The head of Morgan Stanley's (MS.N) German unit, one of the country's best-connected dealmakers, has been granted leave of absence by the bank following an uproar over emails he reportedly exchanged with a regional politician. Dirk Notheis, 44, has run the U.S. investment bank's operations in Germany and Austria for more than three years, earning a reputation as an aggressive banker with close ties to Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservatives. He came under fire in the past week after German newspapers published copies of emails Notheis reportedly sent to the premier of Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2010, when the ... (full story)