Chamber of Crafts Erfurt

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The Erfurt Chamber of Crafts looks after all craft businesses as well as businesses in the craft-like trade in Central and Northern Thuringia. These include the districts of Sömmerda, Gotha, Nordhausen, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Kyffhäuser-Kreis, Eichsfeldkreis, Weimarer Land and Ilm-Kreis as well as the independent cities of Erfurt and Weimar.

history

In 1900 the Erfurt Chamber of Crafts was founded and the master tailor Johannes Jacobskötter was elected 1st President. Until 1917 the office was in Johannes Jacobskötter's apartment at Burgstrasse 12 in Erfurt. The budget was around 1,000 Reichsmarks annually. The Chamber's influence and its areas of responsibility grew rapidly. In 1925 the Zum Breiten Herd and Zum Stötzel houses were purchased .

In 1937 all Thuringian chambers were initially merged into a department of the Thuringia Chamber of Commerce and in 1942 into a Gau Chamber of Commerce based in Weimar; Erfurt was just a branch office.

In 1949, a SMAD order from the Soviet military administration in Germany ordered the chamber to be decentralized. Erfurt became the headquarters again. In the following 40 years of the GDR, the craft and its organizations were tolerated.

Structural changes took place after 1989. Today (2017) the Erfurt Chamber of Crafts looks after over 14,200 companies in its chamber district.

Seat

The Erfurt Chamber of Crafts is based at two locations:

  1. HWK Erfurt head office, Fischmarkt Nr. 13, 99084 Erfurt
  2. HWK Erfurt vocational training center, Alacher Chaussee 10, 99092 Erfurt

organization

Organizational structure of the craft in Thuringia

Thuringian Crafts Day

The Thuringian Crafts Day e. V. (THT e.V.) is the roof of the craft at state level. He is the top representative of more than 15,250 craft businesses in the Free State of Thuringia. He takes care of the craftsmen's concerns vis-à-vis the state parliament, the state government, the parties, corporations and associations.

In the Thuringian Crafts Day, the three Thuringian Chambers of Crafts and Thuringian state guild associations and state guilds have come together. In addition, economic institutions related to the craft are members of the Thuringian Crafts Day.

District Craftsmen's Associations (KHS)

There are five district craft associations in the Erfurt chamber district.

  1. KHS Gotha (Gotha)
  2. KHS Kyffhäuser-Unstrut-Hainich (Mühlhausen)
  3. KHS Central Thuringia (Erfurt)
  4. KHS North Thuringia (Leinefelde)
  5. KHS Weimar-Sömmerda (Weimar)

The guilds of Central and Northern Thuringia come together under its roof.

The district craftsmen's associations work across all trades and represent the interests of independent trades and craft-like businesses. They are each assigned to a district. A district craft association is formed in accordance with Section 86 of the Crafts Code by the craft guilds that have their headquarters in a city or district.

The Erfurt Chamber of Crafts has legal supervision of the district craft associations in its chamber district.

Association for the promotion of the craft of Thuringia

Thuringian handicrafts, especially handicrafts, have a good reputation far beyond the borders of the Free State. However, so that rare, traditional and handicrafts from Thuringia can continue to survive on the market in the future, new paths must be treaded.

The association for the promotion of the craft of Thuringia, whose initiator is the Chamber of Crafts Erfurt, has made it its mission to support the craftsmen.

According to the statutes, it pursues the following goals:

  • Promotion of craft projects and plans
  • Maintenance of craft traditions
  • Maintenance and documentation of rare and especially endangered crafts
  • Organization and supervision of exhibitions of handicraft products

Juniors of the craft

In 2015 the junior craftsmen for Central and Northern Thuringia were founded.

tasks

Administrative facility

The chamber

  • maintains the handicrafts register for handicrafts requiring authorization and the lists of handicrafts that are not subject to authorization and trades similar to handicrafts,
  • regulates vocational training and the issuance of all necessary regulations,
  • leads the apprentice role (list of all completed apprenticeship contracts),
  • conducts and controls exams for master craftsman, advanced training, journeyman and retraining exams,
  • issues examination regulations for master craftsman, advanced training and journeyman examinations,
  • keeps the list of all technical experts,
  • oversees the, district craft associations and guilds
  • takes on arbitration tasks.

Advocacy

The chamber

  • maintains contacts with political decision-makers and authorities,
  • participates in hearings and gives opinions on new laws,
  • is the mouthpiece for craft businesses,
  • advocates framework conditions that are suitable for craft and medium-sized businesses,
  • contributes to the fight against illegal employment.

service provider

The chamber

  • advises on business start-ups and business takeovers or handovers,
  • draws up opinions,
  • advises on legal problems and questions about corporate environmental protection,
  • provides business and technical advice,
  • supports in marketing activities.

Educational workshop

The chamber

  • maintains a vocational training center,
  • advises on questions about education and training,
  • maintains an apprenticeship exchange,
  • conducts competitions in craftsmanship,
  • qualified masters.

Organs and volunteer work

The organs of the Chamber of Crafts are the general assembly, the board and the committees. The general assembly is the highest organ of the Erfurt Chamber of Crafts. For a period of five years, it is made up of democratically elected representatives of the craft entrepreneurs and the skilled trades workers.

The general assembly elects a president, the vice-presidents and the board of directors and, if necessary, committees. In the Chamber of Crafts in Erfurt, the Audit Committee, the Building Committee and the Trade Promotion Committee work on this basis. The general assembly and the board of directors are responsible for passing resolutions on all important questions in and around the craft in the chamber district.

The general assembly, the board of directors and the committees are each made up of two thirds of self-employed craftsmen and one third of employees. The vocational training committee (BBiA) also has a special position. He is to be heard on all regulations of the vocational training.

President

  • 1900–1911 Johannes Jacobskötter, master tailor
  • 1911–1920 Christian Büchner, master baker
  • 1920–1933 Johannes Dunkel, master baker
  • 1933–1943 Willi Stange, master builder
  • 1945–1948 Heinz Baumeister
  • 1948–1950 Hans Kettel, master painter
  • 1950–1977 Paul Heß, master carpenter
  • 1977–1989 Kurt Mikolajzak
  • 1989–2001 Wolf Bachmann, electrical engineer
  • 2001–2011 Rolf Ostermann, master body builder
  • since 2011 Stefan Lobenstein, master baker

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