Julius Flechtheim

Julius Flechtheim: German Cartel Law, 1st edition 1912

Julius Flechtheim (born May 18, 1876 in Münster ; † November 30, 1940 in Zurich ) was a German lawyer , supervisory board member of several companies and honorary professor .

Life

He grew up as the eldest son of the grain wholesaler Alex Flechtheim and his wife Johanne, geb. Katzenstein, in Münster and attended the Paulinum grammar school . After studying law, he received his doctorate in 1897.

In 1901 he was admitted to the bar at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and also lectured at the Cologne Commercial College . During the First World War he became a member of the board of the United Cologne-Rottweiler powder factories in Berlin in 1915 . There he became honorary professor at the University of Berlin in 1924 , and in the following year head of the legal department and in-house counsel of IG Farben . He was also a member of the supervisory board of several other companies and a board member of the Reich Association of German Industry . The family lived there at Königin-Augustastraße 28. In private he supported his cousin, the art dealer Alfred Flechtheim , a. a. 1917 by auctioning the sculpture “Der Redner” by Georg Minne , acquisition of other works of art and loans.

In 1933 his teaching license and all other offices were withdrawn from him. He initially worked as a legal advisor and supported relatives in need. In April 1938 he emigrated with his family to Zurich, where he died in 1940.

Fonts (selection)

• German antitrust law , J. Bensheimer, Mannheim / Leipzig 1912.
• Accounting for the burden of industrial bonds , self-published by the Reich Association of German Industry, Berlin 1924.
• The implementing provisions on gold balances , (lecture), Verlag Chemie, Leipzig 1924.
• The statutes of the German stock corporations , J. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1929.
• Cartels as production promoters, cartel office of the Reich Association of German Industry, Berlin 1929.
• The commercial code of May 10, 1897 (excluding the law of the sea) on d. Basis d. Citizen Law Book / Vol. 2, 2nd contribution to §§ 105–177, 335–342, Berlin 1932.
• The commercial code of May 10, 1897 (excluding the law of the sea) on d. Basis d. Citizen Code of Law / Vol. 2, 1. General. Introduction: The corporate law of civil law , under the direction of Max Hachenburg , ext. from Fritz Bing; James Breit; Julius Flechtheim u. a., Berlin 1932, 3rd edition.

literature

• Annegret Heymann: The lawyer Julius Flechtheim: life and work , dissertation at the University of Osnabrück , Heymann, Cologne 1990. - XIV, 120 pp.
• Flechtheim, Julius , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 92

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Flechtheim in the catalog of the German National Library