Language:
German
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,2 (1999) 187-216
Keywords:
Dresdner Bank
;
Jews History 1933-1939
Abstract:
Jews made up a large proportion of the higher echelons of the Dresdner Bank, and a much smaller portion of the lower ranks. The government, after rescuing the bank in the bank crisis of 1931, held 3/4 of the shares and dictated the membership of its board of directors and its personnel policy. Many employees were laid off or pensioned (at this stage, without regard to race or religion). When in 1933 Nazi legislation mandated the dismissal of "non-Aryans" from state institutions, this seemed almost like a continuation of the previous policy; though the bank was not, strictly speaking, a state institution, it set out to comply wherever it could do so without disrupting business. After the adoption of the Nuremberg Laws, there was another wave of forced retirements. By 1938, the bank, though it had been re-privatized in 1937, was practically "judenrein". Those dismissed received pensions, but these were constantly reduced. The attitude of the bank was coldly correct, although there were officials who tried to help. Attributes the ready compliance of most of the staff with Nazi policy to antisemitism and to the prospect of promotion to the positions vacated by the "non-Aryans".
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