Max Vosberg-Rekow

Max Vosberg-Rekow (born March 5, 1860 in Leobschütz , † after 1937 ) was a German industry and trade association functionary who particularly pursued German interests in Asia , especially China .

Born the son of the district judge and the daughter of a lawyer, Vosberg-Rekow attended high schools in Gliwice and Breslau . Then he studied political science at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin and Tübingen until he received his doctorate in 1883. He then worked in the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture and the Chamber of Commerce in Mainz until he became director of the German Association of Private Civil Servants in Magdeburg . From 1890 to 1894 he was appointed as syndic of the “Chamber of Commerce for the Duchy of Braunschweig ” and published the “ monthly for trade and industry ”. In 1893 he was prohibited from using the double name Rekow, which he disregarded. In 1894 he moved to Berlin-Grunewald in order to work as managing director of the General Association of German Metal Manufacturers until 1897 . In 1897 he founded the “Centralstelle für Preparing Commercial Contracts”, which he headed for twelve years and which he used as a lobbyist for trade policy . In 1904 he founded an "administrative office for conventions and cartels" and worked as a lawyer and executive board member of numerous wholesale and industrial organizations.

He was Gerhart Hauptmann's neighbor in Agnetendorf and kept in touch (by letter) at least until February 1937.

With Field Marshal Colmar von der Goltz-Pascha , he founded the German-Asiatic Society in 1901 . Vosberg-Rekow was, among other things, co-founder of the “ Journal for Commerce and Industry ” of the German Industry and Commerce Conference as well as the founder and long-time editor of the “ Asia ” magazine . Lenin's book on the revolution in China (1912) served as a source for Lenin , as he noted in the booklets on imperialism , and thus the subsequent Soviet leader's theory of imperialism .

Vosberg-Rekow was first married to Elfriede Möller from Breslau; the daughter Hildegard was born in Magdeburg in 1889, the two sons Udo and Horst in 1891 and 1893 in Braunschweig. The second wife was Käthe Vosberg-Rekow.

Fonts

• (Ed.): Asiatic Yearbook , published by J. Guttentag, Berlin 1912–1914
• (Ed.) : Asia : Organ of the German-Asian Society and the Munich Oriental Society, 1902–1919 digital version online
• The reform of the German consular system and the establishment of German chambers of commerce abroad , 1897
• The main features of the policy of trade agreements are generally presented , 1898
• The British Empire and German Competition , 1898
• The establishment of a central office to promote German foreign trade, 1900
• The protection of industrial and intellectual property in commercial contracts , 1902 (repr. 2012) ISBN 978-3-11-128068-4
• The basic idea of ​​German colonial policy , 1903 Download http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/dsdk/content/titleinfo/1975665
• The trade agreements of 1903: considerations and suggestions , Berlin 1900 (repr. 2018) ISBN 978-3111160788
• The revolution in China: its origin and effect , (Writings of the German-Asian Society. 6) 1912 ISBN 978-3-11-128857-4
• A German China Institute , 1914

Web links

• Biography IHK Braunschweig
• Address book district Hirschberg 1937