Berenberg Bank

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  Joh.Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG
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Entrance to the Hamburg headquarters
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Seat Hamburg
legal form Limited partnership
Bank code 201 200 00
BIC BEGO DEHH XXX
founding 1590
Website www.berenberg.de
Business data 2017
Total assets EUR 4,741 million
insoles EUR 3,736 million
Customer credit EUR 929 million
Employee 1,576
Offices 16
management
Board of Directors Harald Wiedmann (Chairman)
Corporate management

Hans-Walter Peters (spokesman)
Hendrik Riehmer

The Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG , often as Berenberg Bank called and now as Berenberg active, is a German private bank based in Hamburg . Today's Berenberg Bank goes back to a trading house founded in 1590. The founders and main owners are the Hanseatic families Berenberg and Goßler . It is the oldest bank in Germany and has been run by personally liable partners since it was founded.

history

Beginnings

The origins of the bank go back to the trading company founded in Hamburg in 1590 by the Dutch Hans Berenberg (1561–1626) and Paul Berenberg (II) (1566–1645) from Antwerp . The Berenbergs were cloth merchants from Brabant . The oldest traces point to an origin near Gummersbach (Hof "Groß-Berenberg").

The Berenbergs initially worked in the cloth trade in Hamburg, primarily with English business partners. Soon they expanded the activities to other product groups and had business contacts in Arkhangelsk , the Baltic States , Italy , Portugal and Spain .

Development up to the French Revolution

lili rere
Cornelius Berenberg (1634-1711)
Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–1790)

Under Cornelius Berenberg (1634–1711), who headed the company from 1660, other business fields were opened up in addition to the trade in goods. These included, through shares in freight and fishing trips, the shipping company , whaling and whale processing, ship insurance and entry into the banking business, especially through loans and mortgages .

The Berenbergs remained Dutch in Hamburg until Cornelius Berenberg swore the citizenship oath on June 20, 1684 . The integration into the Dutch immigrant community of Hamburg showed weddings, for example with the Amsincks , and caring activities such as taking over offices of the Dutch poor casse . After the naturalization, the Berenbergs also rose in the Hamburg bourgeoisie.

From 1711 Johann Berenberg and his brother Rudolf (1680–1745) ran the business. The company initially operated as Johann and Rudolf Berenberg and, after Rudolf Berenberg had become a member of the Senate in 1735, as Johann and Mr. Rudolf Berenberg .

Rudolf's sons, Senator Paul Berenberg (IV) (1716–1768) and, above all, Johann Berenberg (1718–1772), divided the business into five areas: trade in goods, private shipping, wax bleaching with candle production , insurance, and money and banking transactions.

After the death of his brother, who remained childless, in 1769 Johann Berenberg took his son-in-law and long-time employee Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–1790) into the company. The Gossler family had lived in Hamburg since the 13th and 14th century. Johann Hinrich Gossler married Elisabeth Berenberg (1749–1822) in 1768 , the last member of the Berenberg family and Johann Berenberg's sole heir. The company now traded under the name of Joh. Berenberg & Gossler . Johann Hinrich Gossler shifted the company's focus from trading in goods to banking, and it became the Merchant Bank .

From the end of the 18th century to the First World War

LE Seyler (1758-1836)

In 1788 Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (1758–1836) became a partner in the company. He had worked for the company since 1775 and in 1788 married Anna Henriette Gossler (1771–1836), the eldest daughter of the company owners Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg. After the death of his father-in-law, Seyler took over management of the company in 1790. The company name was changed to “Joh. Berenberg, Goßler & Co. ”changed to reflect his entry into the company; since then it has remained unchanged. Seyler was one of the first German merchants to establish trade relations with the United States and East Asia . The company also participated in the growing insurance business in the 1790s. His mother-in-law Elisabeth b. Berenberg became the first woman in the company's history to become a partner in 1790 and left in 1800. Her son Johann Heinrich Gossler (II) (1775–1842) became a partner in 1798; Seyler and his brother-in-law, who was seventeen years his junior, ran the company together until 1836 and 1842, respectively.

During the occupation of Hamburg by the French , Seyler, then senior of the company, was one of the prominent Hamburg merchants who were taken hostage by the French; After the Mortzenhaus had been confiscated by the French authorities and converted into a military hospital, the company's headquarters were relocated to Seyler's Wall Cream House. The occupation and French dominance in continental Europe caused a corporate crisis that led to a reduction in the balance sheet and equity losses. It took decades to rebuild the lost capital and the severed business connections. The development of trade with Latin America and the growing import and export business with North America contributed to the recovery . Johann Heinrich Gossler (III) (1805–1879) married a young, wealthy American from Boston , stayed several times in the United States and established a wide range of business relationships there. He became a partner in 1829. His younger brother Gustav Gossler (1813–1844) associated himself in Boston with Carl (Charles) Knorre (1804–1848), a son of the elder Georg Knorre, to Gossler & Knorre (later Gossler & Cie. ). Around the middle of the 19th century, Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co was one of the most important merchant banking houses in Hamburg.

Under Johann Heinrich Gossler (III) and his son Johann (John) B. Gossler (1839–1913), the company focused primarily on banking from the end of the 1860s. At the same time, it was involved in a large number of company foundations, especially stock corporations. These included Hapag (1847), Norddeutsche Lloyd (1857), Ilseder Hütte (1858), Norddeutsche Versicherungs-AG (1857), Vereinsbank Hamburg (1856) and the International Bank (1870). Abroad, she was one of the founding shareholders of Bergens Privatbank (1855), Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) (1865), St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank (1869), Den Danske Landmandsbank (1871), Svenska Handelsbanken (1871) ), the Rigaer Commerzbank (1871) and the German-Brazilian Bank (1873), which however had to file for bankruptcy in 1875 .

After the death of Johann Heinrich Gossler (III) in 1879, Johann (John) Berenberg-Gossler and Ernst Gossler (1838–1893) ran the business. In the dispute over the customs connection in Hamburg , both of them advocated the unity of customs with the German Reich , but were in a minority position within the city for a long time. In recognition of his services to the customs union, which was finally completed in 1888, Johann Berenberg-Gossler was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1889 and was now called von Berenberg-Gossler . In 1910 he was given the title of baron .

Wars and crises in the first half of the 20th century

The company's activities suffered considerably in the First World War , and international business could almost only be done with neutral countries . Trading partners for this were found in Copenhagen , Amsterdam , São Paulo , Buenos Aires and New York . With the exception of Argentina , the states of South America fell out as trading partners from 1917, as did the United States after entering the war in early 1917. The bank's business, headed by Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler (1874–1953) from late 1913 , remained until the introduction of the Rentenmark difficult in November 1923 because initial successes were overshadowed by increasing inflation . The high workload associated with it in the banking business through "writing zeros", checking and counting emergency money , crowds in the counter business and processing the giro traffic let the number of employees, which had been between 20 and 30 before the war and slowly increased after 1918, for a short time around 400 rise.

While the years of relative stabilization of the Weimar Republic (1924–1929) were positive for Berenberg, the world economic crisis and the German banking crisis ushered in serious changes. First, in 1929, the company completely gave up its already subordinate trade in goods. Concerned about the economic future of his company, Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler turned to the Darmstädter und Nationalbank (Danat Bank) and signed a friendship agreement with them on April 1, 1930. This was replaced exactly one year later by an agreement that transferred the business of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. to Danat-Bank. On July 13, 1931, however, the Danat Bank had to close its counters due to insolvency. It went up in early 1932 in the Dresdner Bank . During this merger , the whereabouts of the company Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. initially remained open. At the end of June 1932, Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler regained full control of the company. Due to the political and economic circumstances, he decided to temporarily withdraw the bank from active business.

Berenberg branch in Frankfurt am Main

After the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933 , Berenberg-Gossler planned to join the NSDAP . When asked, the branch director of the Dresdner Bank in Hamburg, Paul Salomon, assured him that none of the Jewish friends would feel hurt and encouraged him to do so "because people who are not anti-Semitic should join the party". Because the plan to counter anti - Semitism within the party proved to be an illusion, his party membership lasted only a short time. On August 8, 1934, shortly before the referendum on the head of state of the German Reich , he resigned. In his written justification, he cited the disregard for civil liberties, the regime's hostility to the church and, above all, anti-Semitism. Among the entrepreneurs in Hamburg, he was one of the staunch opponents of National Socialism. Heinrich Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler (1907–1997), son of Cornelius, joined in 1935 as a partner. Due to the restrictions in international trade, the company, which was run as a holding company during the Nazi era , concentrated on securities transactions and placement transactions . In 1937 and 1938, respectively, it took part in Wilhelm Rée (securities trading) and Erich Sältz (private banker with a focus on securities trading). Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler stood up for his numerous friends among the Jewish merchants and bankers in Hamburg. In doing so, he showed little consideration for himself. For example, in direct negotiations with Karl Wolff , Himmler's adjutant , in 1939 he achieved the release of Fritz Warburg , who had been in Gestapo custody since the November pogrom in 1938 . He helped Richard Kauffmann, the owner of the Rée, to escape to London . In his private life, Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler lived withdrawn and expressed his rejection of the Nazi regime in his diary.

Developments until 1990

On August 30, 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War and a few weeks after the currency reform in the western occupation zones , the banking house Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co reopened its counters. The Berenberg-Gossler family held 40 percent of the capital, another 40 percent was held by Norddeutsche Kreditbank AG (NKB), and August Rohdewald, head of this Bremen bank , held the remaining 20 percent . Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co , based at Alten Wall 32, concentrated in the first post-war decade on acceptance business , overdrafts and the financing of international trade. She counted a number of large industrial companies among her customers. The bank's board of directors, established in 1956, included Clemens von Velsen , Karl Blessing , Ernst Wolf Mommsen and Dieter von Specht.

In the mid-1960s, the bank employed around 100 people. In 1967 the Philadelphia National Bank and the Bank of Montreal each took a 10 percent stake in Berenberg. These investments strengthened the foreign lending business, which, along with securities trading and asset management, was one of the bank's main activities. Berenberg was involved in 40 issues in 1967 and 112 in 1968, partly in consortia and partly in international sales groups. In 1968 Berenberg was one of the founders of the Frankfurt Universal-Investment Gesellschaft .

In 1970 the private bank moved to Neue Jungfernstieg 20. It occupied five of the ten floors of a new office building designed by Jost Schramm and Gerd Pempelfort , which Nordstern-Versicherung had built. At the beginning of the 1970s, ownership changed: NKB, now merged with Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-Anstalt , needed help due to financial difficulties and was supported by Norddeutsche Landesbank (Nord / LB). Eight-tenths of the NKB stake in Berenberg, which was 50 percent at the time, went to Nord / LB, one-tenth each went to the Philadelphia National Bank and the Bank of Montreal, whose stakes rose to 15 percent each. In 1980, the number of bank employees exceeded the 200 mark for the first time. In early 1982, Gertrud Reemtsma, widow of the Hamburg tobacco entrepreneur Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma and mother of Jan Philipp Reemtsma , acquired the shares that had been held by the Bank of Montreal until then. In May 1987, Nord / LB sold 15 percent of the Berenberg shares retrospectively to January 1, 1987 to Joachim Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg . At the end of June 1988, ARAG joined Berenberg as a limited partner . Their share was 10 percent, which came from Nord / LB. Nord / LB held 15 percent until it took back the ARAG stake after a few years.

The financing and processing of foreign trade transactions remained an important pillar of the banking business in the 1980s. The credit policy remained cautious: 80 to 90 percent of all loans had to be repaid within 90 days.

Since German reunification

Location in London at 60 Threadneedle Street, building by architect Eric Parry

Hendrik Riehmer joined Berenberg in July 1990, showing a keen interest in equity trading and investment advice . In 1994, Hans-Walter Peters started as a director at the bank. At that time he was also considered an expert in the securities business and brought customers from the insurance industry with him. The work for these institutional investors marked Berenberg's entry into the large-volume securities business. Asset management, with its special funds set up for the insurance working group , was important . Peters, who became personally liable partner of Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG in 2000, initiated this group at the end of the 1980s and has led it ever since. The scope of the securities business, investment advice and management, business with institutional investors, the management of special funds and the private customer business have increased significantly since the mid-1990s. This development was reflected in the growth in personnel: the number of employees has more than tripled since 2000. At the end of 2000, 358 people were employed; as of December 31, 2014, 1,150 people were working at Berenberg.

The network of branches has also been expanded. The Frankfurt branch, which has existed since 1969, was joined by locations in Berlin (1998–2002), Bremen (1999), Düsseldorf (2003), Munich (2005), Bielefeld (2005), Stuttgart (2006), Wiesbaden (2006–2012), Salzburg (2009–2012) and Braunschweig (2010) added. Abroad, after Zurich and Luxembourg , the private bank set up further branches in Shanghai (2002), London (2003), Paris (2004) and Vienna (2010). There are subsidiaries in Geneva (2010), Boston (2011), New York (2012), San Francisco (2014) and Chicago (2014). In 2015, based on the number of employees, London was the largest location after Hamburg.

After the departure of Joachim von Berenberg-Consbruch (2005), Claus-Günther Budelmann (2008) and Andreas Brodtmann (2015) from the company management, the management committee of the bank consists of Hans-Walter Peters and Hendrik Riehmer. Peters took on the newly created position of spokesman for the personally liable partners in 2009. Nord / LB sold its 25 percent stake in 2010 and used the proceeds to increase its equity capital against the backdrop of the financial crisis . A holding company owned by Peters and Riehmer acquired 21 percent of the Berenberg shares ; the remaining 4 percent was taken over by the Berenberg-Gossler family.

In 2016, Berenberg and Bankhaus Lampe sold their respective 50 percent shares in the Universal-Investment-Gesellschaft to the British financial investor Montagu .

The corresponding year 2016 was therefore the best financial year since it was founded. The balance sheet showed a result of 161 million euros . Previously, a record result of 104 million euros had already been achieved in 2015. There was a decline in the 2017 financial year, but this is still the third-best result in history with a profit of 90 million euros.

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Berenberg Bank is now an "aggressive" investment bank. The bank earns 85 percent of its income from investment banking commissions. 15 percent goes through the interest business.

present

Business areas

The bank's activities are divided into four business areas: private banking , investment banking , asset management and corporate banking (corporate banking). Since then, the focus has shifted significantly towards consulting services. With the expansion of investment banking and the expansion at home and abroad took the importance of net commission income to he doubled from 2006 to 2014. His relationship with the current interest income is 90 to 10 (as of the end of 2014). Today Berenberg sees itself as an international consulting company.

Private banking

The consulting business for private customers grew through partnerships with savings banks and Landesbanken . They remain responsible for the customer relationship, but asset management for their wealthy customers lies with Berenberg. There is also regular collaboration with external asset managers and family offices . In 2013, Berenberg set the guideline to offer private banking primarily to customers with liquid assets of at least 1 million euros. What remains decisive, however, is whether the range of private banking services is suitable for the customer's investment situation and whether the customer uses these services.

In a report from December 11, 2014, Die Welt describes how a customer at the end of the 1980s with the intention of evading taxes transferred 200,000 DM abroad via the Berenberg Bank.

Investment banking

Investment banking has played an important role at Berenberg for years. As early as 2000, Berenberg participated in five major IPOs , including as co-manager in the IPOs of T-Online-International , Deutsche Telekom and AWD . The bank is now one of the most important German investment banks. In the competition with other banks, Berenberg took second place in the German-speaking area in 2013 with 13 accompanied IPOs and capital increases . In 2014, the bank was involved in 20 such measures and was thus at the top of the bank rankings in German-speaking countries.

When it comes to investment banking, Berenberg emphasizes its service character and the principle that the bank itself should not take any risks. The main services provided here are research, sales and brokerage , classic capital market business (IPOs and capital increases) and advice on mergers and takeovers .

The Research of the Bank initially focused on mid-caps , mainly European, and has been centralized in the course of business expansion in London. With around 80 employees in London and around 600 analyzed companies, it is one of the largest in Europe (as of August 2015).

At the beginning of 2015, Berenberg and the Bayerische Landesbank announced a cooperation. Interested corporate customers are offered joint debt and equity measures. While Berenberg contributes its expertise in the field of takeovers, capital increases and IPOs, the Bayerische Landesbank has good contacts with its financing business with many companies in the DAX , MDAX and medium- sized companies as well as the ability to bridge financing large transactions.

Asset management

In 2014, around 60 Berenberg employees at the Hamburg location looked after 16.1 billion euros for institutional investors in more than 100 mandates. Pension funds dominated the customers who used the bank's asset management services, followed by insurance companies, family offices, industrial companies and financial service providers . While over 80 percent of the assets came from Germany in 2009 , almost half of these assets came from foreign customers in 2014.

Corporate banking

According to its own information, the bank has “a comparatively small loan book”. As a rule, loans are only granted where additional business can be generated through other banking services. In addition to corporate customer business, this division includes advisory services in the areas of shipping and real estate finance , as well as infrastructure and energy . The bank also advises on financing and transaction financing issues.

Economic expertise

Holger Schmieding has been with Berenberg since 2010 . Since August 2015, the long-time chief economist at Bank of America , Mickey Levy, has been working for Berenberg as chief economist USA.

The Berenberg Bank is one of the sponsors of the Hamburg World Economic Institute (HWWI) , which was founded in 2005. Together with this institute, Berenberg publishes the study series Strategy 2030 , which deals with comprehensive social changes and long-term economic trends. 21 studies have been published since 2005 (as of November 2015). Four times - most recently in 2015 - Berenberg carried out a city ranking together with the HWWI in which the future viability of 30 German cities was examined.

Shareholder

Hans-Walter Peters, spokesman for the management and partner of Berenberg

As of 2016, the voting rights are distributed as follows:

  • 30.4 percent family v. Berenberg
  • 26.1 percent PetRie Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (Hans-Walter Peters (managing directors) and Hendrik Riehmer) and Hans-Walter Peters
  • 1.5 percent former phG
  • 15.0 percent Hereditary Prince zu Fürstenberg
  • 15.0 percent Jan Philipp Reemtsma
  • 12.0 percent Compagnie du Bois Sauvage

Awards

Berenberg Bank has received a number of industry awards, including the Elite Report and the Handelsblatt and the Best Private Bank in Germany award from The Banker magazine .

In 2011, Berenberg received the KulturMerkur , an annual award from the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Hamburg Cultural Foundation, for funding projects in the fields of art, theater and music, as well as for awarding scholarships for up-and-coming artists .

criticism

Berenberg Art Advice

In September 2011 the bank founded the art consultancy Berenberg Art Advice GmbH with a 51 percent stake . The managing directors were the art consultant Helge Achenbach , the former director of an art insurance company Stefan Horsthemke and the head of the Düsseldorf Berenberg branch Raymund Scheffler. In November 2012, the Berenberg Art Capital Fund was launched with the same management team . Scheffler left the bank in March 2013 “for personal reasons”. Art historian Thomas Kellein , who works for Berenberg Art Advice , drew the bank's board of directors' attention to the fact that Achenbach had taken advantage of chemical entrepreneur Christian Boehringer in several art purchases from December 2012 to May 2013. The bank worked towards a reimbursement of 1.2 million euros from Achenbach to Böhringer without first publishing the incidents. In July 2013, Berenberg Art Capital was dissolved due to a lack of investors and changes in the legal framework, and the bank separated from Achenbach. At the same time, Berenberg Art Advice was dissolved because the bank wanted to "link art advice more closely to the activities of the parent company and relocate it to the Hamburg headquarters". Achenbach was taken into custody in June 2014 following a criminal complaint from the heirs of the retail entrepreneur Berthold Albrecht for other fraud allegations .

Panama Papers

In connection with the Panama Papers, journalists from the NDR , WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung accuse the bank of working with customers who are allegedly involved in drug crime , money laundering , illicit money deals and the illegal arms trade . According to the journalists, Berenberg was mentioned several times as a particularly cooperative partner of the law firm Mossack Fonseca . Berenberg is assigned to 13 mailbox companies with more than 75 accounts; For all of the 28 German banks involved, there is talk of 1,200 letterbox companies.

The ZDF reported that staff from the Compliance Department of the Bank had already in July 2013 internally any transactions involving offshore companies in Panama were warned, as if an internal review numerous connections to a suspected money-laundering network discovered that within the offshore Leaks releases. The Hamburg public prosecutor's office started investigations after the complaint, but stopped them in June 2015 because “no evidence of specific criminal offenses could be found”. Two long-term employees in the compliance department were given notice without notice, given their leave of absence and banned from the house.

The Cologne public prosecutor closed its investigation at the beginning of December 2016. She announced that "the suspicion of aiding and abetting tax evasion in connection with the offshore companies identified (...) has been completely dispelled". Also the suspicion of "making a system available (...) could (...) not be substantiated".

Swiss black money accounts

Berenberg's Swiss subsidiary managed black money accounts. A corresponding investigation was discontinued at the end of 2016 against a fine of almost four million euros. In 2018, the majority of Berenberg Switzerland was sold.

Suspected criminal customers

A research association of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the NDR and the WDR found connections between the Berenberg Bank and suspected criminal customers going beyond the Panama Papers:

In 2010 the bank cooperated on a trial basis from February to May with exchange offices in various South American countries by providing accounts for their business. The business of exchanging currencies is known as a method used by criminals to launder money. The bank ceased business relations after the three months.

Hundreds of mailbox companies are registered under the name Erik Vanagels - a homeless person from Lithuania . Billions of dollars are said to have been smuggled through this company network, presumably also from criminal transactions, including corruption, money laundering and participation in organized crime. Documents such as bank accounts suggest that Berenberg Bank did business with companies run by sham directors from the Vanagels group of companies. In 2013, the bank hired Deloitte's auditors to investigate these accounts and soon parted ways with hundreds of clients. The bank spoke of "old cases" and gave the impression of having been clean after 2013. However, the research network was able to prove that Berenberg Bank still had connections to Vanagels' letterbox companies until the end of 2014.

Other activities

Party donations

On November 5, 2010, July 1, 2011 and June 10, 2013, the Berenberg Bank donated 100,000 euros to the CDU , in 2012 this amount was 163,000 euros. In 2014 the bank donated 10,000 euros to the CDU. The FDP received in 2013 an amount of 20,000 euros, in 2014 it stood at 10,000 euros.

Sponsorship

The company has sponsored polo and horse racing tournaments since 2001 . In golf , Berenberg sponsored the Berenberg Masters , a tournament of the European Seniors Tour , from 2010 , and the Berenberg Gary Player Invitationals from 2014 . In the classic car sector , the bank sponsors the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este , the Schloss Bensberg Classics and the Kitzbühel Alpine Rally . The Berenberg Bank sponsors the Deichtorhallen Hamburg as a "partner" .

Foundations and Awards

For the 400th anniversary, Berenberg established the Berenberg Bank Foundation in 1990 . It awards the Berenberg Culture Prize annually . It is endowed with 15,000 euros. Since then , the foundation has supported around 70 artists in this way. It also awards scholarships for young talent in the field of art. The foundation awards together with the Universitäts-Gesellschaft Hamburg e. V. the Berenberg Prize for Scientific Language , which is endowed with 5,000 euros.

Employees at the London branch founded the Berenberg Kids initiative in 2006 . In 2009 a foundation emerged from this. Up until 2014, donations totaling almost one million euros had been collected to support social institutions and organizations as well as schools, especially in Germany and England.

The first recipient of the Berenberg Prize for Corporate Responsibility was Faber-Castell AG in 2014 , while the honorary award for corporate responsibility went to the Prettl Group.

attachment

literature

  • Clarita von Bernstorff, Hartwig von Bernstorff, Emanuel Eckardt : Only change is constant: Berenberg. The history of Germany's oldest private bank , Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-44669-4 .
  • Dominik Löber: Private Banking in Germany. Strategy and organizational architecture , Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8349-3559-5 .
  • Manfred Pohl , Sabine Freitag: Handbook on the History of European Banks (European Association for Banking History e.V.) Elgar, Aldershot (et al.) 1994, ISBN 1-85278-919-0 , pp. 362-365.
  • Manfred Pohl: Hamburg banking history , v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-7758-1136-2 .
  • Tim Bartz, Mark Böschen, Sven Clausen: Wall Street on the Inner Alster . In: Manager Magazin . No. 5 , May 2014, ISSN  0047-5726 , p. 50-55 .

Web links

Commons : Berenberg Bank  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  20. ↑ On the business of the company under the direction of Johann Hinrich Gossler see C. von Bernstorff, H. von Bernstorff, E. Eckardt: Only change is constant , p. 68 and p. 72–77.
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