Bankhaus Gumpel & Samson

1896 beginning commercial register file Gumpel & Samson.owner Ludwig Gumpel (1860-1935) and his cousin Wilhelm Samson (1859 – 1932). From 1913,  address of the Gumpel & Samson banking house Kaiserstraße 13. The Ludwig and Dr. Max Gumpel families live in the Beletage. From 1921,  takeover of the  banking business by the „Darmstädter und Nationalbank, Berlin, Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien“. The two bank founders remain majority shareholders. Dec. 01, 1923 Rückütakeover of the bank by Gumpel  & Samson.Max Gumpel manages the bank.  30.01.1933 „seizure of power“ by the National Socialists, targeted agitation against Max Gumpel for allegedly harming customers. March 1933 Imprisonment of Max Gumpel, the so-called „protective custody“. April 01, 1933 NSDAP calls for a boycott of Bank Gumpel & Samson. September 03, 1933 Release from prison of Max Gumpel against payment of 300,000 Reichsmark (RM). 13.03.1934 Sentence against Dr. Max Gumpel, for allegedly defrauding his bank clients, to one month in prison (or 8,000 RM fine) and 12,000 RM fine (or one month and two weeks in prison). Aug. 16, 1935 New boycott list of the NSDAP,  agitation in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. 17.08.1935 Gestapo arrests Max Gumpel,  transfer on 22.08.1935 to the Lichtenburg Prettin concentration camp. July 1935 death of Ludwig Gumpel.  Burial in the Jewish cemetery  in Bernburg. Dec. 31, 1935 Expropriation by „Aryanization“ of the bank, by the Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Bernburg. Max Gumpel moves with his family to Berlin. 15.04.1936 Opening of the branch of the Sparkasse Bernburg in the former Bank Gumpel & Samson. The Bernburg NSDAP mayor moved into the first floor. February 1937 Max Gumpel emigrates to England.25.04.1938 Ausbürgerung Max Gumpel and his family, confiscation of his property. His mother Hedwig (1872-1942) lives in hiding in Berlin and in Baalberge near Bernburg.1942 suicide on her husband's grave in the Jüdische cemetery in Bernburg .1942 end of the trade register.