In German-speaking jurisdictions, ''Landesbank'' (plural ), , generally refers to a bank operating within a territorial subdivision () that has autonomy but not full sovereignty. It is occasionally translated as "provincial bank".

Austria-Hungary

In the

Austro-Hungarian Empire Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

under the rule of the

Habsburg monarchy The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...

, were government-sponsored banks established in some of the kingdoms and lands of the crown: * '' Landesbank des Königreichs Galizien und Lodomerien mit dem Grossherzogtum Krakau'', est. 1883 in Lemberg (now

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

) for the

Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria,, ; pl, Królestwo Galicji i Lodomerii, ; uk, Королівство Галичини та Володимирії, Korolivstvo Halychyny ta Volodymyrii; la, Rēgnum Galiciae et Lodomeriae also known as ...

and the

Grand Duchy of Kraków The Grand Duchy of Kraków (german: Großherzogtum Krakau; pl, Wielkie Księstwo Krakowskie) was created after the incorporation of the Free City of Cracow into Austria on November 16, 1846. From 1846 to 1918 the title, Grand Duke of Kraków, w ...

* '' Landesbank des Königreiches Böhmen'', est. 1890 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

for the

Kingdom of Bohemia The Kingdom of Bohemia ( cs, České království),; la, link=no, Regnum Bohemiae sometimes in English literature referred to as the Czech Kingdom, was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Central Europe, the predecessor of the modern Czec ...

* '' Landesbank für Bosnien und Herzegowina'', est. 1895 in

Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see names in other languages'') is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area including Sarajevo ...

for Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian rule * ''Bukowinaer Landesbank'', est. 1905 in Czernowitz (now

Chernivtsi Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this city, which is situated on the u ...

) for the Duchy of Bukovina * ''Kroatische Landesbank'', est. 1909 in

Osijek Osijek () is the fourth-largest city in Croatia, with a population of 96,848 in 2021. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja ...

for the

Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia The Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia ( hr, Kraljevina Hrvatska i Slavonija; hu, Horvát-Szlavónország or ; de-AT, Königreich Kroatien und Slawonien) was a nominally autonomous kingdom and constitutionally defined separate political nation with ...

* ''Krainische Landesbank'', est. 1912 in Laibach (now

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

) for the

Duchy of Carniola The Duchy of Carniola ( sl, Vojvodina Kranjska, german: Herzogtum Krain, hu, Krajna) was an imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, established under Habsburg rule on the territory of the former East Frankish March of Carniola in 1364. A ...

By contrast, Vienna's '' Länderbank'' (est. 1880) and its short-lived affiliate the (1881-1887) were private-sector initiatives. The name ''Landesbank'' also survives in regional entities of the Raiffeisen Group in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

and, similarly, the

Raiffeisen Landesbank Südtirol – Cassa Centrale Raiffeisen dell'Alto Adige The Raiffeisen Landesbank Südtirol – Cassa Centrale Raiffeisen dell'Alto Adige is the central banking institute of the 39 independent Casse Rurali/Raiffeisenbank in South Tyrol. The central bank was related to Raiffeisenverband Südtirol (th ...

in the Italian region of

South Tyrol it, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige lld, Provinzia Autonoma de Balsan/Bulsan – Südtirol , settlement_type = Autonomous province , image_skyline = , image_alt ...

. File:Львів, університет фізичної культури.jpg, Former in

, 2015 File:Na příkopě 20 (Prague).jpg, Former in

, 2020 File:Sarajevo Finance ministry2.jpg, Former in

, 2006 File:HerrenGasse 181.jpg, Former in

, 2010

Germany

Evolution over time

The current are the product of numerous episodes of development and consolidation starting in the 18th century, tracking the formation of Germany itself. In mid-1931, the default of the

Landesbank der Rheinprovinz The Landesbank der Rheinprovinz or Rheinische Landesbank was a German provincial public bank or Landesbank, whose origins go back to the Rheinische Provinzial-Hülfskasse () established 1854 in the Rhine Province of Prussia. Following uncontrol ...

, following aggressive and uncontrolled expansion of its credit to German municipalities, was a major trigger of Germany's economic depression - unlike other Landesbanken such as the , which survived the episode largely unscathed. With the delineation of West Germany's between 1948 and 1957, the Landesbanks started acting as "house banks" of their respective , thus expanding into some of largest foreign issuers in Germany.

Northern Germany

* 1765: established in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

* 1840: established in

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

* 1883: established in Oldenburg * 1906: renamed , shortened in 1922 to * 1917: (LB Kiel) established in

Kiel Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021). Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...

** established in Hanover * 1918: established in Hanover * 1919: renamed * 1928: established in

Bremen Bremen ( Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state cons ...

* 1938: and merge to form the ** established in Bremen ** (HLB) established in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

* 1970: , , , , and merged to form

NORD/LB The Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (abbreviated NORD/LB) is a German Landesbank and one of the largest commercial banks in Germany. It is a public corporation majority-owned by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with its h ...

* 1983: and merged to form (also known as Bremer Landesbank, or BLB) * 2003: and merged to form HSH Nordbank AG, with joint head offices in Hamburg and Kiel; spun out * 2017: BLB merged into NORD/LB * 2019: HSH Nordbank privatized and renamed Hamburg Commercial Bank; Landesbank role in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein taken up by NORD/LB File:Dankwardstraße 1 Braunschweig 20170921 001.jpg, building on in

, head office of until 1966 File:BreLaBa-Bau1896.jpg, 1896 building of the , head office of in

from 1938 to the 2010s File:Office building Landeskreditanstalt Schiffgraben 6 Mitte Hannover Germany 01.jpg, Building at Schiffgraben 6 in

, head office of from 1914 to 1970; later seat of the regional File:Gebäude der HSH-Nordbank.jpg, Building at Martendamm 4 in

, head office of (1954-2003), HSH Nordbank (2003-2019), and Hamburg Commercial Bank (since 2019) File:Office Building Nord LB Georgsplatz.jpg, Building at Georgsplatz 2 in Hanover, head office of from 1958 to 1970, then of NORD/LB until 2002 File:Office Building Highrise Nord LB Georgsplatz 02a.jpg, High-rise wing of the former complex in Hanover File:Nord LB BS.jpg, Former building or in Braunschweig, head office of (1966-1970), Nord/LB (1970-2002), then (since 2008) File:Nord-LB office building Aegidientorplatz Hannover Germany.jpg, opened in 2002 in Hanover File:Bremer Landesbank 2016-08.jpg, Former Bremer Landesbank head office in Bremen, inaugurated in 2016 a year before the bank's absorption by NORD/LB

Western and central Germany

* 1819: established in

Altenburg Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...

, later renamed * 1832: established in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...

, sometimes referred to as the first Landesbank ** established in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

* 1840: established in

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

* 1847: established in

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a dioces ...

* 1854: established in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

; relocated in 1877 to

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in ...

, and renamed in 1888

* 1890: renamed * 1914: becomes the payments clearing house (german: Girozentrale) for the savings banks in the , in substitution of the which had taken up that role in 1911 for the

Rhine Province The Rhine Province (german: Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia () or synonymous with the Rhineland (), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1946. ...

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

* 1931: in distress, suspends payments despite emergency liquidity assistance from

Deutsche Girozentrale DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale is the central provider of asset management and capital market solutions of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. It is registered in both Frankfurt and Berlin, with main operational headquarters in Frankfurt. It traces its ...

, and the

Reichsbank The ''Reichsbank'' (; 'Bank of the Reich, Bank of the Realm') was the central bank of the German Reich from 1876 until 1945. History until 1933 The Reichsbank was founded on 1 January 1876, shortly after the establishment of the German Empi ...

; clearing house role transferred to the Cologne branch of the * 1935: renamed * 1940: established in

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse ...

* 1941: Landesbank Saar (later known as SaarLB) established in

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is ...

* 1943: formed from the 's takeover of * 1953: Kassel, and merged to form (Helaba) * 1958: The branch of the in

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C. Its nam ...

merges with (in

Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfu ...

) and (in

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

) to form (LRP) in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

* 1969: and merged to form Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (WestLB) established with joint head offices in

and

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

, and branches in Cologne,

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...

, and

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Do ...

* 1972: WestLB starts developing a foreign branch network by opening in

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

, followed by

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

in 1973 and

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

in 1975. * 1993: spun off from Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz * 2002: WestLB spins off a public development bank, NRW.Bank, converts itself into a joint-stock company as WestLB AG, and sells its private banking business to Merck Finck Privatbankiers * 2012: WestLB dismantled with assets transferred to Portigon Financial Services; Landesbank role in North Rhine-Westphalia taken up by Helaba File:Naspa2.JPG, Former in

File:Landesbank Rheinprovinz Theaterstraße.jpg, Former branch of in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th ...

File:NRW-Bank Münster.JPG, Former Landesbank der Provinz Westfalen in

File:20110726Ursulinenstr2 Saarbruecken2.jpg, SaarLB head office in Saarbrücken, 2011 File:Landesbank Rheinland Pfalz.jpg, Former LRP head office in

, 2015 File:Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt WestLB.JPG, Building at Herzogstrasse 15 in

, built 1974-1986, head office of

WestLB WestLB AG (derived from ''Westdeutsche Landesbank'', i.e. "Western German state Bank") was a European commercial bank based in Düsseldorf, Germany which was mainly owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Landesbanks are a group of pa ...

until 2012, now commercial complex File:MuensterLBSWest.jpg, WestLB branch in

from 1975 to 2002, later head office of the regional File:Dortmund Kampstraße 45 47 ehemalige WestLB Dortmund.jpg, WestLB branch in

from 1978 to 2010, repurposed in 2014 as File:Gebäude 01 klein.jpg, NRW.Bank head office in Düsseldorf File:Maintower Frankfurt.jpg, Helaba head office in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...

, 2012

Baden-Württemberg

* 1818: established in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Sw ...

as national savings bank of the

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg (german: Königreich Württemberg ) was a German state that existed from 1805 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existe ...

* 1870: established in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...

as the note-issuing bank of the

Grand Duchy of Baden The Grand Duchy of Baden (german: Großherzogtum Baden) was a state in the southwest German Empire on the east bank of the Rhine. It existed between 1806 and 1918. It came into existence in the 12th century as the Margraviate of Baden and subs ...

* 1871: established in Stuttgart as the note-issuing bank of the Kingdom of Württemberg * 1916: established in Stuttgart, later renamed * 1924: established in

; renamed in 1932 * 1929: established in Mannheim * 1932: relocated from Mannheim to

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

* 1934: and deprived of their note-issuing role and repurposed as commercial entities; the latter renamed in 1935 ** and merged into entity based in

and named in 1935 * 1972: and merged into * 1975: and merged to form in Stuttgart, renamed in 1977 * 1978: , and merged to form (BW-Bank) in Stuttgart * 1988: and merged to form (SüdwestLB) in Stuttgart * 1999: and SüdwestLB merged with the commercial activities of to form

Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) is a universal bank and the Landesbank for some Federal States of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen). As of 2018, it is Germany's biggest state-backed landesbank lender. LBBW is a full-ser ...

(LBBW) in Stuttgart * 2005: BW-Bank merged into LBBW File:20180925Augustaanlage 33 Mannheim6.jpg, Former head office of in

, 2018 File:BW-Bank Heilbronn Allee.jpg, BW-Bank in

Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. From the late Middle Ages, it developed into an important trading centre. A ...

, 2007 File:BW-Bank am Kleinen Schlossplatz Stuttgart 2013.jpg, BW-Bank in

, 2013 File:Landesbank Stuttgart AmHbf2.jpg, LBBW head office in Stuttgart, 2007

Bavaria

* 1884: established in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

* 1914: founded, permanently established in 1917 in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

and relocated in 1920 in Munich * 1925: reorganized and renamed * 1949: renamed * 1972: and merged to form Bayerische Landesbank Girozentrale (BayernLB) File:Brienner Str. 16 Muenchen-1.jpg, BayernLB head office in

, 2013 File:Löwe vor der BayernLB Brienner Straße München.jpg, Lion statue in front of BayernLB head office in Munich, 2009 File:Briennerstr. 18 Glasbrunnen Muenchen-4.jpg, Courtyard of BayernLB head office in Munich, 2014

Eastern Germany

* 1819: established in

* 1849: established in

Meiningen Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 25,000 (2021).

* 1915: established in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

* 1922: established in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

* 1923: takes over the Landesbank in

Rudolstadt Rudolstadt is a town in the German federal state Thuringia, with the Thuringian Forest to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north. The former capital of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the town is built along the River Saale inside a wide v ...

and the * 1924: established, renamed in 1937 * 1928: and merged to form , with head office in Magdeburg * 1945: closed by the

Soviet Military Administration in Germany The Soviet Military Administration in Germany (russian: Советская военная администрация в Германии, СВАГ; ''Sovyetskaya Voyennaya Administratsiya v Germanii'', SVAG; german: Sowjetische Militäradministrat ...

* 1946: absorbed by * 1992: established in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...

* 1993: integrated into

Landesbank Berlin Landesbank Berlin Holding (formerly ''Bankgesellschaft Berlin''; ) is a large commercial bank based in Berlin, Germany. It is the holding company of the Berliner Sparkasse and Landesbank. In 2007, LBB was taken over by the Deutscher Sparkassen ...

as Investitionsbank Berlin * 2004: Investitionsbank Berlin spun off from Landesbank Berlin File:Herzogliche Landesbank in Altenburg.jpg, Former Herzogliche Landesbank in

, 2006 File:LandeskreditMeiningen.jpg, Former head office of , 2009 File:Löhrs Carré Leipzig.JPG, Former SachsenLB head office in

, 2007

Cross-regional consolidation

* 1992: takes up Landesbank role in

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

, and is renamed while keeping the shorthand name Helaba ** NORD/LB takes up Landesbank role in

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making i ...

* 1993: NORD/LB takes up Landesbank role in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

* 2001: BayernLB acquires majority control of SaarLB * 2005: LRP merged into LBBW * 2008: SachsenLB merged into LBBW * 2010-2013: Saarland acquires control of SaarLB from BayernLB

Current German

The current are part of the

Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe The ''Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe'' ("Savings Banks Financial Group") is a network of public banks that together form the largest financial services group in Germany and in all of Europe. Its name refers to local government-controlled savings banks ...

, one of the three pillars of Germany's banking system. Their business is predominantly wholesale banking, partly to serve local

savings bank A savings bank is a financial institution whose primary purpose is accepting savings deposits and paying interest on those deposits. They originated in Europe during the 18th century with the aim of providing access to savings products to al ...

s (german: Sparkassen). With a few exceptions, Landesbanken and Sparkassen are chartered by national and state banking laws to pursue a public purpose (german: öffentlicher Auftrag). As of late 2022, they are: *

(LBBW) in

, covering

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, and

Bayerische Landesbank Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB; Bavarian State Bank) is a publicly regulated bank based in Munich, Germany and one of the six Landesbanken. It is 75% owned by the Free State of Bavaria (indirectly via BayernLB Holding AG) and 25% owned by the ' ...

(BayernLB) in

, covering

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...

Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Helaba, short for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany offering financial services to companies, banks, institutional investors and the public sector, both within Germany and inter ...

(Helaba) in

and

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits in ...

, covering

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 squ ...

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are ...

, and

* Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD/LB) in

, covering

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

, and

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sc ...

* Landesbank Saar (SaarLB) in

, covering

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, a ...

File:Landesbank Baden-Württemberg logo.svg, Logo of LBBW File:Bayernlb-logo.svg, Logo of BayernLB File:Helaba Logo 2019.svg, Logo of Helaba File:Nord LB logo.svg, Logo of NORD/LB File:Landesbank Saar logo.svg, Logo of SaarLB Four other German institutions are named without playing the role of the above five within the public sector: *

(LBB) was converted into a joint-stock company (german: Aktiengesellschaft) in 2007, when the DSGV rescued it and took full ownership of its share capital; it is part of the

* is a local public savings bank, part of the

; its earliest predecessor was established in 1834 as , and was renamed in 1930 * , another local public savings bank within the

, is also occasionally referred to as because one of its predecessor entities was a local branch of , opened in

Birkenfeld Birkenfeld () is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde''. The town itself has approximately 7,000 inhabitants. Geography ...

in 1914 *

Oldenburgische Landesbank Oldenburgische Landesbank AG (OLB) is a private financial institution based in the northwest of Germany. Its headquarters are in Oldenburg. OLB was founded in 1869 by the Frankfurt bank Erlanger & Söhne with the privilege of issuing banknotes ...

(OLB, est. 1869) has always been a private-sector bank, controlled since 2017 by

Apollo Global Management Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private-equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, ...

. File:Berlin, Mitte, Alexanderplatz, Alexanderhaus, Fassade Grunerstrasse 02.jpg, Landesbank Berlin head office in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitu ...

, 2009 File:Idar-Oberstein-Sparkasse1-Bubo.JPG, Kreissparkasse Birkenfeld in Idar-Oberstein, 2009 File:Hohenzollerische Landesbank Sigmaringen.jpg, Hohenzollerische Landesbank Kreissparkasse in

Sigmaringen Sigmaringen ( Swabian: ''Semmerenga'') is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen district. Sigmaringen is renowned for its castle, Schloss Sigmaring ...

, 2015 File:Hauptsitz der Oldenburgischen Landesbank, Stau 15, Oldenburg.jpg,

in Oldenburg, 2010

Liechtenstein

The German name of the National Bank of Liechtenstein is .

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Austria-Hungary

Germany

Evolution over time

Northern Germany

Western and central Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Eastern Germany

Cross-regional consolidation

Current German

Liechtenstein

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