Gdansk Stock Exchange
The Gdansk Stock Exchange was the stock exchange in Gdansk and had only local significance.
history
Since the 16th century the Gdansk merchants traded on the Langenmarkt in front of the Artus Court in Gdansk. Plans to build a covered stock exchange on the square are documented from 1596 and 1676, but they were not implemented. On October 31, 1742, the city council approved the application of 88 companies to set up the Artus Court as a stock exchange. Until the First World War it was almost a pure commodity exchange. Above all, grain, animal feed, pulses, wood and sugar were traded. Individual sources speak of a (small) exchange transaction .
In 1822 the corporation of merchants, later the Gdansk Chamber of Commerce , was founded by a royal patent . Their task was, among other things, to issue stock exchange regulations and to exercise stock exchange supervision.
With the formation of the Free City of Danzig by the victorious powers of World War I , restrictions on the movement of capital from Danzig resulted . As a result, both Danzig Gulden and some securities such as Danziger Privat-Actien-Bank were traded on the Danzig Stock Exchange.
swell
- Hans Pohl et al. a. (Ed.): German stock exchange history. 1992, ISBN 3-7819-0519-5 , pages 89, 104, 105, 172, 178
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 55.8 ″ N , 18 ° 39 ′ 13.1 ″ E