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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.
This is a list of co-operative banks in Germany according to the information provided by the Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR) umbrella organisation. By late 2008, there were 1,197 co-operative banks in Germany with total assets of €668 billion. German co-operative banks are members of regional organisations.
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.
Many of the largest banks in Germany, e.g. Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, Commerzbank and Helaba, have their corporate headquarters here, as well as many representation offices of foreign banks. It is also the place where most of Frankfurts high-rises and skyscrapers are located, which gave it also the nicknames Bankfurt and Mainhattan .
Volksbank means "people's bank" in Afrikaans, Dutch and German. It generally refers to a form of cooperative banking. Specifically, Volksbank may refer to: Volksbank Group in Austria; Volksbank van Leuven, a now-disappeared bank at the root of KBC Group in Belgium; banks named Volksbank within the German Cooperative Financial Group