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From the 15th century, banking families such as Fugger, Welser and Hochstetter were international mercantile bankers and venture capitalists. The oldest bank still in existence in Germany, Berenberg Bank, was founded by Dutch brothers Hans and Paul Berenberg in 1590, is still owned by the Berenberg family, and is the world's oldest or second oldest bank, depending on the exact definition.
By 1930 Commerz- und Privatbank was Germany's fourth-largest joint-stock bank by total deposits with 1.5 billion Reichsmarks, behind Deutsche Bank & Disconto-Gesellschaft (4.8 billion), Danat-Bank (2.4 billion), and Dresdner Bank (2.3 billion) and ahead of Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft (619 million) and Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft (412 million).
2001–2005 Rolf-Ernst Breuer (Deutsche Bank) 2005–2009 Klaus-Peter Müller (Commerzbank) 2009-2013 Andreas Schmitz (HSBC Trinkaus) 2013–2016 Jürgen Fitschen (Deutsche Bank) 2016–April 2020 and August 2020-June 2021: Hans-Walter Peters (Berenberg Bank) April-August 2020: Martin Zielke (Commerzbank) July 2021-: Christian Sewing (Deutsche ...
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch (1808–1883) Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888) Wilhelm Haas (1839–1913) In 1843, the first German cooperative bank was created by 50 inhabitants of Öhringen in the Kingdom of Württemberg, who named it the Öhringer Privatspar- und Leihkasse ("private savings and lending bank of Öhringen") – it still exists as the Volksbank Hohenlohe [].
With total assets of some 3,029 billion euros, VÖB's member institutions cover approximately one quarter of the German banking market. Public-sector banks view themselves as owing responsibility towards SMEs, other enterprises, the public sector, and retail customers; they are deeply rooted in their respective home regions, all over Germany.
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The German Banking Act Kreditwesengesetz (KWG), literally meaning law of the banking system, is the primary legally implementation of the Basel Accords. It is binding for banks and other institutes providing financial services (German: de:Kreditinstitute und de:Finanzdienstleistungsinstitute ) in Germany and effective since January 1935, but ...
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