Wilhelm Werhahn (entrepreneur, 1880)

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Peter Wilhelm Werhahn (born February 1, 1880 in Neuss ; † September 25, 1964 ) was a banker and entrepreneur .

Person and family

Wilhelm Werhahn was the eldest son of Peter Werhahn and the grandson of Peter Wilhelm Werhahn , whose fortune and position in the family company oHG Wilh. Werhahn he inherited, from which today's Wilh. Werhahn KG was created. To distinguish it from his grandfather, his middle name is usually used as a first name. This Rhenish entrepreneurial family, known as the “holy family” in Neuss and the surrounding area because of their devout Catholicism , had already acquired a considerable fortune in the 19th century and increased it considerably at the beginning of the 20th century. Although the list of controlled companies initially reads like a hodgepodge of small and medium-sized companies, history shows that the establishment of the family company was based on a strategy. The private bank Wilh was and is at the center of the family's wealth . Werhahn on Neusser Königsstraße, whose activities focus on family members and family businesses. The bank Wehrhahn KG changed its January 1, 2011 legal form and renamed since then as Bankhaus Wehrhahn GmbH .

In 1907 Wilhelm Werhahn married Adelgundis Cremer , who came from Düsseldorf-Heerdt and was closely associated with the Neuss patriciate , a daughter of the Düsseldorf history painter Franz Cremer . Her family owned the Peter Cremer Standard detergent and soap works , which had been in existence since 1811, along with a chain of shops in Düsseldorf. Adelgundis died early, so that in 1917 the thirty-seven year old Wilhelm Werhahn married her sister Magdalena Cremer , who was eleven years younger at the time . Ten years after the marriage, the Cremer family left the group of shareholders completely and the oHG Wilh. Werhahn took over the soap manufacturer without knowing the reasons.

During Wilhelm Werhahn's term of office, the banking family also acquired a stake in Commerzbank . This was so significant that Wilhelm Werhahn was chairman of the bank's supervisory board . His grandson of the same name Wilhelm Werhahn later represented the interests of the Neuss family on the supervisory board. With the WKV Warenkredit-Anstalt in Cologne, the banking family also participated in the financing of part-payment loans during the economic miracle , until they sold this business to the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft . She later acquired a stake in Cologne-based AKB Privat- und Handelsbank AG, Germany's largest brand-independent automobile leasing bank , until it sold this stake in 2002 to the Spanish Banco Santander Central Hispano (BSCH) for 1.1 billion euros.

Wilhelm Werhahn had 23 supervisory board mandates and was u. a. referred to as the "uncrowned King of Neuss". He was president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1945 to 1962 and was friends with the Cologne private banking family Sal. Oppenheim as well as with their “governor” during the Third Reich , Robert Pferdmenges , a close friend of Konrad Adenauer , whose daughter Libet and Wilhelm's son Hermann Josef Werhahn was married. The niece of the former chancellor by marriage, Gabriele Vell , widow of Hans Adenauer , was again born Werhahn. The King Cardinal Archbishop Joseph Frings , a friend of Konrad Adenauer, was a cousin of Wilhelm Werhahn through his relatives to his grandmother. The cardinal's brother, Alfons Frings , was the Lord Mayor of Neuss. The prelate and Cologne canon Franz Werhahn was an uncle of Wilhelm Werhahn.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de/totenzettel/index.php?nummer=26073 Totenzettel by Peter Wilhelm Werhahn
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.werhahnbank.de
  3. ↑ Bernt Engelmann: The power on the Rhine, Volume 1: The old wealth. Munich 1968, ISBN 3-423-00830-X , p. 184.
  4. ↑ Bernt Engelmann: The power on the Rhine, Volume 1: The old wealth. Munich 1968, ISBN 3-423-00830-X , p. 173.
  5. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,181713,00.html
  6. ↑ http://www.dr-wo.de/themen/jungblut/75.htm
personal data
SURNAME Werhahn, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werhahn, Peter Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1964