The Norddeutsche Bank was a German

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that existed from 1856 to 1929. It was established by

Berenberg Bank Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, commonly known as Berenberg Bank and also branded as simply Berenberg, is a multinational full-service investment bank based in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded by the Flemish Berenberg family in 1590 () and ...

, 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

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.Michael North: "The Great German Banking Houses and International Merchants, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century", in:

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, Ginette Kurgan-Van Hentenryk and Dieter Ziegler (eds.), ''Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century'',

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, 2011, , p. 46 In 1895 it was merged with the

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, but the two banks continued to operate separately. In 1929 both the Norddeutsche Bank and the Disconto-Gesellschaft were merged into

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