Rudolf Isay

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Rudolf Isay (born January 1, 1886 in Trier , † April 14, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer , patent attorney and cartel specialist.

Professional background

Isay studied from 1904 Law and received his doctorate in 1908 at the University of Bonn. From 1911 he worked as a patent attorney in the office of Eduard Reimer and his brother Hermann Isay and was admitted to the higher court . Because license agreements were regularly used to form cartels (patent exploitation associations) at the time, the work of a patent attorney included not only the patent system but also the related drafting of cartel agreements. During the Weimar Republic , Isay rose to become one of the most important commercial law firms in the capital city of Berlin.

In the Nazi state , the Isays brothers were discriminated against and were banned from practicing their profession because - although not religious - they were racially Jews according to their origin and therefore for the authorities. Due to the ongoing problems, Rudolf Isay emigrated to Brazil with his wife Isabella Trimborn in 1935 and worked as a coffee planter and cattle breeder in the German settlement of Rolândia until 1951 .

Six years after the end of the war he returned to Germany and taught until 1956 as a professor of law at the University of Bonn .

effect

Rudolf Isay was a prominent academic representative of the German cartel movement of the 20th century. He specialized in patents (important for technology cartels ). In the 1950s he became a prominent representative of a competition regime with general approval of cartels. Isay had the advantage of not being politically burdened by his emigration, whereas most of the German cartel supporters were either sympathizers of National Socialism or somehow had to come to terms with the regime. The still existing German cartel movement consequently liked to adorn itself with Isay.

However, its economic policy orientation - due to the decartelation ordered by the Allies - was ultimately lost after 1945.

Fonts

  • The claim for damages of the owner and the owner in the event of damage to the thing, Diss. Bonn 1908.
  • The patent community in the service of the cartel idea, Mannheim 1923.
  • Le droit minier des principaux États civilises / trad.par André Ballot, .Avec un avant-propos de Édouard Lambert, Paris 1930.
  • The missed conception of the German draft antitrust law, in: Wirtschaft und Competition, 1/2 (1952), no. 11, pp. 694-697.
  • Counterproposal to the government draft of a law against restraints of competition, in: Wirtschaft und Competition, 4 (1954), No. 2, pp. 100–117.
  • The history of cartel legislation, Berlin 1955.
  • The legal technique of economic control (posthumously) in: Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Walter Schmidt-Rimpler, 1957, pp. 403-428.
  • From my life (posthumously), Weinheim 1960.

literature

  • Gerhard Boldt:  Isay, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 186 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Felix Gaul: The lawyer Rudolf Isay . Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Eduard Reimer (Ed.): Contributions to commercial law. Festschrift for Rudolf Isay on his seventieth birthday . Cologne 1956.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 (= International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 ; Volume 2.1). Saur, Munich 1983
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Chernivtsi 1925, Volume VII, p. 109 f. (Reprint: Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 5: Hitz – Kozub. 2nd edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25035-4 , p. 254.
  2. ↑ Gaul, Felix, Der Jurist Rudolf Isay, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 40–42.
  3. ↑ Gaul, Felix, Der Jurist Rudolf Isay, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 54–58.
  4. ↑ Gaul, Felix, Der Jurist Rudolf Isay, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 65–70.
  5. ↑ Gaul, Felix, Der Jurist Rudolf Isay, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 306-320.
personal data
SURNAME Isay, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, patent attorney and cartel specialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH trier
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1956
Place of death Bonn