Siegfried Tschierschky

Siegfried Tschierschky (born December 6, 1872 in Berlin ; † May 17, 1937 ) was a German lawyer , economist, cartel expert, association official and publicist.

Professional background

Siegfried Tschierschky studied law at the end of the 19th century and obtained his doctorate.

Antitrust advisor and antitrust lawyer

Tschierschky worked as a business lawyer in the Prussian Rhineland from the beginning of the 20th century. He built up an increasingly prosperous law firm in Düsseldorf by specializing in the concerns of companies that wanted to work together in cartels or were already organized in such. In 1902 he was verifiably a 'secretary' of the 'Association of the German Textile Finishing Industry', for which he also published. By 1912 at the latest, Tschierschky was managing director of six cartels and business associations. 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." Business was so good that Tschierschky hired the newly graduated economist Max Metzner to relieve him in 1912 . This remained - with a longer interruption due to the First World War - until 1922, when he was appointed to the 'cartel office' of the Reich Association of German Industry . He last lived in Neubabelsberg near Potsdam .

Cartel writer and editor of cartel magazines

Tschierschky published numerous books and essays, especially on cartels. At the beginning of the 1930s he was the leading German cartel author and had replaced Robert Liefmann . In his capacity as in-house counsel, Tschierschky also published some smaller association magazines at an early stage. From 1904 he took on the vacant position of editor of the monthly magazine Kartell-Rundschau , which was founded in Vienna in 1903. Tschierschky ran this influential paper until the end of 1936; shortly afterwards he died. After that, the editorial team passed into other hands and in 1944 the magazine was completely discontinued.

Expert for the Economic Committee of the League of Nations

In 1929, the economic committee of the League of Nations commissioned Tschierschky as a cartel lawyer together with an American and French colleague to provide an expert opinion on the legal aspects of industrial associations, at the time mainly cartels , but also multinational corporations . The publication aroused considerable displeasure from the industry lobby, which had a strong influence on the Economic Advisory Committee, because it openly addressed opportunities for abuse, such as a price increase trend, in cartels. The representatives of the cartel interests, leading here Clemens Lammers and Louis Loucheur , succeeded in persuading the economic committee (made up of state representatives) to declare that publication not as the standpoint of the League of Nations, but only as the authors' “conceptions personalelles”. Those maneuvers took place against the background of a debate about international cartels, which were about to be declared the standard form of organization of the world economy. Too much risk of abuse would have endangered this project or exacerbated it in an undesirable direction, namely, sooner or later, it would lead to supranational cartel control. For Tschierschky, who had implicitly embarked on the basis of abuse legislation such as the German antitrust ordinance of 1923, this conflict with the essentially German cartel circles had no recognizable further consequences.

effect

Tschierschky was a leading representative of the German cartel movement of the 20th century. He had always promoted this type of organization and economic form during his work as a consultant, legal advisor and publicist. In the course of the de- cartelation ordered by the Allies , his economic policy orientation was on a losing streak after 1945.

Fonts

• The customs policy interests of the German textile finishing industry , Berlin 1902.
• Kartell and Trust , Leipzig 1911.
• The delivery and payment conditions in the woven goods business , Berlin 1922.
• Cartel Ordinance (Ordinance against the abuse of economic power positions) , Mannheim 1925.
• Cartel organization , Berlin 1928.
• Cartel policy , Berlin 1930.
• Etude sur le regime juridique des ententes industrielles. Preparation for the Economic Committee. Geneva 1930 (together with: Decugis, Henri; Olds, Robert E.).
• International cartels in European economic policy , in: International Capitalism and the Crisis , Stuttgart 1932, pp. 306–314.
• Étude sur le nouveau régime juridique des ententes économiques (cartels etc.) en Allemagne et en Hongrie. Preparation for the Economic Committee; Section des Relations économiques. Geneva 1932.
• The conceptual basis of the ban and the disadvantages of a similar meaning (§ 9 Kart.VO), Berlin 1933.
• System and development of the new cartel law (edited together with Georg Breslauer), as: Supplement to the Kartell-Rundschau , 42 (1944).
• The tasks of cartels for the economic order (posthumous), in: Cartels in reality. Festschrift for Max Metzner , 1963, pp. 111–116.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Zeitschriften-Verleger , Volume 29 (1937), p. 340.
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. ↑ Kartell-Rundschau , born in 1936, 1937 and 1944.
5. ^ Decugis, Henri; Olds, Robert E .; Tschierschky, Siegfried: Etude sur le regime juridique des ententes industrielles. Preparation for the Economic Committee , Geneve 1930.
6. ↑ International industrial cartels. An economic policy study , prepared for the Economic Committee of the League of Nations / Antonio St. Benni; Clemens Lammers; Louis Marlis; Aloys Meyer, Berlin 1930, pp. 133-134; Decugis, Henri; Olds, Robert E .; Tschierschky, Siegfried: Etude sur le regime juridique des ententes industrielles. Préparée pour le Comité économique , Geneve 1930, p. 2.