Sparkasse Leverkusen

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Logo of the savings banks  Sparkasse Leverkusen
The Sparkasse from the air
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Seat Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 39
51373 Leverkusen
legal form Institute of public right
Bank code 375 514 40
BIC WELA DEDL LEV
Association Rhenish Savings Banks and Giro Association
Website www.sparkasse-lev.de
Business data 2019
Total assets 3.677 billion euros
insoles 2.827 billion euros
Customer credit 3.075 billion euros
Employee 526
Offices 19th
management
Board of Directors Uwe Richrath , chairman
Board Rainer Schwarz (Chairman)
Markus Grawe (Deputy Chairman)
List of savings banks in Germany

The Sparkasse Leverkusen is a public sector financial institution based in Leverkusen in North Rhine-Westphalia . Your business area is the city of Leverkusen.

organization structure

The Sparkasse Leverkusen is an institution under public law . The legal bases for business activity are the Banking Act of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Savings Banks Act for North Rhine-Westphalia and the statutes issued by the Sparkasse's owner . The organs of the Sparkasse are the board of directors and the administrative board .

Business alignment

The Sparkasse Leverkusen operates the universal banking business as a savings bank . It is the market leader in its business area. Sparkasse Leverkusen reported total assets of EUR 3.677 billion in the 2019 financial year and customer deposits of EUR 2.827 billion. According to the 2019 Sparkasse Ranking List, it ranks 110th in terms of total assets. It has 19 branches / self-service locations and employs 526 people.

Through its public mandate , Sparkasse Leverkusen is obliged to promote the economic and social progress of the broader population as well as medium-sized businesses. Municipalities and other public corporations as well as competition in the banking industry are supported. Sparkasse Leverkusen promotes personal financial provision and personal responsibility. Due to the regional principle, it undertakes to only allocate funds to persons with a registered office or branch in the statutory area.

Savings Banks Finance Group

Sparkasse Leverkusen is part of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe and thus also belongs to its liability association. He secures the existence of the institutes and ensures that they can meet all liabilities even in the event of individual savings banks becoming insolvent . The Savings Bank provides savings contracts the regional Landesbausparkasse , mutual funds of Deka and insurance of the Provincial Rhineland . Sparkasse Leverkusen works together with Deutsche Leasing in the area of leasing . Helaba performs the function of the Sparkasse's central bank .

history

Sparkasse Leverkusen

Sparkasse Opladen around 1935

In 1844 the Sparkasse Leverkusen started its business operations - back then as a Sparkasse in the Solingen district . This was preceded by an application from the city of Solingen five years earlier. Then the first deposits could be made. But that was not enough for the district administrator, so that he sent statutes of the Sparkasse for the district (Mönchen) Gladbach to all the mayors of his district and then applied to the government in Düsseldorf to set up a joint “district savings fund”. The approval was two years in coming. On August 24, 1843, the President approved the application, so that business operations could begin six months later.

Sparkasse Opladen

In April 1844 an application was made to found the Sparkasse Opladen. She moved to the “Zum Ritter” inn right on the north ramp of the Wupper Bridge in Opladen. The first director of the Sparkasse was Julius Schnitzler (1806–1884), Wilhelm Ulenberg (1815–1888) acted as chief curator. Both were managing directors of the spinning mill and screw factory Ulenberg & Schnitzler on the Wupper bridge.

Merger of the two savings banks

Due to the previous administrative and territorial reform in the 1970s, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia got into great unrest. There was, for example, the discussion of the incorporation of Leverkusen into Cologne, which was ultimately prevented. Such drastic events did not leave the two savings banks unscathed, and so on January 1, 1976, Sparkasse Opladen and Sparkasse Leverkusen merged as a result of the new North Rhine-Westphalian Savings Bank Act. The first board of directors was made up of five directors of the Sparkasse: the chairman of the board, Heinz Gries, the members Willi Schmidtke and Karl-Heinz Wolf and the deputies Robert Giese and Klaus Ochs. This became the main office in Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 39 buildings in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf.

Social Commitment

Sparkasse Leverkusen supports more than 400 individual cultural, social, sporting and societal measures in its business area with a total of approx. 1.4 million euros. The beneficiaries include B. Morsbroich Castle , Leverkusener Tafel, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Naturgut Ophoven and other clubs.

Main entrance

Together with the city of Leverkusen, the Sparkasse runs the non-profit community foundation Leverkusen, which cares for the common good of the city and its citizens.

In addition, the Sparkasse Leverkusen's Old Age Foundation has been promoting care for the elderly in Leverkusen since 1969. In the two meeting places in Rheindorf-Nord and Lützenkirchen there are meeting points for senior citizens and their relatives with a wide variety of events.

Awards

In 2009 the main office was renovated and rebuilt after more than 40 years. In the course of this, the renovated office was named “Office of the Year” in Germany.

In 2006 Sparkasse Leverkusen won the bank award presented by the German Savings Banks and Giro Association ( DSGV ) for its annual report from the previous year. In 2013, Sparkasse Leverkusen took second place in the “Annual Report” category of the Arno Design Prize awarded by the DSGV.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
  2. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  4. ^ Rolf Müller: 150 Years of Sparkasse Leverkusen, Ed .: Sparkasse Leverkusen, 1994, p. 29 ff
  5. ↑ ibid. P. 25 ff
  6. ↑ ibid. P. 83 ff
  7. ^ Homepage of the Sparkasse , accessed on April 3, 2014.
  8. ^ Homepage of the community foundation .
  9. ↑ AWO page about the meeting place
  10. ↑ Homepage of the meeting place
  11. ^ GI Financial Institutes , special edition 2009, p. 4 ff
  12. ↑ GI Financial Institutes, special edition 2009 as PDF file
  13. ↑ Bankmagazin Award: Bank Report of the Year 2005
  14. ↑ Sparkassen-Zeitung, October 2, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 46.6 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 17.8 ″  E