Frederick Haussmann

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Frederick Hausmann (* 10. November 1885 in Ratibor ; † 9. November 1956 in Geneva ), mostly as before 1940 Fritz Hausmann or Haussmann named, was a Swiss legal and economist German-Jewish origin.

Education, employment in Germany

After studying law in Germany ( Munich , Freiburg and Humboldt University Berlin ), Fritz Haussmann worked as a lawyer specializing in business law from the late 1900s . From 1916 he worked as Syndicus and from 1924 as a board member at Deutsche Erdöl – AG ( DEA ) in Berlin. Haussmann lost this position in 1937 and emigrated from Nazi Germany in 1938.

Exile in Switzerland and the USA

In 1938 Haussmann moved to Switzerland , in 1941 via Venezuela to the USA , where he acquired citizenship in the same year. On site he worked at the New School for Social Research in New York and taught as a professor of economics at Upsala College , New Jersey. Haussmann was one of the 183 persecuted, mostly German-Jewish scientists who were supported at the time by the 'New School for Social Research', which also acted as an academic aid organization.

After the war he returned temporarily to Switzerland, where he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Foreign Trade and Market Research in St. Gallen .

Scientific importance

Frederick Haussmann published numerous scientific monographs and essays between 1907 and 1955. The topics of antitrust and commercial law as well as international business relations dominate.

Works

  • The dilemma of a German antitrust law: obstacles u. Possible solutions , Bern 1955.
  • The Schuman Plan in the European Twilight. A contribution to the basic problems and to the further development of the Schuman Plan , Munich 1952.
  • The symbol of the Schuman Plan and its criticism , in: Economy and Competition. 2 (1952).
  • The idea of ​​antitrust in the economic system. At the same time a contribution to the European antitrust problems , Zurich 1950.
  • European community of fate , in: Neues Europa, 2 (1947), No. 13, pp. 9-20.
  • The change in the international concept of cartel. American Cartel Doctrine and World Trade Charter , Bern 1947.
  • The International Control of Cartels (with D. Ahearn), in: Thought, 20 (1945), No. 76, pp. 85-97.
  • International Cartels and World Trade (with D. Ahearn), in: Thought, 19 (1944), No. 74, pp. 421-441.
  • The economic concentration at its turning point. Basics and tasks of a future trust and cartel structure , Basel 1940.
  • Corporations and cartels under the sign of "economic control" , Zurich 1938.
  • Rule of law and "economic management". A contribution to the problem: State, Law and Economy , Basel 1938.
  • The Cartel Ordinance: Ordinance against abuse of economic power of November 2, 1923 , Munich 1925.
  • Outline of the entire new tax legislation , Berlin 1920.
  • The remedies of the disinherited due to fraudulent deception. At the same time a contribution to the doctrine of the right of avoidance with special consideration of the competition of the right of avoidance and the claim for damages from § 826 BGB , university thesis: Heidelberg, Univ., Jur. Fac., Diss., Berlin 1907.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lawyer without rights: The fate of Jewish lawyers in Berlin after 1933. be.bra, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89809-075-9 , p. 171.
  2. ↑ Fritz Haussmann. Jewish fates in the Havel city of Werder. Available online at https://www.juedische-schicksale-werder.de/fritz-haussmann/ .
  3. ↑ Fritz Haussmann. Jewish fates in the Havel city of Werder. Available online at https://www.juedische-schicksale-werder.de/fritz-haussmann/ .
  4. ↑ Fritz Haussmann. Jewish fates in the Havel city of Werder. Available online at https://www.juedische-schicksale-werder.de/fritz-haussmann/ .
personal data
SURNAME Haussmann, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haussmann, Fritz; Haussmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and economist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratibor
DATE OF DEATH around 1955