IHK Friedberg

The Friedberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (until 1902: Friedberg Chamber of Commerce , abbreviation: Friedberg IHK ) was a Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1898 to 1999 based in Friedberg (Hesse) .

history

In 1898 the Chamber of Commerce for the city and the Friedberg district was established as the seventh (and last) Chamber of Commerce of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The legal basis was the Hessian Chamber of Commerce Act of 1871 . With a grand ducal ordinance, the chamber district was determined to include the Friedberg, Büdingen and Schotten districts with effect from January 1, 1900. On December 31, 1905, the chamber area covered an area of 152,489 hectares with a population of 142,055 people. 1052 companies were registered there in the commercial register, of which 888 were entitled to vote for a chamber.

In 1902, with the amendment to the Chamber of Commerce Act, the chamber was renamed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

During the First World War , the war activities of the Chamber u. a. overseeing foreign companies, procuring food and safeguarding the interests of domestic companies. In 1925 the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse passed a new Chamber of Commerce law. The name is changed to the Friedberg iH Chamber of Commerce and Industry

After the First World War, the amalgamation of chambers was discussed across the empire to save costs. This particularly affected the Hessian chambers, which were among the smallest in the empire. In 1926, the IHK Friedberg (based on its expenditure of 20,406 RM) was number 112 out of 117 on the list of the largest IHKs. Accordingly, there was a discussion in the chambers and in politics regarding a merger of the chambers in the province of Upper Hesse . With expenditures of 32,480 RM, the IHK Gießen No. 102 was on the list; even together the two chambers would have remained one of the smaller chambers in the empire. The Friedberg General Assembly in 1920 rejected a proposal for a merger that had come from the Giessen Chamber in 1919. At the Hessian Chamber of Commerce in 1921, all seven chambers declared that they did not want to change the structure, and the government renounced its own initiatives.

The global economic crisis revived the debate. Before the Hessian Chamber of Commerce in 1930, the Hessian Minister for Labor and Economics declared that the emergency would lead to drastic savings, from which the IHKs could not be excluded. But here too the chambers rejected any merger and were able to prevail again.

The self-administration of the economy ended in the time of National Socialism . Now the president of the chamber (now chairman) was appointed and this appointed the members of the chamber according to the leader principle . With the IHK-VO of 1934, the responsibility of the federal states for chamber legislation ended and the IHKs were regulated uniformly across the empire. You were now part of the management of the economy under National Socialism . In 1943 the IHK Friedberg was dissolved and transferred together with the Chamber of Crafts to the " Gauwirtschaftskammer Rhein-Main ", headed by Hermann Gamer . After the Second World War , the self-government of the economy was restored and the IHK Friedberg was re-established.

On April 1, 1999, the IHK Friedberg merged with the IHK Gießen to form the IHK Gießen-Friedberg .

Personalities

Wilhelm Fertsch , President from 1898
Hermann Fischer , President 1983–1997

literature

Martin Will: Self-government of the economy: Law and history of self-government in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district craftsmen's associations, chambers of crafts and chambers of agriculture; Volume 199 of Jus publicum, 2010, ISBN 9783161507052 , pp. 312, 386, part digitized
Helmut Berding (Ed.): 125 years of the Giessen Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Economy in one region . Hessian economic archive. Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-9804506-1-9 , pp. 21-22, 25-28.

Individual evidence

^ Announcement concerning the organization of the chambers of commerce in the province of Upper Hesse of October 26, 1899; in: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1899, Appendix 25, p. 231
^ Statistical handbook for the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1909, p. 100, digitized .
^ Law of August 6, 1902, concerning the Chambers of Commerce and Industry

[1] Announcement concerning the organization of the chambers of commerce in the province of Upper Hesse of October 26, 1899; in: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1899, Appendix 25, p. 231

[2] Statistical handbook for the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1909, p. 100, digitized .

[3] Law of August 6, 1902, concerning the Chambers of Commerce and Industry