Dresdner Bank - Commerzbank International SA

Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A. Annual Report 2008
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1945
After the end of the war, the occupying powers order the closure and
expropriation of branches in the Soviet occupation zone, Berlin and east of the
Oder-Neiße-border.
1947/48
The Western allies split the large German banks into regional sub-institutions. Dresdner Bank becomes eleven sub-banks
without a clear legal status.
Share from 1957
1970
Europe’s banks increase their
cooperation. Dresdner Bank
belongs to the Associated Banks
of Europe Corporations S.A.,
Brussels.
1952
The “Law on the Branch Sector of Credit Institutions”
allows the merger of the sub-banks into three
successors: Hamburger Kreditbank AG in Hamburg,
Rhein-Ruhr-Bank in Düsseldorf and Rhein-Main-
Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main.
1972
100-year anniversary of Dresdner Bank. On the occasion of
the anniversary, the bank’s corporate design is modernised
and a new corporate logo is introduced.
The Silver Tower
at Jürgen-Ponto-Platz, 1980
1995
Dresdner Bank acquires the London-based
investment bank, Kleinwort Benson. In
2000, the US investment house Wasserstein
Perella Group Inc. follows.
2000
At the beginning of March, merger plans between Dresdner Bank
and Deutsche Bank becomes known, which fail, however, in April.
2001
On July 23, Allianz takes over Dresdner Bank,
which has been
a subsidiary of Allianz
since then.
1957
The successor institutions of
Commerzbank are reunified into
Dresdner Bank AG, with its
headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
1971
Reform of the bank’s organisational structure:
The head offices in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and
Frankfurt are dissolved and their functions
centralised in Frankfurt. The branch network is
also reorganised.
1990
As first Western credit institution,
the bank opens in Dresden its own
office in East Germany on 2 January.
2003
The bank develops its future programme
“New Dresdner” to promote the
modernisation of the business and reorganise
itself at the same time.
Money box
“Drumbo”, 1972
2006
The investment banking
division changes its name
to Dresdner Kleinwort.