Jürgen Ponto was arguably the most significant banking figure in the Federal Republic during the 1970s. Ralf Ahrens and Johannes Bähr provide a deep insight into his world and professional environment, which represented the pinnacle of the German economy in the face of upheaval and crisis, through this first biography. The biography of Jürgen Ponto tells the story of a rise from an unknown banking lawyer to an outstanding banker and public representative of the German banking sector. Appointed as the spokesperson for the board of directors of Dresdner Bank in 1969, Ponto quickly became one of the most influential men in the German economy. He remained an exceptional figure: the communicatively gifted Ponto did not fit the traditional image of a distinguished banker nor the stereotype of a profit-driven bank manager. As a cosmopolitan figure of sympathy.