Hermann Golluber was a member of the SCHUFA Administrative Committee. We present his biography here, as documented in the report “An Institution Under the Radar? A Report on the SCHUFA During the Nazi Era”:

What was Herrmann Gollhuber's role at SCHUFA?

“Hermann Golluber was born on April 18, 1876, in Stettin (now Szczecin). Together with his business partner Hugo Halle, he founded Jonass & Co. GmbH, a mail-order business specializing in watches, in Berlin in 1889. In 1928, this evolved into the Jonass credit department store, where customers could purchase textiles, household goods, and many other consumer items. The department store’s modern new building was designed by architects Gustav Bauer and Siegfried Friedländer and was regarded as a symbol of the new metropolitan consumer culture. Just as innovative as the architecture was the department store’s business model: Customers could initially purchase goods for one-quarter of the purchase price and pay the remainder in installments. This made Golluber’s company a natural fit for a partnership with SCHUFA. His experience with installment loans also explains his membership on the administrative committee.”