IHK Middle Lower Rhine

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The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein is a chamber of industry and commerce in western North Rhine-Westphalia .

Data

Its chamber district includes Krefeld , Mönchengladbach , the Rhine district of Neuss and the district of Viersen . It represents around 78,000 companies with around 400,000 employees. The head office is in Krefeld; further offices are located in Mönchengladbach and Neuss. Currently (2017) the President is Elmar te Neues, and Vice-Presidents are Stefan Dresely, Erich Bröker, Joerg Dederichs, Claus Schwenzer, Susanne Cremer-Thywissen, Rainer Höppner, Hartmut Wnuck and Christoph Buchbender. The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein has 107 employees. More than 3,300 people work on a voluntary basis in the IHK committees.

aims

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein sets itself various goals and tasks. She would like to strengthen vocational training in the dual system and practice-oriented professional development and is committed to improving the transition of school leavers from school to business life. The improvement of the infrastructure such as the six-lane expansion of Autobahn 57 with the connection to the Dutch motorway network, the expansion of Mönchengladbach Airport and the improvement of the rail network to the Netherlands and Belgium are just as important to her as the internationalization of the local economy. The IHK promotes retail in the city centers and cross-border cooperation with the Netherlands. Overall, the aim is to increase acceptance and awareness of the Lower Rhine region at home and abroad.

Seat

Branch in Mönchengladbach

The headquarters of the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein is in Krefeld (Nordwall 39). Further main offices of the IHK are in Neuss (Friedrichstrasse 40) and in Mönchengladbach (Bismarckstrasse 109). The building in Mönchengladbach is listed as a cultural monument.

Legal basis

The traders in an IHK district - with the exception of the craftsmen - are members of the respective IHK. Membership exists by law. The legal basis for this is the IHK law . The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein is a public corporation. The statutes and other statutory regulations of the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia form the legal basis of the IHK.

organization

General Assembly

The general assembly of the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein consists of 73 honorary members and is the highest decision-making body of the IHK. The General Assembly elects the President and the Presidium, appoints the General Manager, determines the amount of the contribution payments, advises and decides on the IHK budget and determines the guidelines for the Chamber's work.

All persons who are authorized as owner, managing director or board member to represent member companies of the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein can be elected to the IHK plenary assembly. The members of the General Assembly are elected every five years by members of the Chamber in a general and secret ballot. Every company has one vote in the election, regardless of the size of the company. The election for the general assembly is made separately in electoral groups.

Bureau

The President represents the IHK together with General Manager Jürgen Steinmetz. The Presidium determines the main focus of the IHK's work and prepares the resolutions for the General Assembly.

Main management

Jürgen Steinmetz, born in 1967, has been Managing Director of the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein since July 1, 2015. Jürgen Steinmetz is a member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards such as the Rheinisches Revier innovation region, the Niederrhein region and the Rhineland logistics region, as well as an advisory member of the Düsseldorf Regional Council and does volunteer work for partners in sport and education.

Business areas

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein is active in the following business areas:

Location policy

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein is involved in administration and politics in the interests of companies for business-friendly location conditions. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce represents the interests of the companies concerned in the planning processes of cities and districts. The IHK is committed to maintaining and expanding the infrastructure.

Economic policy

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein provides information on the Lower Rhine economic area through business cycle analyzes, structural studies and location analyzes.

Business start-ups and business support

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein advises start-ups on questions about financing, business concept, strategy, market situation and legal form.

Initial and continuing education

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein advises on questions about training and further education and takes exams in the IHK apprenticeships. It looks after around 12,500 apprenticeships.

Innovation and the environment

With technology, cooperation and recycling exchanges as well as network meetings, the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein brings together entrepreneurs, investors and developers. The IHK provides information about opportunities and obligations in marketing and sales on the Internet. The IHK also provides advice on questions of energy efficiency, sustainable management and occupational safety. It informs companies about new laws and guidelines for handling chemicals or waste.

International

In order to establish international business relationships, the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein provides information on markets, customs duties, partners and customers. The IHK has the legal mandate to issue or certify export documents. The most important document is the certificate of origin, which is also offered in electronic form.

Law and taxes

The organization offers companies information and advice on legal issues. It names publicly appointed and sworn experts in specialist areas of the economy. In addition, the IHK advises companies on registration in the commercial register and takes a position on commercial law issues of principle and approval.

Business figures

The financial requirements are decided annually by the general assembly through the economic statutes. The business plan serves to determine expenses and income. The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein publishes current information on finances and contribution regulations on the Internet.

history

The IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein emerged from the "Chambre consultative de Crefeld" founded in April 1804 in Krefeld under Napoleonic administration. Her duties included advising the government and state authorities on economic matters. Their area of ​​responsibility roughly coincided with today's IHK district, which includes Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, the Rhine district of Neuss and the district of Viersen.

In Mönchengladbach and Neuss, chambers of commerce were founded in Prussian times in 1837 and 1861, respectively. All chambers worked together in the German Chamber of Commerce established in 1861 (today the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry / DIHK). With the industrial development of Germany, the relationship between the state and the economy changed: instead of advising the state, safeguarding interests became the most important task of the chambers of industry and commerce, which in 1870 were given the right to safeguard the overall interests of trade and industry in their district. As self-governing bodies under public law, the chambers are now developing into an important mediator between the state and the economy.

The expansion of the transport infrastructure was one of the priorities of the chambers of commerce in the 19th century. Due to the geographically favorable location between the Rhine and the western neighboring countries, numerous railway lines were built, which not only favored the cities on the Lower Rhine, but also connected the industrial regions in northern and eastern Germany with the seaports in Belgium and the Netherlands. The expansion of the Rhine ports in Krefeld and Neuss was also a constant topic for the Lower Rhine chambers.

In addition to promoting the infrastructure, the chambers are increasingly committed to improving vocational training. In 1887 the “Technical School for Business Apprentices” was established in Krefeld, which was unique in Germany at the time. As early as 1864, an industrial and advanced training school for women and girls was established in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt through a private entrepreneurial initiative, which in 1902 became state-run. In Neuss, the Chamber of Commerce supported a tie-sewing school that opened in 1894. Also at the turn of the 20th century, the “Higher Technical College for Textile Industry in the Mönchengladbach Chamber of Commerce” began teaching.

When the name was changed to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, instead of the previous Chamber of Commerce, the fact was taken into account in 1924 that industry now represented a significant proportion of the companies belonging to the Chamber.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the chambers of industry and commerce in Krefeld, Neuss and Mönchengladbach were brought into line by appointing people loyal to the line in honorary and full-time positions. The democratic structures of the chambers were abolished and the status as a self-governing organization was revoked. In 1934 the chambers of industry and commerce were merged with the chambers of crafts to form chambers of commerce. The Gau economic chambers emerged as an instrument for carrying out the war economy.

All three chambers - Krefeld, Neuss and Mönchengladbach - resumed their work after 1945, for example the merchant school in Krefeld reopened its doors to 1,600 students after a one-year break as early as Easter 1946.

Against the background of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia, the merger of small and medium-sized IHKs became topical in the 1970s. For several years, talks were held between the IHKs Krefeld, Neuss and Mönchengladbach on a voluntary merger in the Middle Lower Rhine. With the adoption of the statutes and election regulations on April 25, 1977, the three IHKs merged to become the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein.

In the following years, the chamber campaigned for the expansion of the motorway connections in its district as well as for the provision of commercial space by the municipalities. For example, the IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein advocated the Rhine crossing near Ilverich as part of the expansion of the A 44 from the start. In 2002 the project was finally realized.

Infrastructure projects currently supported and promoted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry are the connection of the A 61 to the Dutch trunk road network, the expansion of the A 57 in the Krefeld area and the resumption of rail freight traffic on the "Iron Rhine" railway line.

The training company was founded as early as 1984, whose task is to promote vocational training and further education. Today it is a partner in the national training pact.

The IHK promotes the internationalization of the economy. That is why she contributed to the opening of the International School on the Rhine in Neuss in 2003.

With their newly established regional working groups Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Neuss and Viersen, the interests of the companies are to be represented locally. In 2004, together with the municipalities and districts, she initiated an organization to market the region: the Niederrhein GmbH site.

In 2008 the Rhineland initiative was founded by the Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Aachen and Mittlerer Niederrhein Chamber of Commerce. The aim of the initiative is to strengthen cooperation in business and to further develop the economic region.

Personalities

President

literature

  • Dieter Porschen (ed.): 200 years of the Middle Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, writings on Rhenish-Westphalian economic history, special volume of the Rheinisch-Westphalian Economic Archive Foundation in Cologne, Cologne, 2004

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.krefeld.ihk.de/ihk/wir-ueber-uns-sitemap
  2. ↑ http://www.krefeld.ihk.de/ihk/wir-ueber-uns-sitemap
  3. ↑ http://www.krefeld.ihk.de/ihk/wir-ueber-uns-sitemap
  4. ↑ http://www.krefeld.ihk.de/ihk/wir-ueber-uns-sitemap
  5. ↑ https://www.ihk-krefeld.de/de/wir-ueber-uns/rechtsgrundlagen/index.html
  6. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 10–13.
  7. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 14-19.
  8. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 14-27.
  9. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 28–35.
  10. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 36–48.
  11. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 49–51.
  12. ↑ See Porschen (2004): pp. 65–66.