And the next day a Munich court ruled that Deutsche and Rolf Breuer, Mr Ackermann's predecessor, who now chairs the bank's supervisoryboard, were liable to pay damages to Leo Kirch, a media mogul whose empire crumbled last year.
That institution happens to be the house bank of Porsche, part of the Volkswagen group, on whose supervisoryboard Mr Wulff sat during his Lower Saxony premiership.