Historical Archive of Deutsche Bank

Records of Deutsche Bank's and its precursors history

The Historical Institute has in its archive some 6,000 shelf-metres of documents, the earliest of which are from precursors of Deutsche Bank and date from the mid-nineteenth century.

All source material belonging to the period from 1850 up to and including 1945 is available to the public for research purposes. Use of the archive is possible only by prior appointment.

The reading library on banking history contains approx. 8,000 volumes.

Archive collections available

Institute	Period	Files
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank Berlin, Secretariat	1870-1920	4.500
Deutsche Bank Berlin, America Office	1880-1930	1.400
Deutsche Bank Berlin, Oriental Office	1887-1920	1.750
Deutsche Bank Berlin, Head Office	1920-1945	12.600

Subsidiary Banks
Deutsche Centralbodencredit AG	1870-1945	3.500
Deutsche Ueberseeische Bank	1886-1945	137
Deutsch-Asiatische Bank	1889-1945	750

Precursors
A. Schaaffhausen'scher Bankverein	1848-1929	1.600
Norddeutsche Bank in Hamburg	1856-1929	1.550
Hannoversche Bank	1856-1920	250
Rheinische Creditbank	1870-1929	83
Bergisch Märkische Bank	1871-1914	64
Hildesheimer Bank	1886-1928	28
Osnabrücker Bank	1888-1929	77
Süddeutsche Disconto-Gesellschaft	1905-1929	400