[67] This memorandum did not represent the personal opinion of the Minister. The ideas expressed in it were the opinions of a group that included both socialists and bourgeois elements, men like Walter Rathenau, von Möllendorf (under-secretary of State under Wissel), Andreas, a banker, Georg Bernhard, editor of the _Vossiche Zeitung_, and others. [68] Reier, _Sozialisierungsgesetze_, Berlin, 1920, p. 14. [69] Wissel, then Minister of Public Economy, on March 7, 1919, before the National Assembly thus defined collective economy properly so-called: “Collective economy means the organization and management of private economic enterprises in the interests of the Reich, the subordination of private interests to collective interests. The application of this general principle to particular cases must be adapted to the special conditions of the different branches of the economy. Nothing can be worse than to want to make the economy rigidly uniform. Every economic group is a different organism that demands forms appropriate to it. This seems to be indicated in the exterior forms of union, such as capitalist economy practiced in its associations and cartels. But the spirit that prevails in these organizations must be raised above purely private considerations up to a sense of responsibility toward the people as a whole, up to the conception of a collective economy. _Collective economy does not mean state economy, but autonomy._ The State is not the master of economy. It can and should exercise supreme supervision and hold in equilibrium the opposing interests with justice and wisdom.” [70] These sixty members are divided as follows: 3 representatives of states; 15 representatives of colliers’ organizations; 15 representatives of mine workers; 1 employer and 1 worker in gasworks; 2 salaried employés of the technical service of the mines; 1 salaried employé of the commercial service of the mines; 5 coal merchants; 1 employé in the wholesale coal trade; 2 employers and 2 workers in industries using coal; 2 representatives of consumers’ societies; 1 user of coal in the cities, 1 in the country; 2 representatives of small industries using coal; 1 user of coal for railroads; 1 user of coal for maritime navigation; 1 user of coal for river navigation; 3 mine and boiler experts.