This recorded commission speaking turn concerns the wording of § 1 of a proposed law organizing Germany’s coal economy. Lederer first supports proceeding paragraph by paragraph, reads the provision, and then explains a provisional insertion. The contribution moves from the proposed institution’s broad industrial scope to a specific limit on the law’s reach.
The provision would unite all German private and state-owned hard-coal and lignite mines, together with briquette manufacture, coking, and the recovery of specified coking by-products, into the Deutsche Kohlengemeinschaft, a unified economic body. Its coordinating responsibility is expressed in the sentence:
Diese ist der Träger der Kohlenwirtschaft einschließlich der genannten Nebenbetriebe.
English translation: This body is responsible for the coal economy, including the ancillary operations mentioned.
The inclusion of ancillary operations makes their definition consequential. Lederer’s substantive clarification concerns the words “im Werk”: the statutory wording ties the relevant by-products to coking within the works. He explains the purpose of this restriction:
Die Einschaltung „im Werk“ ist gestern vorläufig vorgenommen worden — es ist noch keine definitive Formulierung —, um auszudrücken, daß irgendein kommunales Gaswerk deswegen, weil es verkokt, nicht in das Gebiet des Gesetzes durch Enteignung fallen soll.
English translation: The insertion “within the works” was made provisionally yesterday—it is not yet a definitive formulation—to express that a municipal gasworks should not fall within the scope of the law through expropriation merely because it carries out coking.
The key distinction is between integrating coal-related production and treating coking alone as grounds for bringing a municipal gasworks under the law through expropriation. Lederer presents the intended boundary as clear while leaving its exact wording unsettled. The turn’s significance lies in this precise drafting intervention: a broad scheme of economic integration requires qualifications that prevent its scope from extending to institutions merely sharing one industrial process.
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