Ervin Paul Hexner

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Ervin Paul Hexner (also Erwin Paul Hexner ; born August 13, 1893 in Liptovský Mikuláš ; † May 15, 1968 in Danville, Pennsylvania ) was an American lawyer, economist and political scientist. He came from a Carpathian German family in Slovakia , which after the First World War belonged to the newly founded Czechoslovakia from 1918 .

After studying law, Ervin Hexner worked as a lawyer specializing in commercial law from the mid-1920s and soon became an expert on industrial cartels . He published in German in the 1920s and 1930s, but only a little in Czech. From 1931 to 1939 he was a lecturer in Pressburg ; otherwise Hexner acted as a representative of the Czechoslovak government in the international steel cartel . In 1939 he emigrated to the United States, where he initially worked again as a lawyer, but then succeeded as an expert in international economic relations, initially for international business cartels and then for international intergovernmental organizations . He was best known for his book on the International Steel Cartel , which had several editions between 1943 and 1976, and a little later for his work on 'International Cartels', which was also reprinted several times between 1945 and 1971.

In July 1944, Hexner took part in the Bretton Woods Conference , at which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded, as a delegate of the Czechoslovak government in exile. Between 1946 and 1958 he was Senior Counselor and Assistant General Counsel at the IMF. In the 1940s Hexner was professor of economics and politics at the University of North Carolina , in the early 1960s until his retirement professor at the Pennsylvania State University .

Works

  • General legal norms in the Czechoslovak Republic , Brno 1927.
  • Basics of Czechoslovak antitrust law , Berlin 1929.
  • Československé kartely, Společnosti pořádané dne 27. února 1933 , Praha-Přikop 1933.
  • Studies in legal terminology , Chapel Hill 1941.
  • The International Steel Cartel , Chapel Hill 1943 and 1946, Westport 1976.
  • International Cartels , Chapel Hill 1945 and 1946, Westport 1971.
  • Teleological interpretation of basic instruments of public international organizations , in: Law, state, and international legal order , 1964, pp. 119-138.
  • The executive board of the International Monetary Fund: A decision-making instrument , in: International organization , Vol. 18.1964, 1, pp. 74–96.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hazleton Standard Speaker, May 17, 1968, p. 16.
  2. ^ Corwin D. Edwards, Review of 'Hexner: International Cartels', in: Journal of Politics, 8 (1946), p. 555.
  3. ↑ http://www.lootedartcommission.com/bretton-woods
  4. ^ Ervin P. Hexner, The executive board of the International Monetary Fund: A decision-making instrument, in: International organization, 18 (1964), No. 1, p. 74.
personal data
SURNAME Hexner, Ervin Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hexner, Erwin Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Liptovský Mikuláš
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1968
Place of death Danville, Pennsylvania