Wilhelm Arendts

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Wilhelm Arendts (born February 6, 1883 in Munich ; † March 23, 1958 ) was a German general director and councilor of commerce .

Life

After attending the humanistic grammar school , he studied at the University of Munich and took part in the First World War as an officer with the rank of captain in the general staff . In 1919 he was placed on disposition as a colonel and then worked in the banking sector. In 1923 he became a board member of Hermes Kreditversicherungs-Bank AG. A year later Wilhelm Arendts became a member of the board of directors of Bayerische Versicherungsbank AG . In 1926 he was appointed general director. In the following years he became a member of other insurance and banking boards and supervisory boards. With the outbreak of the Second World Warhe was reactivated as a colonel. During this time he was a close friend of Colonel General Franz Halder and General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel , whom he already knew from the First World War.

He was also a member and treasurer of the Academy for German Law, founded in 1933, and a member of the Munich Chamber of Commerce and Industry . He was also president of the Munich Rotary Club . As club president, he brought the writer Thomas Mann the news that he would have to be removed from the membership list. Thomas Mann had a Jewish wife, so in the eyes of the National Socialists he was “racial disgrace”. He was also a member of the Geographical Society in Munich .

Wilhelm Arendts was married to Maria, nee Borscht. Their marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters.

Honors

Wilhelm Arendts was appointed an honorary member of the commercial law section of the Nazi Legal Guards' Association by the Reich Commissioner for the Harmonization of Justice Hans Frank .

Wilhelm Arendts was made an honorary citizen of the University of Munich.

literature

  • Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 31.
  • Oscar Beringer: According to the will of the National Socialist movement, which laid the foundation for the creation of a new German law with the establishment of the new Reich, this House of German Law was created , manuscript, 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. Heidemarie Schall-Riaucour: Colonel General Franz Halder, 2006, p. 402.
  2. ^ Hans-Rainer Pichinot: The Academy for German Law. Establishment and development of a public corporation of the Third Reich. Kiel, Univ.-Diss. 1981.
  3. https://rotary.de/kultur/thomas-mann-und-rotary-a-3961.html
  4. ^ W. Hofmann: Wilhelm Arendts (1883−1958) † . Communications of the Geographical Society Munich 43 (1958), pp. 141f. (with portrait).
  5. Gerald D. Feldman: The alliance and the German insurance industry, 1933-1945 , 2001. P. 648.