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No, Post Bank was sold to Deutsche Bank. It was created by the Deutsche Post, who then spun it off, funneled a lot of their branches into it (so you have bank offices that also rent out a desk to the Post) and sold it to Deutsche Bank.



I looked at the wikipedia post for Post Bank and it is really confusing. So on re-reading I see:

1990 Postbank is created from Duetsche Post breaking up.

1999 Deutsche Post takes back Postbank.

2004 Deutsche Bank sells it's transaction bank to Postbank.

2012 Deutsche Bank acquires Postbank.


I think the name Deutsche Bank makes it even more confusing. As opposed to Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Deutsche Bahn (DB/Schenker/Arriva) and Deutsche Post (DHL), Deutsche Bank never was state-owned. It was just named that way, because it was founded as a project (and arguably still is) so Germany would play a role on the world financial stage.




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