Siegmund Bodenheimer (J-L816)

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Geschäftsinhaber der Darmstädter und Nationalbank

Siegmund Bodenheimer (* November 22, 1874 in Heidelberg; † February 1966 in New York City) was a German banker.

Im Jahre 1897 erlangte er den Schulabschluss der Mittleren Reife.

In 1897 he gained the diploma of the Middle maturity.

Danach begann er eine Banklehre. Then he began teaching a bank.

In Berlin war er als Prokurist von 1898 bis 1902 in einer Filiale der Breslauer Disconto Bank tätig. In Berlin, he was a clerk from 1898 to 1902 in a branch of the Breslauer Disconto Bank.

Im Jahr 1902 nahm er die gleiche Stellung bei der Bank für Handel und Industrie an, die 1906 sich Darmstädter und Nationalbank (Danat-Bank) nannte. In 1902, he took the same position at the Bank for Trade and Industry, which is 1906 Darmstädter and National Bank (Danat Bank) said.

In den Jahren 1906 bis 1922 wirkte er bei der Danat-Bank zuerst als stellvertretender, dann als ordentlicher Direktor.

In the years 1906 to 1922 he worked at the Danat bank first as deputy, then as an ordinary director.

Ab 1922 wurde er auch Teilhaber der Danat-Bank. From 1922, he was also a partner of Danat Bank.

Im Jahre 1931 kam es zur Bankenkrise , bei der die Danat-Bank erhebliche Reduzierungen ihrer Wertstruktur erleiden musste. In 1931 it came to the banking crisis, in which the bank Danat significant reductions in their value structure suffered. Am 9. On 9 Juli 1931 teilte er der Reichsbank mit, dass am folgenden Tage die Danat-Bank schließen müsse. July 1931 he shared the Riksbank announced that on the following days Danat Bank conclude.

Im August 1932 kam es zur Fusion der Danat-Bank und der Dresdner Bank . In August 1932 saw the merger of Danat Bank and Dresdner Bank.

Als Teilhaber wurde er in den Vorstand der Dresdner Bank übernommen. As a partner, he was elected to the board of Dresdner Bank.

Nach der NS-Machtergreifung wurde er am 30. After the Nazis seized power, he was on 30 September 1933 gezwungen, die Dresdner Bank zu verlassen. September 1933 forced the Bank to leave.

Im März 1934 reiste er in die Schweiz aus, um dann seinem Sohn im September 1936 in die USA zu folgen. In March 1934, he traveled to Switzerland in order to be his son in September 1936 in the United States to follow suit.

In Berlin wohnte er 1930 in Berlin-Grunewald in der Jagowstr. In Berlin, he lived in 1930 in Berlin-Grunewald in the Jagowstr. 29–33. 29-33. (New Street name and address as of 2009 is Richard Strauß Straße 29, 14193 Berlin, Germany)

Verheiratet war er seit 1907 mit Rosa Maass (* 1886 in Berlin; † 1966 in New York City). Married since 1907, he was with Rosa Maass (* 1886 in Berlin, † 1966 in New York City).

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Siegmund and Rosi Bodenheimer left Berlin in early 1934 (he had to resign from his bank position and did so in September 1933), going to Switzerland under the assumption that Hitler would not be in power long and that they could then return to Berlin. I don't think they sold the Berlin property at that time, as Rosi's cousin Vera Lachmann (later of Camp Catawba) set up a school for Jewish children (who were no longer allowed to attend public schools) in one of the buildings. I am fairly certain that Siegmund eventually sold the property, but I don't know when. My guess is that he sold it cheap after moving to New York, which he did in late 1936.

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Siegmund's address in New York was 315 Central Park West, overlooking Central Park. It was a beautiful 6-bedroom apartment on the 11th floor of "The Brookford". The apartment number was 11S, and a floorplan is available at http://www.315cpw.com/Floorplans/315_CPW_APTS_10S-11S.pdf

Siegmund wrote (badly translated from German):

In 1907 I got married. My position and my income was such that I thought I could raise a family on a sound economic basis and more convenient. These words are perhaps a modern youth, which the question of entering into a marriage far (p. weighs 39) less severe and often much less sense of responsibility towards her show to elicit a smile. But in my youth, the marriage problem has been taken far more seriously and the word of the sanctity and insolubility of marriage was still deeply rooted in the consciousness of those involved. From the USA it is so skinny, if one raises the alarming divorce statistics to look no, you can claim. --

We moved into an apartment in the house Hardenberg Strasse 20, Berlin, which we exchanged a few years in me a bigger house Meineckestrasse 21 after 2 kids, our son Edgar in 1908 and our daughter, Gerda, were born in 1911. Ten years later - in 1920, our daughter Helga was born - we moved into a house, Jagowstrasse 29/33, on the beautiful villas Grunewald. I want to say at this point that our children are developed according to our expectations and we always have joy is spreading. It was granted to me by a kind fate, the virtues of a happy marriage and an ideal family life, such a firm foundation for the work and effort are a busy man to enjoy fully. When I look, I, the records (p. 40) bring down on paper, back on my experiences as a husband and father, I have every reason to my wife that I was always a brave comrade, and my children for their constant love and devotion be thankful.

On 30 September 1933 I finished my work at the Dresdner Bank. So that my business life came to an end, after 43 years' hard work, I retired into private life. Guided by the belief that hope in a country so deeply sunk like Nazi Germany for the Jews, nothing more to be feared and everything, I began to prepare my emigration to foreign lands, my son went back in October 1933 after the U.S., my daughter (S . 101) Gerda was already outside, by studying at the University of Bern. In March 1934, we shook the dust (not to mention the mess) of Germany from our feet and traveled with our daughter Helga to Switzerland. --

The emigration from Germany was naturally associated with serious financial sacrifice for us. Andean German state was a "kingdom of flight tax" of 25% of total assets and pay the remainder of the property was subject to a lock and could only gradually from a transfer abroad through the sale of controlled currency, needed in every case the approval of the German authorities be fed. The courses of the blocked marks were in Switzerland and Holland, the principal markets for those in a permanent decline. Illiquid assets that, like houses, corporate interests, sometimes even life could, if at all, and therefore only with greater loss of time ever greater shrinkage of the evektiven proceeds will be realized. If we order after we moved to foreign countries in a new, more modest fortune had very indenting line, yet we have cause for satisfaction on the fate (p. 102) of those glances, which only later when we realized that the role of Jews in the Nazi regime was completely played out.

In order for me had started the time of retirement. I think I can say that this was, if imposed, it deserves it after a life of hard work and responsibility, and especially after the great excitement of 1929-34.

We took in Switzerland, no fixed abode, but had a sort of head-quarters in Lausanne, where we had taken to the boarding house of Madame Helga Lilienfeld. The previously mentioned sale of blocked marks often took me to Zurich, sometimes to Amsterdam. We made many trips, including (in 1934) to Palestine, where we had during a month-long stay, the opportunity to admire the Jewish Organizations & development and talent. Otherwise we were Italy, Vienna, Budapest, etc, the goals of our foreign trips. We were also twice more after our emigration in Germany, disgusted by the Nazi-infested, altered image, but without any unpleasant personal experiences. In 1935, we traveled to America to attend the marriage of Edgars, with Brigitte Levy. It was the first time that I have the land of "unlimited possibilities", which had not long previously been shown to be quite limited, entered. The impression made upon us in New York was of course a huge. A trip to California with a detour to the Grand Canyon, etc brought us the vast extent and diversity of the country before the admiring eyes. (P. 103) in early 1936 became engaged to Gerda, until then studying at the University of Bern, with Teddy Blau. After their wedding, held in March 1936 they emigrated to USA. In September of that year, we followed them with Helga & immigrated on 29 September 1936 in New York. We soon moved into Apartment 315 Central Park West, which we have today. In late 1943 we have been naturalized and had gained such a new and better country.