It was established by Berenberg Bank, H.J.
Merck & Co. and the bank house of Salomon Heine and private founders such as Robert Kayser as the first joint-stock bank in northern Germany, becoming the largest bank in Hamburg.
[1] In 1895 it was merged with the Disconto-Gesellschaft, but the two banks continued to operate separately.
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