Chamber of Commerce and Industry Worms

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The Worms Chamber of Commerce and Industry (until 1902: Chamber of Commerce Worms , abbreviation: IHK Worms ) was a Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Worms from 1842 to 1943 .

history

The Grand Ducal Hessian Chamber of Commerce in Worms was founded in 1841. The initial five members of the chamber were elected under the leadership of the district council by the ten most important merchants or factory owners. Annually, two members determined by lot resigned and new elections took place for these, whereby the previous members could be re-elected. In 1868 the number of members rose to seven, in 1872 to nine.

The Grand Ducal Hessian Chamber of Commerce Act of 1871 was signed by Grand Duke Ludwig III on November 17, 1871. All entrepreneurs who were entered in the commercial register and belonged to the first four classes of trade tax were now entitled to vote. Now the members have been elected for three years. A third dropped out every year.

In 1900 the chamber district was expanded to include the district of Worms . Originally, the government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse planned to assign the district of Oppenheim to the chamber . Ultimately, however, this came to the Mainz Chamber. The IHK Worms was one of the smallest chambers in Germany. In 1925, the IHK Worms was 115th of the 117 IHKs in Germany with 972 members.

In 1902, with the amendment to the Chamber of Commerce Act, the chamber was renamed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The self-administration of the economy ended in the time of National Socialism . Now the president of the chamber (now chairman) was appointed and this appointed the members of the chamber according to the leader principle . With the IHK regulation of 1934, the responsibility of the states for chamber legislation ended and the IHKs were regulated uniformly across the empire. You were now part of the management of the economy under National Socialism . In 1943 the IHK Worms was dissolved and transferred together with the Chamber of Crafts into the " Gauwirtschaftskammer Rhein-Main ", headed by Hermann Gamer .

The French military government did not allow a new IHK to be established in Worms and in 1946 ordered the merger of the IHK Worms, the IHK Bingen and the IHK Mainz to form the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Rheinhessen .

Since then there has been a branch of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Rheinhessen in the historic IHK building in Worms.

building

The chamber was located in the building 'Im Kaufhaus 8' until 1899, then after a short interlude in Rheinstraße 55 and Goethestraße 31 from 1906 to 1917/18 in Renzstraße 30 and 32 and from 1918 (until today) in the Festhausstraße building (today Rathenaustraße) 20.

Personalities

President

Leonhard Heyl

Other

literature

  • Ulrich S. Soénius and Jürgen Weise: Self-governing organizations of the economy since the 19th century, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7749-3564-8 , p. 38
  • Martin Will: Self-government of the economy: Law and history of self-government in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district craftsmen's associations, chambers of crafts and chambers of agriculture; Band 199 publicum Jus, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150705-2 , pp 309-314, Teildigitalisat
  • Helmut Berding (Ed.): 125 years of the Giessen Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Economy in one region . Hessian economic archive. Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-9804506-1-9 , pp. 21-22, 25-28.
  • Worms city archive

Chamber publications

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance on the establishment of a Chamber of Commerce in Worms on July 5, 1842; in: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1842
  2. ↑ Law relating to the Chambers of Commerce of November 17, 1871; in: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1871, pp. 421–426
  3. ^ Law of August 6, 1902, concerning the Chambers of Commerce and Industry
  4. ↑ Gerold Bönnen: Leonhard Heyl II. In: The Worms industrial family von Heyl. Public and private work between the bourgeoisie and the nobility. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms 2010. ISBN 978-3-88462-304-6 , p. 320.
  5. ↑ Fritz Reuter, Das 'neue Worms': Kommunalbau und Stadtentwicklung 1882-1918, Marburg / Darmstadt 1993 (Sources and Research on Hessian History 91), p. 372 Note 85 List of Presidents of the Chamber of Commerce