The Bergisch bank is a former Universalbank, which was created 1871 in Wuppertal Elberfeld as district bank and an expanded branch network in West Germany possessed. In the year 1914 the bank and its branches were transferred in the rheinisch industrial district by the German bank.
It possessed branches in Aachen, Bielefeld, Bocholt, Bonn, Duesseldorf, Goch, Hagen, Hamm, Idar Oberstein, Koblenz, Cologne, Krefeld, Lippstadt, Neheim, Neuss, Opladen, Paderborn, rem-separates, Rheydt, Saarbruecken, Schwelm, Soest, Solingen, Trier, Velbert, Warburg, Wuppertal Ronsdorf and
The Bergisch bank was not insignificant involved in the financing of the heavy industry in the Rhine country and in Westphalia. It financed among other things Hugo Stinnes and August Thyssen.
The Bergisch bank was created 1871 as corporation and took over 1872 the banking house A. de Weerth & Co. in Wuppertal Elberfeld with its entire customer master. In the course of the economic crisis the again-created enterprise could take over the branch of the insolvent Elberfelder Disconto and change-over switch bank in the year 1874 also. Starting from 1889 the Bergisch bank was active after the assumption of two private banks in Aachen and Moenchengladbach also at the left Rhine bank. In the year 1893 it could gain a foothold after the assumption of two Cologne private banks also in the Rhine metropolis.
1897 took part Deutsche Bank AG in the Bergisch bank, which became thereby the regional partner in West Germany.
The Bergisch bank took over
In the year 1914 the Bergisch bank was transferred by the German bank, briefly before in Bielefeld a further branch could be opened. The fusion with the German bank had above all balance-technical reasons: by this fusion the money invested as participation should be available as genuine risk capital.
See also: Hans's Jordan (banker), OSCAR Schlitter
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