Stolberg Chamber of Commerce
The Stolberg Chamber of Commerce was initially a French and later a Prussian Chamber of Commerce and Industry , which existed from 1804 to 1931 .
history
Two decrees and a law created the basis for trade councils in the French-occupied Rhineland: On December 24, 1802, a decree by Napoléon Bonaparte reestablished the “chambres de commerce” (chambers of commerce), and on April 12, 1803, “chambres consultatives de manufactures , fabriques, arts et metiers ”(Chambers of Industry and Commerce), and on April 2, 1804, Bonaparte ordered the establishment of 154 such chambers in what was then France . In the Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle ( dt. Aachen ) of the Département de la Roer , Aachen , Düren , Montjoie ( dt. Monschau ) and Stolberg registered the desire to set up a chamber at the end of 1803. Among the 154 chambers, the chambres consultatives “ Burtscheid ” and “Stolberg” were set up in the Arrondissement of Aachen .
For the first election, the then Stolberg mayor Mathias Heinrich Schleicher, who as Maire was automatically chairman of the chamber, called together Stolberg manufacturers on May 29, 1804, who elected six representatives for the chamber: the brass manufacturers I. Lynen, JA Peltzer jr., JA Schleicher, ML Schleicher and LK von Asten as well as the cloth manufacturer A. Hellmich. Despite the members only coming from Stolberg, the chamber was responsible for the five cantons of Düren, Eschweiler , Froitzheim , Gemünd and Montjoie (Monschau). At the Paris exhibition in 1806, the Stolberg chamber district was mainly represented with products from the lead, iron, glass and brass industries. This imbalance did not change until the beginning of the 1820s , when the Chamber's activity gradually ceased after it came under Prussian rule in 1816 .
As early as 1805 the Stolberg Chamber got into financial difficulties because Stolberg was on the one hand heavily in debt and on the other hand, as the seat of the Chamber, was obliged to bear the Chamber's costs by law. The Stolberg proposal to pass on the annual costs of 400 francs to the manufacturers and manufacturers of the entire district was not implemented despite the support of the Aachen prefect .
Under Prussian rule, the “Stolberg Chamber of Commerce” was re-established for the Aachen and Düren districts in 1850 and later expanded to include the Jülich district . It began its work on February 6, 1851. Manufacturers from across the district now become members and chairmen. The Burtscheid Chamber is called the “Aachen and Burtscheid Chamber of Commerce”, later, after the incorporation of Burtscheid, the “Aachen Chamber of Commerce”. In 1923 the Chamber of Commerce issues its own emergency money . In 1931 the Aachen and Stolberg chambers merged to form the "Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry" .
literature
- Past and present economic events in the district of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the districts of Aachen-Land, Düren and Jülich zu Stolberg (Rhl.), Commemorative publication of the chamber on the occasion of its 75th anniversary April 1925, La Ruelle , Aachen 1925