Deutsche Bank’s reputation has been miserable for years. The investigators have been to the Frankfurt headquarters so often that it hardly comes as a surprise. Paul Achleitner is now retiring as the head of the supervisory board and seems surprisingly satisfied. Why actually?
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Jan Schmidbauer, Munich, and Meike Schreiber, Frankfurt
The man, whom some consider one of the biggest destroyers of value in the German economy, seems in the best of moods, even downright relaxed. Paul Achleitner, black sweater, black vest, sits in front of white background. There is nothing to be seen of the trophies that stand in his office in Munich’s Palais Preysing, of the awards for deals worth millions and billions that he has collected over the course of his career. Only he can be seen on this Monday in April: Paul Achleitner, 65, born Austrian and born networker.