German protection association against white-collar crime
| German protection association against white-collar crime | |
|---|---|
| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1955 |
| Seat | bad Homburg |
The German Protection Association against White-Collar Crime (DSW) is an association with legal capacity to promote commercial interests with the task of preventing white-collar crime , e.g. B. in the form of bribery and kickbacks , criminal advertising, criminal offenses in the economy, credit fraud and fraudulent companies , to combat or to act preventively. In doing so, it works together with the responsible bodies in the administration of justice . According to Section 8 (3) No. 2 UWG, the DSW is authorized to assert injunctive relief from the law against unfair competition .
history
A predecessor organization of the DSW was the "Association against Bribery" founded in Berlin in 1911, which was dissolved in 1943 by order of the Reich Ministry of Economics and re-established in 1955. In 1973 the headquarters of the organization was relocated to Frankfurt, where the administration was merged with that of the “Center for Combating Unfair Competition”. At the same time the name was changed to “Association against Bribery and White-Collar Crime”.
A second branch of predecessor organizations goes back to the "Association of German non-profit and impartial legal information centers", whose successor organization "German Central Office for Combating Fraudulent Companies" was also founded in 1911 with its seat in Hamburg.
These two associations (the "Association against Bribery and White Collar Crime" and the "German Central Office for Combating Fraudulent Companies") were merged with effect from January 1, 1978 to form the "German Protection Association against White Collar Crime".
Web links
- www.dsw-schutzverband.de - the association's website
literature
Marcel Kisseler : From the association against bribery to the German protection association against white-collar crime. In: Competition in Law and Practice (WRP). Issue 11/1986, pp. 589-596
Individual evidence
- ↑ The information in this section is based primarily on the presentation by Marcel Kisseler: Geschichte on the website of the DSW.