German banker
Hans-Otto Spithaler (born 1937 in Westphalia) is a German banker, lawyer and author who worked on restitution issues.
Life and work
In 1973, he moved from the banking business to the paper processing industry in Berlin. He became a board member of Kroch companies, including "AG für Haus- und Grundbesitz.
For ten years worked on the restitution of looted art of the property aryanized from the Kroch family[1] during the Nazi era.[2][3][4][5] He is involved in various Kroch companies as a member of the supervisory board.
Hans-Otto Spithaler and the journalist Monika Zimmermann, wrote a history of the Jewish family business Kroch in Leipzig with its headquarter in the Kroch High-rise and its destruction under National Socialism.[3] The Kroch restitution case was one of the largest private restitution cases.[6]
Literature
- Hans-Otto Spithaler, Rolf H. Weber, Monika Zimmermann: Kroch – Der Name bleibt: Das Schicksal eines jüdischen Familienunternehmens in Leipzig, mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2018, ISBN 978-3-96311-007-8
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