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Nonetheless, American banks are not Poland's leading creditors. That dubious distinction goes to West German financial institutions, which are owed at least $2.7 billion. The largest single lender is the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft, with a total of about $310 million in Polish credits outstanding, followed by three other German banks with $180 million or more each. Hans Friderichs, Dresdner Bank's chairman, recently conceded that his bank was setting up a contingency fund against the possible write-off of part of its Polish and other weak loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Financial Brinkmanship | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...biggest housing construction company, and share with cooperatives ownership of its second-ranked deep-sea fishery and the largest cut-rate life insurance company in Europe. Labor's proudest possession is one of the world's few union-owned banks, the Frankfurt-based Bank fur Gemeinwirtschaft, which lately has been engaged in the highly capitalistic practice of gobbling up competitors: it has just bought control of Cologne's Bau- und Handelsbank and Frankfurt's Investitions-und Handelsbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Union Banker | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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