Böhmische Escompte-Bank

The Böhmische Escompte-Bank (German: [ˈbøːmɪʃə ʔɛsˈkõːtˌbaŋk]; Czech: Česká eskomptní banka [ˈtʃɛskaː ˈɛskontɲiː ˈbaŋka]; lit.

The Böhmische Escompte Bank was founded in 1863 with sponsorship from the Vienna-based Niederösterreichische Escompte-Gesellschaft, aiming at promotion of industry with a main clientele of German-speakers and Bohemian Jews.

At that time, political or racial motives played a subordinate role in the takeover negotiations, which were conducted jointly with the Jewish and German-Bohemian members of the BEBCA management.

However, the major German banks had a much greater interest in the far more powerful Živnostenská Banka, instead of the less significant and financially more vulnerable BEBCA.

[3] During World War II the bank, headed by Rudolf Reiner,[4] was one of the institutions participating in the so-called Reinhardt's fund, namely the confiscation of jewels, silver and gold from concentration camp inmates.