IHK Gießen-Friedberg
The IHK Gießen-Friedberg is the chamber of industry and commerce for the districts of Gießen , Vogelsberg and Wetterau . Around 43,000 member companies belong to the IHK. In 1999 the chambers of Gießen and Friedberg merged to form the IHK Gießen-Friedberg, which was founded as the Grand Ducal Chamber of Commerce in Gießen in 1872 and the Grand Ducal Chamber of Commerce for the Friedberg district in 1898. The merger was the first voluntary merger of two chambers of industry and commerce in more than 25 years and resulted in the fourth largest (of seven) IHK in the state of Hesse. Like the other 79 IHKs, the IHK belongs to the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK).
history
IHK Giessen
In 1862, after the liberalization of the association law, a trade association was founded, which has set itself the task of promoting common commercial interests and uncovering abuses.
In the Grand Duchy of Hesse came relatively early chambers of commerce. The Mainz Chamber of Commerce was established as early as 1802 during the French era and formed the model for the Offenbach Chamber of Commerce (1821) and the chambers in Worms , Bingen and Darmstadt . The chambers were last created in the province of Upper Hesse . This was due on the one hand to the low industrialization of the area, but also to the rejection from the ranks of the economy itself. The rejection was not directed against chambers of commerce per se, but because of the high state influence on the existing Hessian chambers and above all the right to vote which the Majority of merchants and manufacturers excluded.
The Grand Ducal Hessian Chamber of Commerce Act of 1871 was signed by Grand Duke Ludwig III on November 17, 1871. All entrepreneurs who were entered in the commercial register and belonged to the first four classes of trade tax were now entitled to vote. Now the members have been elected for three years. A third dropped out every year. This eliminated the central point of rejection. The Giessen economy applied for the formation of a chamber of commerce and the Grand Duke approved this on February 19, 1872.
The Giessen Chamber of Commerce was constituted on September 20, 1872 . In 1900 this city chamber was expanded to include the districts of Alsfeld, Gießen and Lauterbach and thus became a regional chamber. On December 31, 1905, the chamber area covered an area of 176,245 ha with a population of 154,700 people. 1216 companies were registered there in the commercial register, of which 1022 were entitled to elect a chamber. In 1902 the chamber was given legal personality. As a result, it can now take over the supervision of stock exchanges and other institutions for trading.
During the time of National Socialism , the chambers became the executive body and were merged to form the Rhine-Main Gauwirtschaftskammer . A branch of the Gau Chamber of Commerce was established in Giessen under the direction of Dr. Carl Schirmer set up.
In 1945 the chambers regained their independence. The previous branch in Gießen resumed its work as the Chamber of Industry and Commerce under the management of Schirmer, assuming that the legal situation would continue to apply before 1933. In the context of denazification , the district president, Ludwig Rinn, reinstated him as president in 1946. On January 10, 1946, the state government formally decreed the abolition of the Gau economic chambers in Hesse and the restoration of the law of 1933. The minister of economics and transport was to oversee the chambers . These regulations met with the contradiction of the American occupying power: They saw the public law position of the chambers as an important instrument for steering the economy during the National Socialist era . In implementing the American demands, the state government therefore decreed the performance of public law tasks in May 1946 and ordered the chambers to continue as private law associations without compulsory membership. The final regulations for the Chamber, its competencies and its election were laid down in a circular of December 5, 1846. On the basis of these regulations, the Gießen Chamber of Commerce issued a new statute on January 7, 1947, and the first free chamber elections took place on May 22, 1947. The consequence of the discontinuation of compulsory membership was the withdrawal of a larger number of small businesses. The larger chambers lost up to 50% of the members; in Giessen it was between seven and fifteen percent.
With the occupation statute in 1949, the Federal Republic regained a good part of its sovereignty. Apart from Bavaria and Hesse, the states of the American occupation zone now returned to the model of public chambers (in the British and French zones this was the case immediately after the war). The SPD -governed Hessen had completely different plans: According to the government's will, the IHKs were to be dissolved and replaced by chambers of commerce. These should be filled equally by employers and employees. The employer representatives should be nominated by the trade associations and the employee representatives by the trade unions. However, these plans were not implemented because a nationwide regulation was made instead.
With the entry into force of the “Act on the Provisional Regulation of the Law of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry” on December 22nd, 1956, the chambers are again corporations under public law. The advisory board of a chamber is now called the "plenary assembly".
On May 2, 1995, the five chambers of Dillenburg, Friedberg, Gießen, Limburg and Wetzlar founded the Central Hesse Chamber Association .
IHK Friedberg
In 1898 the Grand Duke granted permission to set up a Grand Ducal Chamber of Commerce for the Friedberg district . It should consist of nine members from the four electoral districts Bad Nauheim, Butzbach, Friedberg and Vilbel. In 1899 a commercial training school is founded.
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
The Friedberg iH Chamber of Commerce and Industry was also only an executive body during the Nazi era . The chamber regained its independence in 1945 and on December 22, 1956, with the “Act on the Provisional Regulation of the Law of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce”, it became a public corporation again.
On May 2, 1995, the five chambers of Dillenburg, Friedberg, Gießen, Limburg and Wetzlar founded the Central Hesse Chamber Association .
IHK Gießen-Friedberg
In the simultaneous sessions of the plenary assemblies on July 6, 1998, the plenary assemblies of the IHKs Gießen and Friedberg decide to merge the two chambers on April 1, 1999. The new chamber is called IHK Gießen-Friedberg and is the fourth largest with more than 31,000 member companies Chamber of Hesse. The new chamber is responsible for companies in the districts of Gießen, Vogelsberg and Wetterau. The IHK Gießen-Friedberg has its seat in Gießen, but keeps an office in Friedberg. Fritz Hartmut Ulrich (Friedberg) becomes the first president of the merged IHK, and Wolfgang Maaß (Giessen) becomes the first vice-president.
In a special session of the IHK general assembly on February 28, 2002, the Giessen entrepreneur Wolfgang Maaß is elected as the new president. In the same year Matthias Leder succeeds Uwe Schubert as managing director. Maaß was re-elected in 2004.
From January 21 to February 17, 2009, the entrepreneurs from the IHK district elected their new general assembly for the 2009 to 2014 election period. The presidium was elected from among the members of the assembly at the constituent meeting on April 1st. Wolfgang Maaß was re-elected President.
With the beginning of the 2014 to 2019 electoral period, Rainer Schwarz will be elected President.
Seat and organization
The IHK Gießen-Friedberg is based in Gießen (in a building from 1913) and has an office in Friedberg (Hesse) . At the top of the IHK are the honorary president and the general manager. The entrepreneur Rainer Schwarz has been President of the IHK Gießen-Friedberg since 2014. He is supported by four Vice-Presidents and one Vice-President: Ralph Kehl (Alsfeld), Michael Kraft (Gießen), Thomas Lupp (Nidda), Thomas Rühl (Gießen) and Angelika Schlaefke (Limeshain). Matthias Leder has been managing director of the IHK since 2002. Leder leads the IHK full-time and together with the President represents the IHK legally.
The general assembly, the “Parliament of the Economy”, is elected by the member companies. Each member company has one vote, regardless of the size of the company. The current electoral term ends on March 31, 2019.
Business areas
The full-time work is divided into the business areas of education and training (Deputy General Manager : Elke Ehlen), Innovation and Environment (Managing Director: Beate Hammerla), International (Managing Director: Robert Malzacher), Law and Taxes (Managing Director: Robert Malzacher), Location Policy (Managing Director : Frank Wendzinski), business start-ups and business support (managing director: Beate Hammerla) and central tasks (managing director: Horst Schwarz).
numbers
The organization has revenues of around EUR 9.7 million, of which EUR 6.9 million comes from contributions from member companies. The levy for the member companies is 0.27% of the trade income. The IHK Gießen-Friedberg currently employs 84 people. The IHK looks after around 7,000 registered apprenticeships.
Personalities
Chairman or President of the Friedberg Chamber
The chairman or president was Wilhelm Fertsch from 1898.
Chairperson or President of the Giessen Chamber
| year | Surname | company |
|---|---|---|
| 1872-1874 | Georg Carl Gail (born November 28, 1819 - † January 27, 1882) | Owner of Georg Philipp Gail ( Gail'sche cigar factory ) |
| 1875-1880 | Meyer Homberger (born December 3, 1820 - † July 4, 1898) | Owner of the cotton and linen factory Homberger & Löwe |
| 1880-1888 | Eduard Silbereisen (April 12, 1831 - December 26, 1989) | Owner of Essigfabrik Ed. Silver iron, |
| 1889-1909 | Fritz Carl Benjamin Koch (born May 15, 1836 - † January 25, 1909) | Corset factory Koch & Platz, |
| 1909-1919 | Siegmund Heichelheim (born January 25, 1842 - † August 15, 1920) | Bankhaus Aron Heichelheim, Chairman |
| 1920-1930 | Heinrich Schirmer (born July 13, 1861 - † November 7, 1943) | Kommerzienrat, Georg Heinrich Schirmer cigar factory |
| 1930-1933 | Ludwig Rinn (born March 18, 1870 - † October 30, 1958) | Company Rinn & Cloos |
| 1933-1938 | Carl Johann Erasmus Pauly (* December 21, 1888 - † May 9, 1964) | Bänninger GmbH |
| 1938-1942 | Erich Schroth (December 1, 1902 - December 4, 1963) | Didier-Werke AG |
| 1942-1946 | Carl Schirmer (born May 18, 1899 to January 22, 1977) | Georg Heinrich Schirmer company |
| 1946-1953 | Ludwig Rinn (born March 18, 1870 - † October 30, 1958) | Rinn & Cloos company |
| 1953-1959 | Ernst Bleyer (born August 19, 1885 - August 1, 1977) | Commerzbank AG |
| 1959-1961 | Karl Wilhelm Poppe (born July 9, 1901 - † October 12, 1961) | Giessener Gummiwarenfabrik Poppe & Co |
| 1962-1963 | Otto Winterhoff (born October 28, 1888 - † July 26, 1977) | Otto Winterhoff KG |
| 1963-1970 | Walter Dürbeck (born June 14, 1897 - † November 3, 1971) | Walter Dürbeck Papiersackfabrik GmbH |
| 1971-1999 | Franz Vogt (born September 23, 1920, † February 12, 2006) | Voko group |
Chairperson or President of the merged chamber
| year | Surname | company |
|---|---|---|
| 1999-2002 | Fritz Hartmut Ulrich | |
| 2002-2014 | Wolfgang Maass | |
| since 2014 | Rainer Schwarz | OVAG AG |
literature
- 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
- Gießen Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Ed.): 1872–1972. 100 years of the Giessen Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Giessen 1972
- ETRO-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): 100 years of the Friedberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Hessen) . Bad Soden 1998
- Martin Will: Self-administration of the economy: Law and history of self-administration in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district craftsmen's associations, chambers of crafts and agriculture , Tübingen 2011, ISBN 3-16-150705-3 , page 311 ff.
Web links
- Official website
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Grand Ducal Chamber of Commerce In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Literature about IHK Gießen-Friedberg in the Hessian Bibliography (Friedberg)
- Literature about IHK Gießen-Friedberg in the Hessian Bibliography (Gießen)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law relating to the Chambers of Commerce of November 17, 1871; in: Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1871, pp. 421–426
- ^ Announcement regarding the establishment of a Chamber of Commerce in Giessen on February 21, 1872, Grand Ducal Hessian Government Gazette 1872, page 82, quoted from: Martin Will: Self-administration of the economy: Law and history of self-administration in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district handicrafts, Chambers of Crafts and Chambers of Agriculture. 2011, ISBN 3-16-150705-3 , page 311 (online) .
- ^ Statistical handbook for the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1909, p. 100, digitized .
- ↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 56; Greater Hesse State Ministry to the Chambers of Industry, Commerce and Crafts of the State of Greater Hesse, January 10, 1946
- ↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 56; Circular decree of the Greater Hesse State Ministry to the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the State of Hesse, May 9, 1946
- ↑ HWA Abt. 9, Nr. 37; Circular decree of the Greater Hesse State Ministry on the reorganization of the Hesse Chamber of Commerce and Industry, December 5, 1946
- ↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 58; Draft law on the formation of chambers of commerce (Chamber of Commerce Act) of July 18, 1951
- ↑ Ulrich Eisenbach: Between commercial interest representation and public law mandate; in: 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. 5-43.
- ↑ A breath of fresh air in the new general assembly . In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung . Giessen February 21, 2009 ( giessener-allgemeine.de [accessed April 8, 2009]).
- ↑ Klaus Röther: Wolfgang Maaß unanimously confirmed as President of the Chamber of Commerce . In: Gießener Anzeiger . Giessen April 3, 2009 ( giessener-anzeiger.de [accessed April 8, 2009]).
- ↑ ´ http://www.wetterauer-zeitung.de/Home/Stadt/Uebersicht/Artikel,-Rainer-Schwarz-ist-neuer-Praesident-der-IHK-_arid,488288_regid,3_puid,1_pageid,113.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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.
- ↑ IHK Gießen-Friedberg (ed.): Annual financial statements 2013 . Giessen June 2014 ( ihk.de [PDF]).
