Martin Löhnig & Anna Moszyńska 
Reception of the ‘Limited liability company (GmbH)’ [PDF ebook] 

The limited liability company (Gmb H) was created by the German legislature in 1892 as a company form without any historical forerunners or suggestions from comparative law. It brought about a readjustment of the relationship between the chance of profit and the liability risk. However, criticism from the jurisprudence that had not been included in the quick legislative process was also heard from the start. As early as 1892, Levin Goldschmidt expressed concern that the Gmb H would replace ‘principally more solid forms of company’. However, this criticism did not prevent the company form of the Gmb H from being adopted in numerous European countries, or at least seriously considering its reception.

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Prof. NCU dr hab. Anna Moszyńska is the Head of the Department of Commercial Law, Maritime Law and Civil Procedure on the Faculty of Law and Administration of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland), as well as an attorney at law.