868 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE,

briick Schickler &amp; Co. of Berlin, the Mitteldeutsche Versicherungs,
A. G., Dusseldorf, the Allgemeine Revisions und Verwaltungs, A.-G.,
Berlin; the Solotwina Naphta, G. m. b. H., Lemberg; the Osterr.
Petroleum-Industrie, A. G., Vienna.
Tre DEUTSCHE GOLD- UND SILBERSCHEIDEANSTALT.—In 1872 the
Deutsche Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt was established by the firms
of Fr. Roessler Séhne and Hector Roessler, and in 1873 took over the
precious metal business of Philipp Abraham Cohen.! Close relations
exist between the Merton interests and the Deutsche Gold- und
Silberscheideanstalt, which is itself a widely ramified concern, is
interested mainly in the chemical industry, and serves as the central
agency for several cartels, among them the Convention of Manufacturers
 of Potassium Ferrocyanide,? the Convention of Manufacturers
 of Potassium Cyanide? and the Convention for Quinine and
Quinine Salts,?
On the chart the connections in the nature of either stock ownership,
 interlocking directorates or both are shown between the
Deutsche Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt and 20 minor companies.
The direct connections shown are principally through stock ownership.
 In addition to the connection shown on the chart with the
Metallgesellschaft, the Commission has information concerning a
number of interrelations between companies of the Deutsche Goldund
 Silberscheideanstalt group and those of the Metallgesellschaft,
Metallbank und Metallurgische Gesellschaft, and H. R. Merton Co.
(Ltd.) group, which it is not practicable to present diagrammatically.
Aron Hirscr &amp; SorN.—The firm of Aron Hirsch und Sohn, of
Halberstadt, is an important unit in the international metal trade
around which numerous subsidiary and otherwise related companies
are grouped. It is also closely associated with a number of German
and international cartels. It is one of the three selling agencies of the
international zinc syndicate for Germany. It is a member of the
German Copper Sheet Syndicate, Cassel,’ and of the Combine of German
 Copper Wire Works, Cologne.® It holds an interest in the firm
of Paul u. Siegbert Lachmann ;* the copper mine Ilsenberg am Harz,
and the brass works IEberswalde on the Finow Canal.® It controls the
Hirsch, Kupfer- und Messingwerke, A.-G., in Halberstadt (capital
10,000,000 marks), which manufactures chiefly copper and zinc products
 for railways, shipbuilding, and military purposes. The firm of
Hirsch, Kupfer-und Messingwerke holds an interest in the Berlin
Brass Works, Wilhelm Borchert, jr., G. m. b. H. (capital 1,000,030
marks), and in the Rich. Herbig &amp; Co., G. m. b. H., Berlin, and controls
 the Finow Metal Co. (Ltd.).

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! The rest of the metal trade of Philipp Abraham Cohen was acquired by the Metallgesellschaft (see p. 368).
* Not shown on chart. .
Not shown separately on chart.