Chamber of Crafts Constance
The Chamber of Crafts in Konstanz is a chamber of crafts in Germany.
Your chamber district is located in the southern part of Baden-Württemberg and is 4,478 square kilometers in size. It represents around 12,500 craft and craft-like businesses with around 70,000 employees and around 4,500 trainees in the districts of Konstanz , Schwarzwald-Baar , Tuttlingen , Rottweil and Waldshut .
General
In addition to the main administration building in Konstanz on Webersteig, there are educational academies in Rottweil , Waldshut , Singen (Hohentwiel) and Villingen-Schwenningen . The Chamber of Crafts is also involved in the vocational training facility in Tuttlingen (BBT), which it runs together with the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
Legal form and tasks
Like all chambers of commerce, the Chamber of Crafts Konstanz is a corporation under public law . The organization exists regardless of the change in its members and the state has delegated sovereign tasks to the Chamber of Crafts . These include, for example:
- Maintaining the handicrafts register, the directory of handicraft-like trades and the apprenticeship roll
- Supervision of training, examinations
- Ordering experts
- Preparation of reports and certificates of proficiency
- Supervision of the guilds and district craft associations
consultation
The Chamber of Crafts in Konstanz offers services for the craft of the region. There are different areas of advice:
- Operational advice
- Environmental advice
- Technology consulting
- Legal advice
- Training advice
For the continuous qualification of the employees in the trade and thus to ensure the operational competitiveness, the Chamber of Crafts Konstanz offers extensive further and further education measures in its educational academies: master schools, industrial-technical further education and also commercial further education.
Organs and volunteer work
In the committees of the Chamber of Crafts, employers and employees jointly assume responsibility for the trade sector on a voluntary basis. The parliament of the crafts is the general assembly. This is elected by every employer and employee of all craft businesses in the chamber district. The general assembly consists of 13 employee representatives and 26 employer representatives. The general assembly elects the board of directors, which in turn appoints the management, the full-time general manager, the honorary president and their representatives.
The current president is the master chimney sweep Werner Rottler, and the general manager is the geographer Georg Hiltner.
history
The so-called Handwerksnovelle from 1897 became a ministerial ordinance on April 9, 1900. Instead of voluntary associations, there were compulsory guilds and compulsory memberships again after more than a hundred years, provided the majority of those affected agreed. Four chambers of crafts were set up in the Grand Duchy of Baden . This was the "hour of birth" of the Constance Chamber of Crafts. The chamber district reached in the west to the main ridge of the Black Forest and to the north to the Württemberg border near Schramberg , in the south to the Upper Rhine and in the east to Baden's eastern tip between Meersburg and Friedrichshafen .
The actual establishment of the chamber took place on January 21, 1901. State commissioner Heinrich Freiherr von und zu Bodman outlined the tasks of the new chamber: In addition to regulating the apprenticeship system including journeyman exams , there should finally be a master craftsman's examination as well as “the commercial, moral and technical training of apprentices , Journeymen and masters ”. He declared the Chamber of Crafts in Konstanz to be founded and initiated the necessary elections for the chamber board. From the beginning, over 10,000 craft businesses were part of the chamber district.
It was not until 1913 that the Chamber of Crafts was able to acquire the property on Webersteig from the city of Konstanz, on which the chamber building still stands today. The building was inaugurated on July 18, 1914.
The First World War cost the lives of hundreds of craftsmen from the chamber district and made many of them unable to work. This situation was made even more difficult by inflation until 1923 . Outstanding invoice amounts no longer had the value of the work performed when they were paid.
In the autumn of 1929, the Great Depression was triggered in the USA , which also affected the handicrafts in Germany. For example, the hardware store collapsed and the journeyman's exams for bricklayers couldn't take place at the Kammersitz because there wasn't a building site that was big enough.
During the time of National Socialism , the law on the provisional development of German handicrafts ensured that there were only compulsory guilds to which district craft associations with a district master craftsman as "leader" were superior. During this time, the handicrafts were not doing badly, as the cities and municipalities were pressured by the state to award contracts to the local handicrafts.
In 1945 the Constance chamber district was occupied by the French army. Since France was badly affected by the war, various craft and industrial companies worked exclusively for French needs.
The 1950s and early 1960s were a period of continuous boom. The will to rebuild was only clouded by the faster growing industry, which paid better and attracted more school leavers than craft.
The 1970s brought a further expansion of the chamber offer in the field of training, further education and training through the construction of the vocational training center of the Chamber of Crafts in Constance. Further vocational training centers were added later in Donaueschingen , Tuttlingen, Villingen-Schwenningen and Rottweil. Inter-company training has also been set up.
In 1989 the five training centers were renamed commercial academies. In addition, master preparation courses were started in all important trades.
In 1999 the Chamber of Crafts comprised 11,300 companies with 84,000 employees, 5,800 apprentices and an annual turnover of around DM 10 billion.
Today the district of the Chamber of Crafts in Konstanz has over 12,000 craft companies with almost 70,000 employees and over 5,000 trainees.
President
- Eduard Emele (1843–1905) from January 21, 1901 to November 1905
- Oskar Sättele (1848–1918) 1905 to May 1918
- Andreas Sauter (1870–1930) from August 1918 to 1930
- Konrad Fischer (1879–1962) from February 3 to April 25, 1933 and from March 4, 1946 to July 1954
- Karl Leo Nägele (1897–1991) from July 1954 to August 1974
- Ernst Held (1919–2016) from August 1974 to December 1994
- Bernhard Hoch (1954–2011), December 1994 to April 28, 2011
- Gotthard Reiner from July 2011 to December 4, 2019
- Werner Rottler since December 4, 2019
Chief Executive
- Heinrich Müller (1864–1932) from January 21, 1901 to April 1919
- Alfred Herfurth (1889–1946) from September 1919 to April 25, 1933
- Franz Schumann (1898–1988) from June 1945 to March 1963
- Ernst Redl, from April 1963 to January 1996
- Manfred Wolfensperger, from February 1, 1996 to March 31, 2011
- Georg Hiltner, since April 2011
Vice President (Employer)
- Oskar Sättele (1848–1918) from January 21, 1901 to 1905
- Gustav Martin (1857–1925) from 1905 to 1913
- Andreas Sauter (1870–1930) from 1913 to 1918
- Dominikus Graf (1856–1936) from 1918 to 1930
- Otto Greiner (1871–1943) from 1930 to April 25, 1933
- August Keller (1889–1962) from April 8, 1946 to 1951
- Rudolf Keller (1883–1955) from 1951 to 1954
- Georg Schulz (1896–1956) from 1954 to 1956
- Eduard Traber (1896–1975) from 1956 to 1969
- Lukas Riedlinger (1920–1989) from 1969 to 1979
- Martin Kaiser (* 1917) from 1979 to 1989
- Bernhard Hoch, from 1989 to 1994
- Kurt Homburger, from 1994 to 2009
- Jürgen Faden, since 2009
Vice Presidents (Employees)
- Ernst Wilhelmi, from January 21, 1901 to 1905
- Bernhard Schreider, from 1905 to 1907
- Friedrich Hauschel, from 1907 to 1910
- Joseph Seitz, from 1910 to 1918 (?)
- Engelbert Spitznagel, from 1918 to 1926 (?)
- Friedrich Harder, from 1926 to 1930
- Johann Thoma, from 1930 to April 25, 1933
- Friedrich Harder, from March 4, 1946 to 1954
- Wilhelm Schwarz (1901–1980) from 1954 to 1969
- Karl Kästle (1910–1996) from 1969 to 1979
- Josef Mink, from 1979 to 1994
- Meinrad Schmid, from 1994 to 2016
- Claus Aberle, since 2017
literature
- Chamber of Crafts Konstanz (ed.): Days of a Century. 100 years of the Constance Chamber of Crafts. Constance 1999.