Chambre de Commerce et d'industrie de la Moselle

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The chamber building in Metz

The Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de la Moselle (CCI) is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) of the Moselle department . It is based at 10-12 avenue Foch in Metz . There are also branches in Forbach , Thionville and Sarrebourg . It is part of the Chambre régionale de commerce et d'industrie de Lorraine , the IHK for Lorraine .

history

By law of April 12, 1803, chambers of commerce and industry were set up in various French cities, including Metz, under the name Chambres consultatives de manufactures, fabriques, arts et métiers . The 6 members of this chamber in Metz were elected on April 2nd, 1804 and sworn in on June 24th. The Chamber fell asleep after only one session.

The current chamber was founded in 1815 as the Chambre de Commerce de Metz ( Metz Chamber of Commerce ). The legal basis was the Imperial Decree (No. 172) Décret impérial portant qu´il y aura uns Chambre de Commerce dans la ville de Metz of May 19, 1815.

The formation of the chamber was delayed by the political turmoil. The reign of the Hundred Days ended and Louis XVIII. was reinstated as the French king. However, King Ludwig confirmed the formation of the Metz Chamber of Commerce with royal ordinance on October 24, 1815, and the first election of the members of the Chamber of Commerce took place on December 30, 1815, chaired by the Prefect Baron de Lachadenède.

53 city notables were eligible to vote . Were elected

  1. Chedeaux, merchant
  2. Simon, banker
  3. Chéron, merchant
  4. Dorr, Vice President of the Commercial Court
  5. Bodard, merchant
  6. Bougleur, goods commission agent
  7. Gourgeon, merchant
  8. François de Wendel , hut owner and MP
  9. Aertz, cloth merchant

Initially, the chamber's sphere of activity was limited to the city of Metz, but from 1820 it was responsible for the entire Moselle department.

With royal ordinance on June 16, 1832, the electoral process was changed. Entitled to vote were now members of the Commercial Court, the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Court and 20 notables who had to choose half by the Commercial Court and the other half by the Chamber of Commerce. The electoral term was one year. Members of the Chamber of Commerce could only be re-elected once and then had to pause for at least a year before they could run again.

In 1848 the general election was introduced: all trade taxpayers had the right to vote, provided they had paid trade tax for at least one year. The era of reaction began quickly in France too : with decrees of September 3, 1851 and August 30, 1852, the elections for notables were reintroduced. Now the members have been elected for 6 years. Every two years a third (of the 9 members) resigned and were re-elected. Re-election was now permissible. The chambers of commerce were now allowed to appoint corresponding members.

These regulations went beyond the annexation of Lorraine by the German Empire in 1871. It was not until 1897 that the right to vote for the German chambers of commerce was revised with the Imperial Law of June 9, 1896. All trade taxpayers for whom the assessment base was at least 6,000 marks were now eligible to vote. These also had to bear the costs of the chamber proportionally according to their trade tax revenue. The number of members of the chamber rose from 9 to 24 who were elected in 8 constituencies (which corresponded to the districts; with the division of the Diedenhofen district , the number of constituencies rose to 9).

From 1911 the Chamber of Commerce elected a member of the first chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine in accordance with the constitution of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine of May 31, 1911 . The President of the Chamber, the Metz industrialist Theodor Müller, was elected .

tasks

The chamber represents the interests of industry, trade and commerce and provides a range of services for member companies. Like all CCIs, the Strasbourg Chamber is subordinate to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Affairs .

Training and further education institutions of the chamber

President of the Chamber of Commerce

  • Pierre Joseph Chedeaux (1815-1820)
  • Dorr (1820-1823)
  • Chedeaux (1823-1826)
  • Dorr (1826-1829)
  • Bompard (1829-1830)
  • Huart (1830-1835)
  • Dubuisson (1835-1838)
  • Jean Aimé Le Monnier (1838–1839)
  • Bompard (1839-1840)
  • Debraix (1840-1841)
  • Simon (1841-1842)
  • Le Monnier (1842–1843)
  • Emile Bouchotte (1843-1845)
  • Simon (1844-1850)
  • Emile Bouchotte (1850-1852)
  • Gougeon (1852-1861)
  • Bastien (1861–1872)
  • Paul Bezanson (1872-1882)
  • Mayer (1882-1897)
  • Humbert (1897-1899)
  • Lallement (1899–1907)
  • Theodor Müller (1907–)
  • Philippe Guillaume (current)

The building

The Chamber of Commerce first met in the offices of the prefecture and the private house of President Chedeaux. From January 13, 1817 the rooms of the commercial court were used. In 1853 one changed from the commercial court (which had its seat in the house of the corporations of the merchants in the Ziegengasse) in the justice palace. Contrary to the melodious name of the new building, in the opinion of the Chamber this was a significant deterioration and the prefect's promise was trusted that these rooms would only be used "temporarily". However, the use of the rooms on the upper floor of the justice building should last over half a century.

In 1901 a new building was planned. But when the Reichsbank building at Bankstrasse 20 was up for sale, the decision was made to acquire and convert it. The building was converted from 1905 to 1907 by the architects Robert Curjel and Karl Moser . The red sandstone office building is designed in a neoclassical style. The costs were 75,000 marks for the purchase and 15,000 marks for the conversion.

literature

  • The Metz Chamber of Commerce 1815–1915

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin des Lois, 5 e Série. Tome Troisième. No. 70 to 97. 228.

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 43 "  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 21.8"  E