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Delbrück & Co. is described as the "financier to the
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The Maffei family, who hailed from Verona, established their own bank in Munich in 1802 and ran it for over 100 years. The family was also a co-founder of the
Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank (later HypoVereinsbank) and the insurance company Münchener Rückversicherung (later Allianz). A member
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for family-owned companies and in establishing charitable foundations. The bank's archive is today located in the
Frankfurt City archive. Together with the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and F.A.Z. Media Solutions, Bethmann Bank organised a discussion series called Weltenwandler.tv, which
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As a bank for "important projects and clients", Bethmann served Maria
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Bank N.V. and was the product of a merger between the historical German banks Delbrück, Bethmann and Maffei under the umbrella of the renowned Dutch ABN AMRO Bank. LGT Bank
Deutschland joined this group in 2011. Bethmann Bank acquired the German private banking activities of
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The forerunner of ABN AMRO was founded in the
Netherlands by King William I in 1824 and began at an early stage to concentrate on world trade. The financing business led the bank to open branches on all continents, laying the foundation for today's international network.
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and his family were visiting Paris, a letter of recommendation penned by a wife of either Johann
Philipp or Simon Moritz Bethmann and addressed to Baron de Grimm served as an effective door opener, as Leopold Mozart wrote
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traveled to Italy in 1768, he was using a bill of exchange payable by a Roman banker and drawn on the
Bethmann bank, which had issued the letter to his pseudonym of Möller, not knowing the true identity of the
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of the family reopened the Maffei Bank after the Second World War. In the years that followed, it continued to move from being a specialist in securities and energy-sector lending to a pure private bank.
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