Willy Dreyfus

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Willy Dreyfus (born March 14, 1885 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 12, 1977 in Montreux ) was a Swiss banker of German - Jewish origin.

Life

Willy Dreyfus, son of the partner Isaac Dreyfus (1849–1909) and grandson of the founder of the banking house J. Dreyfus & Co. with branches in Frankfurt and Berlin , Jacques Dreyfus-Jeidels (1826–1890), completed an apprenticeship in the family business after graduating from high school in Berlin and London before he took over the management of the bank after his father's death in 1909. He accepted prominent bankers as personally liable or silent partners and had worked in the banking department of the German General Government in Brussels since 1914 , where he worked with, among others, Hjalmar Schacht , Hans Fürstenberg and Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy .

Since 1924, Dreyfus brokered significant foreign loans for the German Reich and German industrial companies through its contacts with British and US banks . He was active in numerous economic committees, member of the board of the Berlin Jewish Community and since 1927 vice-president of the Aid Association of German Jews .

In 1937 and 1938, the Frankfurt and Berlin branches were successively "Aryanized" by the National Socialists . Dreyfus emigrated with his family to Switzerland in 1938, where he did research and charitable work. Willy Dreyfus, who died in 1977 at the age of 91, was the younger brother of the neurologist Georg Ludwig Dreyfus, who had emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 .

Fonts

  • Banking and Banking Policy, Teubner, 1924
  • Economic transition: reflections on the continent's financial recovery, Europa Verlag , 1945

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SURNAME Dreyfus, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss banker
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1977
Place of death Montreux