Draft:Theodor Frank

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Theodor Frank in front of his villa 1932.

Theodor Frank (1871-1953) was a proprietor, founder, and managing director of Deutsche Bank from it's inception in 1929. He was forced to leave the bank when the Nazi racial laws were imposed in 1930, and was ultimately removed from the bank's board in 1936. He is also remembered for commissioning from Ernst Freud his greatest project, a villa on Baumgartenbrück in Geltow, suburb of Berlin, in 1929. The house, restored after falling into ruin in East Germany, was declared a historic monument. Frank, the descendant of merchants in Mannheim, Germany, began his career in banking with the Disconto-Gesellschaft in 1905, rising to be director in 1922, and leading it to it's merger into Deutsche Bank in 1929. Frank and his wife Margot fled Germany, coming to rest in Cannes, where Margot was captured by the Nazis in 1944 and taken to Auschwitz to die. Theodor Frank escaped and hid until after the war in Nice, where he remained in poverty until his death in 1953.

Theodor Frank gravestone, Mannheim Jewish cemeter

References

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Deutsche Bank Admits It Helped Hitler : Confronting a Dark Past (Published 1995)

Wayback Machine

Welter, Volker M. (2012). Ernst L. Freud, Architect. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9780857452337. JSTOR j.ctt9qcnzk. Retrieved 13 August 2021.