After joining Deutsche Bank in 1987, Fitschen held executive positions in Thailand, Japan and Singapore, before becoming a member of the Global Corporates and Institutions Divisional Board in 1997, based in Frankfurt.

A year later he joined the newly designed Global Corporates and Institutions division, based in London.

In 2005 he was appointed Head of the newly established Regional Management team worldwide and CEO Germany, based in Frankfurt.

[5] After a raid by over 500 police officials and tax inspectors, Fitschen called the minister-president of the German state of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, complaining about the raid, saying that the incident damaged the reputation of the largest German lender.

[8] In 2014, the Munich prosecutor’s office filed charges of attempted trial fraud against Fitschen and several former bank leaders, accusing them of colluding to give false testimony in a long-running lawsuit over the collapse of Kirch Group, bank client Leo Kirch’s media conglomerate.