Frankfurter Bank

[4]: 192 The Frankfurter Bank's notes did not have legal tender status but enjoyed solid reputation and were accepted beyond the boundaries of the city-state, even after the latter came to an end in 1866.

[5] In the late 19th century, it erected a palatial head office at Neue Mainzerstrasse 69, designed by architect Hermann Ritter [de].

[6] That building was destroyed during World War II, then rebuilt in the 1950s on a streamlined monumental design.

It was eventually demolished to make way for the Bürohaus an der Alten Oper [de] skyscraper, erected in the early 1980s.

[3] In 1946, on the joint initiative of surviving board member Hans Heinrich Hauck and former Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft (RKG) board member Hermann Jannsen, the bank was reorganized as a credit institution, and in the following years the Frankfurter Bank's management increasingly included former executives of the defunct RKG.