Walter Nickel (bank manager)

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Walter Erich Nickel (born March 6, 1902 in Wernersdorf, district of Großes Werder , today Pogorzała Wieś ; † September 12, 1973 in Hanover ) was a German bank president.

biography

Nickel graduated from high school in Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1921 . From 1921 to 1925 he studied law and political science at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald . In Tübingen he became a member of the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland . After the legal traineeship , Nickel received a doctorate in Dr. jur.

At the age of 32, Nickel became director of the newly established State Bank of the Free City of Gdansk . At the same time as managing the state bank, he was entrusted with the management of the state trust company. This activity meant that he was a member or chairman of the supervisory board of important Gdansk companies.

After the outbreak of the Second World War and the reintegration of Danzig into the German Empire , Nickel transferred its offices to the relevant German authorities. From July 1940 he took over the office of treasurer of the Hanseatic city of Danzig, which he carried out until the end of the war.

Walter Nickel then first came to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Finance as a government director . Later he was promoted to ministerial councilor or ministerial director . In 1953 he was appointed President of the Braunschweigische Staatsbank . During its 14 years of service, the state bank's total assets have increased eightfold. In 1967 he was adopted into retirement.

Privately, Nickel built up a collection of graphics and writings relating to the city of Gdansk from a period of four centuries. Most of the works came from the international antiquarian bookshop. The historically valuable Dr. Nickel has been owned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since his death .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Faul (ed.): Landsmannschaft Scottland zu Tübingen - List of all federal brothers 1849-1959. Stuttgart 1969.
  2. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost. August 18, 1973, p. 15.
  3. ^ The Archivist: Bulletin for German Archives. Volume 24, 1971, p. 679.
  4. ^ Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Volume 11, 1974, p. 288.
personal data
SURNAME Nickel, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nickel, Walter Erich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank president
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernersdorf, district of Großes Werder , today Pogorzała Wieś
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1973
Place of death Hanover