Savings Banks during Upheaval and Crisis

The aim of the “Arbeitskreis für Sparkassengeschichte” is to intensify research into savings bank history and also make the information applicable in practice and available to a wide audience of scientists and practitioners. The working group was founded on a private basis in mid-1981 by the savings bank director Manfred Pix and Professor Dr. Dr. Josef Wysocki and, as a result of its acclaimed importance for historical research into savings banks, was taken over on 1st January 1985 by the “Gesellschaft zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung über das Spar- und Girowesen e.V., Bonn”.