Arnd Klein-Zirbes

Arnd Klein-Zirbes (2017), Photo: Peter Kerkrath

Arnd Klein-Zirbes (born August 26, 1970 in Bonn ) is the managing director of the Saarland Chamber of Crafts and publisher and author of several publications.

education and profession

Arnd Klein-Zirbes studied political science, sociology, history and educational psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Under the direction of Friedrich Fürstenberg , he did his doctorate on Goetz Briefs .

From 1997 to 1999 he worked in the press department of the Representation of the European Commission in the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. He sat in on the representation of the DIHK at the EU in Brussels and in the German American Chamber of Commerce in New York. From 1999 to 2004 he was responsible for public relations at the Rhine-Main Chamber of Crafts . Among other things, he campaigned against the amendment of the Crafts and Trades Code, which aimed at far-reaching liberalization and was operated by the red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder . From 2004 to 2008 he worked as a project director at Leipziger Messe for the building trade fairs . From 2008 to 2015 he was a member of the management of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce . There he headed the communications department and from 2009 set up the liaison office to IHK President Paul Bauwens-Adenauer .

Since March 2015, Klein-Zirbes has represented the interests of around 12,000 craft companies as the general manager of the Saarland Chamber of Crafts. In this function, he is also responsible for the operational business of the Akademie des Handwerks (AdH) and the Saarland's Trade Promotion and Technology Center (GTZ). He is a member of the Board of the Foundation Saarländisches crafts - Winfried E. Frank Foundation and other bodies such as the Broadcasting Council of the Saarland Radio .

Since taking office in 2015, Arnd Klein-Zirbes has implemented a strategic and operational realignment within the Saarland Chamber of Crafts. The Saarland Chamber of Crafts is planning to modernize its training facility. In addition, he pushed the expansion of their social media activities. One example of this is the YouTube channel “Mach Dein Ding!”, Which received the Saar Marketing Award 2017 from Marketingclub Saar eV.

Journalistic activity

Arnd Klein-Zirbes published, among other things, in Transparency of the Media , The Self-Employed , Frankfurter Rundschau , Deutsches Handwerksblatt , Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung and in the members' magazine IHKplus. As managing director of the Saarland Chamber of Crafts, he is responsible for the Saarland regional edition of the Deutsches Handwerksblatt for Saarland, which has a circulation of 12,000 copies (as of August 2018). Since taking office, the Chamber of Crafts of the Saarland has published the Master Plan for Crafts annually, which contains the essential demands of the craft on the Saarland state policy.

Publications

• The future model of the social market economy - voice of the majority. Aton, Unna 2001, ISBN 978-3-980-76444-5 .
• Goetz Briefs' contribution to the foundation of the social market economy. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3-631-53383-3 .
• We work hard for your success Cologne: IHK, 2010
• BRIEFS, Gottfried Anton, called Goetz, political economist and sociologist Biographisch-Bibliografisches Kirchenlexikon, Volume XXV, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timo Luks: A. Klein-Zirbes: The contribution from Goetz Briefs. Reviewed for H-Soz-Kult. In: H-Soz-Kult. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, accessed on July 22, 2016 . 
2. ^ Jochen Remmert: Violent dispute over the amendment of the craft regulations . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, ISSN  0174-4909 .
3. ^ Judith Schuldreich: Klein-Zirbes is leaving Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce. In: press officer. Quadriga Media Berlin GmbH, accessed on July 22, 2016 . 
4. ↑ HWK Saarland - Who does what? In: hwk-saarland.de. Saarland Chamber of Commerce, accessed on July 22, 2016 . 
5. ^ HWK Saarland - Home. In: hwk-saarland.de. Saarland Chamber of Commerce, accessed on July 22, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Joachim Wollschläger: Change at the head of the Chamber of Crafts . Managing Director Georg Brenner said goodbye to his retirement with a ceremony. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei, ZDB -ID 200773-3 ( saarbruecker-zeitung.de [accessed on July 22, 2016]). Change to the head of the Chamber of Crafts ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ HWK Saarland - further education. In: hwk-saarland.de. Chamber of Crafts of the Saarland, accessed on July 22, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Bernd Reis: Board of Directors of the Saarland Craft Foundation - Winfried E. Frank Foundation -. (No longer available online.) In: stiftung-saarlaendisches-handwerk.de. Archived from the original on July 22, 2016 ; Retrieved July 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ HWK Saarland - Publications - Masterplan 2020. In: hwk-saarland.de. Chamber of Crafts of the Saarland, November 13, 2017, accessed on October 9, 2018 . 
10. ^ Marketing Award Saar 2017. In: marketingclub-saar.de. Marketingclub Saar eV, 2017, accessed on October 9, 2018 . 
11. ^ HWK Saarland - German craft journal. In: hwk-saarland.de. Chamber of Crafts of the Saarland, accessed on October 9, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Thomas Sponticcia: What Saar Crafts are planning up to 2020. In: saarbruecker-zeitung.de. Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 9, 2018, accessed on October 9, 2018 .