IHK Karlsruhe
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The Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) represents the overall interests of its 65,199 member companies (as of 2017) from industry, trade and services in the districts of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden as well as in the districts of Karlsruhe and Rastatt as a regional self-governing body in accordance with the IHK law of 1956 . In addition, it performs state tasks. It is based in the Haus des Wirtschaft on Friedrichsplatz at Lammstrasse 13-17. The IHK Karlsruhe is one of twelve Baden-Württemberg chambers that are united under the umbrella organization Baden-Württembergischer IHK-Tag ( BWIHK ).
organization
Wolfgang Grenke has been President of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2013 . He represents the Chamber of Commerce externally, together with the general manager Guido Glania.
The IHK Karlsruhe subsidiaries include the IHK Haus der Wirtschaft GmbH , the technology factory and the IHK training center .
Two other main offices of the IHK Karlsruhe are located in Palais Biron in Baden-Baden at Lichtentaler Str. 92 and in Bruchsal at Simon-Hegele-Strasse 3.
Business areas
The IHK Karlsruhe performs its tasks in the following business areas:
- Business start-ups and business support
- Education and training
- Innovation, energy and the environment
- Law and taxes
- Foreign trade documents and international markets
The subsidiary IHK Haus der Wirtschaft GmbH organizes seminars, conferences, trade fairs and general meetings as well as economic and cultural events. The Technologiefabrik is a business start-up center that offers innovative start-ups premises and supports young companies with services. The IHK Bildungszentrum is a provider of professional training courses.
The IHK Karlsruhe is the lead in the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Commerce in the fields of industry / energy and technology / innovation and urban planning / spatial planning .
history
January 7, 1813
Circular to the Karlsruhe trading stand, signed by 37 Karlsruhe merchants, on the establishment of a trading room: “In order to partly meet the diverse wishes of several local merchants and partly to give the members of the trade the opportunity to see what is going on in the At the present time it is so necessary to see more often and to be able to discuss commercial matters undisturbed, several of them have decided to rent a room for a joint account so that they can come together every evening or as their business allows. " The merchants rent in the corner building on Karlsruhe's market square , today's Schöpf fashion house.
February 15, 1813
The IHK Karlsruhe is founded by Karlsruhe merchants as a trading office, which in 1826 became the Chamber of Commerce.
September 25, 1863
From the members of the trading room, a new trading cooperative of the grand ducal residence city of Karlsruhe was founded, in which "every local or foreign owner or partner in a business" could voluntarily become a member. The condition was that his company was entered in the public commercial register and that he was willing to pay an annual fee for at least four years.
December 11, 1878
The Baden Chamber of Commerce Act (based on the Prussian one of 1870) ends the "wild growth" of various kinds of trade associations in Baden, which, due to voluntary memberships, were only able to represent the general interest to a limited extent.
It regulates that all companies entered in the commercial register automatically become members of the respective chamber of commerce. For the first time, a territorial demarcation was also made: the districts of Bretten, Bruchsal, Durlach and Ettlingen were added to Karlsruhe, and in 1889 the district was expanded to include Baden-Baden, Rastatt, Bühl and Achern.
February 20, 1920
After various intermediate stops, the Chamber of Commerce moves into the representative palace of Prince Max von Baden at Karlstrasse 10, now the City Museum. The palace was decidedly too big for its own use, so that there was enough space to accommodate other associations in the building.
July 1, 1933
With the law amending the Chamber of Commerce law, a central Baden Chamber of Commerce and Industry is created with its seat in Karlsruhe. As early as 1935, however, this central administration was divided into four chambers (Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Pforzheim). A Gauwirtschaftskammer Oberrhein for Baden and Alsace, which was still in place in 1942, was dissolved in 1945.
from July 1945
Reorganization of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce: The chamber area is divided into a Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and a Baden-Baden Chamber of Commerce according to the occupation zones. November 10, 1955
Official handover of the new chamber building on Friedrichsplatz. A new building became necessary after the Prinz-Max-Palais burned down during the war and the Chamber of Commerce made the restored building available to the Federal Constitutional Court as a temporary office.
May 9, 1973
Constituent meeting of the Middle Upper Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, merged from the Chambers of Commerce in Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden, with headquarters in Karlsruhe and a main office in Baden-Baden. The official name was changed in 1987 in the Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
October 22, 1999
Inauguration of the extension along the Erbprinzenstrasse. The new building was planned to complement the chamber building on Friedrichsplatz. The "House of Business" includes seminar and conference rooms, as well as shops and office space for rent. With the new building, the completely redesigned entrance area and the service center for member companies were also opened.
Personalities
Board members (from 1819), directors (from 1840), presidents (from 1851)
- 1813: Christian Reinhard
- 1819: Wilhelm Christian Griesbach
- 1829: CJ Mallebrein
- 1830: Christian Reinhard
- 1833: J. Kusel
- 1840: Carl Bußjäger
- 1841: Bernhard Schweig
- 1842: Carl Barthold
- 1846: Albert Glock
- 1848: Jacob Stüber
- 1850: Christian Riempp
- 1857: Jacob Stüber
- 1863: Eduard Koelle
- 1867: Anton Haas
- 1872: Johann Kraemer
- 1880: Karl August Schneider
- 1901: Robert Koelle
- 1918: Richard Gsell
- 1924: Robert Nicolai
- 1933: Clemens August Kentrup
- 1936: Fritz Rolf Wolff
- 1945: Friedrich Töpper
- 1947: Willy Caspary
- 1951: Karl Gebhardt
- 1963: Alfred Neff
- 1970: Walter Staiger
- 1973: Hans-Jürgen Ganß
- 1977: Hugo Rhein
- 1983: Hans-Georg Appenzeller
- 1993: Norbert Keller
- 2003: Bernd Bechtold
- Since 2013: Wolfgang Grenke
literature
- Wolfgang von Hippel, Frank Engehausen: 200 years IHK Karlsruhe . Ed .: IHK Karlsruhe. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2013, ISBN 978-3-89735-744-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member companies registered with the IHK - IHK. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
- ^ IHK Karlsruhe: President and HGF. 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
- ^ A b Wolfgang von Hippel, Frank Engehausen: 200 years IHK Karlsruhe . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2013, ISBN 978-3-89735-744-0 .