Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
| Hamburg Chamber of Commerce | |
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| Organizational form | Public corporation |
| founding year | 1665 |
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Hamburg Germany
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| Homepage | www.hk24.de |
| president | Norbert Aust , President |
| Chief Executive | Malte Heyne |
| Members | |
| Associated | approx. 160,000 |
| Bureau | 1 President + 6 Vice Presidents |
| Key figures | |
| Number of managers | 1 |
| Number of employees | 265 (Dec. 31, 2014) |
| Contribution amount | 37.1 million euros (December 31, 2014) |
| Total assets | 135.6 million euros (December 31, 2014) |
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and was founded in 1665 (at that time still as Commerz Deputation ). As a chamber, it represents around 160,000 companies. The Chamber of Commerce advocates business-friendly location conditions in the Hamburg economic area. She supports start-ups and entrepreneurs with extensive advice and services. It also takes on sovereign tasks, for example in the area of dual vocational training (taking exams, etc.).
Seat
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is located directly behind the Hamburg City Hall in the same building as the “ Hamburg Stock Exchange ”, of which it is the sponsor. Today's stock exchange Börsen AG has its headquarters in Rathausmarkt-Hof . The main entrance to the Chamber of Commerce is at Adolphsplatz 1.
organization
The President is at the head of the Chamber of Commerce. The President represents the Chamber of Commerce together with the General Manager. In addition to the Praeses, the Presidium consists of six Vice Presidents. It determines the priorities of the Chamber of Commerce and prepares the resolutions of the plenary. The plenary is the “parliament of business” and is elected every three years by the member companies. For this purpose, the companies are divided into 17 electoral groups according to industries. The plenary has up to 66 members who work on a voluntary basis. 58 candidates are directly elected, up to 8 additional plenary members can be elected indirectly by the elected plenary members. Committees and working groups are set up (currently 37) to prepare and support the work of the plenary and presidium.
The Education Service division encompasses all vocational and academic education activities. These have been offered and carried out in the field of professional training since 1999 by the subsidiary HKBiS Chamber of Commerce Hamburg Bildungs-Service gGmbH.
In 2009 the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce founded the “Young Academy”. The two-year advanced training program for young people between the ages of 15 and 20 imparts business knowledge and aims to establish contact between young people and companies.
Elections 2017
In the chamber of commerce elections in 2017, supporters of the alliance Die Kammer WE are, with 55 of 58 elected, received the absolute majority of seats in the plenary assembly of the Chamber of Commerce. The alliance of the " IHK rebels " is based on the program of the Federal Association for Free Chambers (BffK) founded in 1996 . In April 2017 Tobias Bergmann was elected President. He resigned surprisingly on December 8, 2018.
Fields of competence
The content-related work of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is divided into the following areas of expertise:
- Location policy
- Business start-ups and business support
- Initial and continuing education
- Innovation & Environment
- International
- Law & Taxation
- Financial center and stock exchange (see also Hamburg stock exchange )
Business figures
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce had revenues of 46.3 million euros in the 2014 reporting year, 37.1 million euros of which came from contributions from member companies. It employs around 265 full-time employees. The membership fees consist of a basic fee between 0 euros and 575 euros (depending on the size of the business and the business income) and a contribution rate of 0.22% of the business income.
history
Drawing by Wilhelm Kretschmer , 1879
The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is the oldest German Chamber of Commerce. It was founded in 1665 as a Commerz deputation by Hamburg merchants engaged in sea trade. They had already received the right to elect a board of directors in 1517, which resulted in the amalgamation of the Gemeenen Kopmann (today's assembly of an honorable businessman in Hamburg ), on whose initiative the first German stock exchange was founded in Hamburg in 1558. In 1710 the Commerzdeputation received a seat and voting rights in the citizenry . In 1735 the Commerzdeputation moved into rooms above the city scales built in 1669, which was located between the crane and the Hamburg stock exchange on Nikolaifleet , near the town hall on the Trostbrücke . In the same year the Commerzbibliothek was built there , the world's first business library. The building called Commercium was expanded in 1767. During the French period in Hamburg , the company was temporarily converted into a chamber of commerce based on the French model.
The stock exchange opened in 1841 - on the site of the former Maria Magdalenen monastery and church - in a new building on Adolphsplatz. At that time, this only consisted of the central part of the current building. It also became the new headquarters of the Commerz Deputation, while the following year the old building was destroyed in the Hamburg fire . In 1867 the Commerz Deputation was renamed the Chamber of Commerce . In 1907 the Chamber of Commerce was officially given the right to represent industry, which had been practiced since 1900 through the Industry Commission it had set up. In 1933 the law regarding the provisional reorganization of the Chamber of Commerce came into force and the plenum was reconstituted. In 1934 the now so-called Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry became the branch of the Nordmark Chamber of Commerce (Hamburg, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg and parts of northern Hanover). With the Greater Hamburg Act in 1937, the Hamburg Chamber's jurisdiction was expanded to include Altona, Harburg, Wandsbek and Wilhelmsburg. In 1943 the " Hamburg Gauwirtschaftskammer " was set up, which also included the Chamber of Crafts and the Nordmark Chamber of Commerce. After the end of the war, it was renamed the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in 1945 . Through federal and state law, the chambers were given the uniform status of a public corporation in 1955/1956.
Presides from 1665 until today
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Hamburg economy
The monthly membership magazine Hamburger Wirtschaft (spelling: hamburgerwirtschaft ) is the official publication of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. The business magazine examines the economy and economic policy from a regional point of view, comments on regional political decisions from the point of view of the economy and gives tips for daily management practice. In addition, readers receive information on taxes, finances, law, foreign trade, sales, trade, traffic, vocational training and further education. All full members of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce registered in the commercial register receive the business magazine, non-members can subscribe to the magazine from the Chamber of Commerce.
criticism
In January 2006, the membership magazine came under fire for a cartoon directed against begging people in downtown Hamburg. In connection with the elections to the plenary session in 2014, it was criticized that the salary of the chief executive officer was not disclosed, but only the total amount of the salaries of all leading members of the management board was published. Gregor Hackmack , member of the action alliance “The Chamber is WE”, said: “A chamber of commerce that is financed by compulsory contributions and that guards the salary of its chief executive like a state secret is certainly not a good advisor when it comes to transparency.” At the beginning of August 2015 was the total amount of the remuneration of General Manager Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz in the amount of 475,000 euros for the year 2014 is known.
building
The building is in the classical style.
The Commerzbibliothek , service center for business, welcome center for new residents of Hamburg, the representative halls Börsensaal and Commerzsaal, the restaurant Pfeffersack and the Info-Point-Europa are located on the ground floor . Partly free-floating, partly on the ground floor of the stock exchange hall, there are models of Hamburg convoy ships, which were warships to combat piracy. There is also an original Hamburg lake barrel from the 17th century, floating freely and with an anchor chain and anchor stone. They were used to mark the Elbe fairway.
A staircase leads from the ground floor to the five-story cube house in the house. The start-up center is set up on level 1. The art room in the Chamber of Commerce is on the first floor (level 2). Halls and rooms and a surrounding gallery are also accessible. On level 3 there is a permanent exhibition on the work of the Chamber of Commerce. Levels 4 and 5 are not open to the public. There you will find the stock exchange club, restaurant and lounge and the Merkur terrace on the roof of the stock exchange building.
Regular events
- annual meeting of an honorable businessman in Hamburg
- changing art exhibitions in the gallery of the Chamber of Commerce and in the "house in the house" on the second level
Branches
- Brussels (since 1959)
- Berlin (since 1992); previously Bonn (1956 to 1992)
- St. Petersburg (since 1993)
- Kaliningrad (since 1994)
- Shanghai (since 2002)
- Dubai (since 2006)
- Mumbai (since 2011)
Subsidiaries
- HKS Chamber of Commerce Hamburg Service GmbH
- Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Bildungs-Service gGmbH
- HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration
- Hamburgisches Weltwirtschaftsinstitut gGmbH
literature
- Uwe Bahnsen : Hanseatic people under the swastika. The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the merchants in the Third Reich. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel 2015, ISBN 978-3-529-05261-3 .
Web links
- Official website of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
- Early newspaper articles on the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Organization: Presidium and Plenary . Website of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, accessed on November 17, 2017.
- ↑ Imprint . Website of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, accessed on August 3, 2020.
- ↑ About us . Website of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, accessed on November 17, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e report 2015/2016 . Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, accessed on November 17, 2017.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2] Chamber of Commerce election 2017 Accessed on November 28, 2016.
- ↑ [3] Committees and working groups. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
- ↑ HKBiS Chamber of Commerce Hamburg Bildungs-Service gGmbH
- ↑ Steffen Fründt: Revolt of the pizza delivery guys. After the putsch in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the rebels are now also seeing themselves on the upswing in other cities . The times of the clique economy, clientele politics and self-enrichment, as they see it, are numbered. In: Welt am Sonntag , February 26, 2017, p. 38
- ↑ The Pizza Delivery Man's Revolt. Die Welt, March 5, 2017, accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Bergmann was elected with 54 out of 58 votes. Will the general manager's salary be cut now? in: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 6, 2017
- ^ Resignation of Tobias Bergmann. Hamburg Chamber of Commerce loses its President , welt de December 8, 2018 (accessed December 8, 2018)
- ↑ contribution . Website of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, accessed on November 28, 2016.
- ↑ Sketch, map of the building of the Chamber of Commerce on the grounds of the Maria Magdalenen Monastery and Church , abendblatt.de (accessed on February 18, 2017)
- ^ A sense of art and a merchant's spirit . Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2005.
- ^ Website of the Hamburg economy
- ↑ Street magazine Hinz & Kunzt Grand coalition against begging ban. Accessed on November 30, 2014
- ↑ Martin Kopp: Hamburg: One does not talk about money in the Chamber of Commerce. In: welt.de . January 22, 2014, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ^ Olaf Preuß: Hamburg: Sharp criticism of the salary of the Chamber of Commerce boss Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz. In: welt.de . August 7, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (ed.): The Hamburg convoy ships. Leaflet, approx. 2015.
- ↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (ed.): The Hamburgische Seetonne. Leaflet around 2015.
- ↑ Steffen Preissler: The city's engine is its economy. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 17, 2015, Extra: 350 Years of the Chamber of Commerce, p. 1.
- ↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (ed.): The house in the house. Leaflet around 2015.
- ^ Art in the Chamber of Commerce
