German group of the International Chamber of Commerce

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The German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce (DGIH) was an institution at the time of the Weimar Republic that took on the task of forming a German lobby for membership in the International Chamber of Commerce . It was founded in 1925 and was based in Cologne .

Structure and history

Germany became a member of the International Chamber of Commerce founded in 1919 in the autumn of 1925. The founding members of the German group consisted of the leading associations of the national economy:

The group was headed by Franz von Mendelssohn , who was simultaneously elected Vice-President and, in 1931, the first and only German President of the biennial congresses of the International Chamber of Commerce, before he had to resign from all offices in the same year for health reasons.

The members of the DGIH were divided into two groups, the ordinary and the extraordinary members. The ordinary members included chambers of commerce, associations and similar organizations. Companies and individuals were listed as associate members.

In the organs of the DGIH, only the ordinary members had voting rights. They could also acquire a maximum of ten seats in the organs. In 1937 the membership fee was RM 300 for ordinary members and RM 200 for extraordinary members.

The president of the DGIH in 1937 was Abraham Frowein , the managing director Ferdinand Haerecke. The permanent German representative of the DGHI at the International Chamber of Commerce, which was based in Paris, was Gerhard Riedberg that year. In autumn 1938 Karl Lindemann became president.

After the Second World War, the German group was able to resume work in November 1948. In the 1960s, Otto Wolff von Amerongen was the longstanding President of the German National Committee. The group still exists today and has been called ICC Germany International Chamber of Commerce since 1997 .

List of members of the Presidium of the German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce (as of 1937)

  • Fritz Dreesen, head of the restaurant and hotel industry, Bad Godesberg
  • John Theodor Essberger, State Councilor, Head of the Reichsverkehrsgruppe Seeschiffahrt, Hamburg
  • Otto Christian Fischer , Head of the Reichsgruppe Banken and Vice President of the International Chamber of Commerce, Berlin
  • Franz Hayler , Head of the Retail Business Group, Munich
  • Ewald Hecker , retired government councilor D., President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Eduard Hilgard , Head of the Reich Insurance Group
  • Hermann Victor Hübbe, Vice President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Fritz Jessen , Member of the Management Board at Siemens & Halske AG, Berlin-Siemensstadt
  • Julius Koch , owner of the company H. Bischoff & Co., Bremen
  • Carl Krecke, head of the Reichsgruppe Energiewirtschaft der German Wirtschaft
  • Hermann Lange, Director of the United Seidenwebereien AG, Krefeld
  • Karl Lindemann , State Councilor, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Norddeutscher Lloyd , Bremen
  • Carl Lüer , head of the Reichsgruppe Handel, Frankfurt / Main
  • Albert Pietzsch , head of the Reich Chamber of Commerce, Höllrigelskreuth near Munich
  • Ernst Poensgen , chairman of the board of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG , Düsseldorf
  • Friedrich Reinhart , State Councilor, Head of the Private Banking Business Group, Berlin
  • Wilhelm Rumpf, head of the wholesale, import and export trade business group, Frankfurt / Main
  • Otto Sack, head of the mechanical engineering business group, Leipzig
  • Georg von Schnitzler , Director of IG Farben AG, Frankfurt / Main
  • Kurt Freiherr von Schröder , President of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Cologne
  • Ernst Trendelenburg , State Secretary, Deputy Head of the Reich Chamber of Commerce, Berlin

literature

  • 40 years of the German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce. German Economic Service, Cologne 1965.
  • German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce: Connected to the world, committed to the world. 1925-1975 . Cologne 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Rosengarten: The International Chamber of Commerce . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-342850411-4 , p. 20, note 24 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Hermann Teschemacher (Ed.): Handbook of the construction of the commercial economy , Volume 2, Leipzig 1937.

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