Federal Association of the Security Industry
| Federal Association of the Security Industry (BDSW) |
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| legal form | Registered association |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| founding |
1904
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| place | Cologne |
| president | Gregor Lehnert |
| executive Director | Harald Olschok |
| Members | 800 |
| Website | www.bdsw.de |
The Federal Association of the Security Industry (BDSW) Business and Employers Association e. V. , until August 2011 “Bundesverband Deutscher Wach- und Sicherheitsunternehmen eV (BDWS)”, based in Frankfurt am Main, is a trade association that represents the interests of companies in the security industry. At the same time, it is an employers' association and thus also acts as a social partner and collective bargaining party in this industry.
The German security industry employs around 250,000 people and generated over 12 billion euros in sales in 2013. The largest share of this is attributable to security services. Private security service providers currently employ approx. 220,000 security staff nationwide and generate sales of around 5.7 billion euros; thus they represent more than 45% of the sales volume of the security industry.
The association has existed since its predecessor in Cologne was founded in 1904 and represents almost 900 member companies from all areas of the security industry. In the core area of security services, the members generated more than 80% of the industry's turnover in 2015. Core competencies and main areas of service are the protection of critical infrastructures, such as nuclear facilities, military properties, commercial airports and public transport, alarm activation and intervention and the protection of refugee accommodation.
tasks
The association represents the interests of its members vis-à-vis public bodies and in public. He informs the members about branch-specific orders and regulations, supports them in commercial matters and in particular pursues acts of unfair competition . In addition, the association works to improve the quality of the security services provided by companies in the security and security industry.
organization
The Presidium, which is elected every three years by the General Assembly, consists of a President and six Vice-Presidents. The board consists of the presidium and the regional group chairmen of the 15 regional groups (the regional groups correspond to the federal states , with the exception that Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland are combined to form a regional association). The association is based in Frankfurt am Main . The main office is in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . The association has had an office in Berlin since 2011.
history
After the first German security companies were founded in Hanover and Cologne in 1901, some merged in 1904 to form the “Central Office of the United Security and Locking Companies (Cologne Association)”. After the end of the Second World War , the "Central Association of the German Guarding Trade eV" was founded in Frankfurt am Main as the central organization of German security companies. 25 years later, the central association was renamed “Bundesverband Deutscher Wach- und Sicherheitsunternehmen eV” (BDWS) in 1973. In October 1990 an amendment to the statutes made it possible to accept members from the new federal states . On May 26, 2011, the general meeting decided to rename it to its current name and thus also to expand the association's goals and target group.
literature
- Stephan Jegielka: "Lively healing calls" - The foundation of the Reichseinheitsverband des Deutschen Bewachungsgewerbes e. V. 1933 , in: Rundbrief 3/4 AG right-wing extremism / antifascism, Berlin 2012, pp. 53–59.
See also
- Confederation of European Security Services (European umbrella organization)
- List of members of the European Movement Germany
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BDSW statutes ( Memento from October 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.bdsw.de/der-bdsw/praesidium