The Bankhaus H. Aufhäuser was " forcefully Aryanized " as a result of the so-called Pogrom Night in early November and , in December 1938 , Friedrich Wilhelm Seiler took over the bank . H. Aufhäuser was thus one of the last private banks and one of the most important ones that was aryanized in this way . The bank changed its name to '' Seiler & Co. '' and the Jewish employees had to be dismissed . However , it must be noted that Martin Aufhäuser had led the first negotiations with Frederick Seiler in the summer of 1938 more or less voluntarily ; Seiler was the one to whom the Aufhäusers wanted to hand over their bank . Only after the '' Kristallnacht '' ( Pogrom Night ) did the National Socialist authorities intervene massively in the negotiations and determine the path of aryanization . From the end of 1938 onwards , the business was mainly run by the Aufhäuser 's close associate , Josef Bayer ( 1897 – 1965 ) , who had been married to a Jewish woman since the 1920s , but could not be dismissed by the National Socialist authorities because of his knowledge of the bank . The '' Bankhaus Aufhäuser/Seiler '' succeeded in generating profits by 1944 without becoming involved in arms deals or the like . Josef Bayer , as well as the , since 1939 , personally liable shareholder Otto Schniewind , who was temporarily scheduled to serve as minister of finance or economy in the planned government of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , were taken to the concentration camp or rather taken into custody as a result of the assassination attempt of 20 July plot , but survived the Nazi era
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