>the German Deutsche Bank above US Fed Reserve, or at same level?
It's confusing. Deutsche Bank is different than the Deutsche Bundesbank.
Deutsch is how the Germans say German, so Deutsche Bank would be like our Bank of America, a private or consumer bank with the country as part of the trademark name.
The Deutsche Bundesbank is the German Federal Bank. I believe it's the equivalent of the federal reserve in the US, but I don't know if the Bundesbank is private, government or a mongrel.
>Would you say the German central bank ranks level with US Fed, but below Bank of England?
I don't really know. I would guess, though, that since there is an EU central bank the Bundesbank would be (on paper) a subordinate to the EU central bank, with the ECB bank being more like the fed.
The Bank of England is supposedly the prototype for the fed, so, by that measure, ECB is the EU's Bank of England equivalent.
Both the Bundsebank and the ECB are in Frankfurt, however, so perhaps the BUBa has more influence than the central banks of the other EU members, or they actually dictate ECB policy.