Max Metzner

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Max Karl Metzner (born August 15, 1888 in Königshütte / Upper Silesia , † January 12, 1968 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German economist , cartel expert and association official.

Professional background

Max Metzner studied economics, law and insurance science at the universities of Munich, Jena and Göttingen between 1907 and 1911. He attended lectures a. a. with Lujo Brentano . In 1912 he got a job in the office of the independent economic advisor and legal advisor Siegfried Tschierschky in Düsseldorf. At the time, he was the managing director of six cartels and business associations, as well as the publisher of the monthly magazine Kartell-Rundschau and some smaller association magazines . Tschierschky mainly supervised corporate mergers in the textile industry. These “ranged from the professional association to the conditions cartels to the highly trained price cartel and even to the employers' association. One could hardly imagine a greater diversity in the association's activities. ”Metzner quickly settled in and became Tschierschky's right-hand man.

In 1922 Metzner was appointed to the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie as head of the 'Kartellstelle' founded in 1920. The Reichsverband was transferred to the Reichsgruppe Industrie in 1934 , including its cartel office. In this, Metzner advised cartels or interested parties or settled disputes within or between cartels. "The cartel office became known and valued through such successful unification negotiations and was sometimes even entrusted by the government with such mediation tasks." During the Third Reich, Metzner was head of department, and for a few years he was also deputy chief executive of the Reichsgruppe Industrie. Metzner became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 (# 3054114). Around 1940 the cartel office of the Reichsgruppe was dissolved as a separate organizational structure and brought into the 'Market Organization and Business Administration' department.

After the "collapse of 1945" Metzner lost his offices. The politically charged Reichsgruppe Industrie had been dissolved. A late scientific career - Metzner was 56 at the end of the war - came to nothing. Between 1948 and 1955, Metzner was merely a lecturer in economic policy at the Free University of Berlin.

effect

Metzner was a leading representative of the German cartel movement in the 20th century. He had always constructively promoted this type of organization and economic system during his career in associations. In the course of the de- cartelation ordered by the Allies , his economic policy orientation was on a losing streak after 1945. Metzner accompanied the economic policy of the early Federal Republic, which for him went in the wrong direction, with critical publications.

Fonts (selection)

  • Price policy and price movement, Mannheim 1923.
  • Tasks and activities of the cartels in the present (together with Jakob Herle), Berlin 1925.
  • Cost accounting rules and guidelines and their effect on pricing, Düsseldorf 1942.
  • The German antitrust policy from 1933-1945, in: Economy and Competition, 4 (1954), pp. 227–232.
  • Cartels as carriers of rationalization. A collection of materials, Berlin 1955.
  • The cartel policy in Germany, in: Jahn, Georg / Junckerstorff, Kurt (ed.), Internationales Handbuch der Kartellpolitik, Berlin 1958, pp. 89–155.

literature

  • Roland Risse: Life path and life work of Dr. Max Metzner, in: Cartels in Reality. Festschrift for Max Metzner, Cologne 1963, pp. 11–15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death book of the Steglitz registry office in Berlin No. 161/1968.
  2. ↑ Roland Risse: Life path and life work of Dr. Max Metzner, in: Cartels in Reality. Festschrift for Max Metzner, Cologne 1963, p. 12.
  3. ↑ Roland Risse: Life path and life work of Dr. Max Metzner, in: Cartels in Reality. Festschrift for Max Metzner, Cologne 1963, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Roland Risse: Life path and life work of Dr. Max Metzner, in: Cartels in Reality. Festschrift for Max Metzner, Cologne 1963, p. 14.
  5. ^ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: An Institutional and Personal History Study . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 780
  6. ^ Max Metzner, Die deutsche Kartellpolitik, in: Wirtschaft und Competition, 4 (1954), p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Metzner, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metzner, Max Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, cartel expert and association official
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Königshütte , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1968
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz