Bank director, honorary magistrate
Born: September 30, 1900 in Wiesbaden
died: February 15, 1960 ibid.

Hermann Gitter attended secondary school in Wiesbaden and graduated in 1916 with a one-year diploma. Gitter then completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at the Bank für Handel und Industrie in Wiesbaden. Gitter worked at this bank and its successor institutions (Darmstädter and Nationalbank, Rhein-Main-Bank and finally Dresdner Bank) until his death in 1960.

After completing his apprenticeship, he was employed in the "Issuing, Conversion, Securities, Deposit Accounting Coupon Cash" department. In 1932, Gitter then worked in the bank's secretariat. In 1934, he became head of the secretariat and was given power of attorney. In 1939, the banker was granted extended power of attorney.

The business files of Gitter's branch, in particular the correspondence with customers and the Dresdner Bank branch in Strasbourg, show that Gitter had insight into the "Aryanization transactions" of bank customers, such as those of Wiesbaden merchant Franz Franke. Franke ran several kitchenware stores in Wiesbaden and intended to open another branch in Alsace, which had been annexed by Germany. The correspondence makes it clear that Franke had "aryanized" Berthold Fürst's store in Wiesbaden's Neugasse in 1935. This "Aryanization" was financed by a loan from Dresdner Bank in Wiesbaden. The bank granted Franke another loan in 1938 so that the merchant could acquire the "Kaufhaus des Westens" (Western Department Store) of the Jewish merchant Siegfried Kahn at Wellritzstraße 45 in Wiesbaden. Gitter was not involved in these transactions.

After the beginning of the Second World War, Gitter was drafted in 1940 and did military service until he was captured in 1945. In May 1945, Gitter was able to return to Wiesbaden and once again took up a position at Dresdner Bank. Gitter joined the re-established SPD. The American occupation administration regarded him as untainted. In 1945, Gitter was appointed to a commission that decided which employees of the Wiesbaden banks were considered politically untainted. In January 1946, Gitter was given power of attorney, and a year later he was appointed deputy director of his bank. In 1948, Gitter finally became director and co-head of the financial institution.

From 1946, Gitter was a member of the Wiesbaden city council for the SPD as an honorary councillor. He was also a member of numerous commissions and boards of trustees. He was also a member of the supervisory boards of Stadtwerke Wiesbaden AG, Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbaden AG and Gemeinnützige Wiesbadener Wohnbau GmbH, as well as chairman of the supervisory board of Conditorei-, Café- und Hotelbetriebsgesellschaft Otty Blum GmbH. There were also presidential memberships.

In 1969, a street in the Rheingauviertel/Hollerborn district was named after him.