Commercial and private bank

The commercial and private bank was a German credit institute .

history

The bank was founded as Bank für Landwirtschaft AG in Berlin in the 1920s . The focus of business activity was banking with branches in central Germany .

After the Second World War and the loss of the East German branches, it reopened as Westdeutsche Bank für Landwirtschaft AG in Cologne . Later the company was renamed Bank für Landwirtschaft AG .

Expansion through the acquisition of various credit institutions, for example the Getreidekreditbank in Hamburg , allowed the company to grow in the 50s and 60s. In 1969 the name was changed to Handels- und Privatbank AG (HP-Bank) and the focus was on medium-sized corporate customers, upscale private customers and foreign trade , especially with Eastern Europe . The HP bank operated 15 branches in major West German cities.

In 1981 AMRO Bank NV Amsterdam-Rotterdam bought the majority of the shares in Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank , Frankfurt am Main . In 1986 the name was changed again to Amro Handelsbank AG , which later merged into ABN AMRO Bank .