IHK Aachen

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IHK main building (2006)

The Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) is a corporation under public law with its seat in Aachen .

Legal form and tasks

The chamber district comprises the urban region of Aachen , the district of Düren , the district of Heinsberg and the district of Euskirchen . The IHK Aachen has around 78,000 tradespeople and companies. Around 1.3 million people live in the chamber district.

It has the task of promoting the economy and taking care of the overall interests of all economic sectors in its district. In particular, it can only fulfill the latter task because it is independent of the interests of individuals. The IHK Aachen is an institution of economic self-administration and therefore not an authority or association. Although it is subject to state legal supervision, it is not subordinate to the instructions of other departments.

The IHK Aachen performs the following core tasks:

  • Promotion of the regional economy
  • Perception of the general concerns of the economy
  • Advice to companies

organization structure

Companies and small businesses in the Aachen Chamber District elect a maximum of 62 representatives to the General Assembly every four years . This elects the Presidium every four years , consisting of the President and currently a maximum of eight deputies. The main management is appointed by the presidium. They head six departments:

  • Initial and continuing education
  • Main management
  • Innovation, environment, location
  • International, transport and trade
  • Law, business start-ups and business support
  • Central Services

Legal basis

The foundations of the IHK Aachen are regulated by the law on the provisional regulation of the law of the chambers of industry and commerce and the state law on the chambers of industry and commerce in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. There are also a number of other legal bases.

Areas of activity

The IHK Aachen has certain compulsory tasks. These are for example the following:

  • Vocational training
  • Foreign trade
  • Economic reports
  • Operational advice
  • Waste advice
  • Assessment
  • expert
  • Business prohibition

In the area of ​​lobbying, the IHK Aachen performs the following tasks, for example:

  • Investment grants
  • Business settlement
  • Business start-up
  • Land-use planning
  • Research funding
  • taxes and expenses
  • Transport infrastructure
  • Policy advice

In addition, the IHK Aachen offers, for example, the following services:

  • Mediation of business and cooperation partners
  • further education
  • IHK magazine
  • Business start-up
  • Environmental advice
  • Technology consulting
  • Innovation advice
  • Erfa groups
  • Arbitration boards

history

  • April 2, 1804: Napoleon's government decree to found a Chambre consultative de manufactures, fabriques, arts et metiers ("Advisory Chamber for Manufactories, Factories and Small Businesses")
  • June 21, 1804: Establishment of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce with initially six members
  • 1815: Transfer to royal Prussian administration
  • 1833: Official granting of the name Chamber of Commerce for the cities of Aachen and Burtscheid by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. ; Obligation to prepare an annual report on the economic situation of the economy and measures to improve it
  • 1904: Move into the building at Theaterstrasse 6, 52062 Aachen
  • 1907: Enlargement of the chamber district by incorporating the districts of Geilenkirchen, Heinsberg and Erkelenz into the care area
  • 1920: Takeover of the Monschau and Schleiden districts from the Eupen Chamber
  • 1924: Renamed Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • 1931: Merger of the Aachen and Stolberg chambers
  • 1935: Assignment to the Rhineland Chamber of Commerce
  • 1943/1945: Merger with the Aachen Chamber of Crafts to form the Aachen Chamber of Commerce
  • June 21, 1945: The Chamber is reconstituted by 27 traders
  • 1957: Establishment of a department for common market issues in response to the establishment of the ECSC and the EEC
  • 1958: The parts of the area that have been under Belgian and Dutch administration since 1949 return to the chamber district
  • 1972: Foundation of the working group for economic development in the Aachen region
  • 1977: Integration of the old district of Euskirchen into the care area; Move into the newly designed administration building at Theaterstrasse 6–8, 52062 Aachen
  • 1983: PROGNOS report on the development of the economic structure in the Aachen region
  • 1984: Initiative for the foundation of AGIT (Aachen Society for Innovation and Technology Transfer)
  • 1987: As part of the coal and steel region future initiative (ZIM), a regional program for the Aachen economic region is developed and approved at the Aachen regional conference
  • 1989: Expansion of the project measures as part of the North Rhine-Westphalia Future Initiative (ZIN)
  • 1994: Implementation of the EU program INTERREG II, among other things in the form of cooperation agreements with the chambers of industry and commerce of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine
  • 1998: Strategy concept for the Aachen region 2015
  • 1999: Cooperation agreement with the Kamer van Koophandel Maastricht
  • 2000: Cooperation agreement with the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Liège
  • 2004: Founder Start Foundation
  • 2011–2013: Management and coordination of the innovation region Rheinisches Revier
  • 2016 Foundation of the Aachen Building Experts association

President

literature

  • Paul Thomes: 1804-2004. 200 years in the middle of Europe. The history of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Shaker-Verlag, Aachen 2004, ISBN 3-8322-2243-X .
  • Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ed.): Economic history of the Aachen region. From the end of the Second World War to the present . Self-published Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln e. V., Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-933025-34-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full text on the website of the Ministry of the Interior and Municipal Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  2. ↑ List of other legal bases on the website of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce.