Drážďanská banka

The microfilms contain minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors, the General Assembly, the Supervisory Board, the Executive Committee, the Loan Committee, files of the Supervisory Board, community participation, operations, contracts and regulations of the Dresden Bank, as well as minutes of meetings of the Danatbank's Directorate and Supervisory Board. The most relevant material relating to the Holocaust is a collection of minutes of meetings of the Dresden Bank's Board of Directors from October 1931 to December 1943, containing, among other things, instructions for the privatisation of Jewish businesses at the end of 1938 (inv. no. 13, box 1). Dresdner Bank/Dresdner Bank was a German bank founded in 1872 in Dresden, Germany, which provided a wide range of financial products and services, including loans and mortgages. By 1900 it had the largest branch network in Germany and gradually acquired some other German banking companies, including the Darmstadt Bank (Danatbank) in 1932. The Dresden Bank's further tremendous growth was linked to the wartime successes of the Third Reich, when it became an instrument of SS economic policy. It took over a number of banks in the occupied countries, among them the Bohemian Escompte-Bank at the turn of 1938/1939. The Dresden bank played a dominant role in the appropriation of Jewish property not only in Germany but also in the Czech lands.