Renewal of Reichsbank Charter (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1910 Excerpt: ... Ill Excerpts from the Proceedings of the Third German Bankers' Convention, held in Hamburg in September, l907 EXCERPTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD GERMAN BANKERS' CONVENTION, HELD IN HAMBURG IN SEPTEMBER, 1907. THE DISCUSSION OF DEPOSIT BANKING. The President. Gentlemen, before I give the principal speaker the floor, I wish to inform the assembly of something which will perhaps interest them, namely, that the Reichsgenossenschaftsbank at Darmstadt has kindly notified me that the agricultural cooperative institutions have adopted resolutions concerning the question of check legislation which are similar in content and in tendency to our own, so that the Director of the Reichsgenossenschaftsbank felt justified in making the following addition to his communication: "In this important question of check business and check legislation, which will be next dealt with by the Reichstag, commerce, industry, and agriculture go hand in hand." Privatdozent Doctor Jaff . Gentlemen, I fear that many of you shook your heads disapprovingly when you learned from the programme of the Third German Bankers' Convention that a theorist was to be the first to address you concerning the legal regulation of deposits. Now, gentlemen, even I was not able to refrain from this same head shaking when the flattering request of your committee came to me to undertake this report, for I am of the opinion that in the things of economic life the theorist has far more to learn from the practical man than vice versa. I have complied with this request, and indeed gladly, for these two reasons, to which even you will perhaps allow some slight weight. In the first place, the question which we would deal with to-day has been opened for public discussion, not by practical men, but--at least...