The Länderbank, full original name k. k. privilegierte Österreichische Länderbank, was a major Austrian bank, created in 1880. In 1922 its head office was moved to Paris under the name Banque des Pays de l'Europe Centrale, even though its activity remained overwhelmingly in the Austrian operations. After the 1938 Anschluss the latter came under control of Dresdner Bank by the name Länderbank Wien. It was nationalized in 1946, renamed Österreichische Länderbank AG in 1948, and eventually merged in 1991 with Vienna's Zentralsparkasse to form Bank Austria, which in turn has been a subsidiary of UniCredit since 2005.
The building in Vienna designed by Otto Wagner for Länderbank, its head office from 1884 to 1938
Ludwik Wodzicki (1834-1894), founding chairman (German: Gouverneur) of the Länderbank
1913 advert for the Länderbank-sponsored Galician People's Bank for Agriculture and Trade
War poster, 1916
Dresdner Bank AG was a German bank, founded in 1872 in Dresden, then headquartered in Berlin from 1884 to 1945 and in Frankfurt from 1963 onwards after a postwar hiatus. Long Germany's second-largest bank behind Deutsche Bank, it was eventually acquired by Commerzbank in May 2009.
Former Dresdner Bank head office [de] on the Bebelplatz in Berlin (1889–1945), later Deutsche Notenbank (1953–1968), Staatsbank der DDR (1968–1990), and a luxury hotel since 2006
Eugen Gutmann (1840–1925), founder of Dresdner Bank, 1907 portrait by Max Liebermann
The 1978 Silberturm was part of the head office of Dresdner Bank
The Gallileo building in Frankfurt, completed in 2003, was part of the head office of Dresdner Bank until the 2009 merger
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