History of the Inventory Former: The Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt, also known as the Aero- or Luftfahrtbank, was formed by the transformation of Luftfahrtkontor GmbH into a public limited company with shareholder resolution of 6 July 1940, the object of which, according to the articles of association of that date, was "the execution of banking transactions of all kinds and of related transactions serving directly or indirectly aviation purposes, as well as the administration and supervision of aviation companies and the execution of all such transactions, including in a fiduciary capacity" [1]. Luftfahrtkontor GmbH had been founded in 1933/34 in the context of the takeover of the Junkers group by the Reich Aviation Ministry (RLM) and in 1938 was responsible for the administration of 1. the Reich-owned facilities leased to companies in the aviation industry, 2. the Reich's holdings in companies in the aviation industry and 3. the investment loans [2]. In the course of the so-called "capital cut" to reform corporate financing, the investment loans granted until then were converted into state aid for special depreciation and firms were encouraged to use more of their own funds and borrowed capital to finance investments. To this end, both the RLM and the Reich Ministry of Finance (RFM) considered it sensible to set up their own commercial bank for aviation, whose loans were intended to stimulate the involvement of other banks and other donors and to which all Reich shareholdings in the aviation industry and aviation were to be transferred. On 9 June 1939 Luftfahrtkontor GmbH received its banking licence from the Reich Commissioner for Banking and quickly acquired the character of a "universal bank for German aviation" [3] after the start of the war. In addition to the conventional investment loans, the Luftfahrtbank increasingly granted the aerospace armaments companies - similar to the Deutsche Industriebank for the suppliers of the army and navy - the credit assistance provided by the Reich Economic Ministry (RWM) for the mobilization of arms production (in short: "mobkredite") with Reich guarantees from autumn 1939 onwards. This resulted in a substantial increase in the Bank's lending volume, which, together with the significant increase in managed participations and deposits from aviation companies, as well as increased activity on the stock exchange and the money market, led to the Bank being renamed "Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt" and converted into a stock corporation (AG). This was in response to the wish of the General Airworthiness Officer Ernst Udet that "the company's status as a bank should be expressed in the company name" [4]. Like its predecessor Luftfahrtkontor, the Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt initially resided in Berlin-Schöneberg, Am Park 12. In the night from March 1 to March 2, 1943, Ge‧bäude burned out completely after an Allied air raid, whereupon the bank had to move its Geschäfts‧räume to the center of Berlin (Werderstr. 7). As a result of the fire, loss of files also seems to have been the cause of complaint [5]. Dissatisfied with the accommodation that was not considered to be standes‧gemäß, the bank pushed in the spring of 1944 the efforts that had previously been made by the Jewish company Panofski
Contains: Adenauer, Konrad, opening of the International Press Exhibition in Cologne, 1928 Andreae, Edith, 1927 Blücher, Franz, 1946 Boden, envoy, 1927 Bracht, importance of self-administration, 1927 Butler, professor, 1927 Curtius, 1927, 1931 Coudenhove-Kalergi, 1929 Dehler, Thomas, 1947 Dernburg, demand for a union of the liberal parties, 1930 Dietrich, Hermann, Reich Finance Minister, cancellation, to support the appointment of Külz as President of the Reichsfinanzhof, 1931 Eckener, Hugo, 1929 Euler, Martin, 1946 Falz-Fein, Woldemar von, 1931 Glaser, Louis, 1946 Groener, Wilhelm, 1932 Haslinde, 1922 Hedin, Sven (with photograph), 1935 Heuss-Knapp, Elly, 1951 Heye, Wilhelm, Chief of Staff, 1927, 1928 Hilferding, Rudolf, 1927 Hindenburg, Paul von, 1931, 1932 Hummel, Hermann, 1930 Junkers, Hugo, 1931 Kaiser, Jakob, 1946 Kastner, H., 1923 Koenig, General, 1947 Köpke, 1932 Korodis, Lutz, 1942 Külz, Erna, Foreword to the Memoirs of Külz, o. Dat. Liebler, Ralph, 1947 Löbe, Paul, 1932 Marx, Wilhelm, Request for Investigation of the Allegations against Secretary of State a. D. Kempner, 1927 Meissen, Markgraf von, 1944 Meissner, Otto State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery, 1929, 1932 Mossner, Karl, 1946 Müller, Hermann, negotiations on the formation of a government in spring 1929 Naumann, D., 1929 Olbricht, Friedrich, General, 1939 Petersen, Carl, 1931 Pieck, Wilhelm, 1948 Planck, Erwin, 1932 Poeschel, 1932 Pünder, Hermann, establishment of the Federation of Tourist Associations in the British Zone, 1931, 1946 Reuter, Fritz, 1949 Rohrbach, Kurt, 1944 Rotary Klub/Dresden, 1932 Schacht, Hjalmar, Colonial Question, 1927, 1929 Schaumburg-Lippe, Steffan zu, (1931) Schmitt-Ott, 1927 Schober, Police Commissioner of Vienna, 1927 Schönaich, Frhr. von, President of the German Peace Society, 1946 Severing, Carl, 1928 Simons, President of the Reichsgericht, 1927-1929 Evangelischer-Sozialer Kongress Dresden, 1927 Rationalisierung der Gesetzgebung, 1928 Snowden, Lord, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1929 Suhr, Otto, 1948 Sydow, Anna von, 1946 Stieve, Dt. Minister in Riga, 1929 Stresemann, Gustav von, 1928 Stülpnagel von, 1932 Westarp, Count von, 1939 Zweigert, State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, 1929
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