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Rentenbank

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German development bank based in Frankfurt1

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank is Germany's development agency for agribusiness and rural areas. The bank has its registered office in Frankfurt am Main. In 2019 it will be 70 years since it was founded.2 It employed 269 people in 2015.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

May 11, 1949Founded1
  • Industryfinancial service activities, except insurance and pension funding, financial services1
  • HeadquartersFrankfurt1
  • Websitewww.rentenbank.de
  • Legal formpublic-law institution1
  • Kind of organizationPublic body1
  • LEI529900Z3J0N6S0F7CT253
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressTheodor-Heuss-Allee 80, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany3
  • Registered withLocal Court Frankfurt am Main, HRA 306363

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Photo: Karsten Ratzke, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons6

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank is Germany's development agency for agribusiness and rural areas. The bank has its registered office in Frankfurt am Main. In 2019 it will be 70 years since it was founded. With its low-interest loans, Rentenbank promotes a wide range of investments in agriculture and the associated upstream and downstream industries as well as in rural areas. The funds are raised in the international capital markets. Rentenbank was established in 1949 as a central funding institution with a statutory promotional mandate. The Federal Republic of Germany has an institutional liability (Anstaltslast) and acts as a guarantor for the liabilities of Rentenbank. Rentenbank is a successor to Deutsche Rentenbank, established as the currency issuer of the Rentenmark in 1923 to combat hyperinflation, and Deutsche Rentenbank Kreditanstalt (RKA), a major lender in the agricultural sector formed in 1925. With total assets under management in the amount of around EUR 90 billion, Rentenbank counts among the 15 largest banks and is the third largest development bank in Germany. Rentenbank is under the supervision of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority(BaFin) and Deutsche Bundesbank.2

Corporate structure

Rentenbank sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Rentenbank Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    • DSV Silo- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH Subsidiary · Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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The story

Rentenbank’s special promotional loans are geared towards businesses in the agricultural, horticultural, viticultural and silvicultural sectors, including manufacturers of agricultural input materials as well as agriculture-related trade and service companies. The bank also finances projects in the food industry and the associated upstream and downstream industries. Further, Rentenbank promotes civic engagement and public-sector investments in rural areas. The bank’s statutory promotional mandate explicitly includes promoting renewable energy, renewable agricultural resources, organic farming, agriculture-related environmental and consumer protection, and animal welfare. The loans are extended via local banks on a competitively neutral basis. In addition, Rentenbank awards grants for innovations and applied research projects, as well as for projects and institutions that are of particular importance to agribusiness and rural areas. Rentenbank’s Rehwinkel Foundation supports scientific research, promotes events that foster collaboration between agricultural science and industry, and awards scholarships to students on relevant Master’s programmes. Rentenbank focuses its efforts on promoting innovation, in particular start-ups that are developing new, tech-based business ideas that can play a vital role in driving innovation in agriculture.

From 1974 to 1998 Constantin Heereman von Zuydtwyck was president of Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank.

From Wikipedia’s article on Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

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Board members and other officers (1)

Products and brands

  • financial services

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Employees over time

  • 20152691

Timeline

  1. May 11, 1949Founded Founded1

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