Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bremerhaven

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The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bremerhaven ( IHK ), Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 4/6, was the legally anchored self-governing organization of the commercial economy in Bremerhaven with state-assigned tasks. After merging with the Bremen Chamber of Commerce to form the Bremen Chamber of Commerce - IHK for Bremen and Bremerhaven by legal succession.

History of the Chamber

IHK building

Geestemünde Chamber of Commerce

From 1866, Geestemünde was part of the Prussian province of Hanover after the German War . On February 18, 1867, the Geestemünde Chamber of Commerce was founded there in accordance with the Prussian Chamber of Commerce Act . The Geestemünde chamber district comprised the Prussian places and offices of Lehe, Geestemünde, Dorum, Hagen, Blumenthal and Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In 1871 the area of ​​the Lilienthal office was added. In 1882 the Chamber in Geestemünde refused to submit its meeting minutes, annual reports and publications to the State of Prussia for censorship, while all other Prussian chambers submitted. The members of the General Assembly in Geestemünde resigned from their offices until 1890 - the time Otto von Bismarck was dismissed as Prime Minister of Prussia. In 1909 the chamber moved to a new building (see below).

Around 1900, the Geestemünde Chamber of Commerce was the chamber of commerce for the Geestemünde , Lehe , Blumenthal and Osterholz districts . In 1924 the cities of Lehe and Geestemünde were united to form the Prussian city of Wesermünde . In addition, the designation of the chambers of commerce as chambers of industry and commerce has been uniformly introduced in Prussia since 1924. The Chamber of Commerce in Geestemünde became the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Wesermünde.

In the Bremen city of Bremerhaven there was the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bremerhaven from the 19th century to the 1930s. Bremerhaven became a district of the Prussian city of Wesermünde in 1939 and the chamber was incorporated into the Gauwirtschaftskammer Hannover-Ost.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the chamber 1933 was brought into line and terminates the self-management of the economy. During the Nazi era of 1933 and 1945, the chambers of industry and commerce were restructured according to the Führer principle, gradually deprived of their self-governing function and, like the chambers of handicrafts, renamed into regional economic chambers and integrated into the state economic management. The Greater Hamburg Act expanded the Chamber of Commerce district to include the city of Cuxhaven and the districts of Land Hadeln, Stade and Bremervörde. In 1939 Bremerhaven was separated from the city of Bremen and assigned to the Prussian city of Wesermünde, and the chamber area was expanded accordingly. In 1942 the chamber was dissolved and the Gauwirtschaftskammer Ost-Hannover-Lüneburg (based in Wesermünde) was integrated.

After the Second World War , Wesermünde was incorporated into the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in 1947 and renamed Bremerhaven. The Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry has existed since then .

On the basis of the Land IHK law, which was amended in 2014, the establishment of the regional chamber created the legal successor to the IHK Bremerhaven as the Bremen Chamber of Commerce - IHK for Bremen and Bremerhaven with its headquarters in Bremen and a branch in Bremerhaven.

IHK Bremerhaven

Legal Status

The IHK Bremerhaven was a corporation under public law in accordance with the Federal Chamber of Commerce Act and the Bremen law on the chambers of industry and commerce in the state of Bremen . It was subject to the legal supervision of the country.

Bodies

Existed as bodies

  • honorary the plenary assembly, the presidium, the committees and the working groups as well
  • full-time administration with a general manager as head.

tasks

The chamber acted independently of the public administration and independently within its areas of responsibility. It was the center of economic self-administration and it presented the Bremerhaven economy as a representation of the interests of companies. She was responsible for

  • the improvement of entrepreneurial activity and for an efficient infrastructure in Bremerhaven in the business area "location policy",
  • Start-up assistance and business support,
  • the implementation, monitoring and promotion of vocational training and further education in accordance with the Vocational Training Act ,
  • the service and advice for their member companies, among others in the business field "Innovation / Environment",
  • the support of small and medium-sized companies in particular a. in the "International" business area,
  • the public appointment and swearing-in of experts ,
  • the preparation of expert opinions for courts and authorities,
  • the issuance of certificates of origin and other required certificates,
  • the certification of commercial invoices,
  • the granting of permission to broker insurance ,
  • safeguarding fair competition in the “Law / Fair Play” business area.

Memberships

The IHK was a member of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

building

Chamber of Commerce building from 1966

From 1908 to 1909 a new building was built for the Geestemünde Chamber of Commerce as a corner building at Hohenzollernring (today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße) / Hohenstaufenstraße, among other things - as it was called - to revive the construction industry. A number of companies in the district and a "concession" from the Geestemünde magistrate helped finance and implement the project.

The new office building housed the Chamber's office, several meeting rooms and two official apartments as well as offices for the Reichsbank. The bank later had its own building on the other side of the Hohenzollernring.

The planning for the representative building from the turn of the century in the neo-renaissance style comes from city architect Karl von Zobel. With its three oriels, he was referring to the half-timbered buildings of the Renaissance. The construction management was entrusted to the architect Niemeyer. The base and the half-timbering are imitating divisions of the facade in red brick. The first and second floors were clad with gray and the third floor with yellow-colored sand-lime brick - a new, as yet untested facade material. The historicizing facade thus had a modern character for the time. The company HF Kistner supplied the self-produced sand-lime bricks.

The Men vom Morgenstern - Heimatbund association was allowed to exhibit exhibits from the Morgenstern Museum in the stairwell and in rooms on the first and second floors of the eastern building for a long time .

The building is now in a good state of preservation. The steep pyramid roof of the bay window was removed after the Second World War. In a conference room on the ground floor, the painting from 1935 has been preserved with typical representations of industry and trade in Wesermünde by the painter W. Heiland. According to Thales von Milet, quoted from Goethe's Faust, a motto above painting says : "Everything has sprung from the water / Everything is preserved through the water / Ocean grant us your eternal rule"

In 1943 the Gauwirtschaftskammer Hannover-Ost converted and divided the existing museum rooms into business premises. In 1959 four garages and a bicycle shed were added. From 1964 to 1966, the hall building was expanded according to plans by Karl Franzius and Theodor Rosenbusch and financed by donations from the merchants.

Monument protection

In 2010 the building was placed under monument protection.

Personalities

President

literature

  • Kurt Eisermann: You hunted the whale in Antarctica. Germany's participation in whaling in the 20th century . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 799 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven July 2016, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on July 27, 2019]).
  • Wolfgang Heumer: Success through change - 150 years of chamber history in Bremerhaven, 2017, online
  • Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries ; Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
  • Johann Jung: The Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In: Wesermünder Latest News No. 75 of April 28, 1927.

Web links

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ http://www.bundesrecht.juris.de/ihkg/index.html Law on the provisional regulation of the law of the chambers of industry and commerce of December 18, 1956 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 920 ), last amended by Article 7 of the law dated December 11, 2008 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2418 )
  2. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 22 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 28.5"  E