STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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123 A k t e n o t i z_. The intention is to dissolve Legiobank and transfer the company to the Czech Union Bank. a friendship agreement was concluded between Legiobank and the Böhmische Unionbank, which today belongs to the Deutsche Bank group, as the Wiener Bank "Creditanstalt and Wiener Bankverein", which is called Gotomie. The latter, as a result of this friendship agreement, has acquired the participation and branches of Legio Bank in Slovakia. The KdD has an interest in the fact that the Legio Bank, now Bohemian-Mährische Bank, does not enter the sphere of interest of the Deutsche Bank, since this will not achieve a strengthening of the German banking system for the future, since at such a transfer the majority of the Czech businesses migrate to other banks and thus only the Czech part of the bank wins, the Germans best - if the frozen debits are preserved. The KdD would enter into a community of interests in the most confidential form with Legiobank, control their business and monitor their internal activities by agents. It cannot be in the sense of a reasonable policy to facilitate the existence of Czech institutions by the abolition of Legiobank, on the contrary, the multiformity of Czech banking can hinder the expansion of a single strong Czech bank. I would therefore ask that the merger policy of Czech and German institutions, in this case "Böhmische Unionbank und Legiobank", be prevented. A Co