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According to the draft plan, Deutsche Bank would be enabled to
sell assets to other lenders at prices that would ease the
strain on the lender and not put an additional burden on the
bank, the paper said.
In an extreme emergency, the German government would even offer
to take a direct stake of 25 percent, the paper added without
saying where it got the information.
A Deutsche Bank spokesman referred to an interview Chief
Executive John Cryan gave German daily Bild on Wednesday and
denied the report.
"At no point did I ask the chancellor for support. Neither did I
suggest anything like that," had told Cryan Bild in response to
a different report that said he had asked German Chancellor
Angela Merkel for her support with a $14 billion U.S. demand to
settle claims it missold mortgage-backed securities.
Such a request would be "out of the question for us," Cryan
said, adding that he could not understand how "anyone could
claim that."
The German government is still hoping Deutsche Bank will not
need state support and only scenarios for a potential rescue are
being discussed so far, Die Zeit reported.
(Reporting by Arno Schuetze; Editing by Tina Bellon)
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