Gotthard von Falkenhausen
 Gotthard von Falkenhausen    (Banker) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 January 1899 | |||||||||||
| Died | 1 November 1982 (Age 83) | |||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||
| Founder of | Atlantik-Brücke | |||||||||||
| Member of | Atlantik-Brücke | |||||||||||
German banker
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Gotthard Ludwig Hans Dietrich Freiherr von Falkenhausen was a German banker.
Career
In 1935 he took over the Essen branch of the Trinkaus bank, and in 1938 became a partner.
From 1939 to 1944 he worked in occupied Paris, where he, among others with Caesar von Hofacker, revised the Kreisau Circle's plans for a reorganization of the Reich after the planned assassination attempt on Hitler. After the attack, he was arrested, taken to Berlin and released from Gestapo custody on January 19, 1945 for lack of evidence. During his imprisonment, von Falkenhausen, who had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1937, was expelled from the party on December 16, 1944.
From 1960 to 1970 von Falkenhausen was President and then Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Essen, from 1960 to 1967 President of the Board of Directors of the Association of German Banks (BdB). He was also a co-founder of the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He was one of the German founders of the influential transatlantic deep state Atlantik-Brücke in 1952, together with the bankers Eric Warburg and the journalists Marion Gräfin Dönhoff and Ernst Friedländer, and the businessmen Eric Blumenfeld and Hans-Karl von Borries.
