District Chamber of Commerce
The Gau economic chambers were economic organizations at the time of National Socialism . From 1942, under the pressure of the war, they were set up by decree of the Reich Ministry of Economics as the successor to the (then 111) chambers of industry and commerce , chambers of crafts and economics . The already drastically restricted self-administration of these economic areas since the " seizure of power " was thus eliminated. The organization spatially followed the Reichsgauen from 1939 to 1945.
The legal basis was the Gau Chamber of Commerce Construction Ordinance (GWKAV) of May 30, 1942.
The handicrafts eked a shadowy existence as the “handicraft department”, as the industry became increasingly important to the war effort. The handicraft department was headed by the Gau handicraftsman , who was also vice-president (or, as for example Gustav Bernhardt in the Gau Wirtschaftskammer Kassel, president) of the chamber. These offices were not filled by free choice, but by the National Socialist rulers according to the Führer principle . It was no longer an organization of economic self-government .
The Gau Economic Chambers were members of the Reich Chamber of Commerce .
Members were all legal and natural persons who had an economic operation in the chamber's district.
As a rule, the Allied military governments dissolved the Gau economic chambers as early as the summer of 1945. In the state of Greater Hesse , the Americans had already set up separate chambers of crafts, some of which only received their rightful democratic basis after the founding of the Federal Republic with the Crafts Code.
In Frankfurt am Main, the new Chamber of Crafts remained until 1957 under the roof of the stock exchange and IHK building, into which it was forced by the establishment of the Gauwirtschaftskammer in 1943.
In the SBZ , new IHKs were set up at the state level and later abolished. See Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the GDR .
Individual district economic chambers
literature
- Martin Will: Self-government of the economy: Law and history of self-government in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district craft associations, chambers of crafts and chambers of agriculture . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 3-16-150705-3 , p. 349 ff., Books.google.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Third ordinance for the implementation of the ordinance on the simplification and standardization of the organization of the commercial economy (Gauwirtschaftskammeraufbauverordnung, GWKAV), quoted from: Arno Buschmann: National Socialist World View and Legislation: 1933-1945 , Volume 2. ISBN 3-211-83407-9 , Pp. 487-489, books.google.de
- ↑ First ordinance for the implementation of the ordinance on the simplification and standardization of the organization of the commercial economy (Gau Wirtschaftskammerverordnung) of April 20, 1942, RGBl. I, p. 189
- ↑ Second ordinance for the implementation of the ordinance on the simplification and standardization of the organization of the commercial economy of April 20, 1942, RGBl. I, p. 190
- ↑ Third ordinance for the implementation of the ordinance on the simplification and standardization of the organization of the commercial economy (Gauwirtschaftskammerbildungverordnung, GWKAV) of May 30, 1942, RGBl. I, pp. 371-374