BERLIN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The German government should

hold onto its Commerzbank share and reflect calmly on

the situation, the German lender's finance chief said on

Tuesday.

"We have all been very surprised by the process," CFO

Bettina Orlopp told journalists at a startup summit in Berlin.

"That's why the most important thing now is simply to sort it

out calmly, to think about what's on the table now and how to

deal with it."