IHK Limburg

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IHK Limburg

The IHK Limburg is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the commercial economy in the Limburg-Weilburg district , based in Limburg an der Lahn . On a legal basis, it represents the overall interests of its around 13,500 member companies (as of June 30, 2018) vis-à-vis politics and administration, fulfills sovereign tasks assigned by the state and promotes companies with its services and advice.

history

Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau, 1864, p. 47

In an ordinance of September 3, 1863, the government of the Duchy of Nassau ordered the nationwide establishment of chambers of commerce for the entire Duchy of Nassau . This project was implemented with the implementing ordinance of March 4, 1864. This ordinance determines the cities of Wiesbaden , Limburg and Dillenburg as the seat of the Chamber of Commerce. The Limburg Chamber of Commerce includes the offices of Weilburg , Runkel , Limburg , Diez , Nassau , Braubach , Montabaur , Selters / Ww. , Wallmerod and Hadamar . All men of legal age who owned a company entered in the commercial register were entitled to vote. Elections to the Chamber of Commerce took place in the same month. The 16 elected members of the Limburg Chamber of Commerce met on February 26, 1865 for their constituent meeting and elect the businessman Friedrich Viglius from Limburg as their first chairman.

With the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau by Prussia in 1866, nothing changed for the Chamber initially. The Prussian Chamber of Commerce Act of February 24, 1870 created uniform law for all Prussian chambers. Here, too, the effects on the Limburg Chamber were minor. What was new was that mine operators with an annual production of more than 3000 thalers also became members of the chamber. As a result of the Prussian district reform of 1885, a change also occurred in 1890 with regard to the Limburg chamber district. The Camberg district was added, while some municipalities of the Selters / Ww. were handed over to the Dillenburg Chamber of Commerce.

The amendment to the Prussian Chamber of Commerce Act in 1897 gave the chambers of commerce the status of public corporations, which enabled them to establish and maintain institutions that serve to promote trade. The Limburg Chamber of Commerce rented its own business premises for the first time in 1907. So far, the private rooms of the respective secretary or syndic were the chamber office. By ordinance of April 1, 1924, the Prussian Chambers of Commerce were renamed "Chambers of Industry and Commerce". This took into account the importance of industry for economic life. At the same time, the chambers were given the right to enter into special-purpose associations with neighboring chambers.

On January 5, 1925, the IHK Limburg joined the Association of Hesse-Nassau Chambers of Industry and Commerce, which was founded the previous year by the Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Dillenburg, Frankfurt am Main and Wetzlar. Wiesbaden did not join the association until 1928. Against the background of the National Socialist policy of harmonization, the members resigned in March 1933 in order to enable new elections. According to this, the Führer principle applies : the President was no longer elected, but was appointed by the Reich Economics Minister on the proposal of the NSDAP Gauleiter. The president in turn appointed his deputies and the other advisory board members. On April 28th, the IHK Limburg was incorporated into the newly founded IHK for the Rhine-Main economic area. But it remained as a district office with its own president and advisory board. At the beginning of 1943, the IHK for the Rhine-Main economic area was dissolved and merged into the Rhine-Main Gauwirtschaftskammer , in which the chambers of crafts and the former trade associations were also represented. But even now the former IHK Limburg remained as the district office of the Gauwirtschaftskammer Rhein-Main . After the time of National Socialism and the dissolution of the Gau economic chambers, the Limburg Chamber of Commerce was reorganized in April 1945 with the approval and support of the American military government and played a central role in rebuilding the economy in the region. With the establishment of a French zone and the later establishment of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Limburg Chamber of Commerce lost two thirds of its district, which from then on only consisted of the Limburg and Weilburg districts.

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. 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, the smaller 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 July 12, 1957, the IHK Limburg inaugurated its building (built in 1956) at Walderdorffstrasse 7. Until then, rented offices had been enough.

organization

The IHK is headed by the honorary president and the general manager. The Presidium of the Chamber consists of the President and three Vice-Presidents.

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 began on April 1, 2014 and ends on March 31, 2019.

The general manager leads the IHK full-time and together with the president represents the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Business areas

The full-time work is organized in the following business areas:

  • Initial and continuing education
  • Business start-ups and business support
  • Finance and Organization
  • Law & fair play
  • Location policy and international

numbers

The IHK Limburg has revenues of approx. 2.8 million euros, of which approx. 2.2 million euros from contributions from around 12,900 members. The graduation of the basic fees provides for amounts of 51 euros, 102 euros, 214 euros or 357 euros, depending on the type, scope and capabilities of the IHK member. The IHK currently has 28 employees. Three of them are trainees.

President

  • Friedrich Viglius (1826–1874), cloth factory, Limburg: 1865–1871
  • Hubert Anton Hilf (1820–1909), HA Hilf & Cie, Limburg: 1871–1907
  • Louis Hille (1858–1908), Hille & Meyer, Material and Color Goods Wholesalers, Limburg: 1907–1908
  • Theodor Kirchberger (1849–1926), wholesaler for agricultural products and colonial goods, Weilburg: 1909–1924
  • Carl Deidesheimer (1872–1930), Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH, Limburg: 1924–1925
  • Louis Gotthardt (1870–1932), malt and grain wholesaler: 1925–1932
  • Jakob Christian Schmidt (1881–1967), Drahtwerk CS Schmidt AG, Niederlahnstein: 1932–1933
  • Rudolph Schmidt (1895–1954), Drahtwerk CS Schmidt AG, Niederlahnstein: 1933–1942
  • Erich Schäfer (1894–1981), Steedener Kalkwerk & Co. GmbH, Limburg: 1942–1945
  • Friedrich Hammerschlag (1888–1972), Peter Josef Hammerschlag, grocery wholesaler, Limburg: 1945–1947
  • Theodor Ohl (1902–1977), Limburg iron foundry and machine factory Theodor Ohl GmbH: 1947–1951
  • Anton Wilhelm Becker (1901–1978), Blechwarenfabrik Limburg GmbH, Limburg: 1951–1969
  • Konrad Fischer (1914–1995), Eisen-Fischer KG, Limburg: 1969–1982
  • Edgar Roos (1931–2013), Buderus AG, Staffel plant: 1982–1990
  • Paul-Friedhelm Scheu (* 1941), Scheu Fahrzeugeinrichtungen GmbH, Weilburg: 1990–2002
  • Günther Schmidt (* 1947), Stephan Schmidt KG, Dornburg: 2002–2012
  • Ulrich Heep (* 1961), Straton IT-Consulting AG, Limburg: since 2012

literature

  • Fritz Geisthardt: Economy in Central Assau, Hundred Years of Limburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1864-1964 , Limburg 1964.
  • 125 years of Limburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 1997.
  • Ulrich Eisenbach (edit.): Section 9 Limburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bd. A , Darmstadt 2006 (Repertories of the Hessian Economic Archives).
  • Ulrich Eisenbach: 150 years IHK Limburg. Economy, society and IHK in Mittelassau , Parzellers Buchverlag, Fulda 2015, ISBN 978-3-7900-0497-7

Web links

Commons : IHK Limburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau, 1864, p. 47
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 58; Draft law on the formation of chambers of commerce (Chamber of Commerce Act) of July 18, 1951
  6. ↑ 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.