Who Founded Deutsche Bank?

Adelbert Delbrück (1822-1890) was a Berlin private banker who took the initiative in founding Deutsche Bank in 1870. With Ludwig Bamberger and a consortium of private banking houses, he set up a joint-stock bank whose statute focused on financing trade between Germany and overseas markets, so German exporters no longer had to depend on London. Delbrück chaired the bank's supervisory board in its early years, while Georg von Siemens, a member of the management board from 1870 to 1900, built its operations and early international branches in Shanghai, Yokohama and London. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Ludwig Bamberger (1823-1899) was a banker, economist and National Liberal member of the Reichstag. He co-founded Deutsche Bank in 1870 alongside Adelbert Delbrück and helped draft its founding concept as a bank for foreign trade. In parliament he was a leading advocate of the gold-backed German Mark and the creation of the Reichsbank in the 1870s.

Bamberger was born on July 22, 1823 and died on March 14, 1899. He was an economist, politician and writer. Ludwig Bamberger was born in 1823.