Hessenmetall

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Hessenmetall
legal form e. V.
founding October 29, 1947
Seat Frankfurt am Main , Germany
management Wolf Matthias Mang, CEO

Dirk Pollert, General Manager

Branch Metal and electrical industry
Website www.hessenmetall.de
As of April 26, 2019

Hessenmetall is the employers' association for companies in the metal and electrical industry in Hessen . As a labor and socio-political representative, it supports the interests of the member companies. The M + E sectors in Hessen include a. the automotive industry, mechanical engineering, metal production and machining, and manufacturers of electrical equipment.

The association is based in the Haus der Wirtschaft in Frankfurt am Main .

tasks

As the collective bargaining association M + E Mitte, Hessenmetall negotiates collective agreements with IG Metall together with the M + E associations of the Palatinate ( Pfalzmetall ), Rhineland-Rheinhessen ( VEM ) and Saarland ( M + E-Saar ).

The largest employers' association in Hesse has 600 member companies with around 221,000 employees (as of June 2019). In addition to its headquarters in Frankfurt, Hessenmetall has five district groups in Kassel, Wetzlar, Frankfurt, Offenbach and Darmstadt in Hessen. This unique selling point ensures precise on-site knowledge and penetration throughout Hesse:

  • in collective bargaining,
  • for service offers, e.g. B. advising member companies on the structuring of operational working relationships, process optimization or legal representation before labor and social courts
  • in communication.

Hessenmetall is also the voice and representation of interests of the M + E industry in Hessen. For the member companies, Hessenmetall is actively committed to increasing the efficiency of the Hessen production location. B. by expanding the infrastructure, a lower density of regulations and less bureaucracy. Maintaining contact with political institutions and the media at state level and representing the social and socio-political interests of the member companies vis-à-vis politics, administration, the public and trade unions are among the tasks.

Together with other employer and business associations, the interests of the Hessian economy are brought together in the Association of Hessian Entrepreneurs' Associations (VhU).

Through the active involvement in the umbrella organization Gesamtmetall , the interests of the Hessian companies are represented on a national level.

Hessenmetall and the Technical University of Darmstadt have been strategic partners since 2018 .

activities

  • With the Hessenmetall Cluster Initiative, Hessenmetall creates and supports corporate partnerships and, in close cooperation with research institutions, forms knowledge networks from which the member companies benefit.
  • The young talent competition M + Eine Zukunft, with which the creativity of the young professionals is to be promoted.
  • Hessenmetall supports the maths competition of the eighth grade of the Hessian Ministry of Culture, with which the performance level of Hessian students from all three school types is to be compared, as well as the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), to raise awareness among high school students for career alternatives apart from research and teaching to accomplish.
  • Hessenmetall has a regional Hessian page in the nationwide business newspaper Aktiv , which, with a circulation of 25,000 copies, also informs employees about economic issues and connections in Hesse.

history

  • 1890: Founding of the Association of Metal Industries for Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area
  • 1918: In the Stinnes-Legien Agreement between employers and trade unions, collective bargaining autonomy is established and incorporated into the Weimar Constitution.
  • 1933: Dissolution of the employers' associations by the National Socialists
  • October 29, 1947: re-establishment
  • 1951: four-week strike in Hesse and with it the first major strike in the still young Federal Republic. IG Metall is calling for a wage increase of 8 pfennigs. Even an intervention by the Hessian Prime Minister Zinn could not avert the strike. The arbitration agreement provided for an increase of 3 pfennigs and a one-time annual bonus of 2 pfennigs.
  • 1956 to 1967: Gradual reduction in weekly working hours from 48 to 40 hours and spread over five days.
  • 1970s: A working time campaign gives every metal worker six weeks' annual vacation.
  • 1984: seven-week strike. The reason was IG Metall's demand for a reduction in weekly working hours from 40 to 35 hours for the distribution of jobs. It was finally agreed on a gradual reduction of the now individual weekly working hours to an average of 38.5 hours.

Leaders of the association

CEO

  • 1947 to 1952: Theo Gaertner
  • 1952 to 1962: Carl H. Jäger
  • 1962 to 1984: Horst Knapp
  • 1984 to 1987: Robert Lavis
  • 1987 to 1993: Josef I. Felder
  • 1993 to 2013: Dieter Weidemann
  • since 2013: Wolf Matthias Mang

Chief Executive

  • 1947 to 1949: Max von Lützow
  • 1949 to 1963: Wolfgang Eichler
  • 1963 to 1973: Berthold Cuntz
  • 1973 to 1984: Friedrich Peppler
  • 1984 to 1994: Hubert Stadler
  • 1994 to 2017: Volker Fasbender
  • since 2017: Dirk Pollert

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Technische Universität Darmstadt: Open the door to research for medium-sized companies. February 15, 2018, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dirk Pollert will represent the interests of the Hessian economy from 2017 . ( hessenmetall.de [accessed on April 5, 2017]).