Oskar Schlitter

"Schlitter – das ist ein Mann der keine Feinde hat""Schlitter – that is a man without enemies" tribute by the Deutsche Bank He also became a supervisory board member for various other major corporations including IG Farben (1931–1935), the industrial conglomerates Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG and , the mining company, the power company RWE and Mannesmann. He was involved in the founding of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG.

Massive mergers within the German industrial sector were consciously mirrored in the banking sector. In 1932 he switched to the supervisory board, chairing it every other year between 1933 and 1939, alternating with Franz Urbig, the former boss of Disconto-Gesellschaft. but the family successfully relocated further north as protestant refugees.

In 1904 Oscar Schlitter married Anna Bandhauer, joined the Nazi Party in 1934 and spent the twelve Nazi years working in a succession of important diplomatic and government posts; after 1952 Oskar (junior) resumed a diplomatic career.

Family home Oscar Schlitter lived in the Berlin quarter of Schwanenwerder, which on German language Monopoly boards before 1933 occupied the square that English players of the game associated with Mayfair. It was an expensive area and many of his neighbours were, like him, bankers, some of whom the Nazi Party identified as Jewish. By the end of the 1930s houses in the locality were the homes not of Jewish bankers but of party members. Schlitter sold his own home, and the substantial plot that it occupied at 8–10 Island Street (Inselstraße 8–10) in the summer of 1935, to Joseph Goebbels for a price of 270,000 Reichsmarks, described later by one authority as "a very modest sum".

Beyond banking Schlitter was a member of the (Wednesday Society) between 1932 and 1939.