Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank

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There was a company called Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank twice in Germany .

  • The Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank in the German Empire, based in Berlin , the date of foundation unknown, collapsed in February 1896 and went bankrupt. Its director, Hermann Friedmann, was arrested for falsifying documents and sentenced in July 1896 to a prison sentence of several years. The Potsdam tram company , whose supervisory board chairman Friedmann was, which lost one million marks as a result, so that the network could not be electrified at first, was one of the numerous victims .
  • The Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank in the Federal Republic of Germany, based in Düsseldorf, was one of ten regional banks that were created in 1948 when the Deutsche Bank was planned to be broken up . In 1952 it was increased significantly when the number of regional banks was reduced from ten to three. In April 1956, the name was changed to Deutsche Bank West . On May 2, 1957, retroactive to January 1, 1957, the three regional banks merged to form today's Deutsche Bank , based in Frankfurt am Main.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Collapse of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank Thorner Presse February 13, 1896
  2. ^ On the trial of Hermann Friedmann Thorner Presse, July 8, 1896
  3. ↑ Joachim Scholtyseck : The reunification of the major German banks and the end of the post-war period in the epoch year 1957 , in Bankhistorisches Archiv Volume 32, 206, Issue 2, p. 3., online on the homepage of the Historischen Gesellschaft der Deutsche Bank e. V.