Dresdner Bank AG was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually acquired by Commerzbank in May 2009.
The A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein was a bank in Cologne, initially founded in 1791. In 1848 it was reorganized as a joint stock company, the first to be legally recognised as a bank in what is now Germany. It was purchased in 1914 by the Berlin-based Disconto-Gesellschaft, and its brand finally disappeared in 1929 as the latter was in turn merged with Deutsche Bank.
The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany and were used extensively for Nazi propaganda after 1933.
Frédéric Émile, Baron d'Erlanger, born as Friedrich Emil Erlanger, was a German-French banker and Consul. He founded the French branch of the Erlanger banking businesses, Emile Erlanger & Co.
Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau (1852–1926), was a prominent German banker. He served as chairman of the Dresdner Bank, following the retirement of Eugen Gutmann.
The Rothschild family is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century.
The Darmstädter und Nationalbank, in shorthand Danat-Bank or Danatbank, was a large German joint-stock bank. It was formed in 1922 from the merger of the Bank für Handel und Industrie (Darmstadt), known as Darmstädter Bank, and the Nationalbank für Deutschland. Its failure in July 1931 was a significant episode of the European banking crisis of 1931.
Friedrich Bernhard Eugen "Fritz" Gutmann was a Dutch banker and art collector. A convert from Judaism, he and his wife were murdered by the Nazis in 1944, and parts of his art collection stolen by the German occupying forces. The collection and the fate of Fritz Gutmann is described by his grandson, Simon Goodman, in the 2015 book The Orpheus Clock.
The Disconto-Gesellschaft was a significant German bank, founded in Berlin in 1851. It was one of the largest German banking organizations until its 1929 merger into Deutsche Bank.
Heinrich Edwin Rickert was a German journalist and liberal politician. He was the father of the philosopher Heinrich Rickert.
Robert Gordon was a Scottish-American merchant, banker, and art collector who served as the president of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York and was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.
Georg Rudolf Schilling was a German architect. He was associated with the Dresden architecture firm Schilling & Graebner.
Georg Solmssen was a German banker.
Oscar Wassermann was a German-Jewish banker.
Paul Robert Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a German Jewish banker and art collector. The persecution of his family under the Nazis has resulted in numerous lawsuits for restitution.
Heinrich Arnhold, in full Heinrich Gustav Arnhold was a German banker, collector, patron and esperantist.
In the first half of the 20th century, the Munich art dealer Julius Böhler was one of the largest and most important art dealers in the German-speaking world.
The Deutsche Orientbank was a German bank, founded in 1905-1906 in Berlin and merged into Dresdner Bank in 1931-1932. It was originally intended for financing ventures in the Ottoman Empire and the Khedivate of Egypt.
The Nationalbank für Deutschland was a significant joint-stock bank in Germany, founded in 1881 and merged in 1922 with Darmstädter Bank to form Darmstädter und Nationalbank, in shorthand Danat-Bank.
Victor Klemperer von Klemenau was a German banker persecuted by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage.
