Wilhelm Boetzkes

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Wilhelm Bötzkes (born July 19, 1883 in Breyell , † April 25, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German banker .

Life

Bötzkes, originally "Boetzkes", received his doctorate in 1909 as a political economist on the subject of silk goods production and the silk goods trade in Germany . After completing his studies, he first worked for Deutsche Bank in Constantinople . At the beginning of the First World War he was appointed General Secretary and later General Director of the Turkish public debt administration Dette Publique Ottomane . After 1918 Bötzkes returned to Germany, where he quickly made a career in the Reich Treasury . Among other things, he was responsible for the disposal of the German military assets in the course of demobilization . At the Versailles Peace Conference he appeared as an expert and worked on the Dawes Plan . From 1924 until his death he was CEO of the Bank for Industrial Obligations (Bafio) , the creation of which he played a fundamental role. In this function, Bötzkes largely organized the German reparation payments .

In December 1927 Bötzkes went for a short time in Iran and advised the government of Reza Shah as a financial expert at the foundation of the Iranian National Bank .

Bafio, headed by Bötzkes, has been promoting the Kaiser Wilhelm Society on a large scale since 1936 , so that Bötzkes became a member of the Society's Senate in 1943 as the successor to the late Emil Georg Ritter von Stauß . He also held the office of treasurer at KWG. After the end of the war he was treasurer from 1948 to 1952 and from 1952 vice president of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science .

The headquarters of IKB, a successor institute to Bafio, is today at Wilhelm-Bötzkes-Strasse 1 in Düsseldorf .

Bötzkes' family roots go back to the Dutch "van den Boetzelaer". As a result of a family dispute, the name was changed. Until the land reform after the Second World War , Bötzkes was lord of the Langhagen manor near Güstrow . He was married to Irmgard von Prittwitz and Gaffron .

Honors

See also

literature

  • Fritz Pudor : Life pictures from the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area . Born 1958–59, Bagel, Düsseldorf 1962

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Archives: Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic Online: "Bötzkes, Wilhelm"
  2. ↑ Rouhollah Ramazani: The Foreign Policy of Iran 1500-1941 ; University Press of Virginia, 1966, p. 286.
  3. ↑ Ulrike Kohl : The Presidents of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism ; P. 225
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 61
personal data
SURNAME Bötzkes, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boetzkes, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Breyell
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1958
Place of death Hamburg