Gruezi Frankfurt!

It was like the meeting of two big and powerful families, the Medici and the Strozzi in Florence, or the Gambinos and the Bonannos in New York. But this was April 22, 1986.

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The limousines glistened at the foot of the twin glass towers. On one of the top floors the family bosses and their entourage were holding a summit to discuss where to share business, and where to compete around the world.

On the one side was Rainer Gut, chairman of the board of Credit Suisse, and on the other Alfred Herrhausen, the host, newly appointed co-speaker of the Deutsche Bank.

Officially it was Gut’s annual tour d’horizon to visit his rivals and business counterparts in Frankfurt.

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