad Friedrichshall eG and Volksbank Bad Wimpfen-Gundelsheim eG .

In 2011, the neighboring Villa Hauck was demolished in favor of a new building . The façade has been on view since the beginning of July 2013: “with two side wings made of shell limestone and the glass front of a hall under which a large inner courtyard opens” . The glazed ballroom between the side wings was named " Abraham Gumbel Hall" after the Jewish banker and founder of the Heilbronner Bankverein as the forerunner of today's Volksbank Heilbronn . At the inauguration on November 7, 2013, Reinhold Gall described the 30 million euro building as “an urban pearl for Heilbronn”.

Business area

After several mergers with other Volksbanks (e.g. Weinsberg , Neckarsulm , Bad Friedrichshall and Bad Wimpfen-Gundelsheim ), the business area of ​​Volksbank Heilbronn includes the following cities and communities: Bad Friedrichshall , Bad Rappenau , Bad Wimpfen , Gundelsheim , Heilbronn , Neckarsulm , Oedheim , Offenau , Untereisesheim , Untergruppenbach and Weinsberg .

literature

  • 1909-2009. From bank association to Volksbank Heilbronn. Volksbank Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812485-6-2
  • Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 ( also as PDF, 1.2 MB ); Pp. 114, 200-201
  • Werner Tewes: Volksbank relies on tradition . In: Heilbronn voice . November 26, 2009 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 28, 2009]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
  2. ↑ Facts and Figures 2018
  3. ↑ E.g. 1992 with Volksbank Neckarsulm, s. Barbara Barth: Companions celebrate Erhard Klotz . In: Heilbronn voice . April 8, 2008 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 28, 2009]). , and in 2001 with Volksbank Bad Friedrichshall, s. Edgar Herterich: Regional director Wolfgang Beger said goodbye . In: Heilbronn voice . June 1, 2006 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on November 28, 2009]).
  4. ↑ a b On Abraham Gumbel's role and the development of the bank association in his time as well as on the change in legal form and name: Gerhard Schwinghammer (black): Abraham Gumbel: model man of a rock-solid banker. In: Standpunkt. 1st edition July 2009. Volksbank Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2009, p. 3
  5. ↑ On Otto Igersheimer's role and the development of the bank association in his time: Gerhard Schwinghammer (black): Otto Igersheimer: Life and suffering for one's own faith. In: Standpunkt. 2nd edition September 2009. Volksbank Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2009, p. 3
  6. ↑ Erz .: Heilbronner Bankverein in the rebuilt house. In the shadow of Kilian's Church - worthy to stand in the middle. In: Heilbronn voice . No. 161 , July 14, 1951, p. 3 .
  7. ↑ On Heinrich Wurster's role and the development of the bank association in his time: Gerhard Schwinghammer (black): Heinrich Wurster: solid business in particularly unsound times. In: Standpunkt. 3rd edition November 2009. Volksbank Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2009, p. 3
  8. ↑ http://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/nachrichten/stadt/Volksbank-Neubau-frei-sichtbar;art1925,2836001
  9. ↑ a b Jüp (Jürgen Paul): Volksbank opens new building with light show . In: Heilbronn voice . November 7, 2013 ( from Stimme.de [accessed November 8, 2013]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 29 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 20.8 ″  E