Carl Melchior
Carl Melchior ( born October 13, 1871 in Hamburg, † December 30, 1933 ) was a German lawyer, banker and politician. He was head of the German financial delegation at the peace negotiations to the Treaty of Versailles.
Profession
Melchior grew up in Hamburg and was there, according to a study of law, works. In 1902, he joined as a syndic in the banking house of MM Warburg & CO, where he was in 1911 appointed Plenipotentiary. After the outbreak of the First World War, Melchior volunteered and participated in the war. He was severely wounded and was after his recovery in 1917, the first non-family partner of MM Warburg & Co. He took over the shares of Felix M. Warburg, who, since he had become an American citizen in 1907, had to give up his shares in a German company with the USA entered the war. Melchior certain together with Max Warburg in the following years, the success rate of the bank. He had more influential offices, for example, in 1922 was made Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Beiersdorf AG.
Policy
Melchior was close to the German Democratic Party, on whose foundation he helped without hold office later. He was Head of the German Delegation of Fiscal Policy for the Treaty of Versailles. He could in these negotiations his positions not prevail and left the negotiations prematurely, in protest against the, in his eyes, impossible conditions. Melchior was one of the most important German finance politicians who rejected it several times to be Finance Minister. His advice was asked, as a three-day secret conference took place in Berlin, for example, during the occupation of the Ruhr from 8 June 1923 attended by Melchior, Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno, Foreign Minister Frederic von Rosenberg and for the British government of John Maynard Keynes. In 1923, Melchior together with Max Warburg, the Institute for Foreign Policy at the University of Hamburg, which still exists today. When the German Empire in 1926 joined the League of Nations, Melchior, the German representatives in the Finance Committee. 1928 to 1929, he was elected as Chairman of this committee. The board, which was founded in 1930 Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland belonged Melchior from 1930 to April 1933 as Deputy Director of.