Georg Solmssen

Georg Solmssen (original familyname Georg Adolf Salomonsohn; born August 7, 1869 in Berlin; died January 10, 1957 in Lugano) was a German banker.[1]

Georg Solmssen (around 1928)

Life

His father was german banker Adolph Salomonsohn and his mother was Sara Rinkel. His uncle was German banker Arthur Salomonsohn. His nephew was American writer Arthur R.G. Solmssen. He studied German law. In April 1900, he converted from Judaism to Christanity and changed his familiyname from Salononsohn to Solmssen. Sollmsen worked since 1900 for German bank Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin.[2] He was member of suverisor board of German company Lufthansa AG and German company Vereinigte Stahlwerke. In 1933 was Solmssen for a short time company speaker of German bank Deutsche Bank, which took over Disconto-Gesellschaft in 1929. He lived in 1920er on island Schwanenwerder. As German Nazis became in power Solmssen left Germany and emigrated to Switzerland.[3]

Literature over Georg Solmssen
  • Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.): Acta Borussica. Neue Folge, Reihe 1: Die Protokolle des Preußischen Staatsministeriums 1817–1934/38. Band 12, 2: Reinhold Zilch, Bärbel Holtz: April 4, 1925 until May 10, 1938. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-487-12704-0, p. 702.
  • Gerald D. Feldman: Jewish bankers and the crises of the Weimar Republic (= Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture. 39, ZDB-ID 415081-8). Leo Baeck Institute, New York NY 1995.
  • Harold James, Martin L. Müller (Hrsg.): Georg Solmssen – ein deutscher Bankier. Briefe aus einem halben Jahrhundert 1900–1956 (= Schriftenreihe zur Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte. 25). Herausgegeben im Auftrag der Historischen Gesellschaft der Deutschen Bank e.V. C. H. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62795-8.
  • Martin L. Müller: Solmssen, Georg Adolf. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0, pp 557 f.

References
  1. James, Harold; Müller, Martin L.; e.V, Historischen Gesellschaft der Deutschen Bank (2012-05-31). Georg Solmssen - ein deutscher Bankier: Briefe aus einem halben Jahrhundert 1900-1956 (in German). C.H.Beck. ISBN 978-3-406-62796-5.
  2. Biography by Historische Gesellschaft der Deutschen Bank
  3. Nicosia, Francis R.; Huener, Jonathan (2004). Business and Industry in Nazi Germany. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-654-2.
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