Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II 424B2 Prospectus for primary offering


PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT	Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2)


(To Prospectus dated October 10, 2006)	Registration Statement No. 333-137902

Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II

(a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft)

32,000,000 6.55% Trust Preferred Securities

(Liquidation Preference Amount $25 per Trust Preferred Security)

guaranteed on a subordinated basis by Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft

Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust, which we refer to as the Trust, will offer for sale 32,000,000 6.55% trust preferred securities (each with a $25 liquidation preference amount), which we refer to as Trust Preferred Securities, and will sell one common security to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, which we refer to as the Bank. The Trust will use the proceeds from the sale of the Trust Preferred Securities and the common security to buy a class of preferred securities, which we refer to as Class B Preferred Securities, issued by Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company, which we refer to as the Company. The Class B Preferred Securities will be the only assets of the Trust. The Class B Preferred Securities are not offered hereby.

Distributions, which we also refer to as Capital Payments, on the Trust Preferred Securities and on the Class B Preferred Securities will accrue on the respective liquidation preference amounts of $25 per Trust Preferred Security and $25 per Class B Preferred Security, from May 23, 2007, which we refer to as the Issue Date, at a fixed coupon rate of 6.55% per annum and will be payable quarterly in arrears, on February 23, May 23, August 23 and November 23, which we refer to as Payment Dates, of each year, commencing on August 23, 2007. Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities are expected to be paid out of the Capital Payments received by the Trust from the Company with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities. Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be made only when, as and if declared or deemed declared by the Company’s Board of Directors and will only be authorized to be made on any Payment Date if the Company has sufficient operating profits and the Bank has sufficient distributable profits. Capital Payments will be cumulative, unless and until the Bank elects, prior to May 23, 2012, to exercise its one-time right to require the Trust and the Company to change specified terms of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities so that it can treat the Class B Preferred Securities as consolidated Tier 1 regulatory capital. After that election, if any, Capital Payments will be non-cumulative.

The Trust Preferred Securities offered hereby do not have a maturity date. We may redeem the Trust Preferred Securities in whole but not in part, in connection with the redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities, on any Payment Date on or after May 23, 2017 at the applicable redemption price.

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft fully and unconditionally guarantees, on a subordinated basis, payments in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities.

Investing in the Trust Preferred Securities involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning onpage S-15 for a discussion of certain factors that should be considered by prospective investors.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities regulator has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined whether this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.


			Underwriting Discounts			Proceeds, before
	Price to Public		and Commissions			Expenses, to the Trust⁽¹⁾

Per Trust Preferred Security	$	25.00	$	0.25(1	)	$	25.00
Total	$	800,000,000	$	8,000,000(1	)	$	800,000,000


(1)	The Bank will pay the underwriters compensation of $.25 per Trust Preferred Security. Total underwriting discounts and commissions payable by the Bank will be $8,000,000. The Bank will be responsible for payment of all costs and expenses of the Trust and the Company in connection with this offering. See “Underwriting.”

The Trust Preferred Securities are not deposits or savings accounts or other obligations of a bank. The Trust Preferred Securities are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other U.S. or foreign governmental agency or instrumentality.

We will apply to list the Trust Preferred Securities on the New York Stock Exchange, but no assurance can be given that the application for listing will be approved.

The underwriters will deliver the Trust Preferred Securities in book-entry form only through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) on or about May 23, 2007. Beneficial interests in the Trust Preferred Securities will be shown on, and transfers thereof will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC and its participants, including Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, and Euroclear Bank SA/NV.

Deutsche Bank Securities

The date of this Prospectus Supplement is May 16, 2007.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT

References in this prospectus supplement to“Trust”refer to Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II. References in this prospectus supplement to“Company”or“Delaware Company”refer to Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital LLC II. References in this prospectus supplement to the“Bank,” “we,” “our,” “us”or“Deutsche Bank AG”refer to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (including, as the context may require, acting through one of its branches) and, unless the context requires otherwise, will include the Trust, the Company and our other consolidated subsidiaries.

References to“you”mean those who invest in the Trust Preferred Securities, whether they are the direct holders or owners of beneficial interests in those securities. References to“holders”mean those who own securities registered in their own names on the books that we or the trustee maintain for this purpose, and not those who own beneficial interests in securities issued in book-entry form through The Depository Trust Company or another depositary or in securities registered in street name. Owners of beneficial interests in the Trust Preferred Securities should read the section entitled “Description of Trust Securities — Form, Book-Entry Procedures and Transfer.”

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus or to which we refer you. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with information that is different. This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus may only be used where it is legal to sell these securities. You should assume that the information in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus is accurate as of the date of this prospectus supplement only.

The Trust is offering the Trust Preferred Securities for sale in those jurisdictions in the United States and elsewhere where it is lawful to make such offers. The distribution of this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and the offering of the Trust Preferred Securities in some jurisdictions may be restricted by law. If you possess this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, you should find out about and observe these restrictions. This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are not an offer to sell the Trust Preferred Securities and we are not soliciting an offer to buy the Trust Preferred Securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted or where the person making the offer or sale is not qualified to do so or from any person to whom it is not permitted to make such offer or sale. We refer you to the information under “Underwriting” in this prospectus supplement. The delivery of this prospectus supplement, at any time, does not create any implication that there has been no change in our affairs since the date of this prospectus supplement or that the information contained in this prospectus supplement is correct as of any time subsequent to that date.

Certain capitalized terms used in this prospectus supplement are defined under “Glossary” starting onpage S-77.

References to “EUR” and “€” are to the euro, the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the European Economic and Monetary Union pursuant to the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the treaty on European Union. References to “$” are to United States currency, and the terms “United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America, its states, its territories, its possessions and all areas subject to its jurisdiction.

Deutsche Bank AG’s financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2006, which are incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, which we refer to as U.S. GAAP. Beginning on January 1, 2007, Deutsche Bank AG’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, which we refer to as IFRS. These financial statements are also incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus. Deutsche Bank AG’s financial statements are stated in Euro.

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus supplement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), with respect to Deutsche Bank AG’s financial condition and results of operations. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts; they include statements about our beliefs and expectations. We use words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “seek,” “estimate,” “project,” “should,” “potential,” “reasonably possible,” “plan” and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements.

In this document, forward-looking statements include, among others, statements relating to:


•	our implementation of our strategic initiatives and management agenda;

•	the development of aspects of our results of operations;

•	our expectations of the impact of risks that affect our business, including the risks of loss on our credit exposures and risks relating to changes in interest and currency exchange rates and in asset prices; and

•	other statements relating to our future business development and economic performance.

In addition, we may from time to time make forward-looking statements in our periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) onForms 20-F and6-K, annual and interim reports, invitations to annual shareholders’ meetings and other information sent to shareholders, offering circulars and prospectuses, press releases and other written materials. Our Management Board, Supervisory Board, officers and employees may also make oral forward-looking statements to third parties, including financial analysts.

By their very nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, both general and specific. We base these statements on our current plans, estimates, projections and expectations. You should therefore not place undue reliance on them. Our forward-looking statements speak only as of the date we make them, and we undertake no obligation to update any of them in light of new information or future events.

We caution you that a number of important factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from those described in any forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, the following:


•	changes in general economic and business conditions;

•	changes and volatility in currency exchange rates, interest rates and asset prices;

•	changes in governmental policy and regulation, and political and social conditions;

•	changes in our competitive environment;

•	the success of our acquisitions, divestitures, mergers and strategic alliances;

•	our success in achieving the objectives of our current management agenda and realizing the anticipated benefits therefrom; and

•	other factors, including those we refer to in “Item 3: Key Information — Risk Factors” of our most recent Annual Report onForm 20-F and elsewhere in that Annual Report onForm 20-F, this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus, and others to which we do not refer.

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PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT SUMMARY

The following summary of certain general features of the Offering does not purport to be complete and is taken from and qualified in its entirety by the detailed information appearing elsewhere, or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.

The Trust

The Trust is a statutory trust formed under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, as amended (which we refer to as the Delaware Statutory Trust Act), and will be governed by:


•	an amended and restated trust agreement dated on or before the Issue Date (which we refer to as the Trust Agreement) executed by the Company, as sponsor, the trustees of the Trust and the Bank; and

•	a certificate of trust filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 16, 2007.

The Trust exists exclusively to:


•	issue, offer and sell the Trust Preferred Securities to the public; and

•	issue and sell one common security (which we refer to as the Trust Common Security) with a liquidation amount of $25 to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft for a purchase price of $25.

The trustees of the Trust will consist of The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation (which we refer to as the Property Trustee), three individuals who are our officers or employees or are officers or employees of our subsidiaries (who we refer to as the Regular Trustees) and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware (which we refer to as the Delaware Trustee).

The principal executive office of the Trust is located at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, telephone number212-250-2077.

The Company

The Company is a limited liability company formed under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, as amended (which we refer to as the LLC Act), and will be governed by:


•	an amended and restated limited liability company agreement of the Company dated on or before the Issue Date (which we refer to as the LLC Agreement); and

•	a certificate of formation of the Company filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 10, 2007.

The Company exists exclusively to:


•	issue and sell the Class B Preferred Securities to the Trust;

•	issue and sell one security of a separate class of preferred securities (which we refer to as the Class A Preferred Security) to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft; and

•	issue one common security (which we refer to as the Company Common Security) representing a limited liability company interest in the Company to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft.

None of the securities issued by the Company are offered hereby.

The principal executive office of the Company is located at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, telephone number212-250-2077.

The Bank

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft is a stock corporation organized under the laws of Germany registered in the commercial register of the District Court in Frankfurt am Main under registration number HRB 30 000.

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Our registered office is in Frankfurt am Main. We maintain our head office at Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft originated from the reunification of Norddeutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Hamburg, Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Düsseldorf and Süddeutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Munich; pursuant to the Law on the Regional Scope of Credit Institutions, these had been disincorporated in 1952 from Deutsche Bank, which was founded in 1870. The merger and the name were entered in the Commercial Register of the District Court Frankfurt am Main on May 2, 1957.

We are the parent company of a group consisting of banks, capital market companies, fund management companies, a property finance company, installment financing companies, research and consultancy companies and other domestic and foreign companies. We offer a wide variety of investment, financial and related products and services to private individuals, corporate entities and institutional clients around the world.

We are the largest bank in Germany and one of the largest financial institutions in Europe and the world measured by total assets. As of March 31, 2007, on an unaudited basis, we had total assets of €1,747 billion, total liabilities of €1,710 billion and total shareholders’ equity of €36.2 billion, in each case on the basis of IFRS.

As of March 31, 2007, our outstanding share capital amounted to €1,345 million consisting of 525.5 million ordinary shares of no par value, of which 503.1 million were outstanding. The shares are fully paid up and in registered form. The shares are listed for trading and official quotation on all the German Stock Exchanges and are listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Please refer to our Annual Report onForm 20-F and the other documents incorporated by reference herein for additional information and financial statements relating to us.

Exchange Rates

Germany’s currency is the euro. For convenience, we translate some amounts denominated in euro appearing in certain documents incorporated by reference herein into U.S. dollars. Fluctuations in the exchange rate between the euro and the U.S. dollar will affect the U.S. dollar equivalent of the euro price of our shares quoted on the German stock exchanges and, as a result, are likely to affect the market price of our shares on the New York Stock Exchange. These fluctuations will also affect the U.S. dollar value of cash dividends we may pay on our shares in euros. Past fluctuations in foreign exchange rates may not necessarily be predictive of future fluctuations.

The following table shows the period-end, average, high and low noon buying rates for the euro. In each case, the period-end rate is the noon buying rate announced on the last business day of the period.


in U.S.$ per €	Period-end		High		Low

2007:
May (through May 15)		1.3603		1.3616		1.3512
April		1.366		1.366		1.3363
March		1.3374		1.3374		1.3094
February		1.323		1.3246		1.2933
January		1.2998		1.3286		1.2904
2006:
December		1.3197		1.3327		1.3073
November		1.3261		1.3261		1.2705

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The Offering


Issuer		Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust formed for the purpose of issuing the Trust Preferred Securities.

Securities Offered		32,000,000 6.55% Trust Preferred Securities with a liquidation preference amount of $25 per Trust Preferred Security, representing undivided preferred beneficial ownership interests in the assets of the Trust, which we refer to as the Trust Estate.

Offering Price		$25 per Trust Preferred Security.

Issue Date		May 23, 2007.

No Maturity		The Trust Preferred Securities will not have a maturity date or be subject to any mandatory redemption provisions.

Form and Denominations; Clearing and Settlement		The Trust Preferred Securities will be sold in minimum denominations of $25 liquidation preference amount (and integral multiples of $25). The Trust Preferred Securities will be denominated in U.S. dollars and all payments on or in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities will be made in U.S. dollars. The Trust Preferred Securities will be issued in book-entry form only and will be represented by registered Global Certificates deposited with a custodian for and registered in the name of a nominee of DTC. The Trust Preferred Securities will be accepted for clearance by DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg. Beneficial interests in the Trust Preferred Securities will be shown on, and transfers thereof will be effected only through, the book-entry records maintained by DTC and its direct and indirect participants, including Euroclear and Clearstream.

Securities issued but not offered to the public inconnection with the Offering

*Company Class B Preferred Securities*		The Company will issue and sell the Class B Preferred Securities to the Trust for a purchase price of $25 per Class B Preferred Security. The Class B Preferred Securities will not have a maturity date or be subject to any mandatory redemption provisions.

*Company Class A Preferred Security*		The Company will issue and sell the Class A Preferred Security to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft for a purchase price of $25.

*Company Common Security*		The Company will issue the Company Common Security representing a limited liability company interest in the Company to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft.

*Trust Common Security*		The Trust will issue and sell the Trust Common Security with a liquidation amount of $25 to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft for a purchase price of $25.

*Deutsche Bank Initial Obligation*		Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft will issue and sell a perpetual fixed rate subordinated note governed by New York law (which

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		we refer to as the Initial Obligation) to the Company for a purchase price of $800,000,025.

Use of Proceeds by the Trust		The Trust will use the proceeds from the sale of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Trust Common Security to purchase the Class B Preferred Securities issued by the Company. The Class B Preferred Securities will be the Trust’s only assets.

Use of Proceeds by the Company		The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the Class B Preferred Securities to purchase the Initial Obligation. The Company will deposit the proceeds from the Class A Preferred Security and from the Company Common Security in a non-interest bearing account. The Initial Obligation, any arrears of payments that have been deferred while capital payments are cumulative, if any, deposited with the Bank under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement described below, and such non-interest bearing deposit will be the Company’s only assets.

Use of Proceeds by the Bank		The Bank intends to use the proceeds from the sale of the Initial Obligation for general corporate purposes, and the Bank expects to treat the Class B Preferred Securities, prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Election described below, as consolidated Upper Tier 2 regulatory capital and following the Tier 1 Qualification Election, as consolidated Tier 1 regulatory capital.

Liquidation Preference Amount		$25 per Trust Preferred Security and $25 per Class B Preferred Security.

Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities		If you purchase Trust Preferred Securities, you will be entitled to receive cumulative or noncumulative cash distributions (which we refer to as Capital Payments) at a rate of 6.55% per annum (on the $25 liquidation preference amount for each Trust Preferred Security), as and when funds are available to the Trust to make such Capital Payments. Capital Payments will be payable quarterly in arrears on February 23, May 23, August 23 and November 23 (which we refer to as Payment Dates) of each year, commencing on August 23, 2007. We refer to each period from and including one Payment Date to but excluding the next Payment Date as a Payment Period.

*Depend on Receipt by Trust of Capital Payments on the Class BPreferred Securities***		The Trust expects to make the Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities out of the Capital Payments received by the Trust from the Company with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities.

*Tier 1 Qualification Election*		At any time on or before the tenth Business Day preceding the Payment Date falling closest to, but not later than, the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date, the Bank may give notice under the LLC Agreement to the Company that the Bank is making the one-time election permitted pursuant to the LLC Agreement to replace the terms of the Class B Securities described in “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities” relating to Capital Payments and the other matters described therein with those terms applicable after the Bank’s election. We refer to this election as the “Tier 1 Qualification

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		Election” and to the date on and after which it is effective as the “Tier 1 Qualification Date.”

*Capital Payments Cumulative Before Tier 1 Qualification Date*		To the extent the Trust does not have sufficient funds available to make a Capital Payment on the Trust Preferred Securities for any Payment Period, you will not be entitled to receive that Capital Payment, whether or not Capital Payments are made on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of other Payment Periods. Any such Capital Payment or portion thereof accrued but not declared (or deemed to have been declared) by the Company shall be deferred. If the Company does declare (or is deemed to have declared) a Capital Payment in respect of any Payment Period under circumstances where the Distributable Profits of the Bank are insufficient to pay such Capital Payment as well as capital payments on the other specified instruments described herein, the portion of such Capital Payment shall also be deferred. We refer to the deferred payments as “Arrears of Payments.” The Company will pay Arrears of Payments only in a Payment Period when and to the extent there are sufficient Distributable Profits to pay then current Capital Payments, capital payments on the other specified instruments, and any arrears of payments on the other specified instruments. Any payments of Arrears of Payments will be pro rata with payments thereof on the specified instruments.

*Capital Payments Noncumulative After the Tier 1 Qualification Date*		To the extent the Trust does not have sufficient funds available to make a Capital Payment on the Trust Preferred Securities for any Payment Period, you will not be entitled to receive that Capital Payment, whether or not Capital Payments are made on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of any other Payment Periods.

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities		As holder of the Class B Preferred Securities, the Trust is entitled to receive cumulative or noncumulative cash distributions (which we refer to as Capital Payments) at a rate of 6.55% per annum (on the $25 liquidation preference amount for each Class B Preferred Security), payable quarterly in arrears on the Payment Dates, but Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be made only when, as, and if declared or deemed declared by the Company’s Board of Directors. Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will only be authorized to be made on any Payment Date to the extent that:

*Conditions to Declaration*		• the Company has Operating Profits for the related Payment Period at least equal to the amount of such Capital Payments; and

		• the Bank has an amount of Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available at least equal to the aggregate amount of such Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and Capital Payments (i) for Payment Periods ending before the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if any, on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid and capital payments or dividend or other

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		distributions payable on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, pro rata on the basis of such Distributable Profits, and (ii) for Payment Periods ending after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if any, on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid and capital payments or dividends or other distributions payable on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any, pro rata on the basis of such Distributable Profits.

*Possible Prohibition of Declaration*		Even if the Company has sufficient Operating Profits and there are sufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank, the Company will be prohibited from making Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at any time an order from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, which we refer to as the “BaFin”) (or any other relevant regulatory authority) prohibits the Bank from making any distributions of profits.

*Capital Payments Cumulative Before the Tier 1 Qualification Date*		If the Company does not declare a Capital Payment for any Payment Period or only declares a pro rata portion of the Capital Payment, whether as a result of insufficient Operating Profits of the Company, insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank, an order of the BaFin or otherwise, the Trust as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities will not be entitled to receive that unpaid Capital Payment (or unpaid portion thereof), whether or not Capital Payments are made on the Class B Preferred Securities in respect of any other Payment Periods. However, the unpaid Capital Payment (or unpaid portions thereof) will be deferred and shall constitute Arrears of Payments. The Company will pay Arrears of Payments to the Trust under the same conditions as those applicable to payments by the Trust to you under the Trust Preferred Securities. If, as a result of the deferral of Capital Payments, the Company receives payments of interest on the Initial Obligation described below which exceed the Capital Payments the Company pays, the excess will be deposited with the Bank pursuant to the Subordinated Deposit Agreement described in this prospectus supplement. The Subordinated Deposit Agreement will provide for the deposit of Arrears of Payments into a subordinated deposit account at the Bank bearing interest at a rate of 0.75% per annum. Any interest accumulating in such deposit account will be payable to the holder of the Company Common Security under the circumstances described herein. The Subordinated Deposit Agreement will provide that, subject to the subordinated provions of the Subordinated Deposit Agreement, the subordinated deposit outstanding under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement will be terminated and such deposit repaid to the Company at such time and to the extent as the Company is required to pay Arrears of Payments. The subordinated deposit outstanding at any time pursuant to the Subordinated Deposit Agreement will be subordinated to the same extent as the Class B Preferred Guarantee will or would be after the Tier I Qualification Date.

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*Capital Payments Noncumulative After the Tier 1 Qualification Date*		If the Company does not declare a Capital Payment for any Payment Period or only declares a pro rata portion of the Capital Payment, whether as a result of insufficient Operating Profits of the Company, insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank, an order of the BaFin or otherwise, the Trust as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities will not be entitled to receive that unpaid Capital Payment (or unpaid portion thereof), whether or not Capital Payments are made on the Class B Preferred Securities in respect of any other Payment Periods.

Distribution Upon Liquidation		If the Trust is dissolved (other than following a redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities) and its assets are distributed, because of the occurrence of a Trust Special Redemption Event or otherwise, after satisfaction of the claims of creditors of the Trust, if any, Class B Preferred Securities will be distributed on apro rata basis to you and the holder of the Trust Common Security as a liquidation distribution of your interest in the Trust.

Payments of Additional Amounts		Except as further described herein, payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, as the case may be, and any amount payable in liquidation or upon redemption thereof, will be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any Withholding Taxes (as defined herein), unless such deduction or withholding is required by law. In such event, the Company or the Trust, as the case may be, will pay, as additional Capital Payments, such additional amounts (which we refer to as Additional Amounts) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, after such deduction or withholding, will equal the amounts that would have been received in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities had no such deduction or withholding been required. Additional Amounts will also be payable on Arrears of Payments, if any.

Redemption		The Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities are not redeemable at any time at the option of the holders thereof. The Trust must redeem the Trust Preferred Securities if the Company redeems the Class B Preferred Securities. In that event, the proceeds of the redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities received by the Trust will be applied to redeem the Trust Securities at their Redemption Price, plus Additional Amounts, if any. The Company, at its option, may redeem the Class B Preferred Securities, in whole but not in part, on any Payment Date on and after May 23, 2017 (which we refer to as the Initial Redemption Date), at their Redemption Price, plus Additional Amounts, if any.

		The Company, at its option, may also redeem the Class B Preferred Securities, in whole but not in part, at any time, upon the occurrence of a Company Special Redemption Event, at their Redemption Price, plus Additional Amounts, if any.

		When we refer to the Redemption Price of the Trust Securities or the Class B Preferred Securities, we mean an amount equal to

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		$25 per security, plus any accrued and unpaid Capital Payments for the current Payment Period to but excluding the redemption date plus, unless the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred prior to the redemption date, all outstanding and unpaid Arrears of Payments, if any.

		No redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities for any reason may take place unless:

		• the Company has an amount of cash funds to pay the Redemption Price, plus, unless the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred prior to the redemption date, all outstanding and unpaid Arrears of Payments, if any, plus Additional Amounts, if any;

		• the Company has an amount of Operating Profits for the current Payment Period at least equal to the Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and Arrears of Payments, if applicable, accrued and unpaid as of the Redemption Date;

		• the Bank has an amount of Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available at least equal to the Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities accrued and unpaid as of the Redemption Date, plus, if the redemption occurs on or prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date, all outstanding and unpaid Arrears of Payments, if any, plus Additional Amounts, if any, plus (i) if the redemption occurs on or prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if any, the aggregate amount of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid, and capital payments or dividends or other distributions or arrears of payments payable on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, or (ii) if the redemption occurs after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, the aggregate amount of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid, and capital payments or dividends or other distributions payable on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any, in each casepro rata,on the basis of such Distributable Profits; and

		• no order of the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) is in effect prohibiting the Bank from making any distribution of profits.

Guarantor		Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, which in this capacity we refer to as the Guarantor.

Guarantees		The Guarantor will irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee, on a subordinated basis as described in this prospectus supplement, without duplication, the following payments (which we refer to as the Guarantee Payments):

		• with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities:

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		- Capital Payments due and payable on the Trust Preferred Securities on each Payment Date for the then current Payment Period;

		- any Arrears of Payments due and payable under the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities on any Payment Date;

		- on any redemption date, the Redemption Price for each Trust Preferred Security called for redemption by the Trust; and

		- upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Trust (other than a dissolution of the Trust in which Class B Preferred Securities are distributed), the liquidation preference amount of the Trust Preferred Securities, plus any accrued and unpaid Capital Payments and Arrears of Payments, if any, for the then current Payment Period to but excluding the date of liquidation.


		• with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities:


		- Capital Payments declared (or deemed declared) on the Class B Preferred Securities and due and payable on each Payment Date for the then current Payment Period;

		- any Arrears of Payments due and payable under the terms of the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date;

		- on any redemption date, the Redemption Price for each Class B Preferred Security called for redemption by the Company; and

		- upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, the liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities, plus any accrued and unpaid Capital Payments and Arrears of Payments, if any, for the then current Payment Period to but excluding the date of liquidation.


		Neither of the Guarantees is a guarantee of any kind that the Company or the Trust will at any time have sufficient assets to declare a Capital Payment or other distribution or that any other condition for declaring a Capital Payment or other distribution will be met or that the Company will declare a Capital Payment if all conditions for the declaration of a Capital Payment are met.

Governing Law		The LLC Agreement, including the terms of the Class A Preferred Security, the Class B Preferred Securities and the Company Common Security, and the Trust Agreement, including the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Trust Common Security, will be governed by Delaware law. The Guarantees will be governed by New York law.

Listing		We will apply to list the Trust Preferred Securities on the New York Stock Exchange, but no assurance can be given that the application for listing will be approved.

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Ratings		It is a condition to the issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities that Moody’s Investor Service, Inc. rates the Trust Preferred Securities at least Aa3, Standard & Poor’s Rating Services rates the Trust Preferred Securities at least A, and Fitch Ratings rates the Trust Preferred Securities at least A+. Each of these ratings will reflect only the view of the applicable rating agency at the time the rating was issued, and any explanation of the significance of a rating may be obtained only from the relevant rating agency. A credit rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities, and there is no assurance that a credit rating will remain in effect for any given period of time or that a rating will not be lowered, suspended or withdrawn entirely by the applicable rating agency if, in that rating agency’s judgment, circumstances so warrant.

Summary of the Terms of the Initial Obligation


Obligor		Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft will issue and sell the 6.55% perpetual subordinated note, which we refer to as the Initial Obligation, to the Company.

No Maturity		The Initial Obligation will be perpetual which means that it will not have a maturity date.

Principal Amount		The aggregate principal amount of the Initial Obligation will be $800,000,025 (which we refer to as the Principal Amount) and is equal to the Company’s proceeds from the sale of the Class B Preferred Securities.

Interest Payments		The Initial Obligation will bear interest at the rate of 6.55% per annum from May 23, 2007, the date of original issuance. Interest on the Initial Obligation will be payable to the Company as holder thereof quarterly in arrears on each Payment Date.

Ranking		The Initial Obligation is the Bank’s direct, unsecured subordinated obligation. The obligations of the Bank under the Initial Obligation upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Bank as of any time prior to the time on the Tier 1 Qualification Date when the Tier 1 Qualification Election has become effective, will be subordinated to the claims of all unsubordinated creditors of the Bank so that in any event no amounts shall be payable under such obligations until the claims of all unsubordinated creditors of the Bank shall have been satisfied in full, and as of and after such time, will be:

		• subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all indebtedness and other liabilities of the Bank to its creditors (including subordinated liabilities), except those which by their terms rank on parity with or are subordinated to the Initial Obligation and

		• senior to (i) the preference shares of the Bank, if any, and any obligations or instruments of the Bank which by their terms

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		rank on parity with such preference shares and (ii) the ordinary shares of the Bank.

Redemption		The Bank, at its option, may redeem the Initial Obligation, in whole but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after May 23, 2017, (which we refer to as the Obligation Initial Redemption Date), provided the Bank has obtained any required regulatory approvals.

		The Bank, at its option, may redeem the Initial Obligation, in whole but not in part, at any time if (i) an Obligation Special Redemption Event has occurred and the Company has decided to redeem the Class B Preferred Securities in whole and (ii) the Bank has either replaced the Principal Amount by paying in other, at least equivalent, own funds (haftendes Eigenkapital) within the meaning of the German Banking Act, or obtained approval of the BaFin for such early redemption.

		The Bank, at its option, may redeem the Initial Obligation at any time in whole or in part, if it replaces the Initial Obligation in whole or in such part, as applicable, with Substitute Obligations.

Governing Law		The Initial Obligation will be governed by New York law.

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Summary of Offering Transactions

Prior to or simultaneously with the issuance and sale of the Trust Preferred Securities to you, the Company, the Trust and the Bank will engage in the following transactions: (i) the Company will issue to the Bank the Company Common Security and the Class A Preferred Security; (ii) the Trust will issue to the Bank the Trust Common Security; (iii) the Company will issue to the Trust the Class B Preferred Securities; and (iv) the Company will invest the proceeds from the issuance of the Class B Preferred Securities in the Initial Obligation issued by the Bank.

The following diagram summarizes the relationships among the Trust, the Company, the Bank and you as investors in the Trust Preferred Securities following completion of the Offering.

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in the Trust Preferred Securities involves certain risks. Because the Trust will rely on the payments it receives from the Company on the Class B Preferred Securities, and because upon a liquidation of the Trust (other than following the redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities), the Trust may distribute the Class B Preferred Securities to you, you are also making an investment decision with regard to the Class B Preferred Securities and the Guarantees. You should carefully consider the following discussion of the risks and the other information about the Trust Preferred Securities, the Class B Preferred Securities and the Guarantees contained in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, before deciding whether an investment in the Trust Preferred Securities is suitable. For more information regarding risks that may materially affect our business and results please refer to the information under the caption “Item 3: Key Information — Risk Factors” in our Annual Report onForm 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2006, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.

Dependency of Trust on Receipt of Capital Payments on Class B Preferred Securities

The only assets of the Trust are the Class B Preferred Securities (including the related rights under the Class B Preferred Guarantee). The Trust expects to make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities from Capital Payments received by it on the Class B Preferred Securities. Any reduction or non-payment of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date will reduce partially or entirely the amounts available to the Trust to make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Capital Payments” and “Description of the Trust Securities.” You should consider the following risks relating to Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities.

Capital Payments Require Distributable Profits of the Bank and Operating Profits of the Company

The Company will be authorized to declare and pay Capital Payments (and Capital Payments deemed declared will only be payable) on the Class B Preferred Securities (and, accordingly, the Trust will only have funds available for the payment of Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities) only if the Bank has sufficient Distributable Profits determined as described under “Distributable Profits of the Bank” and the Company has sufficient Operating Profits. There can be no assurance that the Bank will have sufficient Distributable Profits in every year for the Company to be authorized to declare the full amount of Capital Payments in the succeeding year. The Company will have sufficient Operating Profits only if the Bank makes payments in the amounts and at the dates as required under the Initial Obligation. For more information regarding risks that may materially affect the amount of our Distributable Profits and the Bank’s ability to make payments under the Initial Obligation please refer to the information under the caption “Item 3: Key Information — Risk Factors” in our Annual Report onForm 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2006, which is incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement.

Capital Payments Are Discretionary

The declaration and payment of Capital Payments by the Company on the Class B Preferred Securities (and, accordingly, the availability of funds for the payment of Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities by the Trust) are limited by the terms of the LLC Agreement. Although it is the policy of the Company to distribute the full amount of Operating Profits for each Payment Period as capital payments or dividends to its securityholders, the Company’s Board of Directors has discretion in declaring and making Capital Payments (except with respect to deemed declarations which are mandatory) on the Class B Preferred Securities.

Capital Payments May Be Prohibited

Even if the Bank has sufficient Distributable Profits, the Company will be prohibited from making Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at any time an order from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, which we refer to as the BaFin) or any other relevant regulatory authority prohibits the Bank from making any distributions of profits.

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U.S. Tax Treatment For Certain U.S. Investors Will Be Adversely Affected If Proposed Legislation In the U.S. Congress Is Enacted.

Subject to certain exceptions for short-term and hedged positions and other requirements and limitations described in “Taxation — United States Federal Income Taxation,” the U.S. dollar amount of dividends received by certain individuals subject to U.S. federal income tax is expected to be subject to taxation at a maximum rate of 15% if the dividends are “qualified dividends” and are received before January 1, 2011. A legislative proposal recently introduced in the U.S. Congress would, if enacted, deny qualified dividend treatment after the date of enactment in respect of interest payments on the Initial Obligation received by the Company and allocated to U.S. holders of the Trust Preferred Securities. It is not possible to predict whether or in what form this proposal will be enacted into law.

Capital Payments Could Be Adversely Affected By Regulatory Restrictions on the Company’s Operations

Because the Company is a subsidiary of the Bank, German bank regulatory authorities could make determinations in the future with respect to the Bank that could adversely affect the Company’s ability to make Capital Payments in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities. In addition, United States federal or state regulatory authorities, as well as German and European Union regulatory authorities and regulatory authorities in other countries, have regulatory authority over the Bankand/or the Bank’s subsidiaries. Under certain circumstances, any of such regulatory authorities could make determinations or take decisions in the future with respect to the Bankand/or any of the Bank’s subsidiaries or a portion of their respective operations or assets that could adversely affect the ability of any of them to, among other things, make distributions to their respective securityholders, engage in transactions with affiliates, purchase or transfer assets, pay their respective obligations or make any redemption or liquidation payments to their securityholders. See “Item 4: Information on the Company — Regulation and Supervision” in the Bank’s Annual Report onForm 20-F incorporated by reference herein for a description of regulations applicable to the Bank.

Prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Election, Capital Payments May be Deferred

As described above, the Capital Payments are discretionary (except with respect to circumstances where Capital Payments are deemed to have been declared). The LLC Agreement provides that it is the policy of the Company to distribute all of its Operating Profits; however, even if the Distributable Profits test has been met by the Bank, holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will have no right to receive any Capital Payments in respect of such Payment Period unless the Board of Directors of the Company declares (or is deemed to have declared) Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities for such Payment Period. Moreover, even if a Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities has been declared (or is deemed to have been declared), all or a portion of such Capital Payment may be deferred if the Distributable Profits are insufficient to pay such Capital Payment in full. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Capital Payments Before the Tier 1 Qualification Date” and “Description of the Trust Securities.’’

After the Tier 1 Qualification Date, Capital Payments Will Be Noncumulative

If the Bank exercises its one-time election to replace certain specified terms of the Class B Securities with the specified alternative terms, which it may do in order to qualify the Trust Preferred Securities as consolidated Tier 1 regulatory capital, the Capital Payments on both the Trust Preferred Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities will become noncumulative if the Bank makes the Tier 1 Qualification Election. If the Company does not make or only makes a portion of any Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities for any Payment Period (due to lack of Operating Profits of the Company or Distributable Profits of the Bank or because it is prohibited from making the Capital Payment by a BaFin order or for any other reason) and consequently the Trust will not have sufficient funds to make a Capital Payment on the Trust Preferred Securities for that period, you will not be entitled to recover that Capital Payment (or portion thereof not made), whether or not Capital Payments are made on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of any other periods. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Capital Payments After the Tier 1 Qualification Date.”

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No Voting Rights; Relationships with the Bank and Its Affiliates; Certain Conflicts of Interest

The Bank will control the Company through its power to elect a majority of the Board of Directors as holder of the Company Common Security. Generally, the Trust as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities will have no voting rights and right to elect members of the Board of Directors, except for the limited rights to elect two additional independent directors to the Company’s Board of Directors if the Company has not paid full Capital Payments for any four consecutive quarterly Payment Periods. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Voting and Enforcement Rights.”

The Company expects that the initial (and all future) directors and officers of the Company and the Regular Trustees of the Trust will be officers or employees of the Bank or its affiliates. In addition, the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will enter into a Services Agreement with the Company and the Trust pursuant to which the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will provide certain accounting, legal, tax and other support services to the Company and the Trust. Furthermore, an affiliate of the Bank will act as Delaware Trustee. Consequently, conflicts of interest may arise for those officers or employees of the Bank and its affiliates in the discharge of their duties as directors, officers or employees of the Company or Regular Trustees or Delaware Trustee of the Trust.

The Trust Preferred Securities May Never Be Redeemed or May Be Redeemed

The Trust Preferred Securities have no fixed redemption date and are not redeemable at the option of the holders. The Trust is under no obligation to redeem the Trust Preferred Securities at any time, other than in the case of a redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities. The Company is under no obligation to redeem the Class B Preferred Securities at any time. The Company may, at its option, redeem the Class B Preferred Securities, in whole but not in part, at any time upon the occurrence of a Company Special Redemption Event. A Company Special Redemption Event will arise if, as a result of certain changes in law, there are changes in the tax status of the Company; Additional Amounts relating to withholding taxes become applicable to payments on the Class B Preferred Securities; the Bank is not permitted, following the Tier 1 Qualification Election, to treat the Class B Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital for capital adequacy purposes and, prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Election, to treat the Class B Preferred Securities as Upper Tier 2 regulatory capital for capital adequacy purposes; or the Company will be considered an “investment company” within the meaning of the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (which we refer to as the 1940 Act). A Company Special Redemption Event will also arise if there is a final determination that the Bank may not deduct in full interest payments on the Initial Obligation for German tax purposes. See “Description of the Trust Securities — Redemption.” The Company may, at its option, redeem the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date on and after May 23, 2017. As a result, the holders of Trust Preferred Securities will receive a return of the liquidation preference amount of their investment only if the Bank elects to require the Company to redeem the Class B Preferred Securities.

The Trust May Be Liquidated and Class B Preferred Securities Distributed to You

The Trust may also be liquidated upon the occurrence of a Trust Special Redemption Event. A Trust Special Redemption Event will arise if, as a result of certain changes in law, there are changes in the tax status of the Trust; Additional Amounts relating to withholding taxes become applicable to payments on the Trust Preferred Securities; or the Trust will be considered an “investment company” within the meaning of the 1940 Act.

Upon any liquidation of the Trust you may receive as its liquidation distribution apro rataamount of Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities will be deemed no longer outstanding. Holders receiving Class B Preferred Securities in such a distribution, and their nominees, will become subject toForm K-1 and nominee reporting requirements under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (which we refer to as the Code). There can be no assurance as to the market price of the Class B Preferred Securities distributed upon a liquidation of the Trust or that a market for the Class B Preferred Securities would ever develop. The Class B Preferred Securities which an investor may subsequently receive on

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dissolution and liquidation of the Trust may trade at a discount to the price of the Trust Preferred Securities for which they were exchanged.

See “Description of the Trust Securities — Redemption.”

The Guarantees Only Guarantee Capital Payments by the Company and the Trust if the Company Has Cash Available

The guarantees entered into between (i) the Bank and (ii) the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Bank and the Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities apply to Capital Payments only to the extent the Company has funds available for payment. In addition, the guarantees will not require us to make Capital Payments on behalf of the Company or the Trust, if the Company has not declared (or is not deemed to have declared) Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities.

In particular, the guarantees are


•	not a guarantee that the Company or the Trust will at any time have sufficient assets to declare a Capital Payment or other distribution;

•	not a guarantee that the Bank will have sufficient Distributable Profits (or have sufficient funds to make payments on the Initial Obligation) or any other condition for declaring a Capital Payment or other distribution will be met;

•	not a guarantee that the Company or the Trust will be authorized to declare and make, or not be prohibited from declaring or making, a Capital Payment;

•	not a guarantee that the Company or the Trust will pay any Arrears of Payments, even during the periods before the Tier 1 Qualification Date (if the Bank in fact makes the Tier 1 Qualification Election) when Arrears of Payments can accrue; and

•	not a guarantee that the Company will exercise its discretion to declare a Capital Payment if all conditions for the declaration of a Capital Payment are met.

The Guarantees Are Subordinated Obligations of the Bank

Our obligations under the Guarantees will be unsecured and rank junior in priority of payment to all our current and future indebtedness. Consequently, in the event of the dissolution or liquidation of, or insolvency proceedings against, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, any claims the holders of Trust Preferred Securities or holders of Class B Preferred Securities may have under the applicable Guarantee will be subordinated to the claims of all creditors of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft so that no amounts will be payable under the Guarantees until the claims of all creditors of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft have been satisfied in full. See “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees.”

If the Bank fails to make a payment on any liability senior to the Guarantees, the Bank may not make any payments on either of the Guarantees. If the Bank has insufficient funds to make payments on the Guarantees and obligations ranking on parity with the Guarantees, any obligations on parity with the Guarantees will share equally (on apro ratabasis) in payment with the Guarantees. The Guarantees will become more deeply subordinated if the Bank makes the Tier 1 Qualification Election, ranking on parity in priority a payment with the most senior preference shares, if any, of the Bank.

There is no restriction on our ability, or that of any of our subsidiaries, to incur additional indebtedness, liabilities, and obligations, including indebtedness, liabilities and obligations that rank senior to or on parity with the Guarantees and the Initial Obligation.

No Prior Public Market

The Trust Preferred Securities will be a new issue of securities. Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Trust Preferred Securities. We will apply to list the Trust Preferred Securities on the New York Stock Exchange, but no assurances can be given that the application for listing will be approved. The underwriters currently plan to make a market in the Trust Preferred Securities but are not obligated to

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do so and may discontinue market making at any time. We cannot assure you that an active secondary market for the Trust Preferred Securities will develop or as to the liquidity of any market that may develop.

Because the availability of funds to make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities depends on the Capital Payments being made on the Class B Preferred Securities and those in turn may be limited by the lack of sufficient available Distributable Profits of the Bank and in other circumstances, the market prices of the Trust Preferred Securities may be more volatile than other securities that do not have such provisions. The liquidity and the market prices for the Trust Preferred Securities can be expected to vary with changes in the financial condition and prospects, including operating results, of the Bank and market and economic conditions, such as prevailing interest rates, and other factors that generally influence the secondary market prices of securities. As a result, if you sell your Trust Preferred Securities in the secondary market, you may not be able to obtain a price equal to the $25 liquidation preference amount or the price that you paid for the Trust Preferred Securities.

Risks Associated with the Financial Condition of the Bank and Its Affiliates

The ability of the Trust to make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities and to pay the liquidation preference amount of $25 per Trust Preferred Security will depend on the Company’s ability to make the corresponding Capital Payments and liquidation payments with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities, which in turn depends solely upon our making related payments under the Initial Obligation when due. If we default on our obligation to pay interest on, or principal of, the Initial Obligation, the Company (and consequently the Trust) will not have sufficient funds to make Capital Payments or pay the liquidation preference amount.

If the financial condition of the Bank or its affiliates were to deteriorate, then it could result in (i) the Bank having insufficient Distributable Profits and (ii) the Company receiving reduced payments from the Bank under the Initial Obligation and therefore having insufficient Operating Profits, either of which events would cause the Company to not be authorized to declare and pay Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities. This would reduce the amounts received by the Trust in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities, with the effect that the Trust would have insufficient funds available for Capital Payments to holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

The amount of Distributable Profits of Deutsche Bank AG for any fiscal year, which determines the extent to which the Company is authorized to make Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities (and correspondingly determines the availability of funds for the Trust to make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities), is calculated on the basis of Deutsche Bank AG’s audited unconsolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting provisions generally accepted in the Federal Republic of Germany as described in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch) which differ in many respects from U.S. GAAP and IFRS. As a result, the Bank could show a profit in its consolidated financial statements prepared under IFRS but a loss (or insufficient Distributable Profits to make the applicable Capital Payments in full) in its unconsolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting provisions generally accepted in the Federal Republic of Germany as described in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch).

Trust Preferred Securities Are Not Deposit Liabilities of Bank

The Trust Preferred Securities are not deposit liabilities of the Bank and will not be insured by the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency of the United States, Germany or any other jurisdiction. The value of your investment will likely fluctuate and you may lose your entire investment in the event of a voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Bank.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

All the proceeds from the sale of the Trust Securities will be invested by the Trust in the Class B Preferred Securities. The Company will use the proceeds from the sale of the Class B Preferred Securities to purchase the Initial Obligation. The Company will deposit the proceeds from the Class A Preferred Security and from the Company Common Security in a non-interest bearing account. The Bank intends to use the proceeds from the sale of the Initial Obligation for general corporate purposes, and expects to treat the Class B Preferred Securities as Upper Tier 2 regulatory capital on a consolidated basis unless and until such time as it elects, in its sole discretion, to require the Trust and the Company to change specified terms of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities so that it can treat the Class B Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital, or core capital (Kernkapital), of the Bank on a consolidated basis. The Bank will pay commissions to the underwriters (one of which is an affiliate of the Bank) totalling $8,000,000 and reimburse the underwriters for certain expenses in connection with the Offering. See “Underwriting.”

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DEUTSCHE BANK CONTINGENT CAPITAL TRUST II

The Trust is a statutory trust (Delaware Secretary of State file number 4353145) formed under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and will be governed by (i) an amended and restated trust agreement dated on or before the Issue Date (which we refer to as the Trust Agreement) executed by the Company, as sponsor, the five initial trustees of the Trust and the Bank, and (ii) a certificate of trust filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 16, 2007. The Trust Agreement will be qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.

The Trust’s business and affairs will be conducted by the Regular Trustees and, with respect to the Trust Estate, the Property Trustee.

The Trust exists exclusively to:


•	issue, offer and sell the Trust Preferred Securities offered hereby, representing undivided preferred beneficial ownership interests in the Trust Estate;

•	issue the Trust Common Security, representing an undivided beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Estate;

•	invest the proceeds of the issuance and sale of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Trust Common Security (which we collectively refer to as the Trust Securities) in Class B Preferred Securities issued by the Company; and

•	engage in those other activities necessary or incidental thereto.

Consequently, the assets of the Trust will consist solely of the Class B Preferred Securities (including related rights under the Class B Preferred Guarantee) and payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be the sole source of revenue of the Trust.

The rights of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, including economic rights, rights to information and voting rights, are as set forth in the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and the Trust Indenture Act. See “Description of the Trust Securities.”

The Bank will own the Trust Common Security. The Trust Common Security will rank equally, and payments will be made on itpro rata,with the Trust Preferred Securities, based on the liquidation amounts of the Trust Common Security and the Trust Preferred Securities, except that in liquidation and certain other circumstances the rights of the holders of the Trust Common Security to payments will be subordinated to the rights of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, as described under “Description of the Trust Securities — Subordination of the Trust Common Security” and that the Trust Preferred Guarantee is solely for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

Pursuant to the Trust Agreement, there will initially be five trustees (which we collectively refer to as Trustees) of the Trust. Three of the Trustees will be John Cipriani, Richard W. Ferguson and Joseph Rice, individuals who are employees or officers of the Bank or one of its subsidiaries (we refer to those as the Regular Trustees). The fourth Trustee, which we refer to as the Property Trustee, will be a financial institution that is unaffiliated with the Bank. The fifth Trustee we refer to as the Delaware Trustee. The Bank of New York will act as Property Trustee, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, a Delaware corporation, will act as Delaware Trustee. The Bank as the holder of the Trust Common Security will have the right to appoint, remove or replace any of the Trustees and to increase and decrease (but not below three) the number of Trustees, provided that there must always be at least one trustee that is qualified to act as Property Trustee and to act as Delaware Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement and at least one trustee who is an employee or officer of, or is affiliated with, the Bank.

The Trust is subject to the corporate governance requirements of the State of Delaware applicable to Delaware statutory trusts.

The Property Trustee will be the registered holder of the Class B Preferred Securities and will hold title to the Class B Preferred Securities for the benefit of the holders and beneficial owners of the Trust Securities.

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The Property Trustee will have the power to exercise all rights, powers and privileges with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities under the LLC Agreement. In addition, the Property Trustee will establish and maintain exclusive control of a segregated non-interest bearing trust account (which we refer to as the Property Account) in which all payments made in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities will be held for the benefit of the holders or beneficial owners of the Trust Securities. Funds in the Property Account will remain uninvested until disbursed pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement.

The Bank (in such capacity referred to as the Guarantor) has agreed with The Bank of New York (in such capacity referred to as the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee) for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, to guarantee payment, on a subordinated basis, of certain payments on the Trust Preferred Securities, to the extent described under “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees — Guarantee Payments.” We refer to this agreement as the Trust Preferred Guarantee.

The Trust will enter into a services agreement dated on or before the Issue Date (which we refer to as the Services Agreement) with the Company and the Bank (which may act through its New York branch), under which the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will be obligated, among other things, to provide legal, accounting, tax and other general support services to the Trust and the Company, to maintain compliance with all applicable U.S. and German local, state and federal laws, and to provide administrative, recordkeeping and secretarial services for the Company and the Trust. The Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will be responsible for, and will pay all expenses related to, the organization and operations of the Company and the Trust. See “Description of the Services Agreement.”

The address of all Regular Trustees will be the principal executive office of the Trust at 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, telephone number(212) 250-2077. The location of the offices of the Property Trustee is 101 Barclay Street, Floor 21 West, New York, New York 10286. The location of the offices of the Delaware Trustee is 1011 Centre Road, Suite 200, Wilmington, Delaware 19805.

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DEUTSCHE BANK CONTINGENT CAPITAL LLC II

The Company is a limited liability company (Delaware Secretary of State file number 4350743) formed under the LLC Act and will be governed by (i) an amended and restated limited liability company agreement (which we refer to as the LLC Agreement) dated on or before the Issue Date and (ii) a certificate of formation of the Company filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 10, 2007. The LLC Agreement will be qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.

Except as otherwise provided in the LLC Agreement or the by-laws of the Company, the Company’s business and affairs are managed solely and exclusively by its Board of Directors. The Bank of New York will act as manager trustee solely for the benefit of the holder of the Class B Preferred Securities for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.

The Company exists exclusively to:


•	issue two classes of preferred securities representing preferred limited liability company interests in the Company (which we refer to as the Class A Preferred Security and the Class B Preferred Securities and collectively as the Company Preferred Securities) and a common security representing a limited liability company interest in the Company (which we refer to as the Company Common Security);

•	invest the proceeds of the issuance and sale of the Class B Preferred Securities in a perpetual subordinated note issued by Deutsche Bank AG (which we refer to as the Initial Obligation) and deposit the proceeds of the issuance and sale of the Company Common Security and the Class A Preferred Security in a non-interest bearing account;

•	upon any substitution of the Initial Obligation which does not involve a redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities accept from the Bank Substitute Obligations in substitution of the Initial Obligation (or part thereof) redeemed;

•	in the event of a failure of payment of interest and Additional Interest Amounts, if any, on the Obligations by the obligor thereunder, bring an action or proceeding to enforce such payment; and

•	engage in those other activities necessary or incidental thereto.

Consequently, the assets of the Company will consist exclusively of the Initial Obligation (or any substitute thereof, as described under “Description of the Initial Obligation — Substitution”), the deposit of the proceeds from the Company Common Security and the Class A Preferred Security in the non-interest bearing account and the deposit of Arrears of Payments, if any, under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement with the Bank, and payments on the Initial Obligation or any substitute thereof will be the sole source of revenue of the Company. The Company will, however, receive additional Obligations in the event it issues additional Class B Preferred Securities as described under “Description of the Company Securities — Voting and Enforcement Rights.”

The rights of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities, including economic rights, rights to information and voting rights, are set forth in the LLC Agreement, the LLC Act and the Trust Indenture Act. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities.”

The Property Trustee will initially be the registered holder of, and will hold title to, all issued and outstanding Class B Preferred Securities. The Company Common Security and the Class A Preferred Security will be owned by the Bank. For a complete description of the share capital of the Company and relative rights of the Company Securities, see “Description of the Company Securities.”

The Bank (in such capacity referred to as the Guarantor) has agreed with The Bank of New York (in such capacity referred to as the Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee) for the benefit of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities, to guarantee payment, on a subordinated basis, of certain payments on the Class B Preferred Securities, to the extent described under “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees — Guarantee Payments”). We refer to this agreement as the Class B Preferred Guarantee.

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Pursuant to the LLC Agreement, the Board of Directors of the Company will initially consist of four directors, John Cipriani, Richard W. Ferguson, Jean Devlin and Joseph Rice, each as elected by the Bank as initial holder of the Company Common Security. However, the Trust as the holder of the Class B Preferred Securities may appoint two additional, independent directors to the Board of Directors if for four consecutive Payment Periods, Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and any Additional Amounts in respect of such Capital Payments have not been paid at the Stated Rate in full by the Company or by the Guarantor under the Class B Preferred Guarantee. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Voting and Enforcement Rights.”

The initial officers of the Company are expected to be Richard W. Ferguson, as President, John Cipriani, as Vice President and Treasurer, Jean Devlin, Joseph Rice and Helmut Mannhardt as Vice Presidents, Sonja K. Olsen as Secretary and Sandra L. West and James O. Wilhelm as Assistant Secretaries. No director, including any independent director, will be a resident of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Company is subject to the corporate governance requirements of the State of Delaware applicable to limited liability companies.

The Company will also enter into the Services Agreement dated on or before the Issue Date with the Trust and the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) under which the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will be obligated, among other things, to provide legal, accounting, tax and other general support services to the Company and the Trust, to maintain compliance with all applicable U.S. and German local, state and federal laws, and to provide administrative, recordkeeping and secretarial services for the Company and the Trust. The Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will be responsible for and will pay all expenses related to the organization and operations of Company and the Trust. See “Description of the Services Agreement”.

The address of all directors and officers of the Company will be the principal executive office of the Company, Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital LLC II, 60 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005, telephone number(212) 250-2077.

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DISTRIBUTABLE PROFITS OF THE BANK

The Company’s authority to declare Capital Payments and pay any declared (or deemed declared) Capital Payments, including, prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Election, Arrears of Payment, if any, on the Class B Preferred Securities for any Payment Period depends, among other things, on the Distributable Profits of the Bank for the preceding fiscal year for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available. Distributable Profits of the Bank for any fiscal year are the balance sheet profits (Bilanzgewinn) as of the end of such fiscal year, as shown in the audited unconsolidated balance sheet of the Bank as of the end of such fiscal year. Such balance sheet profits include the annual surplus or loss (Jahresüberschuss/-fehlbetrag),plusany profits carried forward from previous years,minusany loss carried forward from previous years,plustransfers from capital reserves and earnings reserves,minusallocations to earnings reserves. Distributable Profits are determined on the basis of the Bank’s audited unconsolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the Federal Republic of Germany as described in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch) and other applicable German law then in effect. The German Commercial Code differs in certain respects from IFRS, in accordance with which the Bank prepares its consolidated financial statements and from U.S. GAAP, in accordance with which the Bank prepared its consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Distributable Profits in respect of any fiscal year include, in addition to annual profits, transfers made by the Bank, in its discretion, of amounts carried on its balance sheet as “Other revenue reserves.” In addition, in determining the Distributable Profits for any fiscal year, the amounts shown below as “Capital reserves and statutory revenue reserves available to offset an annual loss” may be transferred in the Bank’s discretion to offset any losses which may be incurred by the Bank.

The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, certain items derived from the Bank’s audited unconsolidated balance sheet that relate to the foregoing discussion:


	For the Year Ended
	December 31,
	2006		2005		2004
	(€ in millions)

Annual profits after allocations to other revenue reserves		2,099		1,286		925
Other revenue reserves		3,620		3,172		2,472

		5,719		4,458		3,397
Capital reserves and statutory revenue reserves available to offset an annual loss		12,537		11,660		11,172

		18,256		16,118		14,569

The Bank paid total dividends on its ordinary shares of €1,239 million and €868 million in respect of 2005 and 2004, respectively, and the Bank’s Management Board and Supervisory Board have recommended to its shareholders to disburse the annual profit of 2006 in the amount of €2,099 million by paying a dividend of €4.00 per ordinary share.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE TRUST SECURITIES

The following, together with the “Description of Capital Securities — Description of Trust Preferred Securities” in the attached prospectus, describe the material terms of the Trust Preferred Securities. If the description of the Trust Preferred Securities in this prospectus supplement differs in any way from the description in the attached prospectus, you should rely on the description in this prospectus supplement. You also should read the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and the Trust Indenture Act. We have filed with the SEC a form of the Trust Agreement as an exhibit to the registration statement pertaining to this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus.

The Trust will issue the Trust Preferred Securities under the Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement is qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act. The Bank of New York will act as the Property Trustee for purposes of complying with the Trust Indenture Act. The terms of the Trust Preferred Securities will include those stated in the Trust Agreement and the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and those made part of the Trust Agreement by the Trust Indenture Act. Because the purchase of Trust Preferred Securities will also involve an investment decision regarding the Class B Preferred Securities and the Guarantees, you should read “Description of Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities,” “Description of the Subordinated Guarantees,” and “Description of the terms of the Initial Obligation” in this prospectus supplement. The following description of the material terms of the Trust Preferred Securities in this prospectus supplement contains only a summary of their material terms and is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement, the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and the Trust Indenture Act. We have filed or will file forms of the Trust Agreement, the LLC Agreement, the Guarantees and the Initial Obligation, as exhibits to the registration statement. In addition, you may request copies of these documents from us at our address set forth under “Where You Can Find Additional Information.” We urge you to read these documents in their entirety because they, and not this description or the descriptions referred to above, will define your rights under the Trust Preferred Securities.

Registered holders of Trust Preferred Securities will be treated as the owners thereof for all purposes. Except as set forth below, only registered holders will have rights under the Trust Agreement.

General

The Trust Preferred Securities constitute direct, unsecured and unsubordinated securities of the Trust and rank on parity without any preference among themselves.

Each Trust Preferred Security represents an undivided preferred beneficial ownership interest, and the Trust Common Security represents an undivided beneficial ownership interest, in the Trust Estate. The Trust’s only assets will be the Class B Preferred Securities and the related rights under the Class B Preferred Guarantee. Title to the Class B Preferred Securities will be held by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the holders and beneficial owners of the Trust Securities.

The Trust Agreement does not permit the Trust to acquire any assets other than the Class B Preferred Securities, issue any securities other than the Trust Preferred Securities or incur any indebtedness. Nevertheless, as the Company will (if so required by the Bank), from time to time on or prior to the Payment Date falling closest to, but not later than, the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date and without the consent of the Trust as the holder of the Class B Preferred Securities, issue additional Class B Preferred Securities having the same terms as the Class B Preferred Securities in all respects except for the issue date, the date from which Capital Payments accrue on the Class B Preferred Securities, the issue price and any other deviations required for compliance with applicable law, so as to form a single series with the Class B Preferred Securities. Accordingly, the Trust Agreement provides that in such circumstances and without consent of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Trust will issue additional Trust Preferred Securities having the same terms and conditions as the Trust Preferred Securities in all respects except for the issue date, the date from which Capital Payments accrue on the Trust Preferred Securities, the issue price and any other deviations required for compliance with applicable law, so as to form a single

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series with the Trust Preferred Securities, in consideration for the receipt of such additional Class B Preferred Securities equal to the aggregate liquidation preference amount of such additional Trust Preferred Securities. See “Description of the Company Securities — Voting and Enforcement Rights.”

Stated Rate and Payment Dates

Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities and Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities accrue at the same fixed annual rate of 6.55% (on the liquidation preference amount of $25 per security).

Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities and Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities when declared (or deemed declared) will be paid quarterly in arrears on February 23, May 23, August 23 and November 23 of each year, commencing with August 23, 2007 (which dates we refer to as Payment Dates) to the relevant holder of such Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities, as applicable, as of the related record date. If any Payment Date or redemption date is not a Business Day, payment of all amounts otherwise payable on such Payment Date or redemption date will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, without adjustment, interest or further payment as a result of such delay in payment.

Capital Payments payable on any Payment Date will accrue from and including the immediately preceding Payment Date (or the Issue Date, with respect to the Capital Payment payable on the first Payment Date) up to but excluding the relevant Payment Date (we refer to each such period as a Payment Period). For each Payment Period, Capital Payments will be calculated on the basis of a360-day year of twelve30-day months.

Tier 1 Qualification Election

At any time before the tenth Business Day preceding the Payment Date falling closest to, but not later than, the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date, the Bank may give notice under the LLC Agreement to the Company that the Bank is making the one-time election permitted pursuant to the LLC Agreement to replace the terms of the Class B Securities described in “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities” relating to Capital Payments and the other matters described therein with those terms applicable after the Bank’s election. We refer to this election as the “Tier 1 Qualification Election” and to the date on and after which it is effective as the “Tier 1 Qualification Date.” The Tier 1 Qualification Date may be any Payment Date after the Issue Date and until (and including) the Payment Date falling closest to, but not later than, the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date. The Company will give notice to the Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement immediately upon receipt from the Bank of the Tier 1 Qualification Election. The Trust will give notice to the registered holders of the Trust Preferred Securities immediately upon receipt from the Company of such notice and will as soon as practicable announce that the Bank has made the Tier 1 Qualification Election and the Payment Date that will be the Tier 1 Qualification Date, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the United States.

Once the Bank has made the Tier 1 Qualification Election and the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred, the Bank may not elect to revert to the terms in effect before the Tier 1 Qualification Election. The effectiveness of the Tier 1 Qualification Election is subject to the conditions that, on the date on which notice of the Tier 1 Qualification Election is given and on the Tier 1 Qualification Date, (i) the BaFin has not applied for the initiation of insolvency proceedings against Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, (ii) Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft has not given notice to the BaFin that it is insolvent (zahlungsunfähig) or overindebted (überschuldet) within the meaning of §46b of the German Banking Act (Gesetz über das Kreditwesen), (iii) the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) has not prohibited the Bank from making the Tier 1 Qualification Election, and (iv) all Arrears of Payments (as described below), if any, have been paid or will be paid by or on the Tier 1 Qualification Date.

If any of these conditions are not met with respect to the Tier 1 Qualification Election, the Tier 1 Qualification Election shall not occur and the Bank shall be deemed to have rescinded the notice. In such

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case, the Bank may make the Tier 1 Qualification Election at a later date in compliance with the provisions summarized in the preceding two paragraphs. The Trust will notify the registered holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of such deemed recission and announce such recission by means of a publication as described above.

Capital Payments Before the Tier 1 Qualification Date

The following discussion applies to all Capital Payments in respect of all Payment Periods through the end of the Payment Period in respect of which Capital Payments are made on the Payment Date that is the Tier 1 Qualification Date. As the Bank has no obligation to effect the Tier 1 Qualification Election, these provisions may apply for the life of the Trust Preferred Securities.

The Trust will make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities only when the Trust has available funds for that purpose. Funds available to the Trust to make Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities are limited to Capital Payments declared (or deemed declared) and made by the Company on the Class B Preferred Securities and received by the Property Trustee as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities. Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be made only when, as, and if declared, or deemed declared, by the Company’s Board of Directors.

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities can be paid only out of the Company’s Operating Profits. The Company will derive Operating Profits only from payments made to the Company by the Bank as obligor under the Initial Obligation.

If the Company does not declare (and is not deemed to have declared) a Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities in respect of any Payment Period, the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities will have no right to receive a Capital Payment in respect of such Payment Period, and the Company will have no obligation to pay a Capital Payment in respect of such Payment Period, whether or not Capital Payments are declared (or deemed to have been declared) and paid in respect of any future Payment Period. In such a case, no Capital Payments will be made on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of such Payment Period;however,any such Capital Payment or portion thereof accrued but not declared (or deemed to have been declared) by the Company in respect of any such Payment Period shall be deferred.

If, however, the Company declares (or is deemed to have declared) a Capital Payment in respect of any Payment Period under circumstances where the Distributable Profits of the Bank for the most recent preceding fiscal year are insufficient to pay such Capital Payment in full as well as capital payments, dividends or other distributions or payments then due on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, payment of all or a portion of such Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities (and, as a result thereof, a corresponding portion of the Capital Payment then due on the Trust Preferred Securities) will be deferred. The portions of such Capital Payments that cannot be paid and have been deferred in such case, together with the portions of Capital Payments that were not declared or deemed to have been declared in respect of any Payment Period and therefore deferred, will be cumulative and will collectively constitute Arrears of Payments with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, as applicable. Arrears of Payments will not themselves bear interest.

The Company will pay outstanding Arrears of Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities on the earliest of:


•	the first Payment Date after such deferral to the extent that for the most recent preceding fiscal year for which audited financial statements are available the Distributable Profits of the Bank are in an amount exceeding the aggregate of:


	•	Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities due on such Payment Date,

	•	capital payments, dividends or other distributions or payments on Parity Capital Securities, if any, due in respect of such fiscal year, and

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	•	capital payments, dividends or other distributions or payments on Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, due in respect of such fiscal year,

in which case, such Arrears of Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and any Deferred Payments on Parity Capital Securities will be paid pro rata on the basis of Distributable Profits for such preceding fiscal year, with any Arrears of Payments that cannot be repaid pursuant to the foregoing on such Payment Date continuing to be deferred and to constitute Arrears of Payments;


•	the date of any redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities, in the full amount of outstanding Arrears of Payments; and

•	the date on which an order is made for the winding up, liquidation or dissolution of the Company or the Bank (other than for the purposes of or pursuant to an amalgamation, reorganization or restructuring while solvent, where the continuing entity assumes substantially all of the assets and obligations of the Company or the Bank, as the case may be), in the full amount of outstanding Arrears of Payments.

The Tier 1 Qualification Election may not be made at any time when Arrears of Payments are outstanding.

If, as a result of the deferral of Capital Payments, the Company receives payments of interest on the Initial Obligation which exceed Capital Payments declared and paid on the Class B Preferred Securities on the corresponding Payment Date, such excess will be deposited with the Bank pursuant to the Subordinated Deposit Agreement. The Subordinated Deposit Agreement will provide for the deposit of Arrears of Payments into a deposit account at the Bank bearing interest at a rate of 0.75 % per annum. Any interest accumulating in such deposit account will be payable to the holder of the Company Common Security under the circumstances described herein. The Subordinated Deposit Agreement will provide that, subject to the subordination provisions of the Subordinated Deposit Agreement, the subordinated deposit outstanding under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement will be terminated and such deposit repaid to the Company at such time and to the extent as the Company is required to pay Arrears of Payments. The subordinated deposit outstanding at any time pursuant to the Subordinated Deposit Agreement will be subordinated such that the obligations of the Bank under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Bank will be (i) subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all indebtedness and other liabilities of the Bank to its creditors (including subordinated liabilities), except those which by their terms rank on parity with or are subordinated to the Bank’s obligations under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement and (ii) senior to (A) the preference shares of the Bank, if any, and any obligations or instruments of the Bank which by their terms rank on parity with such preference shares and (B) the ordinary shares of the Bank.

Capital Payments After the Tier 1 Qualification Date

The following discussion applies to all Capital Payments in respect of all Payment Periods beginning with the Payment Period that commences on the Tier 1 Qualification Date. As the Bank is under no obligation to effect the Tier 1 Qualification Election, these provisions may never become effective.

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The Company is authorized to declare Capital Payments and pay declared Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date that falls after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if the Bank has made the Tier 1 Qualification Election and it has become effective, only to the extent that:


•	the Company has an amount of Operating Profits for the related Payment Period ending on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date at least equal to the amount of such Capital Payments; and

•	the Bank has an amount of Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available at least equal to the aggregate amount of such Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid and capital payments or dividend or other distributions payable on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any,pro rataon the basis of such Distributable Profits.

Under certain circumstances described herein, the Company may be deemed to have declared full or partial Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Capital Payments.”

Even if the Company has sufficient Operating Profits and the Bank has sufficient Distributable Profits, the Company will be prohibited from making Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities any time an order from the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) prohibits the Bank from making any distributions of profits.

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities in respect of Payment Periods commencing on and after the Tier 1 Qualification Date are noncumulative. That means that the Company will have no obligation to make up, and the Property Trustee as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities will have no right to receive, at any time, any Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities or portions thereof which have not been paid in full by the Company on any Payment Date, be it as a result of insufficient Operating Profits of the Company, insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank, an order of the BaFin or otherwise. In such a case, consequently no Capital Payments will be made on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of such Payment Period.

The Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of Payment Periods commencing on and after the Tier 1 Qualification Date are also noncumulative. As a result, if a Capital Payment on the Trust Preferred Securities is not made or only made partially, on any Payment Date, because the Trust has insufficient funds with respect to that Payment Date, you will not be entitled to receive that Capital Payment or unpaid portion thereof, whether or not Capital Payments are made on the Trust Preferred Securities on any other Payment Date.

Record Dates for Capital Payments

Each Capital Payment on the Trust Preferred Securities will be payable to the holders of record of the Trust Preferred Securities as they appear on the books and records of the Trust on the corresponding record date. The record dates for the Trust Preferred Securities will be


•	so long as the Trust Preferred Securities remain in book-entry form, the end of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the relevant Payment Date, and

•	in all other cases, the end of business of the 15th Business Day prior to the relevant Payment Date.

Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities will be paid through or by the order of the Property Trustee, who will hold amounts received in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities in the Property Account for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities. Each payment will be made as described in “— Form, Book-Entry Procedures and Transfer.”

Except as described under “— Subordination of the Trust Common Security” below, all Capital Payments and other payments to holders of the Trust Securities will be distributed among holders of recordpro rata,based on the liquidation preference amount and the liquidation thereof.

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Payments of Additional Amounts

All Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities made by the Trust, and any amount payable in liquidation or upon redemption thereof, will be made without any withholding or deduction for or on account of Withholding Taxes unless such deduction or withholding is required by law. In such event, the Trust will pay, as additional Capital Payments (or Arrears of Payments, as the case may be), such Additional Amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, after such deduction or withholding for or on account of Withholding Taxes, will equal the amounts that otherwise would have been received in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities had no such deduction or withholding been required. However, no such Additional Amounts will be payable in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities:


•	in respect of Payment Periods ending prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if and to the extent that the Company is unable to pay corresponding amounts in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities because such payment would exceed the Distributable Profits of the Bank for the fiscal year in respect of which the relevant Capital Payments are payable (after subtracting from such Distributable Profits the amount of the Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and dividends or other distributions or payments on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, already paid on the basis of such Distributable Profits on or prior to the date on which such Additional Amounts will be payable), in which case such Additional Amounts shall be deferred and will thereupon constitute Arrears of Payments;

•	in respect of Payment Periods beginning on or after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if and to the extent that the Company is unable to pay corresponding amounts in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities because of insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank for the preceding fiscal year (after subtracting from such Distributable Profits the amounts of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and dividends or other distributions or payments on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any, already paid on the basis of such Distributable Profits on or prior to the date on which such Additional Amounts will be payable);

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes that are payable by reason of a holder or beneficial owner of the Trust Preferred Securities having some connection with any Relevant Jurisdiction other than by reason only of the mere holding or beneficial ownership of the Trust Preferred Securities;

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes which are deducted or withheld pursuant to (i) European Council Directive2003/48/EC or any other European Union Directive or Regulation implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of26-27 November 2000 on the taxation of savings income, or (ii) any international treaty or understanding entered into for the purpose of facilitating cooperation in the reporting and collection of savings income and to which (x) the United States, and (y) the European Union or Germany is a party, or (iii) any provision of law implementing, or complying with, or introduced to conform with, such Directive, Regulation, treaty or understanding; or

•	to the extent such deduction or withholding can be avoided or reduced if the holder or beneficial owner of the Trust Preferred Securities makes a declaration of non-residence or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority or complies with any reasonable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement imposed by the relevant tax authority; provided, however, that the exclusion in this clause will not apply if the certification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement would be materially more onerous (in form, procedure or substance of information required to be disclosed) to the holder or beneficial owner of Trust Preferred Securities than comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax law, regulation and administrative practice (such as IRSForms W-8 andW-9).

Unless expressly excluded or the context requiring otherwise, references to the payment of Capital Payments include any Additional Amounts payable thereon.

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Enforcement Events

If, at any time, any of the following occurs (which we refer to as a Trust Enforcement Event):


•	non-payment of Capital Payments (plus any Additional Amounts thereon, if any) on the Trust Preferred Securities or non-payment of Capital Payments (plus any Additional Amounts thereon, if any) on the Class B Preferred Securities, in each case at the Stated Rate in full, for four consecutive Payment Periods;

•	a default by the Guarantor in respect of any of its payment obligations under the Trust Preferred Guarantee or in respect of any of its payment obligations under the Class B Preferred Guarantee; or

•	a default by the Guarantor in the performance of any other obligation under the Trust Preferred Guarantee or the Class B Preferred Guarantee, which default continues for 60 days after the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee or Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee, as applicable, has given notice thereof to the Guarantor;

then the Property Trustee will have the right to enforce its rights as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities, for the benefit of holders of the Trust Securities, including the rights of the holders of Class B Preferred Securities to receive Capital Payments (only if and to the extent declared or deemed declared) on the Class B Preferred Securities.

Holders of more than 50% in liquidation preference amount of the Trust Preferred Securities (excluding Trust Preferred Securities held by the Bank or its Affiliates) have the right to direct the time, method and place of any enforcement action by the Property Trustee.

See also “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Voting and Enforcement Rights.”

Redemption

The Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities do not have a scheduled maturity date and will not be redeemable at any time at the option of the holders thereof.

However, the Company, at its option, may under certain circumstances redeem the Class B Preferred Securities and if the Class B Preferred Securities are redeemed for any reason, the Trust must redeem the Trust Preferred Securities. The Trust will do so, simultaneously with the redemption of the Class B Preferred Security, by applying the redemption price received in connection therewith to redeem the Trust Preferred Securities. Any Class B Preferred Securities or Trust Preferred Securities that are redeemed will be cancelled, and not reissued, following their redemption.

See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities” for a description of when and under what circumstances the Class B Preferred Securities may be — and consequently the Trust Preferred Securities will be — redeemed.

The Trust Agreement requires the Property Trustee to give prompt notice to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Company’s intention to redeem the Class B Preferred Securities. The Trust will be required to give an irrevocable notice of redemption of the Trust Preferred Securities, specifying the date of redemption, at least 30 days prior to such date to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

In addition the Trust Preferred Securities will no longer be deemed outstanding if, at any time, the Trust is dissolved or liquidated for any reason (including the occurrence of a Trust Special Redemption Event) and its assets are set to be distributed. After the satisfaction of any creditors of the Trust, if any, Class B Preferred Securities will be distributed on apro ratabasis to you and the holder of the Trust Common Security as the liquidation distribution of your interest in the Trust. In such event the certificates representing Trust Securities will be deemed to represent Class B Preferred Securities having an equal liquidation preference amount and bearing equivalent accumulated and unpaid Capital Payments as the Trust Securities so redeemed.

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See “— Liquidation Distribution upon Dissolution” below for further information.

If the Class B Preferred Securities are distributed to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Bank will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Class B Preferred Securities eligible for clearing and settlement through DTC or a successor clearing agent and to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or such other securities exchange or similar organization as the Trust Preferred Securities are then listed or quoted.

No vote or consent of the holders of the Trust Securities will be required for the Trust to redeem and cancel Trust Securities or distribute Class B Preferred Securities in accordance with the Trust Agreement.

Subordination of the Trust Common Security

Capital Payments and other distributions, including upon redemption of the Trust Securities or liquidation of the Trust, made out of funds received by the Trust from the Company with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities or from the Bank under the Trust Preferred Guarantee will generally be madepro rata among the Trust Preferred Securities and the Trust Common Security based on the liquidation preference amount and the liquidation amount thereof. However, during the continuance of a failure to pay interest or additional interest amounts, if any, under the Initial Obligation or the Substitute Obligations or a failure by the Bank to perform any obligation under the Guarantees, no payment of Capital Payments or any other distributions of amounts, including upon redemption or liquidation of the Trust, will be made to the holder of the Trust Common Security, unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Capital Payments on and amounts on redemption of the Trust Preferred Securities have been made or provided for.

If a Trust Enforcement Event has occurred and is continuing, only the holders of Trust Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee’s actions.

Liquidation Distribution upon Dissolution

Pursuant to the Trust Agreement, the Trust will dissolve:


•	upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or dissolution of the Bank;

•	upon the dissolution of the Company;

•	upon the entry of a decree of a judicial dissolution of the Company or the Trust;

•	upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities; or

•	with the consent of the holders of a majority of the Trust Securities, voting as a single class.

In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, winding up or termination of the Trust (other than following a redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities), the holders of the Trust Securities will be entitled to receive the Class B Preferred Securities. See also “— Redemption” above. The rights of the holder of the Trust Common Security under the Class B Preferred Securities received by such holder upon liquidation of the Trust to any amounts payable on the Class B Preferred Securities (including pursuant to the Class B Preferred Guarantee) will be subordinated to rights of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities under Class B Preferred Securities received by such holders upon liquidation of the Trust.

The Regular Trustees, after consultation with DTC and the Property Trustee will, within 90 days after a Trust Special Redemption Event has occurred and is continuing, dissolve the Trust upon no less than 30 and no more than 60 days’ notice to the holders of the Trust Securities, unless the Trust Special Redemption Event can be eliminated within that90-day period by the Trust taking some ministerial action which in the sole judgment of the Bank will cause no adverse effect on the Company, the Trust, the Bank or the holders or beneficial owners of the Trust Securities and will involve no material costs, in which case the Trust will pursue any such measure in lieu of dissolution.

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Voting Rights

Except as expressly required by applicable law or provided for in the Trust Agreement or the LLC Agreement, the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will not be entitled to vote on the affairs of the Trust.

So long as the Trust holds any Class B Preferred Securities, the holders of a majority in liquidation preference amount of the Trust Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee to enforce the voting rights attributable to such Class B Preferred Securities. These voting rights may be waived by the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities by written notice to the Property Trustee.

The holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation preference amount of the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities have the right to direct the Property Trustee with respect to available remedies and the exercise of any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement, including with respect to the Property Trustee’s right, as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities, to (i) exercise the remedies available to it under the LLC Agreement, and (ii) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the LLC Agreement or the Class B Preferred Securities where such consent will be required. Where the LLC Agreement requires the consent or act of the holders of more than 50% of the liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities affected thereby, only holders of at least the same percentage of the aggregate liquidation preference amount of the Trust Preferred Securities may direct the Property Trustee to give such consent or take such action on behalf of the Trust. See “Description of the Company Securities — Class B Preferred Securities — Voting and Enforcement Rights.” The Property Trustee will be under no obligation to take any of the actions described in clause (i) or (ii) above unless the Property Trustee has obtained an opinion of independent tax counsel to the effect that following such action, the Trust will be classified as a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes and each holder of the Trust Securities will continue to be treated as owning an undivided beneficial ownership interest in the Trust Estate.

The holders of Trust Preferred Securities may give any required vote at a separate meeting of holders of the Trust Preferred Securities convened for such purpose, at a meeting of all of the holders of the Trust Securities or pursuant to a written consent. The Regular Trustees will cause a notice of any meeting at which holders of the Trust Preferred Securities are entitled to vote, or of any matter upon which action may be taken by written consent of such holders, to be given to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

For purposes of any vote of Trust Preferred Securities, any Trust Preferred Securities that are beneficially owned at such time by the Bank or any affiliate of the Bank, either directly or indirectly, will not be entitled to vote or consent and will, for purposes of such vote or consent, be treated as not outstanding, except for the Trust Preferred Securities purchased or acquired by the Bank or its affiliates in connection with transactions effected by or for the account of customers of the Bank or any of its affiliates or in connection with trading or market-making activities in the ordinary course of business. Persons (other than affiliates of the Bank) to whom the Bank or any of its affiliates have pledged Trust Preferred Securities may vote or consent with respect to such pledged Trust Preferred Securities pursuant to the terms of such pledge.

The procedures by which holders of the Trust Preferred Securities represented by the Global Certificates may exercise their voting rights are described below. See “— Form, Book-Entry Procedures and Transfer”.

Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will have no rights to appoint or remove the Regular Trustees, who may be appointed, removed or replaced solely by the Bank, as the holder of the Trust Common Security.

Merger, Consolidation or Amalgamation of the Trust

The Trust may not consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, any corporation or other entity, except with

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the consent of a majority of the Regular Trustees (but without the consent of the holders of the Trust Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee), with a trust organized as such under the laws of any State of the United States, provided that:


•	if the Trust is not the survivor, the successor entity either (i) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust to the holders of the Trust Securities or (ii) substitutes for the Trust Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the Trust Securities (the “Successor Trust Securities”), so long as the Successor Trust Securities rank the same as the Trust Securities rank with respect to Capital Payments, distributions and rights upon liquidation, redemption or otherwise;

•	the Company expressly acknowledges a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the holder of the Class B Preferred Securities;

•	if applicable, the Successor Trust Securities are listed, or any Successor Trust Securities will be listed upon notification of issuance, on any securities exchange or other organization on which the Trust Preferred Securities are then listed or quoted, and the Successor Trust Securities have at least the same rating as the Trust Preferred Securities;

•	such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement does not adversely affect the rights, preferences, privileges or tax treatment of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities (including any Successor Trust Securities) in any material respect;

•	such successor entity has purposes substantially identical to that of the Trust;

•	such successor entity will be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes;

•	the Guarantor guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Trust Securities to the same extent as provided under the Trust Preferred Guarantee;

•	prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement, the Bank has received an opinion of a nationally recognized law firm experienced in such matters as described in the Trust Agreement; and

•	such merger, consolidation, amalgamation or replacement does not otherwise result in a Trust Special Redemption Eventand/or Company Special Redemption Event.

Modification of the Trust Agreement

The Trust Agreement may be modified and amended only with the approval of a majority of the Regular Trustees (and in certain circumstances the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee).

In addition, any amendment that would


•	materially adversely affect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Trust Securities; or

•	provide for the dissolution, winding up or termination of the Trust other than pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement,

requires the approval of the holders of not less than a majority in liquidation preference amount of the Trust Securities affected thereby, voting together as a single class. If any amendment would materially adversely affect only the Trust Preferred Securities or the Trust Common Security, then such amendment only requires the approval of the holders of a majority in the respective liquidation amount of the affected class.

The Trust Agreement may be amended without the consent of the holders of the Trust Securities to


•	cure any ambiguity,

•	correct or supplement any provision in the Trust Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision of the Trust Agreement,

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•	add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Bank,

•	conform to any change in the 1940 Act or the Trust Indenture Act, or written change in interpretation or application of the rules or regulations promulgated thereunder by any legislative body, court, government agency or regulatory authority, or

•	modify, eliminate and add to any provision of the Trust Agreement to such extent as may be necessary or desirable; provided, that no such amendment will have a material adverse effect on the rights, preferences or privileges of the holders of the Trust Securities.

Modifications to certain provisions of the Trust Agreement require the consent all holders of the Trust Securities.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment or modification may be made to the Trust Agreement if such amendment or modification would


•	cause the Trust to fail to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes,

•	cause the Company to be classified as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes,

•	reduce or otherwise adversely affect the powers of the Property Trustee, or

•	cause the Trust or the Company to be required to register under the 1940 Act.

Form, Book-Entry Procedures and Transfer

The Trust Preferred Securities will be issued in fully registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $25 liquidation preference amount (or integral multiples of $25).

Trust Preferred Securities will be represented by one or more certificates in registered, global form (collectively, the “Global Certificates”). The Global Certificates will be deposited upon issuance with the custodian for DTC, in New York, New York and registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, in each case for credit to an account of a direct or indirect participant in DTC as described below.

The Trust Preferred Securities will be accepted for clearance by DTC, Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg. Beneficial interest in the Trust Preferred Securities will be shown on, and transfers will be effected only through, the book-entry records maintained by DTC and its direct and indirect participants, including Euroclear and Clearstream. Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, or Clearstream, is incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg as a professional depositary, subject to regulation by the Luxembourg Monetary Institute. The Euroclear System is owned by Euroclear Clearance System Public Limited Company and operated through a license agreement with Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., a bank incorporated under the laws of the Kingdom of Belgium.

Except as set forth below, the Global Certificates may not be transferred except by DTC in whole and not in part and only to another nominee of DTC or to a successor of DTC or its nominee. Beneficial interests in the Global Certificates may not be exchanged for Trust Preferred Securities in certificated form except in the limited circumstances described below. See “— Exchange of Book-Entry Securities for Certificated Securities”.

In addition, transfer of beneficial interests in the Global Certificates will be subject to the applicable rules and procedures of DTC and its direct or indirect participants, including Euroclear and Clearstream, which may change from time to time.

Depositary Procedures

DTC has advised the Company and the Trust that DTC is a limited-purpose trust company created to hold securities for its participating organizations (collectively, the “Participants”) and to facilitate the clearance and settlement of transactions in those securities between Participants through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of its Participants. The Participants include securities brokers and dealers (including the underwriters), banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations. Access

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to DTC’s system is also available to other entities such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Participant, either directly or indirectly (collectively, the “Indirect Participants”). Persons who are not Participants may beneficially own securities held by or on behalf of DTC only through the Participants or the Indirect Participants. The ownership interest and transfer of ownership interest of each actual purchaser of each security held by or on behalf of DTC are recorded on the records of the Participants and Indirect Participants.

DTC has also advised the Trust and the Company that, pursuant to procedures established by it, (i) upon deposit of the Global Certificates, DTC will credit the accounts of Participants designated by the underwriters with portions of the principal amount of the Global Certificates and (ii) ownership of such interests in the Global Certificates will be shown on, and the transfer of ownership thereof will be effected only through, records maintained by DTC (with respect to the Participants) or by the Participants and the Indirect Participants (with respect to other owners of beneficial interests in the Global Certificates).

Investors in the Global Certificates must hold their interest therein directly through DTC if they are Participants in such system, or indirectly through organizations which are Participants in such system. The laws of some states require that certain persons take physical delivery in certificated form of securities that they own. Consequently, the ability to transfer beneficial interests in a Global Certificate to such persons will be limited to that extent. Because DTC can act only on behalf of Participants, which in turn act on behalf of Indirect Participants and certain banks, the ability of a person having beneficial interests in a Global Certificate to pledge such interests to persons or entities that do not participate in the DTC system, or otherwise take actions in respect of such interests, may be affected by the lack of a physical certificate evidencing such interests. For certain other restrictions on the transferability of the Trust Preferred Securities, see “— Exchange of Book-Entry Securities for Certificated Securities”.

Except as described below, owners of interests in the Global Certificates will not have Trust Preferred Securities registered in their name, will not receive physical delivery of the Trust Preferred Securities in certificated form and will not be considered the registered owners or holders thereof for any purpose.

The Trust will make payments in respect of the Global Certificates registered in the name of DTC or its nominee to DTC or its nominee in its capacity as the registered holder. The Trust will treat the persons in whose names Trust Preferred Securities, including the Global Certificates, are registered as the owners thereof for the purpose of receiving such payments and for any and all other purposes whatsoever. Consequently, neither the Bank, the Trust, the Company, nor any agent thereof has or will have any responsibility or liability for (i) any aspect of DTC’s records or any Participant’s or Indirect Participant’s records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests in the Global Certificates, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of DTC’s records or any Participant’s or Indirect Participant’s records relating to the beneficial ownership interests in the Global Certificates or (ii) any other matter relating to the actions and practices of DTC or any of its Participants or Indirect Participants. DTC has advised the Trust and the Company that its current practice, upon receipt of any payment in respect of securities such as the Trust Preferred Securities, is to credit the accounts of the relevant Participants with the payment on the payment date unless DTC has reason to believe it will not receive payment on such payment date. Payments by the Participants and the Indirect Participants to the beneficial owners of the Trust Preferred Securities will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of the Participants or the Indirect Participants and will not be the responsibility of DTC, the Bank, the Trust or the Company. The Bank, the Trust and the Company and any paying agent, if any, may conclusively rely on and will be protected in relying on instructions from DTC or its nominee for all purposes.

DTC, Clearstream and Euroclear have no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of interests in a Global Certificate representing Trust Preferred Securities. DTC’s records reflect only the identity of the DTC Participants, including Clearstream and Euroclear, to whose accounts those Trust Preferred Securities are credited, which may or may not be the beneficial owners of interests in such Global Certificate. Similarly, records of Clearstream and Euroclear reflect only the identity of the Clearstream or Euroclear participants to whose accounts those Trust Preferred Securities are credited, which may or may not be the beneficial

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owners of interest in such Global Certificate. DTC, Clearstream and Euroclear participants and indirect participants will remain responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers.

Interests in the Global Certificates will trade in DTC’s settlement system and secondary market trading activity in such interests will therefore settle in immediately available funds, subject in all cases to the rules and procedures of DTC and its Participants. Transfers between Participants in DTC will be effected in accordance with DTC’s procedures and will be settled insame-day funds. Cross market transfers between persons holding directly or indirectly through DTC, on the one hand, and directly or indirectly through Clearstream or Euroclear participants, on the other, will be effected in DTC in accordance with the rules of DTC on behalf of the relevant European international clearing system by the relevant European depositary. However, those cross-market transactions will require delivery of instructions to the relevant European international clearing system by the counterparty in that system in accordance with its rules and procedures and within its established deadlines, European time. The relevant European international clearing system will, if the transaction meets its settlement requirements deliver instructions to the relevant European depositary to take action to effect final settlement on its behalf by delivering or receiving securities in DTC, and making or receiving payment in accordance with normal procedures forsame-day funds settlement applicable to DTC. Clearstream and Euroclear participants may not deliver instructions directly to the European depositaries. Because of time zone differences, credits of Trust Preferred Securities received in Clearstream or Euroclear as a result of a transaction with a person that does not hold Trust Preferred Securities through Clearstream or Euroclear will be made during subsequent securities settlement processing and dated the business day following the DTC settlement date. Those credits or any transactions in those securities settled during that processing will be reported to the relevant Euroclear or Clearstream participants on that business day. Cash received in Clearstream or Euroclear as a result of sales of Trust Preferred Securities by or through a Clearstream or Euroclear participant to a DTC participant will be received with value on the DTC settlement date, but will be available in the relevant Clearstream or Euroclear cash account only as of the business day following settlement in DTC.

DTC has advised the Company and the Trust that it will take any action permitted to be taken by a holder of the Trust Preferred Securities only at the direction of one or more Participants to whose account with DTC interests in the Global Certificates are credited.

The information contained herein concerning DTC and its book-entry system has been obtained from sources that the Company and the Trust believe to be reliable but neither the Company nor the Trust takes any responsibility for the accuracy thereof.

Although DTC has agreed to the foregoing procedures to facilitate transfers of interest in the Global Certificates among participants in DTC, it is under no obligation to perform or to continue to perform such procedures, and such procedures may be discontinued at any time. Neither the Company, the Trust nor the Bank will have any responsibility for the performance by DTC or its respective participants or indirect participants of their respective obligations under the rules and procedures governing their operations.

Exchange of Book-Entry Securities for Certificated Securities

A Global Certificate is exchangeable for Trust Preferred Securities in registered certificated form if DTC notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Certificates (and the Trust and the Company thereupon fail to appoint a successor depositary) or it has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. In all cases, certificated Trust Preferred Securities delivered in exchange for any Global Certificates or beneficial interests therein will be registered in the names and issued in any approved denominations, requested by or on behalf of the depositary (in accordance with its customary procedures).

Registrar, Transfer Agent and Paying Agent

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas will act as registrar, transfer agent, authenticating agent and paying agent for the Trust Preferred Securities. Registration of transfers of the Trust Preferred Securities will be effected without charge by or on behalf of the Trust, but the Trust or transfer agent may require

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payment (and an indemnity) from any transferring holder in respect of any tax or other government charges which may be imposed in relation to it.

The Trust will not be required to register or cause to be registered the transfer of the Trust Preferred Securities after such Trust Preferred Securities have been called for redemption.

Information Concerning the Property Trustee

Unless a Trust Enforcement Event has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee undertakes to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in the Trust Agreement (and will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any holder of the Trust Securities, unless such holder has provided to the Property Trustee reasonable security and indemnity), and no implied covenants will be read into the Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. Upon the occurrence and continuance of a Trust Enforcement Event known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee will exercise the rights and powers vested in it by the Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

Governing Law

The Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANY SECURITIES

The following, together with “Description of Capital Securities — Description of Company Preferred Securities” in the attached prospectus, describes the material terms of the Class B Preferred Securities. If the description of the Class B Preferred Securities in this prospectus supplement differs in any way from the description in the attached prospectus, you should rely on the description in this prospectus supplement. The LLC Agreement is qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act. The Bank of New York will act as manager trustee for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act. You also should read the LLC Agreement, the LLC Act and the Trust Indenture Act. We have filed with the SEC a form of the LLC Agreement as an exhibit to the registration statement pertaining to this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus.

The following description of the material terms of the Company Preferred Securities in this prospectus supplement contains only a summary of their material terms and is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms and provisions of the LLC Agreement, the LLC Act and the Trust Indenture Act.

Upon the execution of the LLC Agreement, the Company will issue limited liability company interests consisting of the Company Common Security, the Class A Preferred Security and the Class B Preferred Securities. The Company Common Security and the Class A Preferred Security will be owned initially directly by the Bank. All of the Class B Preferred Securities will be owned by the Trust. The Bank undertakes to maintain direct or indirect ownership of the Class A Preferred Security and the Company Common Security so long as any Class B Preferred Securities remain outstanding.

Company Common Security

Subject to the limited rights of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities to appoint two independent directors if for four consecutive Payment Periods, Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate and any Additional Amounts in respect of such Capital Payments have not been paid in full by the Company or by the Guarantor under the Class B Preferred Guarantee, all voting rights are vested in the Company Common Security. The Company Common Security is currently, and upon consummation of the Offering will be, held by the Bank.

The ability of the Company to make any capital payments on the Company Common Security will change if the Bank makes the Tier 1 Qualification Election that we describe under “— Class B Preferred Securities — Tier 1 Qualification Election.” In any case, the Company may pay capital payments on the Company Common Security only when, as and if declared by the Bank of Directors.

Prior to the effective date of the Tier 1 Qualification Election, the Board of Directors will declare capital payments on the Company Common Security only to the extent the Board of Directors does not declare Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate in full on any Payment Date. It is expected that the holder of the Company Common Security will receive capital payments only to the extent that (i) Capital Payments are not permitted to be declared on the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date at the Stated Rate in full due to an order of the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) prohibiting the Bank from making any distribution of profits, (ii) a declared or deemed Capital Payment on the Company Capital Securities does not become an Arrears of Payments (as described below) and (iii) the Company has sufficient Operating Profits. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on each Payment Date, the holder of the Company Common Security will also be entitled to receive a distribution corresponding to the amount of any interest then held by the Bank under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement (described below), to the extent the Company has sufficient Operating Profits for such distribution.

On and after the effective date of the Tier 1 Qualification Election, if the Bank in fact makes the election and it becomes effective, capital payments may be declared and paid on the Company Common Security only if all Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities, if any, in respect of the relevant Payment

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Period have been declared and paid at the Stated Rate in full. Subject to the above, the Company does not expect to pay any capital payments on the Company Common Security.

The payment of capital payments on the Company Common Security is not a condition to the payment of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities.

In the event of the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, after satisfaction of any creditors of the Company, if any, and after the applicable liquidation preference amount has been paid or a sufficient amount has been set aside for payment to the holders of all Company Preferred Securities, the holder of the Company Common Security will be entitled to any remaining assets.

Class A Preferred Security

The Company will issue a class of cumulative, non-redeemable preferred security designated as the Class A Preferred Security with a liquidation preference amount of $25 and sell that Class A Preferred Security to Deutsche Bank AG. The Class A securityholder is entitled to receive capital payments when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors. The Board is only authorized to declare capital payments on the Class A Preferred Security, and it is the Company’s intent that the holder of the Class A Preferred Security will only receive capital payments, in respect of periods beginning on and after the date on which the Bank’s Tier 1 Qualification Election, which we describe under “— Class B Preferred Securities — Tier 1 Qualification Election” becomes effective, and then only to the extent that (i) Capital Payments are not permitted to be declared on the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date due to insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank or an order of the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) prohibiting the Bank from making any distribution of profits, and (ii) the Company has sufficient Operating Profits. The Company currently, subject to the above, does not intend to pay capital payments on the Class A Preferred Security. The payment of capital payments on the Class A Preferred Security is not a condition to the payment of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities.

Upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution orwinding-up of the Company, the Class A Preferred Security will rank senior to the Class B Preferred Securities in respect of the right to receive payments out of the Obligations (including accrued and unpaid interest thereon) as their liquidation distribution but the Class A Preferred Securityholders will not be entitled to share in any payments made by the Bank pursuant to the Class B Preferred Guarantee or any other assets. Any enforcement of, and payments made pursuant to, the Class B Preferred Guarantee will be only for the benefit of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities.

Class B Preferred Securities

General

The Company will issue fully paid and nonassessable preferred limited liability company interests in the Company designated as Class B Preferred Securities pursuant to the LLC Agreement and sell them to the Trust.

The Class B Preferred Securities will not have any scheduled maturity date, will not be redeemable at any time at the option of the holders thereof, will not be convertible into any other securities of the Company and will not be subject to any sinking fund or other obligation of the Company for their repurchase or redemption.

Tier 1 Qualification Election

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replace the terms of the Class B Securities described below relating to Capital Payments and the other matters described below with those terms applicable after the Bank’s election. We refer to this election as the “Tier 1 Qualification Election” and to the date on and after which it is effective as the “Tier 1 Qualification Date.” The Tier 1 Qualification Date may be any Payment Date after the Issue Date and until (and including) the Payment Date falling closest to, but not later than, the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date. The Bank will give the Company notice of the Tier 1 Qualification Election at least ten Business Days prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date.

Once the Bank has made the Tier 1 Qualification Election and the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred, the Bank may not elect to revert to the terms effect before the Tier 1 Qualification Election. The effectiveness of the Tier 1 Qualification Election is subject to the conditions that, on the date on which notice of the Tier 1 Qualification Election is given and on the Tier 1 Qualification Date, (i) the BaFin has not applied for the initiation of insolvency proceedings against Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, (ii) Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft has not given notice to the BaFin that it is insolvent (zahlungsunfähig) or overindebted (überschuldet) within the meaning of §46b of the German Banking Act (Gesetz über das Kreditwesen), (iii) the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) has not prohibited the Bank from making the Tier 1 Qualification Election, and (iv) all Arrears of Payments (as described below), if any, have been paid or will be paid on or before the Tier 1 Qualification Date.

If any of these conditions are not met with request to the Tier 1 Qualification Election, the Tier 1 Qualification Election shall not occur and the Bank shall be deemed to have rescinded the notice. In such a case, the Bank may make the Tier 1 Qualification Election at a later date in compliance with the provisions summarized in the preceding two paragraphs.

Stated Rate and Capital Payment Dates

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will accrue at the fixed annual rate 6.55% (which we also refer to as the Stated Rate) on the liquidation preference amount of $25 per Class B Preferred Security.

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities when declared will be made quarterly in arrears on February 23, May 23, August 23 and November 23 of each year, commencing with August 23, 2007 (which dates we refer to as Payment Dates).

Capital Payments payable on any Payment Date will accrue from and including the preceding Payment Date (or the Issue Date, which respect to the Capital Payment payable on the first Payment Date) up to but excluding the relevant Payment Date (we refer to each such period as a Payment Period). For each Payment Period, Capital Payments will be calculated on the basis of a360-day year of twelve30-day months.

If any Payment Date is not a Business Day, payment of all amounts otherwise payable on such Payment Date will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, without adjustment, interest or further payment as a result of such delay in payment.

Capital Payments Before the Tier 1 Qualification Date

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be made only when, as and if declared, or deemed declared, by the Company’s Board of Directors. Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be paid out of the Company’s Operating Profits. The Company can derive Operating Profits only from payments made to the Company by the Bank as obligor under the Initial Obligation.

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The Company is authorized to declare Capital Payments and pay a declared (or deemed declared) Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date only to the extent that:


•	the Company has an amount of Operating Profits for the related Payment Period ending on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date at least equal to the amount of such Capital Payments, and

•	the Bank has an amount of Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available at least equal to the aggregate amount of such Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and capital payments or dividend or other distributions payable on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any,pro ratabased on such Distributable Profits.

If the amount of such Distributable Profits is insufficient to pay all such amounts on the Class B Preferred Securities, the Parity Capital Securities and the Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, the Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities is nevertheless authorized to be declared. In such case, however, the portion of such Capital Payments that cannot be paid will be deferred and will thereupon constitute Arrears of Payments (as described below).

In determining the availability of sufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank related to any fiscal year to permit Capital Payments to be declared with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities, any Capital Payments already paid on the Class B Preferred Securities and any capital payments, dividend or other distributions already paid during the succeeding fiscal year of the Bank on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, on the basis of such Distributable Profits for such fiscal year will be deducted from such Distributable Profits.

The Company may also be deemed to have declared a Capital Payment in certain other circumstances. If the Bank or any of its subsidiaries declares or pays any dividends, distributions or other payments on


•	any Tier 2 Junior Securities (other than payments on Tier 2 Junior Securities issued by wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Bank, when such Tier 2 Junior Securities are held exclusively by the Bank or by any of its other wholly-owned subsidiaries), then the Company will be deemed to have declared Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate in full


	•	payable on each of the next four Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Tier 2 Junior Securities is paid in respect of an annual period;

	•	payable on each of the next two Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Tier 2 Junior Securities is paid in respect of a semi-annual period; and

	•	payable on the next Payment Date, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Tier 2 Junior Securities is paid in respect of a quarterly period.


•	any Parity Capital Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, then the Company will be deemed to have declared Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate


	•	payable on each of the next four Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Parity Capital Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities is paid in respect of an annual period;

	•	payable on each of the next two Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Parity Capital Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities is paid in respect of a semi-annual period; and

	•	payable on the next Payment Date, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Parity Capital Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities is paid in respect of a quarterly period.

If the dividend or other payment or distribution on Parity Capital Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities was in the full stated amount payable on such Parity Capital Securities in respect of such periods, Capital Payments will be deemed declared at the Stated Rate in full for payment on such Payment Date or Payment Dates. If the dividend or other payment or distribution on Parity Capital Securities or

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Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities was only a partial payment of the amount so owing, the amount of the Capital Payment deemed declared for payment on such Payment Date or Payment Dates will be adjusted proportionally, in which case the portion of such Capital Payment that is not so paid will be deferred and will thereupon constitute Arrears of Payments.

If the Bank or any of its subsidiaries redeems, repurchases or otherwise acquires any Parity Capital Securities, Tier 2 Junior Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities (other than Parity Capital Securities, Tier 2 Junior Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities issued by wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Bank, when such Parity Capital Securities, Tier 2 Junior Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities are held exclusively by the Bank or by any of its other wholly-owned subsidiaries) for any consideration (except by conversion into or exchange for ordinary shares of common stock of the Bank), other than in connection with:


•	transactions effected by or for the account of customers of the Bank or any of its subsidiaries or in connection with the distribution, trading or market-making in respect of such securities,

•	the satisfaction by the Bank or any of its subsidiaries of its obligations under any employee benefit plans or similar arrangements with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors or consultants, including hedging transactions effected to cover exposure to unvested grants under employee benefit plans,

•	a reclassification of the capital stock of the Bank or any of its subsidiaries or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of such capital stock for another class or series of such capital stock, or

•	the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the capital stock of the Bank or any of its majority-owned subsidiaries pursuant to the provisions of any security being converted into or exchanged for such capital stock,

the Company will be deemed to have declared Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate in full payable on each of the next four Payment Dates contemporaneously withand/or immediately following the date on which such redemption, repurchase or other acquisition occurred.

Even if the Company has sufficient Operating Profits and there are sufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank, the Company will be prohibited from making Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at any time an order from the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) prohibits the Bank from making any distributions of profits. The Company will have no obligation to make up, at any time, any Capital Payments not paid in full by the Company as a result of insufficient Operating Profits of the Company or an order of the BaFin.

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will be paid out of the Company’s Operating Profits or from payments received by the Company under the Class B Preferred Guarantee. If the Company does not declare (and is not deemed to have declared) a Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities in respect of any Payment Period, the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities will have no right to receive a Capital Payment in respect of such Payment Period, and the Company will have no obligation to pay a Capital Payment in respect of such Payment Period, whether or not Capital Payments are declared (or deemed to have been declared) and paid in respect of any future Payment Period. In such a case, no Capital Payments will be made on the Trust Preferred Securities in respect of such Payment Period. See “Description of the Trust Securities.”

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deferred in such case, together with the portions of Capital Payments that were not declared or deemed to have been declared in respect of any Payment Period and therefore deferred, will be cumulative and will collectively constitute Arrears of Payments with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, as applicable. Arrears of Payments will not themselves bear interest.

The Company will pay outstanding Arrears of Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities on the earliest of:


•	the first Payment Date after such deferral to the extent that for the most recent preceding fiscal year for which audited financial statements are available the Distributable Profits of the Bank are in an amount exceeding the aggregate of:


	•	Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities due on such Payment Date,

	•	capital payments, dividends or other distributions or payments on Parity Capital Securities, if any, due in respect of such fiscal year, and

	•	capital payments, dividends or other distributions or payments on Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, due in respect of such fiscal year,


•	the date of any redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities, in the full amount of outstanding Arrears of Payments; and

•	the date on which an order is made for the winding up, liquidation or dissolution of the Company or the Bank (other than for the purposes of or pursuant to an amalgamation, reorganization or restructuring while solvent, where the continuing entity assumes substantially all of the assets and obligations of the Company or the Bank, as the case may be), in the full amount of outstanding Arrears of Payments.

If, as a result of the deferral of Capital Payments, the Company would receive payments of interest on the Obligations that would exceed Capital Payments declared and paid on the Class B Preferred Securities on the corresponding Payment Date (in each such case, “Excess Interest Amounts”), the Bank will not pay such Excess Interest Amounts to the Company in cash but will instead, without any instruction or other action being taken by the company, credit to the account of the Company at the Bank a subordinated deposit in the Bank, subject to the Subordinated Deposit Agreement, having an aggregate principal amount equal to such Excess Interest Amount. The Subordinated Deposit Agreement will provide that the deposit account at the Bank will bear interest at a rate of 0.75% per annum. Any interest accumulating in such deposit account will be payable to the holder of the Company Common Security under the circumstances described herein. The Subordinated Deposit Agreement will provide that, subject to the subordination provisions of the Subordinated Deposit Agreement, the subordinated deposit outstanding under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement will be terminated and such deposit repaid to the Company at such time and to the extent as the Company is required to pay Arrears of Payments. The subordinated deposit outstanding at any time pursuant to the Subordinated Deposit Agreement will be subordinated such that the obligations of the Bank under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Bank will be (i) subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all indebtedness and other liabilities of the Bank to its creditors (including subordinated liabilities), except those which by their terms rank on parity with or are subordinated to the Bank’s obligations under the Subordinated Deposit Agreement, (ii) on parity with the most senior ranking preference shares of the Bank, if any, and any obligations or instruments of the Bank which by their terms rank on parity with such preference shares and (iii) senior to the Junior Securities.

As described above, the Tier 1 Qualification Election may not be made or become effective so long as any Arrears of Payments remain outstanding und unpaid.

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Capital Payments After the Tier 1 Qualification Date

Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities will, beginning on and after the Tier 1 Qualification Election Date, if the Bank has made the Tier 1 Qualification Election and it has become effective, be noncumulative. That means that the Company will have no obligation to make up, and the Trust as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities will have no right to receive, at any time, any Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities not paid in full by the Company on any Payment Date, be it as a result of insufficient Operating Profits of the Company, insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank, an order of the BaFin or otherwise. The following discussion assumes that the Tier 1 Qualification election in fact takes place. However, the Bank has no obligation to make the Tier 1 Qualification Election.

The Company is authorized to declare Capital Payments and pay a declared (or deemed declared) Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities on any Payment Date only to the extent that:


•	the Company has an amount of Operating Profits for the related Payment Period ending on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date at least equal to the amount of such Capital Payments, and

•	the Bank has an amount of Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available at least equal to the aggregate amount of such Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and capital payments or dividend or other distributions payable on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any,pro ratabased on such Distributable Profits.

In determining the availability of sufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank related to any fiscal year to permit Capital Payments to be declared with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities, any Capital Payments already paid on the Class B Preferred Securities and any capital payments, dividend or other distributions already paid during the succeeding fiscal year of the Bank on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any, on the basis of such Distributable Profits for such fiscal year will be deducted from such Distributable Profits.

However, in certain circumstances the Company may be also deemed to have declared a Capital Payment. If the Bank or any of its subsidiaries declares or pays any dividends, distributions or other payments on

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any Junior Securities (other than a payment in kind of ordinary shares of common stock or other Junior Securities or payments on Junior Securities issued by wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Bank, when such Junior Securities are held exclusively by the Bank or by any of its other wholly-owned subsidiaries), then the Company will be deemed to have declared Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate in full


	•	payable on each of the next four Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Junior Security is paid in respect of an annual period;

	•	payable on each of the next two Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Junior Security is paid in respect of a semi-annual period; and

	•	payable on the next Payment Date, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Junior Security is paid in respect of a quarterly period.


•	any Preferred Tier 1 Securities (other than a payment in kind of ordinary shares of common stock or Junior Securities or payments on Preferred Tier 1 Securities issued by wholly-owned subsidiaries of

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the Bank, when such Preferred Tier 1 Securities are held exclusively by the Bank or by any of its other wholly-owned subsidiaries), then the Company will be deemed to have declared Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Ratepro rata(in the same proportion that the payment that was made on the Preferred Tier 1 Security had to the amount that was payable on such Preferred Tier 1 Security at the time of such payment)


	•	payable on each of the next four Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Preferred Tier 1 Security is paid in respect of an annual period;

	•	payable on each of the next two Payment Dates, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Preferred Tier 1 Security is paid in respect of a semi-annual period; and

	•	payable on the next Payment Date, if the dividend, distribution or other payment on the Preferred Tier 1 Security is paid in respect of a quarterly period.

If the Bank or any of its subsidiaries redeems, repurchases or otherwise acquires any Junior Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Securities (other than Junior Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Securities issued by wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Bank, when such Junior Securities or Preferred Tier 1 Securities are held exclusively by the Bank or by any of its other wholly-owned subsidiaries) for any consideration (except by conversion into or exchange for ordinary shares of common stock of the Bank or other Junior Securities) or any moneys are paid to or made available for a sinking fund for, or for redemption of, any such securities, other than in connection with:


•	transactions effected by or for the account of customers of the Bank or any of its subsidiaries or in connection with the distribution, trading or market-making in respect of such securities,

•	the satisfaction by the Bank or any of its subsidiaries of its obligations under any employee benefit plans or similar arrangements with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors or consultants, including hedging transactions effected to cover exposure to unvested grants under employee benefit plans,

•	a reclassification of the capital stock of the Bank or any of its subsidiaries or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of such capital stock for another class or series of such capital stock, or

•	the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the capital stock of the Bank or any of its majority-owned subsidiaries pursuant to the provisions of any security being converted into or exchanged for such capital stock,

Any Capital Payments so deemed to be declared as described above will (i) only be authorized to be paid on any Payment Date to the extent the Company has an amount of Operating Profits for the related Payment Period at least equal to the amount of Capital Payments so deemed declared and (ii) to the extent not authorized to be paid pursuant to clause (i), will not be considered due and payable for any purposes under the LLC Agreement or under the Class B Preferred Guarantee, except with respect to such Capital Payments deemed declared after the Trust is dissolved and the Class B Preferred Securities have been distributed to the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, which will be considered due and payable for purposes of the Class B Preferred Guarantee.

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Record Dates for Capital Payments

Each Capital Payment declared (or deemed to be declared) on the Class B Preferred Securities will be payable to the holders of record of the Class B Preferred Securities as they appear on the books and records of the Company on the corresponding record date. The record dates for the Class B Preferred Securities will be:


•	for those Class B Preferred Securities held by the Property Trustee (regardless of their own form) so long as the Trust Preferred Securities remain in book-entry form, and for Class B Preferred Securities held in book-entry form, the end of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the relevant Payment Date, and

•	in all other cases, the end of business of the 15th Business Day prior to the relevant Payment Date.

Payments of Additional Amounts

All payments on the Class B Preferred Securities, and any amount payable or upon redemption thereof or in liquidation, will be made without any deduction or withholding for or on account of Withholding Taxes, unless such deduction or withholding is required by law. In such event, the Company will pay, as additional Capital Payments (or Arrears of Payments, as the case may be), such Additional Amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, after such deduction or withholding for or on account of Withholding Taxes, will equal the amounts that otherwise would have been received in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, respectively, had no such deduction or withholding been required.

However, no such Additional Amounts will be payable in respect of the Class B Preferred Securities:


•	in respect of Payment Periods ending prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if and to the extent that the Company is unable to pay because such payment would exceed the Distributable Profits of the Bank for the fiscal year in respect of which the relevant Capital Payments are payable (after subtracting from such Distributable Profits the amount of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and any payments on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, already paid on the basis of such Distributable Profits on or prior to the date on which such Additional Amounts will be payable), in which case such Additional Amounts shall be deferred and will thereupon constitute Arrears of Payments;

•	in respect of Payment Periods beginning on or after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, if and to the extent that the Company is unauthorized to pay because of insufficient Distributable Profits of the Bank for the preceding fiscal year;

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes that are payable by reason of a holder or beneficial owner of the Class B Preferred Securities (other than the Trust) having some connection with the Relevant Jurisdiction other than by reason only of the mere holding or beneficial ownership of the Class B Preferred Securities;

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes which are deducted or withheld pursuant to (i) European Council Directive2003/48/EC or any other European Union Directive or Regulation implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of26-27 November 2000 on the taxation of savings income, or (ii) any international treaty or understanding entered into for the purpose of facilitating cooperation in the reporting and collection of savings income and to which (x) the United States, and (y) the European Union or Germany is a party, or (iii) any provision of law implementing, or complying with, or introduced to conform with, such Directive, Regulation, treaty or understanding; or

•	to the extent such deduction or withholding can be avoided or reduced if the holder or beneficial owner of the Class B Preferred Securities makes a declaration of non-residence or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority or complies with any reasonable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement imposed by the relevant tax authority; provided, however,

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that this exclusion will not apply if the certification, information, documentation or other reporting requirement would be materially more onerous (in form, procedure or substance of information required to be disclosed) to the holder or beneficial owner of the Class B Preferred Securities than comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax law, regulation and administrative practice (such as IRSForms W-8 andW-9).

Voting and Enforcement Rights

Except as described below, the Class B Preferred Securities will have no voting rights.

If for four consecutive Payment Periods, Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities and any Additional Amounts in respect of such Capital Payments have not been paid at the Stated Rate in full by the Company or by the Guarantor under the Class B Preferred Guarantee, the holders of at least a majority in liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities will be entitled to appoint, by ordinary resolution passed at a separate general meeting convened for that purpose, two additional, independent directors to the Board of Directors. Any independent director so appointed shall vacate office if, Capital Payments (including, at any time before the Tier 1 Qualification Date, all Arrears of Payments) have been paid regularly at the Stated Rate in full by the Company or the Guarantor under the Class B Preferred Guarantee or the Trust Preferred Guarantee for one calendar year. Any independent director may be removed only by the vote of holders of a majority in liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities.

So long as any Class B Preferred Securities are outstanding, the Company will not, without the affirmative vote of at least 662/3% in aggregate liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities, voting as a single class:


•	amend, alter, repeal or change any provision of the LLC Agreement (including the terms of the Class B Preferred Securities) if such amendment, alteration, repeal or change would materially adversely affect the rights, preferences, powers or privileges of the Class B Preferred Securities,

•	agree to modify or amend any provision of, or waive any default in the payment of any amount under, Obligations in any manner that would materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of Class B Preferred Securities, or

•	effect any merger, consolidation, or business combination involving the Company, or any sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company,provided,that any such merger, consolidation, or business combination involving the Company, or any sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, also must comply with the requirements set forth under “— Mergers, Consolidations and Sales”.

The Company will not, without the unanimous consent of all the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities, issue any additional equity securities of the Company ranking prior to or on parity with the Class B Preferred Securities as to periodic distribution rights or rights on liquidation or dissolution of the Company, or incur any indebtedness for borrowed money. Nevertheless, the Company will, from time to time on or prior to the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date and without the consent of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities, issue additional Class B Preferred Securities having the same terms and conditions as the Class B Preferred Securities in all respects except for the issue date, the date from which Capital Payments accrue on the Class B Preferred Securities, the issue price and any other deviations required for compliance with applicable law, so as to form a single series with the Class B Preferred Securities, upon notice from the Bank and in consideration for Obligations of a principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation preference amount of such additional Class B Preferred Securities and having the same terms and conditions as the Initial Obligation in all respects except for the issue date, the date from which interest accrues on such Obligations, the issue price and any other deviations required for compliance with applicable law.

The Class A Preferred Security (and the Class B Preferred Securities, if any) beneficially owned by the Bank, the Company or any of their respective affiliates (other than the Trust) will not be entitled to vote or

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consent under the LLC Agreement or the bylaws of the Company and will, for the purposes of such vote or consent, be treated as not outstanding, except Company Preferred Securities acquired by the Bank or its affiliates in connection with transactions effected by or for the account of customers of the Bank or any of its affiliates or in connection with trading or market-making activities relating to such Company Preferred Securities in the ordinary course of business. Persons (other than affiliates of the Bank) to whom the Bank or any of its affiliates have pledged a Class A Preferred Security or Class B Preferred Securities may vote or consent with respect to such pledged Class A Preferred Security or Class B Preferred Securities pursuant to the terms of such pledge.

Redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities

Subject to any required regulatory approvals, the Company may, at its option, on at least 30 days’ prior notice (or such longer period as required by the relevant regulatory authorities) to the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities, redeem the Class B Preferred Securities, in whole but not in part, at a redemption price per Class B Preferred Security equal to the liquidation preference amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid Capital Payments for the then current Payment Period to but excluding the date of redemption, plus, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred, all outstanding Arrears of Payments, if any, plus Additional Amounts, if any (the sum of these is referred to as the Redemption Price):


•	on any Payment Date on or after May 23, 2017 (which we refer to as the Initial Redemption Date); and

•	at any time upon the occurrence of a Company Special Redemption Event.

No redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities for any reason may take place unless on the Redemption Date:


•	the Company has an amount of cash funds (by reason of payments on the Obligations or the Class B Preferred Guarantee) at least equal to the Redemption Price, plus Additional Amounts, if any;

•	the Company has an amount of Operating Profits for the current Payment Period at least equal to the Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities accrued and unpaid as of the Redemption Date plus, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred, all outstanding Arrears of Payments, if any, plus Additional Amounts, if any;

•	the Bank has an amount of Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year of the Bank for which audited unconsolidated financial statements are available at least equal to the Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities accrued and unpaid as of the Redemption Date, plus, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred, all outstanding Arrears of Payments, if any, plus Additional Amounts, if any, plus (i) if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred, the aggregate amount of Capital Payments (including Arrears of Payments, if any) on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid, and capital payments payable on Parity Capital Securities, or (ii) if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred, the aggregate amount of Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities theretofore paid, and capital payments or dividends payable on Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any,pro rata,on the basis of Distributable Profits for such preceding fiscal year; and

•	no order of the BaFin (or any other relevant regulatory authority) is in effect prohibiting the Bank from making any distribution of profits (including to the holders of Preferred Tier 1 Securities, if any).

In the event that payment of any Redemption Price, in respect of any Class B Preferred Securities, is improperly withheld or refused and not paid, Capital Payments on such Class B Preferred Securities will continue to accrue at the Stated Rate from the designated Redemption Date to the date of actual payment of the Redemption Price.

No redemption, whether before or after the Initial Redemption Date, requires the vote or consent of any of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities.

An irrevocable notice of any redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities will be given by the Board of Directors on behalf of the Company by mail to the record holder of each Class B Preferred Security to be

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redeemed not fewer than 30 calendar days before the date fixed for redemption, or such other time period as may be required by the relevant regulatory authorities.

Liquidation Distribution

In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, holders of the Class B Preferred Securities will, subject to the limitations described below, be entitled to receive the Redemption Price of their Class B Preferred Securities. The holders of the Class B Preferred Securities will be entitled to receive their liquidation distribution following the liquidation distribution of Obligations (including accrued and unpaid interest thereon) to the holder of the Class A Preferred Security but before any distribution of assets is made to the holder of the Company Common Security. Any payments made by the Bank pursuant to the Class B Preferred Guarantee will be made solely on behalf of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities and under the terms of the LLC Agreement and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Company will not be dissolved until all obligations under the Class B Preferred Guarantee have been paid in full pursuant to its terms.

Mergers, Consolidations and Sales

The Company may not consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to, any corporation or other body, except with the consent of the holders of 662/3% in aggregate liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities, into a limited partnership, limited liability company or trust organized as such under the laws of any State of the United States of America, provided, that:


•	such successor entity either expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Company under the Class B Preferred Securities or substitutes for the Class B Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the Class B Preferred Securities (the “Successor Company Securities”) so long as the Successor Company Securities are not junior to any equity securities of the successor entity, with respect to participation in the profits, distributions and assets of the successor entity, except that they may rank junior to the Class A Preferred Security or any successor Class A Preferred Security to the same extent that the Class B Preferred Securities rank junior to the Class A Preferred Security;

•	the Bank expressly acknowledges such successor entity as the holder of the Obligations and holds, directly or indirectly, all of the voting securities (within the meaning ofRule 3a-5 under the 1940 Act) of such successor entity;

•	such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or replacement does not cause the Trust Preferred Securities (or, in the event that the Trust is liquidated, the Class B Preferred Securities (including any Successor Company Securities)) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized rating organization;

•	such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or replacement does not adversely affect the powers, preferences and other special rights or tax treatment of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities (including any Successor Company Securities) in any material respect;

•	such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Company;

•	prior to such consolidation, amalgamation, merger or replacement, the Company has received an opinion of a nationally recognized law firm experienced in such matters as described in the LLC Agreement to the effect that such successor entity will be treated as a partnership, and will not be classified as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation, for United States federal income tax purposes;

•	such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or replacement does not otherwise result in a Company Special Redemption Event; and

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•	the Bank guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Company Securities at least to the extent provided by the Class B Preferred Guarantee.

Book-Entry and Settlement

If the Class B Preferred Securities are distributed to holders of the Trust Preferred Securities in connection with the involuntary or voluntary liquidation, dissolution, winding up or termination of the Trust, the Company will use reasonable efforts to arrange for the Class B Preferred Securities to be issued in the form of one or more global certificates registered in the name of DTC or its nominee. As of the date of this prospectus supplement, the description herein of DTC’s book-entry system and practices as they relate to purchases, transfers, notices and payments with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities will apply in all material respects to any Class B Preferred Securities represented by one or more global certificates.

Registrar and Transfer Agent

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas will act as registrar, transfer agent and paying agent for the Class B Preferred Securities. Registration of transfers of the Class B Preferred Securities will be effected without charge by or on behalf of the Company, but upon payment (with the giving of such indemnity as the transfer agent may require) in respect of any tax or other governmental charges that may be imposed in relation to it. The transfer agent will not be required to register or cause to be registered the transfer of the Class B Preferred Securities after such Class B Preferred Securities have been called for redemption.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBORDINATED GUARANTEES

The following, together with “Description of Capital Securities — Description of Subordinated Guarantees in Connection with Capital Securities” in the attached prospectus, describes the material terms of the Guarantees. If the description of the Guarantees in this prospectus supplement differs in any way from the description in the attached prospectus, you should rely on the description in this prospectus supplement. You also should read the Guarantees and the Trust Indenture Act. We have filed with the SEC forms of the Guarantees as an exhibit to the registration statement pertaining to this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus.

The Bank has agreed to guarantee payment, on a subordinated basis, of certain payments on the Trust Preferred Securities under a guarantee we refer to as the Trust Preferred Guarantee and certain payments on the Class B Preferred Securities under a guarantee we refer to as the Class B Preferred Guarantee, in each case to the extent described below. We refer to both guarantees collectively as Guarantees, and we refer to the Trust Preferred Securities in relation to the Trust Preferred Guarantee as related securities and to the Class B Preferred Securities in relation to the Class B Preferred Guarantee as related securities. The Guarantees are qualified under the Trust Indenture Act. The Bank of New York will act as trustee under the Trust Preferred Guarantee and is in such capacity referred to as Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee and under the Class B Preferred Guarantee and is in such capacity referred to as the Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee, in each case for purposes of complying with the Trust Indenture Act. The terms of each Guarantee will include those stated in that Guarantee and those made part of that Guarantee by the Trust Indenture Act.

The following description of the material terms of the Guarantees in this prospectus supplement contains only a summary of their material terms and is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms and provisions of the respective Guarantee and the Trust Indenture Act.

General

Each of the Guarantees is a direct, unsecured and subordinated obligation of Deutsche Bank AG.

The Class B Preferred Guarantee will be held by the Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Property Trustee as holder of the Class B Preferred Securities, and the Property Trustee will in turn hold it for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

The Trust Preferred Guarantee will be held by the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

The holders of a majority in liquidation preference amount of the related securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the related Guarantee Trustee.

The rights under the Guarantees are not separately transferable from the Class B Preferred Securities or the Trust Preferred Securities, as applicable, to which the Guarantee relates. Upon transfer of any Class B Preferred Securities or Trust Preferred Security to another holder, the prior holder will no longer have rights under the related Guarantee with respect to the transferred securities.

Under the Guarantees the Guarantor may provide to the related Guarantee Trustee evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent under such Guarantee in the form of an officer’s certificate meeting the requirements set forth in such Guarantee.

The Guarantor may not assign its obligations under the applicable Guarantee, except in the case of a merger or consolidation in which the Guarantor is not the surviving party or in the case of a sale, lease or other transfer of substantially all of its assets, to a purchaser and only if such surviving entity or purchaser expressly assumes the obligations of the Guarantor thereunder or such assumption of obligations result from applicable law.

The Guarantees will be governed by New York law.

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Guarantee Payments

The Guarantor will irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee, on a subordinated basis, without duplication, the following payments (which we refer to as the Guarantee Payments):


•	with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities:


	•	Capital Payments due and payable on the Trust Preferred Securities on each Payment Date for the then current Payment Period including, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred prior to such Payment Date, any Arrears of Payments that are due and payable, and including any Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Capital Payments and, if applicable, such Arrears of Payments;

	•	on any redemption date, the Redemption Price for each Trust Preferred Security called for redemption by the Trust; and

	•	upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Trust (other than a dissolution of the Trust in which the Class B Preferred Securities are distributed to the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities), the liquidation preference amount of the Trust Preferred Securities, plus any accrued and unpaid Capital Payments for the then current Payment Period to but excluding the date of liquidation, plus, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date had not occurred as of the Payment Date of any payments with respect to which such guarantee is invoked, Arrears of Payments that are due and payable and including any Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Capital Payments and, if applicable, such Arrears of Payments.


•	with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities:


	•	the Capital Payments due and payable on the Class B Preferred Securities on each Payment Date for the then current Payment Period, if declared or deemed declared pursuant to the LLC Agreement, including, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred prior to such Payment Date, any Arrears of Payments that are due and payable, and including any Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Capital Payments and, if applicable, such Arrears of Payments;

	•	on any Redemption Date, the Redemption Price for each Class B Preferred Security called for redemption by the Company; and

	•	upon any voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, the liquidation preference amount of the Class B Preferred Securities, plus any accrued and unpaid Capital Payments for the then current Payment Period to but excluding the date of liquidation, plus, if the Tier 1 Qualification Date had not occurred as of the Payment Date of any payments with respect to which such guarantee is invoked, any Arrears of Payments that are due and payable and including any Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Capital Payments and, if applicable, such Arrears of Payments.

The Guarantees require the Guarantor to pay all amounts payable thereunder in respect of Capital Payments payable in respect of any Payment Period on the Trust Preferred Securities or the Class B Preferred Securities, to which the Guarantee relates, prior to any dividend or other payment (except dividends in the form of shares) upon its shares of common stock.

Payments of Guarantee Additional Amounts

All Guarantee Payments made or caused to be made by the Guarantor will be made without withholding or deduction for or on account of any Withholding Tax, unless the withholding or deduction of such Withholding Tax is required by law. In such event, the Guarantor will pay, as additional Guarantee Payments (which we refer to as Trust Preferred Additional Guarantee Payments or Class B Preferred Additional Guarantee Payments, as applicable, and collectively as Guarantee Additional Amounts), such additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by a holder after such withholding or deduction for or on account of Withholding Tax will equal the amount which would have

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been received in respect of the Guarantee Payments (including interest accrued thereon, if any) had no such deduction or withholding been required, except that no such Guarantee Additional Amounts will be payable to a holder with respect to any Guarantee Payments,


•	if, as of the Payment Date of the most recent payment with respect to which such Guarantee Payment is payable, the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred, if and to the extent such payment would exceed the Distributable Profits of the Bank for the fiscal year in respect of which the relevant Capital Payments are payable (after subtracting from such Distributable Profits the amount of capital payments on Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, already paid on the basis of such Distributable Profits, on or prior to the date on which such Additional Amounts will be payable), in which case such Additional Amounts shall be deferred and will thereupon constitute arrears of payments under the applicable Guarantee;

•	if, as of the Payment Date of the most recent payment with respect to which such Guarantee Payment is payable, the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred, if and to the extent that the Bank has insufficient Distributable Profits for the preceding fiscal year to make such payment (determined on the same basis as the authority of the Company to declare Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities);

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes that are payable by reason of a holder or beneficial owner of the securities to which such Guarantee Payments relate having some connection with any Relevant Jurisdiction other than by reason only of the mere holding or beneficial ownership of such securities;

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes which are deducted or withheld pursuant to (i) European Council Directive2003/48/EC or any other European Union Directive or Regulation implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of26-27 November 2000 on the taxation of savings income, or (ii) any international treaty or understanding entered into for the purpose of facilitating cooperation in the reporting and collection of savings income and to which (x) the United States, and (y) the European Union or Germany is a party, or (iii) any provision of law implementing, or complying with, or introduced to conform with, such Directive, Regulation, treaty or understanding; or

•	where such deduction or withholding can be avoided or reduced if the holder or beneficial owner of the securities to which such Guarantee Payments relate makes a declaration of non-residence or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority or complies with any reasonable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement imposed by the relevant tax authority, provided, however, that this exclusion will not apply if the certification, information documentation or other reporting requirement would be materially more onerous to such holder or beneficial owner (in form, procedure or substance of information required to be disclosed) than comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax law, regulation and administrative practice (such as IRSForms W-8 andW-9).

No Guarantee of Sufficient Funds of Company

Neither of the Guarantees is a guarantee of any kind that the Company or the Trust will at any time have sufficient assets to declare a Capital Payment or other distribution or that any other condition for declaring a Capital Payment or other distribution will be met or that the Company will declare a Capital Payment on the Class B Preferred Securities if all conditions for the declaration of such a Capital Payment are met.

Subordination

In the case of a liquidation of the Guarantor as of a date as of which the Tier 1 Qualification Date has not occurred, the Guarantees will rank


•	subordinate and junior to all senior and subordinated debt obligations of the Bank (including profit participation rights (Genussscheine));

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•	senior to all preference shares, Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities and the common shares of the Bank; and

•	unless otherwise expressly provided in the terms thereof,pari passuwith any instrument or contractual obligation of the Bank ranking junior to any of the instruments included in the first clause above and senior to any of the instruments or contractual obligations of the Bank included in the second clause above.

In the case of a liquidation of the Guarantor as of a date as of which the Tier 1 Qualification Date has occurred, the Guarantees will rank


•	subordinate and junior to all senior and subordinated debt obligations of the Guarantor that do not expressly rank on parity with the obligations of the Guarantor under the Guarantees;

•	on parity with the most senior ranking preference shares of the Guarantor, if any, and with its obligations under any guarantee or support agreement or undertaking relating to any preference shares or other instrument of any subsidiary of the Bank qualifying as consolidated Tier 1 capital of the Bank that does not expressly rank junior to the obligation of the Guarantor under the Guarantees; and

•	senior to the Junior Securities.

Limitations on Transactions

Until the time on the Tier 1 Qualification Date when the Tier 1 Qualification Election has become effective, and if the Tier 1 Qualification Date does not occur, for so long as any Class B Preferred Securities or Trust Preferred Securities remain outstanding, the Guarantor undertakes not to give any guarantee or similar undertaking with respect to, or enter into any other agreement relating to the support of, or payment of any amounts in respect of any Group Capital Securities of any of its affiliates which guarantee or similar undertaking or other support agreement would rank senior in any regard to the related Guarantee unless the related Guarantee is amended so that it ranks at leastpari passuwith and contains substantially equivalent rights of priority as to payment as any such other guarantee, similar undertaking or other support agreement.

We define “Group Capital Securities” to include any interests in the capital of any person that rank (A) senior to the preference shares, Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities and common shares of such person and (B) junior to all other obligations of such person that (i) rank senior to the preference shares and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, of such person and (ii) do not by their terms rankpari passuwith such interests.

Beginning at and after the time on the Tier 1 Qualification Date when the Tier 1 Qualification Election has become effective, and then for so long as any Class B Preferred Securities or Trust Preferred Securities remain outstanding, the Guarantor undertakes not to issue any preference shares ranking senior on liquidation to its obligations under the related Guarantee or give any guarantee or similar undertaking with respect to, or enter into any other agreement relating to the support or payment of any amounts in respect of, any other preference shares (or instruments ranking on parity with or junior to preference shares) issued by any other affiliated entity that would rank senior in right of payment to the Guarantor’s obligations under the related Guarantee, unless that Guarantee is amended to give the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities or Trust Preferred Securities to which such Guarantee relates such rights and entitlements as are contained in or attached to such other guarantee, similar undertaking or agreement so that the Guarantor’s obligations under such Guarantee rank at least on parity with, and contain substantially equivalent rights of priority as to payment as, such guarantee, similar undertaking or other support agreement.

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Events of Default

An event of default:


•	under the Trust Preferred Guarantee occurs, if (i) the Guarantor defaults in respect of any of its payment obligations under the Trust Preferred Guarantee or (ii) the Guarantor defaults in the performance of any other obligation under the Trust Preferred Guarantee, and, in the case of (ii), such default continues for 60 days after the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee has given notice of such default to the Guarantor; and

•	under the Class B Preferred Guarantee occurs, if (i) the Guarantor defaults in respect of any of its payment obligations under the Class B Preferred Guarantee or (ii) the Guarantor defaults in the performance of any other obligation under the Class B Preferred Guarantee, and, in the case of (ii), such default continues for 60 days after the Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee has given notice of such default to the Guarantor.

The applicable Guarantee Trustee is required to notify the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities or the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities, as applicable, of all events of default known to such Guarantee Trustee under the related Guarantee, within 90 days after the occurrence of such event of default, unless such event of default has been cured before such notification. The applicable Guarantee Trustee may withhold such notice if and so long such Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities, as applicable.

Amendments

The Guarantor and the applicable Guarantee Trustee may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities or the Trust Preferred Securities, as applicable, to which the Guarantee relates, modify either of the Guarantees


•	to make any changes required to make the Guarantee rank on parity with instruments of the Guarantor that would otherwise be prohibited by the terms of that Guarantee,

•	to cure any ambiguity or correct any mistake,

•	to correct or supplement any provision in the Guarantee that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision of the Guarantee,

•	to add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Guarantor for the benefit of the holders of the related securities or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Guarantor under that Guarantee,

•	to evidence the succession of another entity to the Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Guarantor stated in the Guarantee,

•	to modify or supplement any provision in that Guarantee to give effect to any provision made invalid by any changes in the 1940 Act, the Trust Indenture Act or the rules or regulations of either such Act or any other applicable law,providedthat no such amendment shall have a material adverse effect on the rights, preferences or privileges of the holders of the related securities (and, in the case of the Class B Preferred Guarantee, so long as the Trust holds the Class B Preferred Securities, the Trust Preferred Securities),

•	to modify, eliminate and add to any provision of that Guarantee to such extent as may be necessary or desirable, provided that no such amendment shall have a material adverse effect on the rights, preferences or privileges of the holders of the related securities (and, in the case of the Class B Preferred Guarantee, so long as the Trust holds the Class B Preferred Securities, the Trust Preferred Securities), or

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•	in connection with the creation of any series of related securities and the establishment of the particular terms thereof.

Each of the Guarantees may be modified with the prior approval of the holders of not less than a majority in liquidation preference amount of the securities to which the Guarantee relates, provided that, (i) changes to the certain provisions relating to guarantee payment obligations and related Guarantor certification requirements, unless those changes are of the kind that would be permitted pursuant to the paragraph above, may not be amended without the prior approval of each holder of the related securities, and (ii) any amendment to reduce the aggregate liquidation preference amount of related securities whose holders must consent to an amendment must be approved by each holder of such related securities.

Termination

The Guarantees will terminate upon the earlier of (i) full payment of the Redemption Price of all Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities, as applicable, or repurchase and cancellation of all Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities, as applicable, to which such Guarantee relates or (ii) upon full payment of the liquidation preference amount, plus any accumulated and unpaid Capital Payments, plus Arrears of Payments, if applicable, plus Additional Amounts, if any, payable on the Trust Preferred Securities upon liquidation of the Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement or on the Class B Preferred Securities upon liquidation of the Company pursuant to the LLC Agreement, as applicable, to which such Guarantee relates.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES AGREEMENT

The following summary sets forth the material terms and provisions of the Services Agreement. This summary is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Services Agreement.

Under the Services Agreement, the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will be obligated, among other things, to provide legal, accounting, tax and other support services to the Trust and the Company, to maintain compliance with all applicable U.S. and German local, state and federal laws, and to provide administrative, recordkeeping and secretarial services for the Company and the Trust. The Bank (which may act through its New York branch) will be responsible for and will pay all expenses related to the organization and operations of the Company and the Trust, including, in each case, any taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than Withholding Taxes) imposed by Germany, the United States or any other taxing authority upon the Company or the Trust, and all other obligations of the Company and the Trust (other than with respect to the Trust Securities or the Company Securities) will be paid by the Bank (which may act through its New York branch) pursuant to the Services Agreement.

The Services Agreement does not prevent the Bank or any of its affiliates or employees from engaging in any other activities. The Services Agreement has an initial term of five years and is renewable automatically for additional five-year periods unless terminated by Company and the Trust on 90 days’ notice.

The Services Agreement will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware.

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DESCRIPTION OF THE TERMS OF THE INITIAL OBLIGATION

The following, together with “Description of Capital Securities — Description of Subordinated Debt Obligations in Connection with Certain Capital Securities” in the attached prospectus, describes the material terms of the Initial Obligation. If the description of the Initial Obligation in this prospectus supplement differs in any way from the description in the attached prospectus, you should rely on the description in this prospectus supplement.

The following summary sets forth the material terms and provisions of the Initial Obligation. This summary is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Initial Obligation.

General

The Initial Obligation will be a perpetual, unsecured, subordinated note with an aggregate Principal Amount of $800,000,025 issued by the Bank on the Issue Date.

The Initial Obligation will bear interest at the fixed annual rate of 6.55%, payable quarterly in arrears on each Payment Date. The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed based on a360-day year comprised of twelve30-day months. If any Payment Date or a date fixed for redemption of the Initial Obligation (which we refer to as Obligation Redemption Date) is not a Business Day, payment of all amounts otherwise payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, without adjustment, interest or further payment as a result of such delay in payment.

The Initial Obligation is perpetual which means that it does not have a maturity date.

The Initial Obligation will not be listed on any stock exchange.

The Initial Obligation will be purchased by the Company with proceeds from the Company’s issuance and sale of the Class B Preferred Securities to the Trust. The aggregate Principal Amount of the Initial Obligation will be such that the aggregate interest income paid to the Company on the Initial Obligation on any Payment Date will create sufficient Operating Profits for the Company to make the aggregate Capital Payments on the Class B Preferred Securities on the corresponding Payment Date. The purchase of the Initial Obligation by the Company will occur contemporaneously with its issuance of the Class B Preferred Securities.

Additional Interest Amounts

Payment of interest on the Initial Obligation (or any Substitute Obligation) and any repayment upon redemption thereof, will be made without withholding or deduction for or on account of any Withholding Tax unless such deduction or withholding is required by law. In such event, the Bank or other obligor will pay as additional interest such additional amounts (which we refer to as Additional Interest Amounts) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the Company, after such deduction or withholding for or on account of Withholding Taxes, will equal the amounts that otherwise would have been received in respect of the Initial Obligation (or Substitute Obligation) had no such withholding or deduction been required. However, no such Additional Interest Amounts will be payable on the Initial Obligation (or Substitute Obligation) with respect to:


•	any tax which is payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding;

•	any tax imposed on the net income of the holder or beneficial owner of the Initial Obligation (or Substitute Obligation) or that is payable by reason of the holder or beneficial owner of the Initial Obligation (or Substitute Obligation) having some connection with any Relevant Jurisdiction other than by reason only of the mere holding or beneficial ownership of the Initial Obligation (or Substitute Obligation);

•	with respect to any Withholding Taxes which are deducted or withheld pursuant to (i) European Council Directive2003/48/EC or any other European Union Directive or Regulation implementing the

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conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of26-27 November 2000 on the taxation of savings income, or (ii) any international treaty or understanding entered into for the purpose of facilitating cooperation in the reporting and collection of savings income and to which (x) the United States, and (y) the European Union or Germany is a party, or (iii) any provision of law implementing, or complying with, or introduced to conform with, such Directive, Regulation, treaty or understanding;


•	any Withholding Tax to the extent the same would not have been so imposed but for the presentation of the Initial Obligation (or Substitute Obligation) for payment on a date more than 15 days after the date on which payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whichever occurs later; or

•	to the extent such deduction or withholding can be avoided or reduced if the holder or beneficial owner of the Trust Preferred Securities makes a declaration of non-residence or other similar claim for exemption to the relevant tax authority or complies with any reasonable certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement imposed by the relevant tax authority; provided, however, that this exclusion will not apply if the certification, documentation, information or other reporting requirement would be materially more onerous (in form, procedure or substance of information required to be disclosed) to the holder or beneficial owner of the Trust Preferred Securities than comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax law, regulation and administrative practice (such as IRSForms W-8 andW-9).

Redemption

The Bank may redeem the Initial Obligation, in whole but not in part, upon at least 30 days’ prior notice, on any Payment Date falling on or after May 23, 2017 (which we refer to as the Obligation Initial Redemption Date), if the Bank has obtained any required regulatory approvals.

The Bank may redeem the Initial Obligation, in whole but not in part, upon at least 30 days’ prior notice, at any time if both an Obligation Special Redemption Event has occurred and the Company has decided to redeem its Class B Preferred Securities in whole;providedthe Bank has either (i) replaced the Principal Amount by paying in other, at least equivalent, own funds (haftendes Eigenkapital) within the meaning of the German Banking Act, or (ii) obtained prior approval of the BaFin or any successor authority for such early redemption.

The Bank may, at its option, redeem the Initial Obligation at any time in whole or in part, if it replaces the Initial Obligation in whole or in such part, as applicable, with Substitute Obligations.

The redemption price payable for any redemption of the Initial Obligation is equal to the aggregate Principal Amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date and Additional Interest Amounts, if any.

Pursuant to § 10, subparagraph (5a) of the German Banking Act, if the Bank redeems or repays the Initial Obligation prior to the Obligation Initial Redemption Date, notwithstanding any agreements to the contrary, any amounts so paid to the Company as holder of the Initial Obligation must be repaid to the Bank unless the Principal Amount will be replaced with at least equivalent own funds (haftendes Eigenkapital) within the meaning of the German Banking Act or prior approval of the BaFin has been obtained.

Enforcement

In the event the Bank (or any obligor thereunder) fails to make any payment of interest and Additional Interest Amounts, if any, on the Initial Obligation or Substitute Obligation, the Company as holder of such Obligations may bring an action or proceeding to such payment, provided that the Bank is not in default in the payment of interest under any indebtedness to which the Initial Obligation is subordinated. The Company as holder of the Initial Obligation will not have any right to accelerate payment of the Initial Obligation in the case of a failure of the Bank (or other obligor thereunder) to make any payment of

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principal of, interest on, or other amounts owing under, the Initial Obligation or a failure to perform any other covenant of the Bank (or other obligor) contained in the Initial Obligation.

Subordination

The Initial Obligation is the Bank’s direct, unsecured subordinated obligation. At all times prior to the time on the Tier 1 Qualification Date on which the Tier 1 Qualification Election becomes effective, the Initial Obligation will, in the liquidation of the Bank, rank subordinate and junior to all senior indebtedness of the Bank andpari passuwith other subordinated obligations of the Bank. In the event of dissolution, liquidation, bankruptcy, composition or other proceedings for the avoidance of bankruptcy of, or against, the Bank, such obligations will be subordinated to the claims of all unsubordinated creditors of the Bank so that in any event no amounts shall be payable under such obligations until the claims of all unsubordinated creditors of the Bank shall have been satisfied in full. Beginning at and after the time on the Tier 1 Qualification Date when the Tier 1 Qualification Election has become effective, the obligations of the Bank under the Initial Obligation upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Bank will be (i) subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all indebtedness and other liabilities of the Bank to its creditors (including subordinated liabilities), except those which by their terms rank on parity with or are subordinated to the Initial Obligation and (ii) senior to (A) the preference shares of the Bank, if any, and any obligations or instruments of the Bank which by their terms rank on parity with such preference shares and (B) the ordinary shares of the Bank.

The obligations of the Bank under the Initial Obligation may not be secured by any lien, security interest or other encumbrance on any property of the Bank or any other person and, except as permitted by applicable law, the Bank shall not, directly or indirectly, acquire for its own account, finance for the account of any other person the acquisition of, or accept as security for any obligation owed to it, any of the Initial Obligation. The Bank is also prohibited from amending the terms of the Initial Obligation to limit the subordination provisions.

The Company, as the holder of the Initial Obligation, will waive any rights it may have to set off claims it may have against the Bank for payments under the Initial Obligation against any claims the Bank may have against it.

Substitution

At any time, the Bank will have the right to (i) substitute another obligor on the Obligations, in whole or in part, which obligor may be either a branch of the Bank or a Subsidiary, or (ii) replace the Obligations, in whole or in part, with Substitute Obligations;provided, in each case, that (a) the Bank has received the written opinion of a nationally recognized law firm in the United States that reinvestment in such Substitute Obligation will not adversely affect the “qualified dividend income” eligibility for purposes of Section 1(h)(11) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any successor legislation) , if any, of Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities or cause the holders thereof to recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (b) such substitution or replacement does not result in a Company Special Redemption Event or a Trust Special Redemption Event, andprovided, furtherin each case that the Bank has obtained any required regulatory approvals.

Governing Law

The Initial Obligation will be governed by New York law.

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CERTAIN U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS

TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH TREASURY DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR 230, PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT: (A) ANY DISCUSSION OF FEDERAL TAX ISSUES IN THIS MEMORANDUM IS NOT INTENDED OR WRITTEN TO BE RELIED UPON, AND CANNOT BE RELIED UPON, BY PURCHASERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF AVOIDING PENALTIES THAT MAY BE IMPOSED ON PURCHASERS UNDER THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE; (B) SUCH DISCUSSION IS BEING USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROMOTION OR MARKETING (WITHIN THE MEANING OF CIRCULAR 230) BY THE ISSUER OF THE TRANSACTIONS OR MATTERS ADDRESSED HEREIN; AND (C) PURCHASERS SHOULD SEEK ADVICE FROM AN INDEPENDENT TAX ADVISOR ABOUT THE TAX CONSEQUENCES UNDER THEIR OWN PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF INVESTING IN TRUST PREFERRED SECURITIES UNDER THE LAWS OF GERMANY, THE UNITED STATES AND ITS CONSTITUENT JURISDICTIONS, AND ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE THEY MAY BE SUBJECT TO TAXATION.

The following is a summary of certain material U.S. federal income tax considerations relating to an investment in the Trust Preferred Securities. Unless otherwise specifically indicated herein, this summary addresses the material U.S. federal income tax consequences to a beneficial owner of the Trust Preferred Securities (a “Trust Preferred Securityholder”) that acquires those securities on their original issue at their original offering price and that is an individual citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation organized in or under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or that otherwise is subject to U.S. federal income taxation on a net income basis in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities (a “U.S. Holder”).

This summary does not address all tax consequences that may be applicable to a Trust Preferred Securityholder. In particular, the following discussion does not address (i) persons that may be subject to special treatment or special circumstances under U.S. federal income tax law, such as banks, insurance companies, thrift institutions, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, dealers in securities or currencies, and traders in securities that electmark-to-market treatment, (ii) persons that will hold Trust Preferred Securities as part of a position in a “straddle” or as part of a “hedging”, “conversion” or other integrated investment transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (iii) persons whose functional currency is not the United States dollar or (iv) persons that do not hold Trust Preferred Securities as capital assets. This summary is based upon the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), Treasury Regulations, Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) rulings and pronouncements and judicial decisions as of the date hereof, all of which are subject to change (possibly with retroactive effect).

The discussion below is not binding on the IRS or the courts. Prospective investors should note that no rulings have been or are expected to be sought from the IRS with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities or income allocated to the Trust Preferred Securityholders in respect thereof, and no complete assurance can be given that the IRS will not take positions contrary to those described in this summary. Moreover, no complete assurance can be given that the treatment described below will not be challenged by the IRS or, if challenged, that such treatment will be sustained.

Classification of the Trust

Under current law, and assuming compliance with the terms of the Trust Agreement, for U.S. federal income tax purposes the Trust will be treated as a grantor trust and will not be treated as an association taxable as a corporation. As a result, each Trust Preferred Securityholder will be considered the beneficial owner of apro rataportion of the related Class B Preferred Securities held by the Trust.

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Tax Treatment of the Company

In purchasing the Trust Preferred Securities, each Trust Preferred Securityholder agrees with the Bank, the Company and the Trustees that the Bank, the Company, the Trustees and the Trust Preferred Securityholders will treat Trust Preferred Securityholders for all purposes as holders of an undivided interest in Trust assets, including the Class B Preferred Securities, and not as holders of an underlying interest in the Bank or in any other person, and the following discussion is based on the assumption that such treatment will apply for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Assuming compliance with the LLC Agreement, the Company will not be taxable as a corporation and will not itself be subject to U.S. federal income tax, but will be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Income from the Class B Preferred Securities

Under the LLC Agreement, upon the payment of dividends on the Class B Preferred Securities, a like amount of the Company’s ordinary income generally will be allocated to the holders of Class B Preferred Securities. Regardless of when dividends on the related Trust Preferred Securities are actually paid, income allocated to the holders of Class B Preferred Securities will be includable as ordinary income by a U.S. Holder for its taxable year that includes 31 December of the calendar year in which the income is allocated, except that if the U.S. Holder disposes of its entire holding of the Trust Preferred Securities and Class B Preferred Securities (if any), the amount allocated for the calendar year of that disposition will be includable for the U.S. Holder’s taxable year that includes the date of that disposition. Income in respect of the securities generally will constitute foreign source income, subject to various foreign tax credit limitations, and will not be eligible for the dividends-received deduction available for dividends paid by U.S. corporations.

In the event that prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date a Capital Payment is deferred, it is possible, depending on the then current facts and circumstances, that a U.S. holder of the Class B Preferred Securities would be allocated taxable income in respect of the fair market value of the holder’s allocable share of the subordinated deposits issued to the Company in lieu of cash payments on the Initial Obligation, which allocation could be significantly less than, and in no event would exceed, the amount of the deferred Capital Payment.

Subject to certain exceptions for short-term and hedged positions, the U.S. dollar amount of dividends received by an individual before January 1, 2011 will be subject to taxation at a maximum rate of 15% if the dividends are “qualified dividends”. Although there is no authority directly on point and therefore the matter is not completely free from doubt, in the opinion of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, as counsel to the Bank, the Initial Obligation will be treated as an equity interest in the Bank and the income received by the Company in respect thereof and allocated to U.S. Holders will be treated as dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and will be eligible to be treated as qualified dividends if the Bank is a qualified foreign corporation. This opinion is based on current law, and assumes the accuracy of, and full compliance with, the terms of the Initial Obligation (and certain other documents) and that such documents conform to the form thereof that such counsel has reviewed. The remainder of this disclosure assumes the accuracy of this opinion. In addition, a condition to the issuance of a Substitute Obligation is the receipt of a written opinion of a nationally recognized law firm in the United States that reinvestment in such Substitute Obligation will not adversely affect the “qualified dividend income” eligibility of income allocated to U.S. Holders. See “Description of the Terms of the Initial Obligation — Substitution”. Accordingly, assuming the accuracy of such an opinion, income received by the Company in respect of the Substitute Obligation and allocated to U.S. Holders will be eligible to be treated as qualified dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes, provided the obligor of the Substitute Obligation is a qualified foreign corporation.

The Bank (or any other obligor on a Substitute Obligation) will be a qualified foreign corporation (or so treated) if: (i) the obligor is eligible for the benefits of a comprehensive income tax treaty with the United States which the U.S. Treasury Department determines is satisfactory and which includes an exchange of information program and (ii) the obligor was not, in the year prior to the year in which the dividend was

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paid, and is not, in the year in which the dividend is paid, a passive foreign investment company (“PFIC”). The Bank is eligible for the benefits of the Germany-U.S. income tax treaty, which satisfies the treaty requirement described above. Based on the Bank’s audited financial statements and relevant market data, the Company believes that the Bank was not a PFIC for U.S. federal income tax purposes with respect to its 2006 taxable year. In addition, based on the Bank’s audited financial statements and the Company’s current expectations regarding the value and nature of the Bank’s assets, the sources and nature of its income, and relevant market data, the Company does not anticipate that the Bank will be a PFIC in 2007 or in the foreseeable future and therefore the Company anticipates that the Bank will be a qualified foreign corporation or so treated. Accordingly, the Company anticipates that under current law dividends allocated to U.S. Holders generally will be eligible for taxation as “qualified dividends”.

A legislative proposal recently introduced in the U.S. Congress would, if enacted, deny qualified dividend treatment after the date of enactment in respect of interest payments on the Initial Obligation received by the Company and allocated to U.S. Holders. It is not possible to predict whether or in what form this proposal will be enacted into law.

The U.S. Treasury has also announced its intention to promulgate final rules pursuant to which holders of shares and intermediaries through whom such securities are held will be permitted to rely on statements or certifications from issuers to establish that dividends are eligible to be treated as qualified dividends under current law. Because final procedures have not yet been issued, it is not certain that the Bank will be able to comply with the final requirements. The Bank will use reasonable efforts to facilitate appropriate tax reporting by providing certifications pursuant to any subsequent rules the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or U.S. Treasury may promulgate to the extent the Bank is reasonably able to do so without material cost.

Disposition of the Trust Preferred Securities

A U.S. Holder will recognize gain or loss on a sale, exchange or other disposition of the Trust Preferred Securities (including the receipt of a distribution solely of cash in redemption of a U.S. Holder’s Trust Preferred Securities) in an amount equal to the difference between its adjusted tax basis in the Trust Preferred Securities and the amount realized on the disposition of such Trust Preferred Securities. Any gain or loss so recognized generally will be capital gain or loss. Long-term capital gains recognized by an individual U.S. Holder in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities held for more than one year generally are subject to taxation at reduced rates.

A U.S. Holder’s adjusted tax basis in Trust Preferred Securities generally will equal the amount paid for the Trust Preferred Securities, increased by the amount of income allocated to such U.S. Holder and reduced by the amount of any cash distributed to such U.S. Holder with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities. A U.S. Holder who acquires Trust Preferred Securities at different prices may be required to maintain a single aggregate adjusted tax basis in all of his Trust Preferred Securities and, upon sale or other disposition of some of such Trust Preferred Securities, may be required to allocate a pro rata portion of such aggregate tax basis to the Trust Preferred Securities sold (rather than maintaining a separate tax basis in each Trust Preferred Security for purposes of computing gain or loss on a sale of that Trust Preferred Security).

Effect of Tier 1 Qualification Election

Upon a Tier 1 Qualification Election, the terms of the Class B Preferred Securities described in “Description of the Company Securities—Class B Preferred Securities” relating to Capital Payments and other matters will change as described in that section of this prospectus supplement. A U.S. Holder will not realize gain or loss in the event the Bank makes the Tier 1 Qualification Election.

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Receipt of the Class B Preferred Securities Upon Liquidation of the Trust

Under certain circumstances, as described under the caption “Description of the Trust Securities — Redemption”, Class B Preferred Securities may be distributed to Trust Preferred Securityholders in exchange for their Trust Preferred Securities and in liquidation of the Trust. Unless the liquidation of the Trust occurs as a result of the Trust being subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to income accrued or received on the Class B Preferred Securities, such a distribution to a U.S. Holder would, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, be treated as a nontaxable event to each U.S. Holder, each U.S. Holder would receive an aggregate tax basis in the Class B Preferred Securities it receives equal to such U.S. Holder’s aggregate tax basis in its Trust Preferred Securities, and a U.S. Holder’s holding period in the Class B Preferred Securities so received in liquidation of the Trust would include the period during which the Trust Preferred Securities were held by such U.S. Holder. The U.S. Holder of the Class B Preferred Securities would be subject to the same U.S. federal income tax treatment as when it held Trust Preferred Securities, but would hold an interest in the Company rather than an interest in a trust. If, however, the liquidation of the Trust were to occur because the Trust is subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to income accrued or received on the Class B Preferred Securities, the distribution of the Class B Preferred Securities to U.S. Holders by the Trust likely would be a taxable event to each U.S. Holder, and the U.S. Holders would recognize gain or loss as if each U.S. Holder had exchanged its Trust Preferred Securities for Class B Preferred Securities it received upon the liquidation of the Trust. Such gain or loss would be equal to the difference between the U.S. Holder’s aggregate tax basis in its Trust Preferred Securities surrendered in the exchange and the aggregate fair market value of the Class B Preferred Securities received in the exchange.

Receipt of Cash Upon Liquidation of the Trust

In certain circumstances, as described under the captions “Description of the Trust Securities — Redemption” and “— Liquidation Distribution upon Dissolution”, (i) the Class B Preferred Securities may be redeemed for cash and the proceeds of such redemption distributed to Trust Preferred Securityholders in redemption of their Trust Preferred Securities or (ii) the Company may liquidate, in which case liquidation proceeds paid with respect to the Class B Preferred Securities will be distributed pro rata to Trust Preferred Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust. Under current law, such a redemption or liquidation would, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, constitute a taxable disposition of the Trust Preferred Securities, and a U.S. Holder would recognize gain or loss as if it sold such Trust Preferred Securities for cash. See “— Disposition of the Trust Preferred Securities”.

CertainNon-U.S. Holders

The Company intends to operate so that it will not be treated as engaged in the conduct of a U.S. trade or business. Moreover, the Company intends to invest in securities that will be exempt from withholding of U.S. federal income tax when income attributable to such securities is distributed or allocated to beneficial holders of the Class B Preferred Securities provided that certification is furnished as described below.

Accordingly, payments in respect of Trust Preferred Securities that are beneficially owned by a non-resident alien individual or a foreign corporation (a“Non-U.S. Holder”) generally will not be subject to U.S. withholding tax. ANon-U.S. Holder also generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax in respect of its allocable share of the Company’s income unless such income is effectively connected with the conduct by theNon-U.S. Holder of a trade or business in the United States.

Non-U.S. Holders generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax on gain realized on the sale or exchange of the Trust Preferred Securities unless (i) such gain is effectively connected with the conduct by theNon-U.S. Holder of a trade or business in the United States or (ii) in the case of gain realized by an individualNon-U.S. Holder, theNon-U.S. Holder is present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the sale and certain other conditions are met.

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Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

It is expected that income on the Trust Preferred Securities will be reported to U.S. Holders, and may be reported to the IRS, by financial institutions that hold the Trust Preferred Securities on behalf of such U.S. Holders on an IRS Form 1099, which form should be mailed to U.S. Holders by January 31 following each calendar year. Payments made on, and proceeds from the sale of, the Trust Preferred Securities also may be subject to U.S. backup withholding unless the Trust Preferred Securityholder complies with certain identification requirements. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules generally will be allowed as a credit against a Trust Preferred Securityholder’s U.S. federal income tax, provided the required information is timely filed with the IRS.

In general, aNon-U.S. Holder who holds Trust Preferred Securities through anon-United States Bank or othernon-United States financial institution that is a participant in Euroclear or Clearstream will not be required to provide certification ofnon-U.S. status for U.S. withholding purposes and will not be subject to any information reporting rules. In other contexts, however, including where aNon-U.S. Holder withdraws from the Trust and directly holds the Class B Preferred Securities, aNon-U.S. Holder in order to eliminate U.S. information reporting requirements and backup withholding tax will be required to comply with applicable certification procedures to establish the holder’snon-U.S. status (by providing an IRSForm W-8BEN or other applicable form) or otherwise establish its exempt status as a corporation or other exempt recipient.

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CERTAIN ERISA CONSIDERATIONS

General

Each fiduciary of a pension, profit-sharing or other employee benefit plan subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of ERISA (an “ERISA Plan”) should consider the fiduciary standards of ERISA in the context of the ERISA Plan’s particular circumstances before authorizing an investment in the Trust Preferred Securities. Accordingly, among other factors, the fiduciary should consider whether the investment would satisfy the prudence and diversification requirements of ERISA and would be consistent with the documents and instruments governing the ERISA Plan.

Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code prohibit ERISA Plans, as well as individual retirement accounts, Keogh plans and other plans and arrangements subject to Section 4975 of the Code and any entities whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of any such ERISA Plan’s or other account’s, plan’s or arrangement’s investment in the entity (together with ERISA Plans, “Plans”), from engaging in certain transactions involving “plan assets” with persons who are “parties in interest” under ERISA or “disqualified persons” under the Code (together, “Parties in Interest”) with respect to such Plans.

A violation of these “prohibited transaction” rules may result in an excise tax or other liabilities under ERISAand/or Section 4975 of the Code for such Parties in Interest, unless exemptive relief is available under an applicable statutory or administrative exemption. In addition, the fiduciary of the Plan that engaged in such a non-exempt prohibited transaction may be subject to penalties and liabilities under ERISAand/or the Code. In the case of an individual retirement account, the occurrence of a prohibited transaction involving the individual who established the individual retirement account, or his or her beneficiaries, would cause the individual retirement account to lose its tax-exempt status, unless exemptive relief is available.

Employee benefit plans that arenon-U.S. plans (as described in Section 4(b)(4) of ERISA), governmental plans (as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA) and certain church plans (as defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA) are not subject to the requirements of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, but may be subject to non-US, federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to such provisions of ERISA or the Code (“Similar Law”). Such plans are included in the definition of “Plan” herein.

Plan Assets Regulation

Under a regulation issued by the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”) as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Assets Regulation”), the assets of the Trust and the Company could be deemed to be “plan assets” of a Plan for purposes of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code if “plan assets” of the Plan were used to acquire an equity interest in the Trust or in the Company and no exception were applicable under the Plan Assets Regulation. The Trust and the Company can make no assurances that any such exception will be applicable and, accordingly, the assets of both the Trust and the Company may be treated as assets of a Plan that purchases and holds the Trust Preferred Securities (or Class B Preferred Securities).

Prohibited Transactions

Certain transactions involving the Trust or the Company could be deemed to constitute direct or indirect prohibited transactions under ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code with respect to a Plan if the Trust Preferred Securities (or Class B Preferred Securities) were acquired with “plan assets” of such Plan and assets of the Trust and the Company were deemed to be “plan assets” of Plans investing in the Trust and in the Company (either indirectly through holding Trust Preferred Securities or directly through holding Class B Preferred Securities). For example, if the Bank is a Party in Interest with respect to an investing Plan (either directly or by reason of its ownership of its banking or other subsidiaries), the purchase of the Initial Obligation by the Company may be prohibited by Section 406(a)(1) of ERISA and Section 4975(c)(1) of the Code, unless exemptive relief were available under an applicable exemption.

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Each investing Plan, by purchasing the Trust Preferred Securities, will be deemed to have (i) directed the Trust to invest in the Class B Preferred Securities and (ii) directed the Company to invest in the Initial Obligation and Substitute Obligations as set forth in the LLC Agreement. The fiduciary of an investing Plan should determine whether, under these circumstances, transactions involving the assets of the Trust and of the Company — including the investment of the Trust’s assets in the Class B Preferred Securities, the investment of the Company’s assets in the Initial Obligation and any Substitute Obligations — would be in compliance with the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA and the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code. As described below, each investing Plan, by purchasing and holding Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities, will be deemed to have represented that one or more exemptions from the prohibited transaction rules is applicable such that the purchase, holding and redemption of the Trust Preferred Securities (or the Class B Preferred Securities) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA, the Code or any Similar Law.

There are statutory exemptions and administrative prohibited transaction class exemptions (“PTCEs”) that may provide exemptive relief for direct or indirect prohibited transactions resulting from the purchase, holding or redemption of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities under ERISA and the Code, assuming that assets of the Trust and the Company were deemed to be “plan assets” of Plans investing in the Trust and in the Company. Those exemptions are Section 408(b)(17) of ERISA and Section 4975(d)(20) of the Code (for transactions with certain service providers (the Service Provider Exemption)), PTCE96-23 (for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), PTCE95-60 (for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTCE91-38 (for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds), PTCE90-1 (for certain transactions involving insurance company separate accounts), and PTCE84-14 (for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers). There may be similar exemptions from the provisions of Similar Law with respect to Plans subject thereto.

Because the Trust Preferred Securities may be deemed to be equity interests in the Trust and the Class B Preferred Securities may be deemed to be equity interests in the Company for purposes of applying ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law, the Trust Preferred Securities (and Class B Preferred Securities) may not be purchased or held by any Plan or any person investing “plan assets” of any Plan, unless such purchase, holding and any subsequent redemption is eligible for the exemptive relief available under the Service Provider Exemption, PTCE96-23,95-60,91-38,90-1 or84-14 or similar exemptions from Similar Law. Any purchaser or holder of the Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities or any interest therein will be deemed to have represented by its purchase and holding thereof that on each day that it holds Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities either (a) it is not a Plan and is not purchasing such securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” of any Plan or (b) the purchase, holding and redemption of such securities is exempt by reason of the Service Provider Exemption, PTCE96-23,95-60,91-38,90-1 or84-14 or similar exemptions from Similar Law.

In determining its eligibility for exemptive relief under such prohibited transaction exemptions or similar exemptions from Similar Law, a purchaser or holder should consider, among other things, (i) the assets of the Trust (i e., the Class B Preferred Securities), (ii) the assets of the Company (i e., the Obligations), (iii) any other transactions involving the Bank and its affiliates that may be contemplated herein and (iv) any rights exercisable by the Trust or the Company.

Due to the complexity of these rules and the penalties that may be imposed upon persons involved in non-exempt prohibited transactions, it is particularly important that fiduciaries or other persons considering purchasing the Trust Preferred Securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” of any Plan consult with their counsel regarding the potential consequences if the assets of both the Trust and the Company were deemed to be “plan assets” and the availability of exemptive relief under the Service Provider Exemption, PTCE96-23,95-60,91-38,90-1 or84-14 or similar exemptions from Similar Law.

The sale of any Trust Preferred Securities to a Plan is in no respect a representation by the Trust, the Company, the Bank or the underwriters that such an investment meets all relevant legal requirements

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with respect to investments by Plans generally or any particular Plan, or that such an investment is appropriate for Plans generally or any particular Plan.

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UNDERWRITING

We intend to offer the Trust Preferred Securities through the underwriters named below. Subject to the terms and conditions to be set forth in the purchase agreement dated May 16, 2007, among the Bank, the Company, the Trust and the underwriters named therein (the “Purchase Agreement”), the Trust will agree to sell to the underwriters and the underwriters will severally agree to purchase from the Trust, the Trust Preferred Securities with a liquidation preference amount set forth opposite their names below:


	Number of
	Trust
	Preferred
Underwriter	Securities

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.		31,600,000
Utendahl Capital Partners, L.P.		200,000
CastleOak Securities, L.P.		200,000

Total		32,000,000

Under the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement, the underwriters will be committed to purchase and pay for all Trust Preferred Securities offered hereby, if any are taken. The Purchase Agreement entitles the underwriters to terminate the Purchase Agreement in certain circumstances before payment is made to the Trust.

It is expected that delivery of the Trust Preferred Securities will be made against payment on or about May 23, 2007, which will be the fifth New York business day following the date of pricing of the Trust Preferred Securities (such settlement cycle being referred to as “T+5”). UnderRule 15c6-1 of the Exchange Act, as amended, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in three New York business days, unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade the Trust Preferred Securities prior to the third New York business day before the delivery of the Trust Preferred Securities will be required, by virtue of the fact that the Trust Preferred Securities initially will settle in T+5, to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of the Trust Preferred Securities who wish to make such trades should consult their own advisors.

The purchase price for the Trust Preferred Securities will be the initial offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement (which we refer to as the Offering Price). The underwriters propose to offer the Trust Preferred Securities at the Offering Price. The underwriters may also offer the Trust Preferred Securities to securities dealers at a price that represents a concession not in excess of $.25 per Trust Preferred Security. If not all of the Trust Preferred Securities are sold at the Offering Price, the underwriters may change the public offering price and other selling terms.

The Purchase Agreement provides that the Bank will reimburse the underwriters for certain expenses of the Offering. We estimate that theout-of-pocket expenses of the Bank for this Offering will be $350,000.

The following table shows the Offering Price, underwriting discounts and commissions and proceeds before expenses to the Trust.


			Underwriting Discounts			Proceeds, before
	Price to Public		and Commissions			Expenses, to the Trust⁽¹⁾

Per Trust Preferred Security	$	25.00	$	0.25(1	)	$	25.00
Total	$	800,000,000	$	8,000,000(1	)	$	800,000,000


⁽¹⁾		The Bank will pay the underwriters compensation of $.25 per Trust Preferred Security.

Prior to this Offering, there has been no public trading market for the Trust Preferred Securities. We will apply to list the Trust Preferred Securities on the New York Stock Exchange, but no assurances can be

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given that the application for listing will be approved. There is no assurance that there will be a secondary market for the Trust Preferred Securities.

During a period of 30 days from the date of this prospectus supplement, neither the Trust nor the Company nor any other subsidiary of the Bank that is similar to the Trust or the Company will, without the prior written consent of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., directly or indirectly, issue, sell, offer or contract to sell, grant any option for sale of, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, any Trust Preferred Securities or any Class B Preferred Securities or any security convertible into or exchangeable for the Trust Preferred Securities or Class B Preferred Securities.

Because the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”) views trust preferred securities as a “direct participation program,” any offering of the Trust Preferred Securities will be subject to Rule 2810 of the Conduct Rules of the NASD.

The offer and sale of any Trust Preferred Securities by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank, will comply with the applicable provisions of Rule 2720 of the Conduct Rules of the NASD regarding a member firm’s underwriting securities of an affiliate. As required by Rule 2720, any such offer and sale will not be made to any accounts over which Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. exercises discretionary authority without the prior approval of the customer.

Any of the Bank’s broker-dealer subsidiaries or affiliates, including Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., may buy and sell the Trust Preferred Securities in secondary market transactions as part of their business as broker-dealers. Any sale will be at negotiated prices relating to prevailing prices at the time of sale. This prospectus supplement, together with the accompanying prospectus, may be used in connection with offers and sales related to secondary market transactions in the Trust Preferred Securities by and through our broker-dealer subsidiaries or affiliates, including Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Any of the Bank’s broker-dealer subsidiaries or affiliates, including Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., may act as principal or agent in such transactions.

The Trust Preferred Securities are a new issue of securities with no established trading market. The Trust, the Company and the Bank have been advised by the underwriters that they currently intend to make a market in the Trust Preferred Securities. However, none of the underwriters or the Bank’s broker-dealer subsidiaries or affiliates, including Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., has any obligation to make a market in the Trust Preferred Securities and may discontinue any market-making activities at any time without notice, at its sole discretion.

In the ordinary course of business, certain of the underwriters and their affiliates have provided financial advisory, investment banking and general financing and banking services for the Bank and its affiliates for customary fees, and may do so again in the future.

The Bank, the Trust and the Company have agreed to indemnify the underwriters and certain other persons against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, and to contribute to payments which the underwriter and such persons may be required to make as a result of such liabilities.

In connection with the offering, the underwritersand/or their affiliates may engage in stabilizing transactions, over-allotment transactions, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids in accordance with Regulation M under the Exchange Act.


•	Stabilizing transactions consist of certain bids for or purchases of Trust Preferred Securities in the open market made for the purpose of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the Trust Preferred Securities while the Offering is in progress.

•	Over-allotment involves sales by the underwriters of Trust Preferred Securities in excess of the number of Trust Preferred Securities the underwriters are obligated to purchase, which creates a syndicate short position. The underwriters may close out any short position by purchasing Trust Preferred Securities in the open market.

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•	Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of the Trust Preferred Securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. A naked short position can only be closed out by buying Trust Preferred Securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of the Trust Preferred Securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.

•	Penalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the underwriters repurchase Trust Preferred Securities originally sold by that syndicate member in order to cover syndicate short positions or make stabilizing purchases.

These stabilizing transactions, overallotment and syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of the Trust Preferred Securities or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the Trust Preferred Securities. As a result the price of the Trust Preferred Securities may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. If the underwriters commence any of these transactions, they discontinue them at any time. These transactions may be effected in theirover-the-counter market or otherwise.

Selling Restrictions

European Economic Area

In relation to each member state of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”), each underwriter has represented and agreed that with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”) it has not made and will not make an offer of the Trust Preferred Securities to the public in that Relevant Member State except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of the Trust Preferred Securities to the public in that Relevant Member State:


•	in the period beginning on the date of publication of a prospectus in relation to those Trust Preferred Securities which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State in accordance with the Prospectus Directive and/or, where appropriate, published in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State in accordance with Article 18 of the Prospectus Directive and ending on the date which is 12 months after the date of such publication;

•	at any time to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;

•	at any time to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than €43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or

•	at any time in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the Trust of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of the Trust Preferred Securities to the public” in relation to any Trust Preferred Securities in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Trust Preferred Securities to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Trust Preferred Securities, as the same may be varied in that member state by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that member state and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

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United Kingdom

Each underwriter has represented and agreed that:


•	it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the Regulations and of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “FSMA”) with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Trust Preferred Securities in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom; and

•	it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any Trust Preferred Securities in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply.

General

Each underwriter has represented and agreed that it will not take any action (including without limitation, the possession or distribution of the accompanying prospectus, this prospectus supplement or any other offering document or any publicity or other material relating to the Trust Preferred Securities) in any country or jurisdiction outside of the United States where such action would (i) result in any violation of applicable law or (ii) cause the issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities to be considered an offering to the public under applicable law.

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This prospectus supplement is part of a registration statement onForm F-3 (FileNo. 333-137902) we have filed with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This prospectus supplement omits some information contained in the registration statement in accordance with SEC rules and regulations. You should review the information in and exhibits to the registration statement for further information on us and the securities we are offering. Statements in this prospectus supplement concerning any document we filed or will file as an exhibit to the registration statement or that we otherwise filed with the SEC are not intended to be comprehensive and are qualified in their entirety by reference to these filings. You should review the complete document to evaluate these statements.

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” much of the information we file with the SEC, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those publicly available documents. The information that we incorporate by reference in this prospectus supplement is an important part of this prospectus supplement. For information on the documents we incorporate by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, we refer you to “Where You Can Find Additional Information” on page 5 of the accompanying prospectus.

In lieu of the specific documents incorporated by reference listed on page 5 of the accompanying prospectus, we incorporate by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus (1) the Annual Report of Deutsche Bank AG for the year ended December 31, 2006, filed on March 27, 2007, which we also refer to as onForm 20-F for 2006 and (2) the Description of our Memorandum and Articles of Association in Item 10 of the Annual Report onForm 20-F of Deutsche Bank AG for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed on March 25, 2004. In lieu of the Report onForm 6-K of Deutsche Bank AG filed on August 2, 2006, we incorporate by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus the Reports onForm 6-K of Deutsche Bank AG filed on April 20, 2007 and May 8, 2007, including the exhibits thereto, except that the section on page 13 of the Interim Report included as an exhibit to the Report onForm 6-K dated May 8, 2007 entitled “Outlook” is not so incorporated by reference.

In addition to the documents listed in the accompanying prospectus and described above, we incorporate by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus any future documents we file with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act from the date of this prospectus supplement until this Offering is completed. Reports onForm 6-K we furnish to the SEC after the date of this prospectus supplement (or portions thereof) are incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement only to the extent that the report expressly states that it (or such portions) is incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement.

You may request, at no cost to you, a copy of these documents (other than exhibits not specifically incorporated by reference) by writing or telephoning us at: Deutsche Bank AG, Taunusanlage 12, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Attention: Investor Relations (Telephone: +49-69-910-0).

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LEGAL MATTERS

Certain legal matters with respect to Delaware law relating to the validity of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities will be passed upon for the Trust, the Company, the Delaware Trustee and the Bank by Richards, Layton & Finger, P. A., Wilmington, Delaware. Certain legal matters with respect to German law will be passed upon for Deutsche Bank AG by Group Legal Services of Deutsche Bank AG. Certain legal matters with respect to United States and New York law will be passed upon for the underwriters by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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GLOSSARY

“Additional Amounts” means such additional amounts payable by the Company or Trust pursuant to the terms of the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities as additional Capital Payments (or Arrears of Payments, as the case may be) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities and the Trust Preferred Securities, after deduction or withholding for or on account of any Withholding Taxes, on payments on and any amount payable in liquidation or on repayment upon redemption thereof, will equal the amounts that otherwise would have been received had no such deduction or withholding been required.

“Additional Interest Amounts” means any additional interest amounts payable by the Bank or other obligor pursuant to the terms of the Initial Obligation or Substitute Obligation as a result of deduction or withholding for or on account of any Withholding Taxes upon payment of interest on the Initial Obligation or Substitute Obligation or repayment upon redemption thereof.

“Arrears of Payments” means Capital Payments and Additional Amounts, In reply to: any, the payment of which has, in accordance with the deferral provisions of the Trust Preferred Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities, as the case may be, applicable on and after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, been deferred and which thereupon constitute cumulative arrears of Capital Payments.

“BaFin” means the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority(Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht).

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

“Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banks in the City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to close.

“Capital Payments” means the periodic distributions on the Trust Securities and the Class B Preferred Securities.

“Class A Preferred Security” means the noncumulative Class A Preferred Security evidencing a preferred ownership interest in the Company.

“Class B Preferred Guarantee” means the agreement by Deutsche Bank AG with The Bank of New York as Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Class B Preferred Securities to guarantee payment, on a subordinated basis, of certain payments on the Class B Preferred Securities.

“Class B Preferred Securities” means the noncumulative Class B Preferred Securities evidencing preferred ownership interests in the Company.

“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Company” means Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital LLC II, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Company Common Security” means the voting common security representing a limited liability company interest in the Company.

“Company Preferred Securities” means the Class B Preferred Securities together with the Class A Preferred Security.

“Company Special Redemption Event” means (i) a Regulatory Event, (ii) a Tax Event other than a Tax Event solely with respect to the Trust, or (iii) an Investment Company Act Event with respect to the Company.

“Deferred Payments” means any capital payments, dividends or other distributions or payments deferred on a cumulative basis pursuant to the terms of any Parity Capital Security.

“Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, as amended.

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“Delaware Trustee” means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Delaware, in its capacity as Delaware trustee of the Trust.

“Distributable Profits” of the Bank for any fiscal year is the balance sheet profit (Bilanzgewinn) as of the end of such fiscal year, as shown in the audited unconsolidated balance sheet of the Bank as of the end of such fiscal year. Such balance sheet profit includes the annual surplus or loss (Jahresüberschuss/-fehlbetrag),plusany profit carried forward from previous years,minusany loss carried forward from previous years,plustransfers from capital reserves and earnings reserves,minusallocations to earnings reserves, all as determined in accordance with the provisions of the German Stock Corporation Act (Aktiengesetz) and accounting principles generally accepted in the Federal Republic of Germany as described in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch) and other applicable German law then in effect.

“Global Certificates” means one or more global certificates representing the Trust Preferred Securities.

“Group Capital Securities” of any person means any interests in the capital of such person that rank (A) senior to the preference shares, Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities and common shares of such person and (B) junior to all other obligations of such person that (i) rank senior to the preference shares and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities, if any, of such person and (ii) do not by their terms rank pari passu with such interests.

“Guarantees” means the Trust Preferred Guarantee and the Class B Preferred Guarantee, collectively.

“Initial Obligation” means the U.S.$800,000,025 6.55% perpetual subordinated note of the Bank, acquired by the Company using proceeds from the issuance of the Class B Preferred Securities.

“Initial Redemption Date” means May 23, 2017, the first day on which the Class B Preferred Securities will be redeemable other than on the occurrence of a Company Special Redemption Event.

“Investment Company” means an investment company within the meaning of the 1940 Act.

“Investment Company Act Event” means the request and receipt by the Bank of an opinion of a nationally recognized U.S. law firm experienced in such matters to the effect that there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Company or the Trust is or will be considered an Investment Company as a result of any judicial decision, pronouncement or interpretation (irrespective of the manner made known), the adoption or amendment of any law, rule or regulation, or any notice or announcement (including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt such law, rule or regulation) by any U.S. legislative body, court, governmental agency, or regulatory authority, in each case after the Issue Date.

“IRS” means the Internal Revenue Service.

“Issue Date” means May 23, 2007, the issue date of the Trust Preferred Securities.

“Junior Securities” means (i) ordinary shares of common stock of the Bank, (ii) each class of preference shares of the Bank ranking junior to Preferred Tier 1 Securities of the Bank, if any, and any other instrument of the Bank ranking on parity with such preference shares or junior thereto and (iii) preference shares or any other instrument of any subsidiary of the Bank subject to any guarantee or support agreement of the Bank which guarantee or support undertaking ranks junior to the obligations of the Bank under the Guarantees.

“LLC Act” means the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, as amended.

“LLC Agreement” means the limited liability company agreement of the Company, as amended and restated in its entirety prior to the issuance of Company Preferred Securities.

“Obligations” means (i) the Initial Obligation, (ii) an obligation, if any, issued by the Bank in connection with a notice to the Company to issue additional Class B Preferred Securities and having the same terms and conditions as the Initial Obligation in all respects except for the issue date, the date from which interest

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accrues, the issue price and any other deviations required for compliance with applicable law and (iii) the Substitute Obligations, if any.

“Obligation Special Redemption Event” means (i) a Regulatory Event, (ii) a Tax Event, or (iii) an Investment Company Act Event.

“Offering” means the offering by Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II of the Trust Preferred Securities.

“Offering Price” means the initial offering price of $25 per Trust Preferred Security.

“Operating Profits” of the Company for any Payment Period means the excess of the amounts paid on the Obligations that the Company may then hold in accordance with the LLC Agreement during such Payment Period over any operating expenses of the Company not paid or reimbursed by the Bank or one of its branches or affiliates during such Payment Period.

“Parity Capital Securities” means Parity Subsidiary Capital Securities and each class of ownership interests in the capital of the Bank that rank senior to the preference shares of the Bank and junior to all other securities of the Bank that (i) rank senior to preference shares and (ii) do not by their terms rankpari passuwith such ownership interests of the Bank, if any.

“Parity Subsidiary Capital Securities” means any instrument of any subsidiary of the Bank subject to any guarantee or support agreement of the Bank rankingpari passuwith the obligations of the Bank under the terms of the Guarantees in effect before the Tier 1 Qualification Date.

“Payment Date” means February 23, May 23, August 23 and November 23 of each year, commencing August 23, 2007.

“Payment Period” means the period from and including the immediately preceding Payment Date (or the Issue Date, with respect to Capital Payments payable on Class B Preferred Securities and Trust Preferred Securities and interest payable on the Initial Obligation, on the first Payment Date) to but excluding the relevant Payment Date.

“Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities” of any person means each class of the most senior ranking preference shares of such person and any other instruments of such person (other than common shares) qualifying as Tier 1 Regulatory Capital and, if such person is the Bank, Preferred Tier 1 Subsidiary Securities.

“Preferred Tier 1 Securities” means (i) each class of the most senior ranking preference shares of the Bank, if any, and (ii) preference shares or any other instrument of any subsidiary of the Bank subject to any guarantee or support agreement of the Bank which guarantee or support undertaking ranks on parity with the obligations of the Bank under the Guarantees.

“Preferred Tier 1 Subsidiary Securities” means the most senior ranking preference shares and any other instruments of any person other than the Bank, which, in each case, qualify as Tier 1 Regulatory Capital and are subject to any agreement of the Bank that guarantees or otherwise provides support of such preference shares or other instruments.

“Principal Amount” means, in connection with the Initial Obligation, the aggregate principal amount of $800,000,025.

“Property Trustee” means The Bank of New York, in its capacity as trustee of the Trust.

“Redemption Date” means the date of redemption of the Class B Preferred Securities.

“Redemption Price” means with respect to a Class B Preferred Security or a Trust Preferred Security, as applicable, a redemption price per such security equal to the liquidation preference amount thereof, plus

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any accrued and unpaid Capital Payments for the then current Payment Period to but excluding the Redemption Date, plus Additional Amounts, if any, plus Arrears of Payments, if any.

“Regular Trustees” means the three Trustees of the Trust who are employees or officers of, or who are affiliated with, the Bank.

“Regulatory Event” means that the Bank is notified by a relevant regulatory authority that, as a result of the occurrence of any amendment to, or change (including any change that has been adopted but has not yet become effective) in, the applicable banking laws of Germany (or any rules, regulations or interpretations thereunder, including rulings of the relevant banking authorities) or the guidelines of the Committee on Banking Supervision at the Bank for International Settlements, in each case effective after the date of the issuance of the Company Securities and the Trust Securities, the Bank is not, or will not be, allowed to treat the Class B Preferred Securities (i) prior to the Tier 1 Qualification Date, as supplementary capital (Ergänzungskapital) or upper Tier 2 regulatory capital or (ii) from and after the Tier 1 Qualification Date, as core capital (Kernkapital) or Tier 1 regulatory capital, in each case for capital adequacy purposes on a consolidated basis.

“Relevant Jurisdiction” means the United States or Germany (or any jurisdiction from which payments are made) or, during any period during which Substitute Obligations are outstanding, the jurisdiction of residence of any obligor on such Substitute Obligations (or any jurisdiction from which payments are made).

“Services Agreement” means the services agreement among the Trust, the Company and the Bank (which may act through its New York branch).

“Sponsor” means the Company, in relation to the Trust Agreement.

“Stated Rate” means the fixed coupon rate of 6.55% per annum for the accrual of Capital Payments (or, in the case of the Initial Obligation, for the accrual of interest) during Payment Periods, in each case calculated on the basis of a360-day year of twelve30-day months.

“Subordinated Deposit Agreement” means the subordinated deposit agreement dated as of May 23, 2007 between the Bank and the Company.

“Subsidiary” means a subsidiary (i) that is consolidated with the Bank for German bank regulatory purposes and (ii) of which the Bank owns or controls, directly or indirectly, more than (x) fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting stock or other equity interest entitled ordinarily to vote in the election of the directors or other governing body (however designated) and (y) fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock or other equity interest.

“Substitute Obligations” means a subordinated obligation issued (in substitution for the Initial Obligation or of Substitute Obligations or any additional obligation described in the definition of “Obligation”) by the Bank or a Subsidiary with the same aggregate principal amount and interest rate and payment dates as those of the Initial Obligation and a maturity that is perpetual or is not earlier than May 23, 2037 and terms otherwise substantially identical to those of the Initial Obligation,provided,that unless the Bank itself is the issuer of the Substitute Obligations, the Bank (which may act through a branch) guarantees on a subordinated basis, at least equal to the ranking of the Initial Obligation, the obligations of the new substitute obligor;provided,in each case, that (i) the Bank has received the written opinion of a nationally recognized law firm in the United States that reinvestment in such Substitute Obligation will not adversely affect the “qualified dividend income” eligibility for purposes of Section 1(h)(11) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (or any successor legislation), of Capital Payments on the Trust Preferred Securities or cause the holders thereof to recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) such substitution or replacement does not result in a Company Special Redemption Event or a Trust Special Redemption Event, andprovided, furtherin each case that the Bank has obtained any required regulatory approvals.

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“Successor Trust Securities” means other securities having substantially the same terms as the Trust Securities.

“Tax Event” means (A) the receipt by the Bank of an opinion of a nationally recognized law firm or other tax adviser in a Relevant Jurisdiction, as appropriate, experienced in such matters, to the effect that as a result of (i) any amendment to, or clarification of, or change (including any announced prospective change) in, the laws (or any regulations promulgated thereunder) of a Relevant Jurisdiction or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation, (ii) any judicial decision, official administrative pronouncement, published or private ruling, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement (including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt such procedures or regulations) by any legislative body, court, governmental authority or regulatory body (“Administrative Action”) or (iii) any amendment to, clarification of, or change in the official position or the interpretation of such Administrative Action or any interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to such Administrative Action that differs from the theretofore generally accepted position, in each case, by any legislative body, court, governmental authority or regulatory body, irrespective of the manner in which such amendment, clarification or change is made known, which amendment, clarification or change is effective, or which pronouncement or decision is announced, after the date of issuance of the Company Preferred Securities and the Trust Securities, there is more than an insubstantial risk that (a) the Trust or the Company is or will be subject to more than ade minimisamount of taxes, duties or other governmental charges, or (b) the Trust, the Company, an obligor on the Obligations or the Guarantor would be obligated to pay Additional Amounts, Additional Interest Amounts or Trust Preferred Additional Guarantee Payments or Class B Preferred Additional Guarantee Payments, as applicable, or (B) a final determination has been made by the German tax authorities to the effect that the Bank, as obligor on the Obligations, may not, in the determination of its taxable income for the purposes of determining German corporate income tax in any year, deduct in full interest payments on the Obligations (except to the extent such interest payments are determined to be connected with income of a branch that is not subject to taxation in Germany). However, none of the foregoing will constitute a Tax Event if it may be avoided by the Bank, the Trust or the Company taking reasonable measures under the circumstances.

“Tier 2 Junior Securities” means (i) common stock of the Bank, (ii) each class of preference shares of the Bank ranking junior to Parity Capital Securities and Preferred Tier 1 Capital Securities of the Bank, if any, and any other instrument of the Bank ranking pari passu therewith or junior thereto and (iii) preference shares or any other instrument of any subsidiary of the Bank (other than Preferred Tier 1 Subsidiary Securities) subject to any guarantee or support agreement of the Bank ranking junior to the obligations of the Bank under the terms of the Guarantees in effect on and after the Tier 1 Qualification Election.

“Tier 1 Qualification Date” means the date, which must be a Payment Date and may be no later then the Payment Date falling closest to, but not later than, the fifth anniversary of the Issue Date, on which the Tier 1 Qualification Election shall be effective, if the Bank makes a Tier 1 Qualification Election.

“Tier 1 Qualification Election” means the election of the Bank to replace specified terms of the Class B Securities with terms specified to be applicable from and after such election.

“Trust” means Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust.

“Trust Agreement” means the trust agreement among the Trustees, the Company as Sponsor and the Bank, as amended and restated in its entirety prior to the issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities.

“Trust Common Security” means the common security of the Trust.

“Trust Enforcement Event” under the Trust Agreement means the occurrence, at any time, of any of (i) non-payment of Capital Payments (plus any Additional Amounts thereon, if any) on the Trust Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate in full, for four consecutive Payment Periods, (ii) non-payment of Capital Payments (plus any Additional Amounts thereon, if any) on the Class B Preferred Securities at the Stated Rate in full, for four consecutive Payment Periods, (iii) a default by the Guarantor (x) in respect of any of its payment obligations under the Trust Preferred Guarantee and (y) in the performance of any other

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obligation under the Trust Preferred Guarantee, and, in the case of (y), continuance of such default for 60 days after the Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee has given notice thereof to the Guarantor, and (iv) a default by the Guarantor (x) in respect of any of its payment obligations under the Class B Preferred Guarantee and (y) in the performance of any other obligation under the Class B Preferred Guarantee, and, in the case of (y), continuance of such default for 60 days after the Class B Preferred Guarantee Trustee has given notice thereof to the Guarantor.

“Trust Preferred Guarantee” means the agreement by Deutsche Bank AG with The Bank of New York as Trust Preferred Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities to guarantee the payment, on a subordinated basis, of certain payments on the Trust Preferred Securities.

“Trust Preferred Securities” means the 32,000,000 6.55% Trust Preferred Securities, liquidation preference amount $25 per security offered in the Offering.

“Trust Securities” means the Trust Common Security together with the Trust Preferred Securities.

“Trust Special Redemption Event” means (i) a Tax Event with respect to the Trust, or (ii) an Investment Company Act Event with respect to the Trust.

“Trustees” means the five trustees of the Trust pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

“U.S. GAAP” means accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

“Withholding Taxes” means any present or future taxes, duties or governmental charges of any nature whatsoever imposed, levied or collected by or on behalf of any Relevant Jurisdiction, or by or on behalf of any political subdivision or authority therein or thereof having the power to tax.

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EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements of Deutsche Bank AG and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006, which were prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, are incorporated by reference herein in reliance upon the audit report of KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (which we refer to as KPMG), Marie-Curie-Strasse 30, D-60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, independent registered public accounting firm, given upon the authority of that firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

The audit report of KPMG refers to the fact that Deutsche Bank AG adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004) “Share-Based Payment” and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158 “Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans” during 2006.

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Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II
(a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft)

32,000,000 6.55% Trust Preferred Securities
(Liquidation Preference Amount $25 per Trust Preferred Security)

guaranteed on a subordinated basis by

Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft

Prospectus Supplement

Deutsche Bank Securities

May 16, 2007

Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II 424B2Prospectus for primary offering