The story
The Landeskirchliche Kredit-Genossenschaft Sachsen LKG (that would later become a branch of the KD-Bank in Dresden) was founded in 1925 as the first Protestant bank in Germany. In 1926, Victor Rohdich was appointed as administrative director of the Inner mission after being involved in the founding of the bank. A church bank was founded in the province of Saxony under the name of Provinzial Kirche Spar- und Darlehensgenossenschaft für die Provinz in Sachsen GmbH. In 1927, protestant loan cooperatives were initiated in Magdeburg and Münster. That same year, the capacity building institution Darlehensgenossenschaft der Westfälischen Inneren Mission eGmbH was founded by Martin Niemöller.
In 2003, the DGM and the BKD merged and became KD-Bank eG – die Bank für Kirche und Diakonie. Part of the fusion agreement was a new headquarters in the geographical middle of Duisburg and Münster. Since February 28, 2006, the building in Dortmund has served as the bank's headquarters.
On June 9, 2010, the general assembly of the KD-Bank voted for a merger with the Landeskirchlichen Kredit-Genossenschaft Sachsen eG (LKG) which is headquartered in Dresden. The merger became retroactive on January 1, 2010. Around the same time, the general assembly decided on renaming the bank Bank für Kirche und Diakonie eG – KD-BANK.
From Wikipedia’s article on KD-Bank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5