Bank deutscher Länder
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The Bank deutscher Länder was a central bank established in 1948 to serve West Germany, issuing the Deutsche Mark. It was replaced in 1957 by the Deutsche Bundesbank.
The Bank deutscher Länder was established in 1948 in the former Frankfurt branch of the Reichsbank, Taunusanlage 4–6, built in 1933
General Lucius D. Clay (1898-1978, photographed in 1949) was a key promoter of the Bank deutscher Länder
Reichsbank
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The Reichsbank was the central bank of the German Empire from 1876 until the end of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Bank deutscher Länder
…West Germany, issuing the Deutsche Mark. It was replaced in 1957 by the Deutsche Bundesbank. In the immediate aftermath of German defeat in 1945, the Reichsbank was placed under joint Allied custodianship pending its liquidation. In line with the Morgenthau Plan, the American authorities in November 1945 proposed…
Reichsbank head office at Jägerstraße in Berlin, photographed in 1933
A 100-Goldmark banknote issued by the German Reichsbank in 1908
A 10000 Mark banknote issued by the German Reichsbank in 1922
As Minister of Economics, Walther Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament and, as Reichsbank president, banked the confiscated gold rings of Buchenwald prisoners for the SS