Wilhelm Eichhorn (banker)

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Wilhelm Eichhorn (born July 5, 1879 in Kleinhaslach near Ansbach , † March 20, 1957 in Munich ) was a German bank director, co-founder of the CSU and President of the Bavarian Synod.

Life

After graduating from high school in Ansbach, Wilhelm Eichhorn studied theology and law in Berlin and Erlangen. He completed his academic training in 1909 with a doctorate The injunctions in relation to arrest . He began his professional career as a lawyer after completing his second state examination in law (1907/08) and then became a government assessor in the government of Upper Bavaria. After being promoted to district office assessor, he later worked as a senior government councilor in the State Ministry of Agriculture. From this position he moved in 1921 as 1st director to the board of directors of the Bayerische Landwirtschaftsbank , of which he was a member until the end of 1951. His retirement on January 1, 1952 also marked the change to the bank's supervisory board. Until his retirement for reasons of age and health on January 1, 1957, he was chairman of this body from 1954.

Just like Munich's mayor Karl Scharnagl , the Augsburg paper manufacturer Georg Haindl , the economist Fritz Terhalle and the trade unionist Michael Helmerich , Eichhorn belonged to the non-partisan economic working group for Bavaria , which was led by Adolf Weber and which addressed the most pressing economic issues shortly after the end of the Second World War Reconstruction discussed. For the first legislative period of the Bavarian Constitutional Court after the end of the war (July 17, 1947 to November 26, 1950) Eichhorn was elected as a non-professional judge.

During his studies he became a member of the Christian student associations Erlanger Wingolf (1899) and Berlin Wingolf (1902), later he also joined the Munich Wingolf (1910).

politics

In the summer of 1945 Eichhorn was one of the thirteen driving forces of the bourgeois-conservative camp, who rallied with the intention of founding a party to counterbalance the SPD and KPD . Together with the Catholic Walther von Miller , Eichhorn took over the first chairmanship of the Munich CSU after the Second World War and was also a member of the CSU state executive from 1946 to 1951.

Like Fritz Schäffer and Josef Müller , Eichhorn was a member of the preparatory committee of the Christian Social Union in Munich , which emerged in November 1945 with a call for the nationwide founding of the CSU and which rose to become a provisional state committee at its meeting on December 17, 1945 . Until the Bamberg meeting on March 31, 1946, this acted as a party substitute body. The magazine Der Spiegel described the appeal as the “first and most important document in the history of the CSU's founding”, in which the names “of the Protestant synod Wilhelm Eichhorn and the arch-Catholic [...] Alois Hundhammer [are] just as harmoniously side by side as those of alsbald bitter opponents: Fritz Schäffer and Josef Müller. ”Eichhorn was on Müller's side and belonged to the liberal-conservative, Christian-interdenominational core group, while Schäffer belonged to the Bavarian-Catholic-statist core group. In this conflict, Eichhorn, one of the authorized spokesmen for the Protestant Christians in the CSU, criticized Schäffer for representing a pronounced Catholic party “a burden for the Protestant part of the population”. Nevertheless, the Protestant camp of Bavaria was represented in the CSU for a long time by only a few individuals - in addition to Eichhorn, Johannes Semler as a further spokesman and a. August Haußleiter , Walter Künneth , Hermann Strathmann , Karl Sigmund Mayr and Alfred Euerl - so that the party did not have a Protestant wing in its early phase. Against this background, Eichhorn and Semler had repeatedly stated in the management bodies of the CSU that their political cooperation in the Union, in view of an overwhelming Catholic tendency in the CSU, was a cooperation on revocation.

church

In addition to his work as a bank director, Eichhorn was also involved in the Protestant church and was a member of the regional synod and the regional synodal committee in the 1920s. After the Second World War, he was the first President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in 1946 . At the church assembly in Treysa in 1947 he was one of four participants in the Bavarian church and at the general synod in Leipzig in 1949 he was one of five members sent by the Bavarian regional church.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jaromír Balcar and Thomas Schlemmer (eds.): At the top of the CSU: The governing bodies of the Christian Social Union 1946 to 1955 (sources and representations on contemporary history, volume 68) , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, 2007, SS 593 .
  2. ↑ Hannelore Braun and Gertraud Grünzinger-Siebert (adaptation): Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 (Works on Contemporary Church History. Series A: Sources) , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2006, p. 68.
  3. ↑ Werner Schubert (Ed.): Academy for German Law: 1933–1945. Minutes of the Committees, Vol. 4 Committee for Cooperative Law , Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1989, p. 51
  4. ^ Bernhard Löffler: Social market economy and administrative practice: The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard (quarterly for social and economic history) , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. 2002, (p. 492).
  5. ↑ Bavarian State Parliament: Plenary Protocol No. 1/25 of July 17, 1947, pp. 812–813.
  6. ↑ August Winkler: Vademekum Wingolfitikum , Wingolfsverlag, Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 213.
  7. ↑ Hanns Seidel Foundation: Chronology of the History 1945–2007 of the CSU ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hss.de
  8. ↑ Thomas Schlemmer: Awakening, Crisis and Renewal: Die Christlich-Soziale Union 1945 to 1955 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, 1998, p. 61.
  9. ^ Alf Mintzel with Hans-Jürgen Küfner: History of the CSU: An overview , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 1977, p. 206f.
  10. Jump up ↑ We'll knock them out again - The secret files of the US military government in Bavaria 1945 to 1949 (III) , In: Der Spiegel, 49/1980, p. 110.
  11. ↑ Alf Mintzel with Hans-Jürgen Küfner: ibid., P. 58f.
  12. ↑ Alf Mintzel with Hans-Jürgen Küfner: ibid., P. 308.
  13. ↑ Texts and images on the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office. Church in Bavaria 1929–2009 (p. 23), accessed March 15, 2015.
  14. ^ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria: State Synod , accessed on March 15, 2015.
  15. ↑ Heinz Boberach , Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: organs - offices - associations - people. Vol. 1: Nationwide institutions , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2010, pp. 159f and 269f.
personal data
SURNAME Eichhorn, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank director, CSU co-founder, President
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinhaslach near Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1957
Place of death Munich