Helene Lieser · 1937
Helene Lieser’s 1937 review of Hans Pröhl’s Reichsgesetz über das Kreditwesen. Kommentar assesses the commentary’s usefulness in navigating complex banking legislation. Her praise rests on its combination of documentary breadth and clear exposition: the edition brings together the statute, implementing regulation, guidelines for monthly statements by different credit institutions, and agreements setting maximum interest rates on deposited funds.
The review moves from these contents to their interpretive value. Pröhl’s clearly organized commentary makes the law accessible beyond its domestic readership:
Dadurch wird auch dem Ausländer das Verständnis und die Interpretation des schwierigen Gesetzes ermöglicht.
English translation: This also enables the foreign reader to understand and interpret the difficult law.
Lieser closes by treating the index as a further aid to understanding, linking the volume’s practical value to the difficulty of surveying its subject:
Ein sorgfältig ausgearbeiteter Index erleichtert auch das Zurechtfinden in der ebenso interessanten als schwer zu überblickenden Materie.
English translation: A carefully prepared index also makes it easier to find one’s way through material that is as interesting as it is difficult to survey.
Her brief, affirmative assessment concerns the tools for interpreting and using the legislation; it offers no substantive evaluation of the law’s economic purposes or effects.
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