[fre] Résumé . Avant 1933, l'entreprise Degussa de Francfort/Main contrôlait la branche allemande des métaux précieux. Par sa position de leader du marché que lui conférait son implication dans de nombreux cartels, les importations et les exportations qu'elle réalisait assuraient un...

[eng] Abstract As a result of this article one has to state, that many private banking houses had undergone a change in their relative position in the functioning of the banking system between 1900 and 1933. In the nineteenth century private banks had developed the 'mixed banking' practices and...

[eng] Abstract For a long time research in baking history has pointed out that the German banks were among the loosers of the post-war inflation. Comparing the balance sheets of 1913 and these of 1924 (Goldmakerqffhungsbilanzen) it becomes quite obvious that the banks were faced with subsantial...