Trade Association Germany
| Trade Association Germany (HDE) |
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| legal form | eV |
| purpose | Trade association |
| Seat | Berlin |
| founding | March 1919
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| president | Josef Sanktjohanser |
| Website | retail.de |
The Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE) is the central association of the German retail trade in the legal form of a registered association based in Berlin . As an employers' and business association , it represents the interests of retailers in Germany and the European Union.
It speaks for around 400,000 independent companies with almost 3 million employees and an annual turnover of over 420 billion euros. The industry is characterized by medium-sized companies, because 98 percent of retail companies employ fewer than 50 people and do not generate more than 10 million euros in sales per year. Among the more than 100,000 members are the few, but top-selling industry giants.
organization
The organs of the association are the assembly of delegates, the executive committee, the board of directors and the collective bargaining advisory board.
Board
In addition to the president, the board consists of ten vice-presidents.
Presidents since the re-establishment in 1947 have been:
- 1966–1969: Joseph Illerhaus
- 1969–1984: Friedrich Gottlieb Conzen (Honorary President since 1984)
- 1984–1990: Wolfgang Hinrichs (Honorary President since 1990)
- 1990–2006: Hermann Franzen (Honorary President since 2006)
- 2006 – today: Josef Sanktjohanser
Main management
Since the re-establishment in 1947, the main managing directors have been:
- ? –2007: Holger Wenzel
- 2007 – today: Stefan Genth
membership
The members of the trade association are 8 trade associations at state level (state associations) and 29 federal specialist associations.
The regional associations are:
- Northern trade association for Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Lower Saxony-Bremen trade association for Lower Saxony and Bremen
- Trade association Berlin-Brandenburg for Berlin and Brandenburg
- Central Germany trade association for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia
- Trade association of North Rhine-Westphalia for North Rhine-Westphalia
- Central trade association for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
- Baden Württemberg Trade Association for Baden-Württemberg
- Trade Association of Bavaria for Bavaria
Federal trade associations include the Federal Association of the German Grocery Trade , the Federal Association of German Textile Retailers and the Federal Association of Retail Technology .
The association is itself a member of the Federal Association of German Employers 'Associations and there the employers' umbrella organization for the retail sector. He performs this function according to the Collective Agreement Act. He exercises his right to have a say in social policy in social self-administration, from the Federal Employment Agency to the German pension insurance to the local health insurance funds and to representation before labor and social courts . In addition, the HDE is a member of EuroCommerce , the European umbrella organization for wholesalers and retailers.
history
The association was founded on March 13, 1919 as the main community of the German retail trade . Oscar Tietz is one of the initiators of the foundation . In 1932, the "Association of German Department Stores" and the "Reich Association of Branch Stores of the Grocery Retail" were pushed out of the main association by radicalized forces of the middle class. In 1934, the association's activity was stopped by the national socialists, when all free associations were replaced by Reich or economic groups of the Reich Chamber of Commerce . All retail businesses became compulsory members of the newly introduced retail business group within the Reichsgruppe Handel ; the main German retail community was dissolved in 1936.
On September 12, 1947, the main association of German retailers in West Germany was re-established in Bonn by the regional retail associations in Bavaria, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine, Schleswig-Holstein, Westphalia and Württemberg-Baden. In 1949 the move to Frankfurt a. M. In October of the same year, the assembly of delegates decided to rename the company to Hauptgemeinschaft des Deutschen Einzelhandels e. V. Three other regional associations joined the main community. On June 1, 1950, Cologne became the seat of the main community. Until the fall of the wall, there was no trade association activity in the GDR territory. In 1990 the name was changed to the Main Association of German Retailers (HDE).
At the end of 2009 it was renamed Handelsverband Deutschland - HDE eV. The name change was intended to take account of the restructuring of the retail organization in the regions and countries. At the same time, after the dissolution of the trade association BAG ( Federal Association of Medium- sized and Large Retail Enterprises ) on December 9, 2009, its large member companies should be offered a new professional interest group at the federal level. As early as July 1, 2002, the Federal Association of Branch Operators and Self-Service Department Stores (BFS) became the representation of the interests of well-known branch operations and discounters in the food retail sector in the HDE.
Since 2017, the association has also been one of the founders of the Central Packaging Register Foundation (ZSVR) in accordance with Section 24 of the Packaging Act , based in Osnabrück .
Surname
- 1919: Main association of the German retail trade
- 1990: Main Association of German Retailers
- 2009: German Trade Association - HDE
Awards
The association awards the German Trade Prize annually .
Since 2004, the HDE, together with the trade journal, has awarded the trade innovation prize to innovative retailers . The award goes to companies "that stand out with innovative, creative and extraordinary ideas, change, inspire and enrich retail with new facets".
Also since 2004 the HDE has been awarding the title Stores of the Year to the most interesting and innovative shops of the year. The award is made by a jury made up of retail experts. The categories Fashion, Food, Living, Out-of-Line and Special Prize are awarded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German trade association: History. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
- ^ German trade association: The association - HDE organization - Executive board: Josef Sanktjohanser. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
- ↑ The HDE - short profile. ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. retail.de
- ↑ a b c d e Carsten Flick: Internal association formation of will and the implementation of association positions. The discussion about the shop opening times in Germany and the role of the Main Association of German Retailers (HDE) , (PDF; 1.57 MB) Inaugural dissertation for the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , January 31, 2006
- ↑ The board of the HDE. In: Einzelhandel.de. Handelsverband Deutschland, April 2014, accessed on April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Einzelhandel.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Members of EuroCommerce ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Handelsverband Sachsen e. V. die-infoseiten.de.
- ↑ Retail lobby moves to Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 2, 1999.
- ↑ HDE becomes Handelsverband Deutschland. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. retail.de
- ↑ European Movement (November 20, 2009): HDE becomes Handelsverband Deutschland .
- ↑ BAG decides to liquidate. textilwirtschaft.de
- ↑ trade associations. ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hk24.de
- ↑ Main Association of German Retailers: Trade now with one voice in Berlin and Brussels (PDF; 483 kB) GPK internal , November 2009, p. 23.
- ↑ Trade associations HDE and BFS merge. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. retail.de
- ↑ Pre-conference event. ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. deutscher-handelskongress.de, November 15, 2010
- ↑ Andrea Kurtz: Stores of the Year 2014: The Trendsetter. ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. handelsjournal.de, February 8, 2014
