The Deutsche Bank Store of the Future, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.
When I arrived in Berlin, my buddy Mark told me that I had to follow him halfway across town, past dozens of banks, including a number of Deutsche Banks, from where we were in Moabit down to Friedrichstraße, south of Straße des 17. Juni, to one particular Deutsche Bank called Die Deutsche Bank der Zukunft — “Deutsche Bank of the Future.”
Well, the service is superb! There is a cafe with coffee and food. When you interact with a bank manager, it is in the cafe with personal service. Also, the cafe is open to the public, there is a boutique store in the front with high-end gifts, including gifts from Harrods, strangely enough. I have always been treated like I am rich and important when I am there, no matter how I am dressed or how unshaven. Everyone speaks English, as well.
Not only that, but I am told that, in general, service sucks in Germany, especially in Berlin, especially the service offered in Banks. Maybe a hold-over from Soviet-era bureaucracy — maybe all of the bureaucratic former Eastern Germans ended up manning all of the Berlin banks. Well, that is not the case with the Deutsche Bank of the Future!
Die Deutsche Bank der Zukunft
(Private & Business Clients)
Friedrichstraße 181
10117 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 460611-0
+49 30 460611-99 Fax
Bank Code: 10070024
Swift Code: DEUTDEBBXXX / DEUTDEDBBER
Opening Hours
Monday – Tuesday: 10:00 – 20:00
Wednesday: 10:00 – 18:00
Thursday – Saturday: 10:00 – 20:00
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cool looking elephant
I really think that is supposed to be a Berlin bear.
Chris, I had a question instead of a comment. Do you know if the Deutsche bank in Berlin issues money orders? I make handcrafted fishing lures and have a customer near Berlin whose telling me the closes bank that does is 100km away and that he’s not driving that far. He is trying his best to get me to send him my bank information and use PayPal which I will not do! He is located about 12 miles west of Berlin. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Gene Richardson » I don’t know about money orders but I can almost guarantee that there is probably an American Express office there to get American Express money orders. Also, banking information and wiring is the way everyone moves money around in Europe, but it isn’t nearly as easy to do it in the US. Let me ask my business partner what the truth is and I will get back to you.
Gene Richardson » This is the advice that my Berlin-based-for-twenty-years friend said,
“They should probably just use Western Union’s online money transfer service if he doesn’t accept paypal or credit cards. Germans haven’t used checks much for 40 years. The last time I even saw a check in Germany was as a kid 20 years ago, and they were considered bizarre and antiquated even then.”