Deutsche Bank was named for Germany before there was a Germany.
Adelbert Delbrück, a Berlin private banker, and Ludwig Bamberger, a politician and currency expert, founded the bank in Berlin in 1870 as a “German bank” that would free German trade from its dependence on English and French banks. King Wilhelm I of Prussia signed its founding concession on 10 March 1870. Ten months later, at Versailles, he was proclaimed German Emperor.
Deutsche Bank on Brandseum