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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Development of Public Saving and Giro Institutions and its Significance in German Financial Structure 1908-1935

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13630088
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Economic history
Research InstitutionShiga University

Principal Investigator

MITSUISHI Ikuo  Shiga University, Faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (50174066)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Keywordssaving bank / Weimar / Nazi / financial crisis / banking law / liquidity / financial regulation / communal credit
Research Abstract

In this rearch programme I wish to analyse the development of saving banks and giro institutions of German public financial institutions mainly in the interwar periode. As the result, I arrived at two points of new aspect and fact.
First, saving bank was originally established as a public institution, therefore it gave credit often to its local commune and reversely this guaranteed the deposit of its saving bank. While its business expanded to a universal bank at the early twenties, separate saving bank was financially integrated first to the provincial or state giro institution, and then to the national institution (Deutsche Girozentrale). In the financial crisis of 1931 they suffered liquidity of its frozen credit to local governments and reduced its assetts and deposits. However, saving and giro institutions, which got the independent corporation by the law of Reichsgesetz uber das Kreditwesen in 1934, recovered from the Great Depression faster than the Berliner Big Banks.
Secondary, the active municipal investment to infrastructure, facilities and house construction of the twenties were financed with domestic deposit fund collected by saving banks and financed through giro institutions. They gave credit also to the middle and small enterprises, which were not taken into account by the Big Banks. After the Nazi came into power in 1933, there appeared a new financial channel from saving and giro institutions through the long government bonds to the munitious industries with the means of special bills. These institutions became one of the important instruments for the Nazi financial system with the purpose of armament.

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 三ツ石 郁夫: "第一次大戦前のドイツ金融構造における地域的構成-ヴュルテンベルクを中心に-"彦根論叢. 第331号. 85-105 (2001)

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  • [Publications] 三ツ石 郁夫: "ワイマール期の金融構造における貯蓄銀行・振替銀行の位置-「金融分業」体制の展開-"滋賀大学経済学部研究年報. 第8巻. 71-93 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 三ツ石 郁夫: "ワイマール末期における貯蓄銀行組織の流動性危機と信用構造"彦根論叢. 第340・341号. 76-88 (2003)

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  • [Publications] MITSUISHI, Ikuo: "The Regional Structure in the German Banking System before World War I: the Case of Wurttemberg"The Hikone Ronso. No.331. 85-105 (2001)

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  • [Publications] MITSUISHI, Ikuo: "The Role of German Saving Banks and Central Giro Institutions in the Weimar's' Economy"The Annals of Human and Social Sciences, Faculty of Economics Shiga University. Vol.8. 71-83 (2002)

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  • [Publications] MITSUISHI, Ikuo: "The Causes of the Saving Bank Crisis at the End of the Weimar Republic"The Hikone Ronso. No.340/341. 67-88 (2003)

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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