DZ Bank

central institution for around 700 cooperative banks in Germany
Organization business Q524424
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DZ Bank

Summary

DZ Bank is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (642 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • DZ Bank was a member of European Association of Co-operative Banks[3].
  • DZ Bank was a member of Der Mittelstandsverbund – ZGV[4].
  • DZ Bank was a member of Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband[5].
  • DZ Bank was a member of Genossenschaftsverband[6].
  • DZ Bank was a member of Bundesverband Öffentlicher Banken Deutschlands[7].
  • DZ Bank was a member of Bankcard-Servicenetz[8].
  • DZ Bank is in the country of Germany[9].
  • DZ Bank is in the country of DE[10].
  • DZ Bank's instance of is recorded as business[11].
  • DZ Bank's instance of is recorded as bank[12].
  • DZ Bank's headquarters location is recorded as Frankfurt[13].
  • DZ Bank's chief executive officer is recorded as Cornelius Riese[14].
  • DZ Bank's child organization or unit is recorded as Reisebank[15].
  • DZ Bank's child organization or unit is recorded as GENO Broker[16].
  • DZ Bank's Commons category is recorded as DZ Bank[17].
  • DZ Bank's industry is recorded as economics of banking[18].
  • DZ Bank comprises GENO Broker[19].
  • 2001 marks the founding of DZ Bank[20].
  • 1998-08-25 marks the founding of DZ Bank[21].
  • DZ Bank's official website is recorded as https://www.dzbank.com[22].
  • DZ Bank's official website is recorded as https://www.dzbank.de/[23].
  • DZ Bank's described at URL is recorded as https://www.kek-online.de/medienkonzentration/mediendatenbank/#/profile/shareholder/5d302739-70fc-4041-9297-3f9d4a1352d0[24].
  • DZ Bank's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+24642'}[25].
  • DZ Bank's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank'}[26].
  • DZ Bank's legal form is recorded as Aktiengesellschaft[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 529900HNOAA1KXQJUQ27[28]

  • Registered legal name: Dz Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 6QQB[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[34]

  • Entity created: 1998-08-25[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-12-02[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-10-27[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-12-02[38]

  • Managing LOU: 39120001KULK7200U106[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000242[40]

  • Authority entity ID: HRB 45651[41]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[42]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 2001[20] and 1998-08-25[21].

Identity

DZ Bank's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank'}[26]. Its short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'DZ BANK'}[43].

Leadership

DZ Bank's chief executive officer is recorded as Cornelius Riese[14].

Operations

DZ Bank's headquarters location is recorded as Frankfurt[13]. Subsidiaries include Reisebank[15], a specialized bank[44], in Germany[45], founded in 1996[46], headquartered in Frankfurt[47] and GENO Broker[16].

Industry

DZ Bank's industry is recorded as economics of banking[18].

Why It Matters

DZ Bank ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (642 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [10] . wikidata.org.
  3. [11] . wikidata.org.
  4. [12] . Panama papers. wikidata.org.
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  6. [14] . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] . wikidata.org.
  10. [18] . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] . eacb.coop. Retrieved . eacb.coop. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [4] . mittelstandsverbund.de. Retrieved . mittelstandsverbund.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [5] . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . dgrv.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [6] . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . genossenschaftsverband.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [7] . Bundestag Lobby Register. Retrieved . voeb.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [8] . bvr.de. Retrieved . bvr.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . esma.europa.eu. Retrieved . esma.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [43] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Owner of City-Haus, Westendstrasse 1, DZ BANK Kunstsammlung
    Member of
    Member of European Association of Co-operative Banks, Der Mittelstandsverbund – ZGV, Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband +20
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