Chamber of Crafts Lübeck
The Lübeck Chamber of Crafts represents the interests and service provider for the craft in southern Schleswig-Holstein . It represents more than 20,000 member companies with around 107,000 employees and more than 10,000 trainees. She works closely with all craft organizations such as guilds , district craft associations and associations.
The chamber district includes the cities of Kiel , Lübeck , Neumünster and the districts Segeberg , Duchy of Lauenburg , Ostholstein , Pinneberg , Plön , Steinburg and Stormarn districts . In addition to the headquarters in Lübeck, the chamber is present at five other locations. The Lübeck advanced training center is also located in the Hanseatic city. In addition, the Lübeck Chamber of Crafts operates three vocational training centers: Travemünde vocational training center, Elmshorn vocational training center, Kiel vocational training center. In Kiel, the chamber is also represented with an advice center in Willestrasse in the city center.
History of the Chamber of Crafts
On April 6, 1900, the constituent assembly of the Chamber of Crafts in Altona met, which consisted of 32 elected craftsmen. In 1937 Altona was incorporated into the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the seat of the Chamber of Crafts was moved to Lübeck and the name was changed. Since then, the chamber has been called "Lübeck Chamber of Crafts". It became the legal successor to the existing Chamber of Commerce in Lübeck, which was dissolved at the same time. The honorary master baker Knüppel from Altona was elected as the first chairman of the Chamber of Crafts - the office of president was not introduced until 1922. The Lübeck Chamber of Crafts received its first elected president in 1945 with the builder Hermann Wandke.
Structures and organs
The Chamber of Crafts is a self-governing body and is run by volunteer craftsmen. The plenary assembly, the highest decision-making body of the chamber, consists of 36 elected members, of which 24 are self-employed craftsmen and business owners in the craft-related trade and 12 employee representatives who are employed in such businesses. The members of the plenary assembly are the representatives of the trades located in the entire district of the Lübeck Chamber of Crafts. In addition to the President, the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Crafts includes two vice-presidents as well as two further employer representatives and one further employee representative.
Tasks and range of services
The Chamber of Crafts is a corporation under public law (Germany) . Their tasks are stipulated by law in the craft regulations. This includes, for example, keeping the handicrafts register and the directory of the business owners of a trade or craft-like trade that is not subject to authorization. It is also the task of the chamber to regulate vocational training , to issue regulations for this, to monitor its implementation and to lead an apprenticeship role . The Chamber of Crafts issues journeyman's examination regulations and master craftsman's examination regulations for the individual trades as well as regulations for examinations within the framework of professional training or retraining. Other tasks are, for example, the appointment and swearing-in of experts and the establishment of intermediaries for the settlement of disputes between business owners of a trade and their clients.
Advocacy
As a self-governing body of the economy, the Chamber of Crafts represents the interests of politics, business and administration and a service provider for the local craft, craft-like businesses as well as their employees and apprentices. It represents the interests of the skilled trades through suggestions and demands to improve the framework conditions of the companies, statements on legislative initiatives and political projects, diverse contacts with politics at federal, state and local level, maintaining contacts with authorities, associations and social groups, mediation of a positive one Image of the craft in public and through active participation in committees, boards and advisory boards.
consultation
The range of services offered by the Lübeck Chamber of Crafts includes an extensive free advisory service for member companies. You can contact the Chamber, for example, with questions about the following areas: business administration, business handover / takeover, business start-ups, training and further education in the craft, business-related legal issues (basic advice), foreign trade, environmental protection , introduction of new technologies, introduction of effective personnel management and Design and Marketing.
Vocational training and further education
In the vocational training centers and in the advanced training center of the Chamber of Crafts in Lübeck, the training and further education of apprentices , journeymen , masters and managers in the craft takes place. The educational offer includes courses for the inter-company training of apprentices, special training courses for high-performing young people, a diverse range of advanced training courses, training and qualification measures on behalf of the labor administration, supervision of the examination committees, the management of the apprenticeship role, the activity of training advisors , the sponsorship of state vocational schools, a Apprenticeship exchange and an apprenticeship app, the tailor-made placement of apprenticeships as well as the placement of stays abroad.
Vocational training centers and training center
- Travemünde vocational training center
- Elmshorn vocational training center
- Vocational training center Kiel
- Lübeck training center
Travemünde vocational training center
Elmshorn vocational training center
Vocational training center Kiel
Lübeck training center
information
In addition, the Chamber of Crafts informs its members and the public about all craft-related topics through the NordHandwerk magazine, lectures and events, training courses and conferences for volunteers, participation in trade fairs and exhibitions, regular press information from the Lübeck Chamber of Crafts and talks as well as the implementation and evaluation of its own economic surveys.
partnership
Since 1971 there has been a close and lively partnership with the Chamber of Crafts in Poitiers (Chambre de Métiers et de l'Artisanat de la Vienne). The most important component of this partnership is a mutual exchange of apprentices, which has been carried out annually since 1976.
Integrated management system
The Lübeck Chamber of Crafts successfully had its management system certified for the first time in December 2004, including certification as an educational institution. In November 2016, it switched its management system to the new standards DIN EN ISO 9001: 2015 (quality) and DIN EN ISO 14001: 2015 (environment). The Chamber of Crafts is therefore successfully certified according to:
- DIN EN ISO 9001: 2015 (quality)
- DIN EN ISO 14001: 2015 (environment)
- HACCP concept (food hygiene)
- AZAV as a carrier for training and further education
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Lübeck Chamber of Crafts
- ↑ Travemünde vocational training center
- ^ Elmshorn vocational training center
- ↑ Kiel vocational training center
- ^ Lübeck advanced training center
- ↑ NordHandwerk magazine
- ↑ Press information
- ↑ Chambre de Métiers et de l'Artisanat de la Vienne
- ↑ Apprentice exchange
- ↑ Integrated management system