The German government has decided to mint a €5 collectors’ coin entitled “Great green bush-cricket", to be issed at 7 March 2024. It is the sixth coin issued as part of the “Wonderful world of insects” series, which will see a total of nine coins with partially coloured motifs issued over the period 2022-24.

Die Leistungsbilanz wies im Dezember 2023 einen Überschuss von 32 Mrd. € auf (nach 22 Mrd. € im Vormonat).

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 1 Jan 1970 – 31 May 1977

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 1 Jun 1977 – 31 Dec 1979

Curriculum vitae of Hans Tietmeyer, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 01.10.1993 to 31.08.1999

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 1 Jan 1980 – 31 Jul 1991

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 01.09.1999 – 16.04.2004

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank 30 Apr 2004 - 30 Apr 2011

Im Jahr 2017 hat die Bundesbank eine umfangreiche Studie zur Geschichte der Reichsbank, der Bank deutscher Länder und der frühen Bundesbank beauftragt. Was waren die Herausforderungen bei diesem Projekt? In welchem Kontext bewegt es sich? Und welche wesentlichen Erkenntnisse hat es zutage gefördert? Ein Interview mit den wissenschaftlichen Leitern, Magnus Brechtken und Albrecht Ritschl.

The Deutsche Bundesbank has taken receipt of a comprehensive study on the history of central banking in Germany between the years 1924 and 1970. The large-scale research project entitled “From the Reichsbank to the Bundesbank” looks into the history of the Reichsbank as the central bank during the Nazi era as well as investigating continuities in terms of personnel after the central banks Bank deutscher Länder and Deutsche Bundesbank were established after the war.

Under the Credit Risk Standardised Approach the risk positions are assigned to supervisory asset classes and the appropriate risk weights are calculated .

Introducing our newcomers: Marie-Therese Gold, head of the Bundesbank’s representative office in Brussels, Nikola Marcinko, the Bundesbank’s first representative in Riga, Ezgi Delikanli, representative in London, Andreas Gauf and Philipp Täufer on the Frankfurt team. 

Germany’s current account recorded a surplus of €29.7 billion in January 2024, down €1.9 billion on the previous month’s level. The goods account surplus increased significantly, but this was outweighed by a stronger decline in the surplus in invisible current transactions, which comprise services as well as primary and secondary income.