[Rezension zu] Helmut Burchard: Die Liquiditäts-Gesetzgebung im deutschen und im schweizerischen Bankengesetz

Helene Lieser: Review of Helmut Burchard’s Die Liquiditäts-Gesetzgebung im deutschen und im schweizerischen Bankengesetz (1938)

Helene Lieser’s short book review assesses Burchard’s study of liquidity legislation in German and Swiss banking law. She places it within Wilhelm Kalveram’s Neue kreditwirtschaftliche Abhandlungen, whose opening volume it forms: the series seeks to explain to a wider readership the implications of recent banking legislation for the credit system. Moving from this editorial purpose to the study’s particular subject, Lieser grounds its professional relevance in the importance of liquidity requirements:

Den Liquiditätsvorschriften kommt gewiß eine besondere Bedeutung zu, so daß der vorliegenden Arbeit das Interesse der Fachkreise sicher ist.

English translation: Liquidity requirements certainly have particular importance, so the present study is assured of the interest of specialist circles.

Her central judgment concerns the quality of exposition rather than the merits of particular statutory provisions:

Sie informiert in übersichtlicher Weise, verschweigt die Problematik nicht, verfällt aber auch nicht unbegründetem Pessimismus.

English translation: It provides information in a clearly organized manner, does not conceal the difficulties, but does not lapse into unfounded pessimism either.

Lieser thus values an account that makes regulatory problems intelligible without exaggerating them. Her closing praise for historical and statistical data and bibliographical references reinforces this standard: supporting material enriches the presentation without overwhelming its scope. The review offers a compact endorsement of accessible, measured scholarship, without developing an independent comparison of the two banking laws.