Gdansk Chamber of Commerce

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The Chamber of Commerce Danzig was the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Gdansk .

history

The Gdansk Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1812 by Governor Jean Rapp, based on the French model . Theodosius Christian von Frantzius became the first president. With the end of the French occupation, that of the Chamber of Commerce also ended.

At the beginning of the 1820s, commercial corporations were formed in the cities of Berlin, Stettin, Danzig, Memel, Tilsit, Königsberg, Elbing and Magdeburg based on the model of the commercial corporation formed in Königsberg in 1810.

With the Prussian Chamber of Commerce Act of 1870, these remained in place and were treated as equivalent to the chambers of commerce.

The separation of Danzig from the Reich as the Free City of Danzig against the will of the population created a new situation. By statute of December 17, 1919, the Danzig Chamber of Commerce was formed, which was now responsible for the entire area of ​​the Free City. The legal basis remained the Prussian Chamber of Commerce Act of February 24, 1870/19. August 1897. The organ of the Chamber of Commerce was the “Danziger Wirtschaftszeitung”. The seat of the chamber was Hundegasse 10. In 1934 the Danzig Chamber of Commerce was given the name of a Danzig Chamber of Commerce and Industry , which is common in the Reich .

After the invasion of Poland , the Free City of Danzig was reincorporated into the Empire. In the time of National Socialism , the self-administration of the economy was abolished. The CCI Danzig was brought into line . The Chamber President Günther Woermann has now been appointed and the Chamber is organized according to the leader principle . In 1942 the chamber lost the rest of its independence and was incorporated into the Gauwirtschaftskammer Danzig-West Prussia .

With the conquest of Danzig by the Red Army, the work of the Chamber ended. Instead, an alternative point was created for the Chamber in Schwerin, which, however, was only able to save isolated files. In June 1945 the western victorious powers evacuated Schwerin and handed the city over to the Soviet occupying power. A continuation of the work in Schwerin was not possible, instead a processing office was set up at the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce . This tried to reconstruct the commercial register and other documents. The original documents of the Danzig Chamber have been almost completely destroyed.

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  1. http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz16919.html
  2. ^ Clemens Wischermann, Anne Nieberding: The institutional revolution: an introduction to the German economic history of the 19th and early 20th centuries; Volume 5 of Fundamentals of Modern Economic History, ISSN 1616-041X, 2004, ISBN 9783515084772 , p. 132, online
  3. Heinz Bremer: Chamber Law of the Economy, 1960, ISBN 9783110906769 , p. 7, online
  4. Ordinance on the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of July 28, 1934, Law Gazette for the Free City of Danzig, year 1934, page 634. Ber. Page 666, 724, 726.
  5. Kurt Romuss: Destruction and Reconstruction: The formerly Danzig economy and its old chamber organization; in: Circular for the members of the League of Danzig, No. 1, November 1948, online