Ash Schümann Commichau

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Ash Schümann Commichau

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legal form Partnership company mbB
founding 1822
Seat Hamburg , Germany
management Tom Kemcke, Dr. Andrew of Warriors
Number of employees approx. 230, including approx. 100 lawyers, tax consultants and auditors (including 39 partners)
sales € 23.7 million (2014) (estimated)
Branch Legal advice , auditing and tax advice
Website https://www.esche.de
Status: 2015

Esche Schümann Commichau is a multidisciplinary law firm in Germany based in Hamburg . In 2015, the firm had around 230 employees, including around 100 lawyers, tax consultants and auditors (including 41 partners).

history

Johann Carl Knauth

The law firm "Esche Schümann Commichau" (ESCHE) has its roots in the law firm "Knauth" founded by Johann Carl Knauth on June 21, 1822 . ESCHE is considered to be "the oldest law firm in Hamburg that still exists today and one of the oldest law firms in Germany". Since this was possible under professional law in 1974, lawyers , auditors and tax advisors have been associated in the partnership .

Many later Hamburg mayors , senators , court presidents and presidents of professional associations and chambers were partners of the partnership: In 1847, the later Reich Supreme Court Judge Johann Friedrich Voigt joined the partnership “Dres. Knauth & Voigt ”. In 1858 Ernst Friedrich Sieveking - later senator, long-time president of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court and namesake of the Hamburg Sievekingplatz ( Hamburg Justice Forum ) - became a partner. In the years 1872/1875 Otto Wachsmuth and Johann Heinrich Burchard , who later became mayor of the Hanseatic city, were accepted into the firm as partners. When Max Harald Krauel joined in 1909, the partnership existed under the name “Dres. Wachsmuth Horwitz & Burchard ”from Otto Wachsmuth, Oscar Paul Horwitz and Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz , another later mayor of the Hanseatic city. Burchard-Motz was the son of Johann Heinrich Burchard and the father of Heinrich Burchard-Motz, who became a third-generation partner in 1931. The main focus of the law firm is maritime and commercial law.

Several of the firm's partners were honorary judges at the Hamburg Constitutional Court .

In 1948 Werner Deuchler became a partner in the law firm. The winner of the Emil von Sauer Prize (1986) opened national and international connections as chairman of the Hamburg Lawyers 'Association (1965–1970), as president of the German Lawyers' Association (from 1970) and the International Bar Association (from 1974).

"Esche Schümann & Partner" goes to the law firm "Ernst Esche" (founded in 1949 by Ernst Esche (1913–1994), from 1961 in partnership with Günter Sternberg (1929–2020)) and that from 1952 by Heinrich Windler and Jens Schümann founded auditors and tax consultants "Windler & Schümann" back. The merger of the two law firms of Ernst Esche and Jens Schümann in 1974 to form "Esche Schümann & Partner" represents the first interdisciplinary connection between lawyers and tax consultants in Hamburg.

In 1991 the law firms “Deuchler Krauel & Commichau ” and “Esche Schümann & Partner” merged and became “Esche Schümann Commichau”.

On the occasion of the firm's 175th anniversary in 1997, the Esche Schümann Commichau Foundation was established. Every year the foundation awards prizes to academic graduates in the fields of legal, economic and tax advice.

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Ash in the JAVA house in Überseequartier

Esche Schümann Commichau is based in the street "Am Sandtorkai" in HafenCity and is set up as a partnership company , whereby the auditing is outsourced to an independent GmbH . The firm primarily supports medium-sized companies, industrial companies, public-sector companies and financial investors in all questions of German and international business and tax law as well as in business advice and auditing. The range of advisory services also includes, in particular, advising wealthy private individuals on national and international tax law, on civil and tax law asset structuring, on corporate and asset succession as well as on foundations .

The law firm advises clients worldwide; in legal advice as far as necessary with the support of law firms in the respective countries with which long-standing connections have been maintained, otherwise via the lawyer network LAW - Lawyers Worldwide. In auditing and tax consulting, international mandates are handled through membership in DFK International , one of the major international connections of auditing and tax consulting companies.

literature

  • Treue, Wilhelm , legal, economic and tax advice in two centuries, ESCHE SCHÜMANN COMMICHAU, On the history of a Hamburg law firm, 3rd edition 1997, ISBN 3-00-001424-1 ; The 1st edition was published in the magazine for corporate history , supplement 48, Stuttgart 1986; see. also the book review by Jürgen Gündisch, NJW 1998, p. 2126.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lünendonk list 2015. (PDF; 205 kB) Leading auditing and tax consultancy companies in Germany 2014. In: http://luenendonk-shop.de/ . July 16, 2015, accessed January 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ Matthias Gretzschel , Klaus Gille: Esche Schümann Commichau - The history of a Hamburg law firm since 1822. Esche Schümann Commichau, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9363-0092-5
  3. ↑ a b c d e Pöllath, Saenger: 200 years of business lawyers in Germany. Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9
  4. ↑ The German Lawyers' Association has been researching which law firm is the oldest for some time, cf. DAV-Depesche 22/2007, section 4
  5. ↑ Five lawyers from Hamburg have significantly shaped the post-war history of the German Bar Association: Emil von Sauer as re-founder and president, Werner Deuchler and Hans-Jürgen Rabe also as presidents, Gerhard Commichau as vice-president and Heinz Brangsch as chief executive
  6. ↑ Commichau, Gerhard, Zum Tode von Heinrich Burchard-Motz , NJW 2004, p. 2002
  7. ↑ For example Heinrich Burchard-Motz and Jürgen Brüggemann
  8. ^ Website of the Hamburg Lawyers' Association
  9. ↑ Member of the 1st board of the Hamburg Chamber of Tax Consultants from 1961 and President of the Chamber of Tax Consultants from 1971
  10. ↑ Windler and Schümann already worked together in the practice founded in the 1920s by Georg Friedrich Horn, the first President of the Federal Chamber of Tax Advisors from 1943
  11. ↑ The admissibility resulted from § 30 of the professional code of conduct established by the Federal Bar Association on June 21, 1973
  12. ↑ On November 5, 2012 the law firm moved from Herrengraben to Straße Am Sandtorkai in Hafencity / Überseequartier , cf. www.esche.de and Hamburger Abendblatt ( online )
  13. ^ Lawyers Worldwide

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