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Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, commonly known as Berenberg Bank and also
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ed as simply Berenberg, is a multinational full-service investment bank based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded by the Flemish
Berenberg family The Berenberg family ( Dutch for "bear mountain") was a Flemish-origined Hanseatic family of merchants, bankers and senators in Hamburg, with branches in London, Livorno and other European cities. The family was descended from the brothers ...
in 1590 () and is the world's oldest
merchant bank A merchant bank is historically a bank dealing in commercial loans and investment. In modern British usage it is the same as an investment bank. Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in commod ...
. Its owners, the Berenberg/ Gossler family, belonged to the ruling elite of Hanseatic merchants of the
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of Hamburg and several family members served in the city-state's government from 1735. Like many other merchant bankers, the Berenbergs were originally
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s. The bank's name refers to
Johann Berenberg Johann Berenberg (born 12 March 1718 in Hamburg, died 2 March 1772 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg merchant banker. He was a co-owner of Berenberg Bank from 1748, with his brother, senator Paul Berenberg, and after the latter's death in 1768 the sole o ...
, his son-in-law
Johann Hinrich Gossler Johann Hinrich Gossler (born 18 August 1738 in Hamburg, died 31 August 1790 in Hamburg) was a German banker and grand burgher of Hamburg, a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/Gossler banking dynasty and the owner and head of the firm Joh. Ber ...
and the latter's son-in-law L.E. Seyler, and has remained unchanged since 1791. The bank has operated continuously since 1590 and is still part-owned by members of the Berenberg-Gossler family. Berenberg Bank is active in investment banking, particularly pan-European
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,
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and
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s transactions, in addition to private banking for wealthy customers and
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. Since the 2000s, the company has increasingly focused on investment banking. Berenberg Bank has around 1,600 employees; in addition to its headquarters in Hamburg, it has significant presences in London, Zurich, Frankfurt and New York City, and 11 further offices in Europe, the
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and
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. After years of expanding its activities in London, which is now the second largest office with a staff of around 500 and seat of most of its investment banking activities, Berenberg Bank has recently focused on expanding in the United States and Asia. The bank is organized as a
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with personally
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partners, and is noted for its conservative business strategy. Following the
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, the bank has expanded rapidly. The current senior partner and head of the bank
Hans-Walter Peters Hans-Walter Peters (born 3 April 1955) is a German banker. He is the current spokesman of the personally liable partners (i.e. head) of Berenberg Bank and the president of the Association of German Banks, the main lobby group for Germany's financ ...
is also president of the
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, having succeeded Deutsche Bank CEO
Jürgen Fitschen Jürgen Fitschen (born 1 September 1948 in Harsefeld, Germany), sometimes rendered ''Juergen Fitschen'' in English, is a German banker who served as co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2016. He served alongside Anshu Jain until 2015 and John Cr ...
in 2016. In 2018 Berenberg Bank, in line with its increasing focus on investment banking, sold its Swiss private banking subsidiary Berenberg Bank (Schweiz) AG to a group of investors, and the Swiss company will be known as Bergos Berenberg.


History

The Berenberg Company was founded in Hamburg in 1590 by the brothers Hans (1561–1626) and Paul Berenberg (1566–1645). In
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, the Protestant Berenbergs left
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in the
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(today's Belgium), at the time one of Europe's commercial centres, as Protestants in the southern Low Countries were given the choice either to convert to Catholicism or leave the country. The bank has been continuously owned by their descendants ever since. The Berenbergs were originally
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s and quickly extended their business to other
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. Hans Berenberg's grandson
Cornelius Berenberg Cornelius Berenberg (1634 – 1711) was a Hamburg grand burgher, merchant banker, a member of the Berenberg family, and owner of Berenberg Bank. His grandfather Hans Berenberg (1561–1626) had fled from Antwerp with his brother Paul Berenberg ( ...
(1634–1711) was the first to engage in
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and developed the company into a very successful merchant house and merchant bank. He forged trade links with France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Scandinavia and Russia. Family connections of the Berenbergs were instrumental to the development, especially in Livorno and Lisbon with their colonies of wealthy Dutch merchants. Members of the Berenberg family were also merchants in London from the 17th century. Cornelius Berenberg's son, Rudolf Berenberg (1680–1746), was elected a Senator, that is, a member of the government of the city-state, in 1735. By the mid 18th century, investment banking and
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s comprised a significant part of the firm's activities. Rudolf Berenberg was married to Anna Elisabeth
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(1690–1748), a daughter of the Lisbon and Hamburg merchant Paul Amsinck (1649–1706) and a descendant of the Welser family. Their sons, Senator Paul Berenberg (1716–1768) and
Johann Berenberg Johann Berenberg (born 12 March 1718 in Hamburg, died 2 March 1772 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg merchant banker. He was a co-owner of Berenberg Bank from 1748, with his brother, senator Paul Berenberg, and after the latter's death in 1768 the sole o ...
(1718–1772), became owners of the Berenberg company. In 1768 Senator Paul Berenberg died childless, while his brother
Johann Berenberg Johann Berenberg (born 12 March 1718 in Hamburg, died 2 March 1772 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg merchant banker. He was a co-owner of Berenberg Bank from 1748, with his brother, senator Paul Berenberg, and after the latter's death in 1768 the sole o ...
lost his only son in the same year. To ensure the continuation of the firm, Johann Berenberg took on his son-in-law
Johann Hinrich Gossler Johann Hinrich Gossler (born 18 August 1738 in Hamburg, died 31 August 1790 in Hamburg) was a German banker and grand burgher of Hamburg, a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/Gossler banking dynasty and the owner and head of the firm Joh. Ber ...
(1738–90) as a new partner in 1769; he had married Berenberg's only daughter
Elisabeth Berenberg Elisabeth Berenberg (2 December 1749 – 16 January 1822) was a Hamburg heiress, merchant banker and a member of the Berenberg family. She was the last male line member of the Flemish-origined Hanseatic Berenberg banking family in Hamburg, and a ...
(1749–1822) the previous year. The Gossler family is known since the 17th century, when Johann Hinrich Gossler's great-grandfather was a Hamburg burgher.Genealogie der Familie Gossler
" in: ''Vierteljahrsschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie'', vol. 9, pp. 17–25, 1881
Elisabeth Berenberg was the last member of the Hamburg Berenberg family, which became extinct in the male line upon her death in 1822. Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg were the founders of the Berenberg-Gossler family, that rose to great prominence in Hamburg from the late 18th century. In the 19th-century city republic of Hamburg the (Berenberg-)Gossler family and the closely related
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family were widely regarded as the city state's two most prominent families. In 1788 Johann Hinrich Gossler took on a new partner, his son-in-law L.E. Seyler (1758–1836), who had married his eldest child
Anna Henriette Gossler Anna Henriette Gossler (7 November 1771 – 2 August 1836) was a Hamburg banker, heiress and socialite. Biography Gossler was born in Hamburg. Anna Henriette Gossler, who went by the name of Henriette, was a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/ ...
(1771–1836). From 1790, the company was led by L.E. Seyler, and his mother-in-law Elisabeth Berenberg was a partner in her own right from 1790 to 1800. L.E. Seyler, a son of the famous theatre director
Abel Seyler Abel Seyler (23 August 1730, Liestal – 25 April 1800, Rellingen) was a Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker, who was regarded as one of the great theatre principals of 18th century Europe. He played a pivotal role in the devel ...
, was one of Hamburg's foremost merchants in his lifetime, and served as President of the
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and as a member of the city's government during the French rule of the city. To reflect Seyler joining the company, its name was changed to Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. from 1 January 1791, and has remained unchanged since. As head of the Berenberg company L.E. Seyler greatly increased the company's international trade, and was one of the first merchants and bankers from Germany who established trade relations with the newly independent United States and with East Asia. By 1800 the capital of the company has doubled since he became a partner. Seyler remained the company's senior partner for 46 years, and when he died in 1836 he had been with the company for 61 years. Seyler's seventeen years younger brother-in-law Johann Heinrich Gossler (1775–1842) joined the firm in 1798 and became a Hamburg senator in 1821; the two brothers-in-law jointly led the company for decades, with Seyler as the more experienced partner and Gossler gradually taking on more responsibilities as Seyler eventually retreated into semi-retirement. During the Napoleonic Wars the company lost half its capital, but it emerged stronger than ever and quickly regained and surpassed its former size once the war ended. Anna Henriette Gossler and L.E. Seyler's children were briefly co-owners of Berenberg Bank; they have many prominent descendants in Hamburg and Norway, e.g. in the family Paus. Berenberg Bank was also involved in financing Norway's leading industrial enterprise,
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, whose CEO and co-owner
Benjamin Wegner Jacob Benjamin Wegner (21 February 1795 – 9 June 1864) was a Norwegian business magnate, estate owner and timber merchant. Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, he moved to London in 1819 and to Berlin in 1820, where he established an indepe ...
was Anna Henriette Gossler and L.E. Seyler's son-in-law. Anna Henriette Gossler's younger brother Johann Heinrich Gossler (II)'s son
Hermann Gossler Hermann Gossler (born 21 August 1802 in Hamburg, died 10 May 1877 in Hamburg) was a Hamburg lawyer, senator (1842–77) and First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (i.e. the city republic's head of state ...
(1802–1877) was a senator and First Mayor of Hamburg. The latter's younger brother Johann Heinrich Gossler (III) (1805–1879) became a partner in the bank and was the father of Baron
Johann von Berenberg-Gossler Baron Johann von Berenberg-Gossler (born 13 February 1839 in Hamburg, died 8 December 1913 in Hamburg; né Johann Gossler), known as "John," was a German banker from the city-state of Hamburg and owner and head of Berenberg Bank from 1879 until his ...
(1839–1913), who also became a partner in the bank. In 1880 the Hamburg Senate granted the latter the name of Berenberg-Gossler, and in 1888, he was ennobled in the Kingdom of Prussia as ''von Berenberg-Gossler''. In 1910 Johann von Berenberg-Gossler was given the title
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. Baron Johann von Berenberg-Gossler was the father of
John von Berenberg-Gossler John von Berenberg-Gossler (22 October 1866 in Hamburg – 14 July 1943) was a Hamburg banker, politician and grand burgher. Career He was elected Senator in Hamburg in 1908 and served as German Ambassador to Italy 1920–21. He was a member of ...
(1866–1943), a Senator and German Ambassador in Rome. In the 19th century, the bank financed the industrialisation process in Hamburg and transportation activities, and was strongly involved in the North American trade and its finance. The company was (together with the merchant house H.J. Merck & Co.) one of the main founders of Germany's largest shipping companies, the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) in 1847 and Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1857. They were also one of the main founders of Vereinsbank Hamburg (now the
HypoVereinsbank UniCredit Bank AG, better known under its brand name HypoVereinsbank (HVB), is the fifth-largest of the German financial institutions, ranked according to its total assets, and the fourth-largest bank in Germany according to the number of its ...
) (1857), the
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(1858), and the Norddeutsche Versicherungs AG (1857). The houses of Berenberg-Gossler, H.J. Merck and
Salomon Heine Salomon Heine (19 October 1767 – 23 December 1844) was a merchant and banker in Hamburg. Heine was born in Hanover. Penniless, he came to Hamburg in 1784 and in the following years acquired sizeable assets. It was common knowledge at the ti ...
were also the main founders of the
Norddeutsche Bank The Norddeutsche Bank was a German bank that existed from 1856 to 1929. 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 ...
in 1856, the first joint-stock bank in northern Germany and one of the predecessors of Deutsche Bank. Furthermore, Berenberg Bank was among the founding shareholders of
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(1855), the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (1865),
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(1871) and
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(1871). Berenberg Bank had a close cooperation with
Barings Bank Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London, and one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member of ...
of London and was Baring's representative in Germany. The Berenberg family and company had branches in Portugal, Italy and London from the 17th century. A branch of the Berenberg family also established the London firm Meyer & Berenberg in the 17th century and were among London's prominent West Indies merchants. In recent years Berenberg's London office in Threadneedle Street has grown rapidly to become Berenberg's second largest office, focusing on investment banking and private banking for the ultra wealthy.


Logo

The company's logo is a stylized version of the combined coat of arms of the Berenberg and Gossler families, featuring the Berenberg
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(adopted in the 16th century in Belgium) and the Gossler goose foot (adopted in 1773 by
Johann Hinrich Gossler Johann Hinrich Gossler (born 18 August 1738 in Hamburg, died 31 August 1790 in Hamburg) was a German banker and grand burgher of Hamburg, a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg/Gossler banking dynasty and the owner and head of the firm Joh. Ber ...
). File:Berenberg coat of arms.svg, A stylized version of the combined Berenberg–Gossler coat of arms used as the logo of Berenberg Bank. File:1727 grave of Sir Peter Meyer, merchant, at St. Andrew, Totteridge, Barnet, London, detail.jpeg, A 1727 tombstone in London ( St Andrew's) featuring the Berenberg family's arms (right); it belonged to Sarah Anna Berenberg, a descendant of Berenberg Bank's founders, and her husband. She belonged to a British branch of the Berenberg family.


Business segments

The bank is active in the following business segments: * Private banking (typically, the minimum deposit required to open or maintain an account is €1 million) * Investment banking *
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*
Corporate banking Wholesale banking is the provision of services by banks to larger customers or organizations such as mortgage brokers, large corporate clients, mid-sized companies, real estate developers and investors, international trade finance businesses, in ...


Branches

Berenberg Bank has its head office in Hamburg and significant presences in London, Frankfurt and New York City, as well as offices in Düsseldorf, Munich, Münster, Stuttgart, Geneva, Luxembourg, Paris, Vienna, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and Shanghai. In Zurich, the previous subsidiary Berenberg Bank (Schweiz) AG, has established itself as an independent Swiss Private Bank, Bergos Berenberg AG, in September 2018. In 2017 Berenberg Capital Markets rented the entire 53rd floor of
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in Manhattan. Together with Bankhaus Lampe, the bank additionally holds a stake in the Frankfurt-based investment company
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. File:Frankfurt, Bockenheimer Landstraße 25.jpg, Berenberg's Frankfurt office in Bockenheimer Landstraße 25 in the Banking District File:Threadneedle Street, London EC2 - geograph.org.uk - 1706594.jpg, Berenberg's London office in 60 Threadneedle Street in the City of London File:1251 Avenue of The Americas Fountain at Night.JPG,
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in Manhattan File:Berenberg Bank Zurich.jpeg, The Zurich office of Bergos Berenberg AG, the former Berenberg Bank (Schweiz) AG


Philanthropy and donations

The Berenberg Bank Stiftung is a philanthropic foundation founded in 1990 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Berenberg Bank. The chairman of the board is Joachim von Berenberg-Consbruch. The foundation awards several prizes, including the Berenberg Culture Prize to younger artists and the Berenberg Scholarships to individual artists and groups. From 2009, the Universitäts-Gesellschaft Hamburg has awarded the Berenberg Prize for Scientific Language, that promotes German as a scientific language. Berenberg Bank is the largest Hamburg donor to the CDU.


Ownership

Berenberg Bank is currently run by two personally liable ''partners'', Hans-Walter Peters and Hendrik Riehmer. The ownership structure is as follows: *von
Berenberg-Gossler The Gossler family (also spelled Goßler, historically also Gosler), including the Berenberg-Gossler branch, is a Hanseatic and partially noble banking family from Hamburg. The family is descended from weavers and burghers in the city-republic ...
family and relatives (including those not themselves descended from the Berenberg family) 30.4% *PetRie Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (Hans-Walter Peters, Hendrik Riehmer) and Hans-Walter Peters 26.1% *Andreas Brodtmann and former personally liable partners 1.5% *Christian Erbprinz zu Fürstenberg 15.0% *
Jan Philipp Reemtsma Jan Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma (born 26 November 1952) is a German literary scholar, author, and patron who founded and was the long-term director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Reemtsma lives and works mainly in Hamburg. Biog ...
15.0% *Compagnie du Bois Sauvage S.A. 12.0%


Partners

;Berenberg family ;Non-family partners


See also

*
Berenberg family The Berenberg family ( Dutch for "bear mountain") was a Flemish-origined Hanseatic family of merchants, bankers and senators in Hamburg, with branches in London, Livorno and other European cities. The family was descended from the brothers ...
*
Gossler family The Gossler family (also spelled Goßler, historically also Gosler), including the Berenberg-Gossler branch, is a Hanseatic and partially noble banking family from Hamburg. The family is descended from weavers and burghers in the city-republ ...
*
Seyler family The Seyler family (also spelled Seiler) is a Swiss family, originally a patrician family from Liestal near Basel. Family members served as councillors and Schultheißen of Liestal from the 15th century, later also as members of the Grand Council ...


References


Literature

*Clarita Bernstorff, Hartwig Bernstorff, Emanuel Eckardt, ''Change is the only constant: Berenberg; a history of one of the world's oldest banks'', Hanser Literaturverlage, 336 pages, *Maria Möring, ''Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. Hamburg'', Hamburg, Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle, 1961 *''Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co.: Die Geschichte eines deutschen Privatbankhauses'', Berenberg Bank, Hamburg 1990


External links

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Company history
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