Henry Behnsen

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Henry Behnsen (born September 4, 1875 , † after 1935) was a German lawyer and entrepreneur . He was the managing director of the Association of German wool chambers and worsted spinners.

Life

Henry Behnsen studied law and economics at the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen. At the University of Leipzig , he received his doctorate in 1901 for Dr. jur. Then he was secretary at the Duisburg Chamber of Commerce for a year . In 1904 he became deputy lawyer at the Chamber of Commerce in Plauen in Vogtland . In 1909 he became managing director of the Association of German wool chambers and worsted yarn spinners. During the First World War he became director of the Kammwoll-Aktiengesellschaft.

His book Valuta-Elend und Friedensvertrag , written with Werner Genzmer in 1921, fell victim to the book burning by the National Socialists in 1933.

Fonts (selection)

  • The question of the supply of raw materials and the regulation of the transition economy in the textile industry. Lecture at the Association of Central German Industrialists in Frankfurt a. M. on May 24, 1918 , Dresden: Grünberg, 1918.
  • (with Werner Genzmer): The consequences of the mark devaluation for us and the others , Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1921.
  • (with Werner Genzmer): Valuta-Elend and Peace Treaty , Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1921.
  • (with Werner Genzmer): The balance sheet of the world economy since the end of the war , Berlin: Gebr. Pastel, undated [1922].
  • (with Werner Genzmer): The elimination of the currency risk along with principles and conversion tables for a gold mark balance , Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1923.
  • The inadequate depreciation and its commercial and tax regulation , parts 1 and 2, Berlin: Verein Deutscher Wollkämmer und Kammgarnspinner, 1928.
  • Insufficient depreciation, fictitious profits and asset losses, Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1929
  • World economy of wool , Berlin: J. Springer, 1932.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kuhn: Burned Books , Braunschweig, 1993, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Behnsen, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1875
DATE OF DEATH after 1935