George von Mallinckrodt

Georg Wilhelm Gustav von Mallinckrodt (19 August 1930 – 16 January 2021) was a German merchant banker, whose career at Schroders spanned 54 years, from joining the business as a trainee in 1954, and included 31 years on the Board of Directors and 11 years as executive chairman before retiring in 2008. He died after a long illness on 16 January 2021. Early life Von Mallinckrodt was born on 19 August 1930 at Wesseling, Germany to Arnold Wilhelm von Mallinckrodt and wife Valentine von Mallinckrodt (née von Joest). He was educated at Schule Schloss Salem near Lake Constance, where Kurt Hahn was a significant presence after the Second World War. He was the eldest of three children. His father, Arnold, hailed from a family of private bankers in Antwerp and later Frankfurt (Mallinckrodt et Companie) and his mother, Valentine (née von Joest), came from an industrial family in Cologne. The family lived in Paris, where Arnold was Managing Director of Agfa Gevaert. At the outbreak of war, they had to leave Paris suddenly in September 1939 and were interned in Basel before being allowed to return to Germany. Mallinckrodt attended Salem from 1940. Initially school life was calm but in 1944 the SS took over the running of the school. Things changed radically when the new teaching staff attempted to indoctrinate the pupils. Mallinckrodt rebelled in various ways, was severely punished and, on two occasions, sent to work in munitions factories.