Hamburg Trade Association

The Hamburg Trade Association of 1867 eV was initially founded as a section of the Patriotic Society .

The trade association were numerous renowned large and small entrepreneurs from Hamburg's trade, commerce and industry, but also artists, scholars, architects, lawyers and heads of important institutions - said Richard Meyer, director of the School of Applied Arts and Justus Brinckmann , the founding director of the Museum of Art und Gewerbe Hamburg , who had previously been the first secretary of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1873 to 1877. The trade association's close ties to the Museum of Art and Industry are documented in the large plaque that was attached to the entrance stairs in 1902 for the MKG's 25th anniversary. Ernst Gottfried Vivié was one of the founders and honorary president of the trade association.

The trade association and its members also actively supported the demands for a new building of the trade chamber (built from 1912 to 1915/1917) and donated parts of the interior of the trade building (today Hamburg Chamber of Crafts ) on Holstenwall . The foundations included a tiled stove with blue painting donated by master potter Albert Krüger, a wall fountain made by the sculptor Hans Waetcke (1888–1968) and the lectern Muse des Handwerks by Heinrich Walldorf Jr. (1872– ??).

The bronze bust of Johannes Hirsch, also created by Hans Waetcke, is still in the stairwell of the commercial building . He was chairman of the association from 1908 to 1928 as the successor to Theodor Menzel. As chairman of the association, Johannes Hirsch gave numerous lectures on political, social and cultural issues and wrote numerous articles for the trade association's newspaper.