Industry Club Düsseldorf

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Entrance Industry Club, 2017
Elberfelder Strasse 6, 2017
Reading room of the industrial club on Elberfelder Strasse. The official opening was on October 4, 1913.

The Industrie-Club eV Düsseldorf is an association of leading personalities in business and public life with its headquarters in Düsseldorf , Elberfelder Strasse 6 in the Steigenberger Parkhotel building . Today the club has about 1200 members. Women have been admitted as members since 1977.

The association was founded on March 30, 1912. The first president was Wilhelm Marx , the former mayor of Düsseldorf and his honorary citizen. He was in office from 1913 to 1924, followed by industrialists Emil Kirdorf (1924–1928) and Karl Haniel (1928–1944) as president . Its famous members included Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , Carl Duisberg , Heinrich Lueg , August Thyssen , Fritz Thyssen and Walther Rathenau .

Speaker

The main pillars of the institution include the numerous lectures by socio-political speakers, to which the club members are regularly invited. In the past years there have been Joachim Gauck , Angela Merkel , Michail Gorbatschow , Friedrich Merz , Wolfgang Ischinger , Sigmar Gabriel , Ursula von der Leyen , Norbert Röttgen , Günther H. Oettinger , Joe Kaeser , Herfried Münkler , John B. Emerson , Rainer Maria Woelki , Hannelore Kraft , Christoph M. Schmidt , Christian Lindner , Udo Di Fabio , Monika Grütters , Simone Bagel-Trah , Ulrich Grillo , Karl-Ludwig Kley , Tom Buhrow , Jens Weidmann , Hans-Joachim Watzke , Johannes Teyssen , Wolfgang Huber , Daniel Kehlmann or Bernhard Schlink as guests.

Hitler's speech to the Industrie-Club Düsseldorf on January 26, 1932, is still much discussed today. In April 1932, Hermann Göring also addressed the members of the club. After 1945, Willy Brandt , Konrad Adenauer , Helmut Schmidt , Gerhard Schröder , and later Ralf Dahrendorf and Hildegard Hamm-Brücher were invited as speakers.

advancement

The club places particular emphasis on promoting science. It awards the Science Prize of the Industry Club in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Seneca Medal for internationally outstanding scientific achievements in the field of aging research. In addition, the Industry Club supports a total of 25 highly talented students from Heinrich Heine University and the University of Düsseldorf as part of the Germany Scholarship . In addition to financial support, the scholarship holders benefit from close ties to club life. For example, they are invited to selected events and thus have the opportunity to follow current socio-political discussions with high-ranking speakers. The mentoring program launched in 2014, in which committed club members participate, is intended to make it easier for Industry Club scholars to make initial contact with their sponsors and to build bridges into the world of work.

Club structure

In addition to the individual members who together make up the general assembly, the Industry Club has a board of directors, an advisory board and management.

Board

The board currently consists of the chairman Dirk Grolman, his two deputies Theo Siegert and Gerrit Woeste, and board members Florian Braunfels, Friderike Bagel, Claus Gielisch and Roland Oetker.

Chair of the industry club since 1913

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Advisory Board

The task of the advisory board is to perform the tasks assigned to it by the club's statutes and to provide advisory support to the board. The advisory board itself is relatively large with currently 17 members, three of which are female. The members of the advisory board are Wulff O. Aengevelt, Heike Cohausz-Voss, Felix Droste, Moritz Graf zu Eulenburg, Richard C. Geibel, Susan von Heill, Olaf Huth, Marcus A. Ketter, Peer Knauer, Dirk Matejovski, Ulrich Michaelis, Peter Minuth, Joachim Manuel von Möller, Hendrik Otto, Anne-José Paulsen , Werner Schaurte-Küppers and Friedrich Springorum.

Managing directors

Heidi Schädlich has been the full-time managing director since 2011.

Managing director since 1914

  • Otto T. Schüller (1914–1934)
  • Alexander Hevelke (1934-1949)
  • Carl August Zapp (1949–1951)
  • Klaus Biebrach (1951–1974)
  • Philipp Dürr (1974–1982)
  • Günther Freiherr von Teuffel (1982–1992)
  • Bernd Dieckmann (1993-2003)
  • Klaus Germann (2003-2010)
  • Heidi Schädlich (since 2011)

literature

  • Rudolf Tilly: 60 years of Industrie-Club eV Düsseldorf 1912–1972. Düsseldorf 1972.
  • Industrie-Club eV Düsseldorf (ed.): Openness and the public. Speeches to the members of the Industrie-Club eV Düsseldorf 1948–1999. Halem, Cologne 2001.
  • Volker Ackermann: Meeting place for the elites. The history of the Düsseldorf Industry Club. Droste, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-7700-1236-4 .
  • Speaking time. Speeches in the Industry Club from 1914 to 2006. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-1267-1 .
  • Thorsten Breitkopf: Industry Club: 100 years of the meeting place for the mighty . In: Rheinische Post of February 18, 2012, p. C6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.industrie-club.de/club-leben/gruendung
  2. ^ Martin Teigeler: Silent Elite on the Rhine. In: taz , August 17, 2006 ( online )
  3. ↑ Volker Ackemann: Meeting place for the elites. The history of the Düsseldorf Industry Club. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-7700-1236-7 , p. 32 .
  4. ↑ Volker Ackemann: Meeting place for the elites. The history of the Düsseldorf Industry Club. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 2012, ISBN 978-3-7700-1236-7 , p. 34 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 36 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 39 ″  E