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84 BayernLB – our company
DKB and SaarLB are also actively involved in the area of university sponsorship, the
former with a student education fund, and the latter with an endowment fund for a
professorship in biotechnology, funded by the Saarland’s Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe.
Seven years ago, the Hungarian company MKB set up a scholarship to open the hori-
zons of gifted children and young people from extremely poor backgrounds. To date,
MKB has funded more than 100 winners of this scholarship right up to degree level.
BayernLB has been building up a historical archive since mid-2003. This project involves
collecting and preserving all documents and materials relevant to BayernLB’s history.
All sources are verified and analysed. By charting its corporate history, BayernLB,
founded in 1972 with the merger of its predecessor Bayerische Gemeindebank (founded
in 1914) and Königliche Landeskulturrentenanstalt (founded in 1884), is thus taking
responsibility for recording its development as a company. BayernLB’s 25-year-old
collection of historical Bavarian securities continues to be expanded and documented,
as an integral part of Bavarian corporate history.
Social commitment
“People experiencing social hardship deserve our support. After all, any one of us could
find ourselves in a similar situation. We, BayernLB and staff, see ourselves as an integral
part of civil society. By making our mark at a regional level, through selected, particularly
beneficial projects, we are acknowledging our social responsibility.”
BayernLB has shown its commitment to furthering social causes in its environment for
several years. In this way, the Bank is helping to support people experiencing hardship.
Helping children is of particular importance to BayernLB. For over 10 years, the Bank,
together with the entire Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Bayern, has been a partner of the
“Sternstunden – We help children” initiative. This programme offers medical, educa-
tional and social support to a great number of children. As partner, BayernLB bears
Sternstunden’s administrative costs and settles its payment transactions. It also pro-
vides office and communications facilities, thus ensuring that all contributions to
the programme go directly to the children without any deductions being made. Over
11 years, 950 projects in Bavaria, Germany and all over the world have been funded
by contributions totalling EUR 52 million.
The biennial exhibition of pictures by students at the Bavarian State School for Disa-
bled People, which the BayernLB Gallery has hosted since 1999, is becoming a regular
event for the Bank. At the end of each exhibition, the pictures are auctioned off, and
the proceeds divided equally between the school and the Sternstunden project.
BayernLB also collects money and takes on the sponsorship of certain projects as part
of the Christmas initiative “Giving instead of Gift-giving”. Last but by no means least,
the personal commitment of numerous BayernLB employees is vital for the success of
the Sternstunden initiative.