How to Convert a Deutsche Bank Statement PDF to CSV

Deutsche Bank is Germany's largest bank and a global financial institution. Their Girokonto (checking account) statements are issued in German with specific formatting that international tools rarely handle correctly: DD.MM.YYYY dates with dots, comma as decimal separator (1.234,56 means one thousand two hundred thirty-four euros and fifty-six cents), and German-language column headers.

If you need to import Deutsche Bank transactions into English-language accounting software, international tax preparation tools, or spreadsheets with standard number formatting, you need a converter that understands German banking conventions.

Log in to Deutsche Bank Online Banking at meine.deutsche-bank.de. Navigate to your Girokonto and select "Kontoauszug" or "Kontoauszuege" from the menu. Choose the statement period and download the PDF.

Deutsche Bank statements include your BIC, IBAN, and all account movements for the period. The transaction table shows Buchungstag (booking date), Verwendungszweck (purpose/description), Betrag EUR (amount in EUR), and Saldo EUR (balance in EUR).

Business accounts (Geschaeftskonto) are available through a similar process in the Deutsche Bank Business portal.

Upload your Deutsche Bank PDF at convertstatement.com. The parser detects Deutsche Bank from the document content and switches to European number parsing mode.

This is critical: a generic converter would read "1.234,56" as 1.234 (dropping the comma portion) or produce an error. ConvertStatement's Deutsche Bank parser correctly interprets comma-decimal notation and converts amounts to standard format in the export (1234.56).

Dates are converted from DD.MM.YYYY (German dot format) to ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD) in the output. This ensures they sort correctly in Excel and import properly into accounting software regardless of your system locale.

Deutsche Bank statements present a formatting challenge that many converters miss: transaction amounts are unsigned. The Betrag (amount) column shows the absolute value without a plus or minus sign. Whether a transaction is a debit (Belastung) or credit (Gutschrift) must be inferred from context.

ConvertStatement uses balance tracking to determine debit vs. credit. For each transaction, the parser compares the previous balance with the new balance. If the balance decreased, the transaction was a debit (negative). If it increased, it was a credit (positive). This approach is reliable because the statement always includes a running balance.

After conversion, download in the format your tools expect:

- CSV — Standard international format with dot-decimal numbers. Opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers. Column headers in English (Date, Description, Amount, Balance). - Excel (XLSX) — Properly formatted with number types that your Excel version recognizes regardless of locale settings. - OFX — Open Financial Exchange format with EUR currency code. Works with Quicken, Sage, DATEV, and other financial software. - QBO — QuickBooks Web Connect format for importing into QuickBooks. EUR currency is set automatically.

All exports use standard international number formatting (dot decimal) so they work with English-language software without locale issues.

Does this work with Deutsche Bank Geschaeftskonto (business account)? Yes. Business account statements use the same format as personal Girokonto statements.

What about Deutsche Bank Sparkonto (savings)? Savings account statements follow a simpler version of the same format. Fewer transactions, same structure.

Can I use this with DATEV? Yes. Export to CSV and import into DATEV Unternehmen Online. The standardized format (Date, Description, Amount) maps to DATEV's import schema. You may need to adjust column mapping in DATEV's import wizard.

What if my statement has very long Verwendungszweck (purpose) text? Deutsche Bank descriptions can be lengthy, sometimes spanning multiple lines in the PDF. The parser captures the full text and places it in a single Description column in the export.

Is the IBAN included in the export? For privacy, the export focuses on transaction data. Account identifiers (IBAN, BIC) from the statement header are not included in CSV/Excel output.