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FOR AN
⁠INDEFINITE⁠
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⁠OCCASIONALLY⁠ |style="text-align:center;border-top:1px solid black;" |⁠
IV.
⁠ALTOGETHER⁠
(Total) |-style="text-align:center;" |1st
degree |${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}}$ |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | in
17 banks |style="border-right:1px solid black;" |in
5 banks |style="border-right:1px solid black;" |in
8 banks |in
30 banks |- |​ | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | | |-style="text-align:center;" |2nd
degree |${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}}$ |style="border-right:1px solid black;" |of which
9
participate
in 34
others |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" |of which
5
participate
in 14
others |of which
14
participate
in 48
others |- |​ | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | | |-style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid black;" |3rd
degree |${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}}$ |style="border-right:1px solid black;" |of which
4
participate
in 7
others |style="border-right:1px solid black;" | |style="border-right:1px solid black;" |of which
2
participate
in 2
others |of which
6
participate
in 9
others |- |}

Included in the eight banks dependent in the first degree, there are three foreign banks: one Austrian and two Russian. Altogether, the Deutsche Bank group comprises, directly and indirectly, partially and totally, no less than 87 banks; and the sum total of capital—its own and others'—which it handles varies between two and three milliard marks.²³

It is obvious that a bank at the head of such a group, and entering into relation with a half-dozen other groups, which yield little to it in magnitude, for big and profitable enterprises such as State borrowings, is no longer a mere intermediary for payment of transactions, but has reached the stage of being an alliance of a small number of monopolisers.

The following data, which we borrow in an abridged form from Riesser, will show how rapidly banking concentration was effected in Ger-