Chamber of Commerce and Industry Erfurt

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The Erfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry looks after the companies in the North and Central Thuringia region.

history

In 1845 there was an election for the Erfurt Chamber of Commerce for the first time to represent the interests of traders and traders. At that time it was one of the first in the then Prussian province of Saxony. In 1923 the 11 IHKs in Thuringia were merged into three IHKs in Gera, Weimar and Sonneberg. After the seizure of power by Hitler in 1933 which took place DC circuit IHK Erfurt and was from 1934 reports to the Minister of Economics, the widely interfered with the powers of trade associations. In 1942, the Chamber of Commerce was dissolved and the Gauwirtschaftskammer transferred Thuringia, based in Weimar. After the end of the Second World War, an IHK Thuringia was founded in 1946. With the dissolution of the states and the establishment of districts in the GDR, the activities of the IHK Thuringia were ended in 1953 and transferred to the new structures of the GDR's Chamber of Commerce and Industry .

After the political change in 1989, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Erfurt was re-established on May 15, 1990.

Seat

The IHK Erfurt is based in the Thuringian state capital Erfurt . It also maintains ten Regional Service Centers (RSC) in Mühlhausen , Gotha , Eisenach , Bad Salzungen , Nordhausen , Heiligenstadt , Artern , Weimar , Sömmerda and Apolda .

organization

As a service provider for the regional economy, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Erfurt represents the interests of around 63,300 companies in Northern and Central Thuringia (as of June 30, 2019). The IHK Erfurt advocates the interests of companies vis-à-vis politics and administration: for business-friendly framework conditions, for an efficient infrastructure, moderate tax rates, more entrepreneurial freedom and less bureaucracy.

In addition, the IHK is committed as a service-oriented service provider for its member companies. It promotes the establishment of companies, the dual training, supports entry into new markets, provides information on legal issues and current economic policy issues.

At the head of the IHK are the President Dieter Bauhaus, Chairman of the Board of the Sparkasse Mittelthüringen and the General Manager Cornelia Haase-Lerch.

Business areas

The work of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry focuses on the pillars of lobbying, sovereign activity and services for the economy.

The structure of the IHK Erfurt is divided into three areas of competence:

  • Business promotion
  • Initial and continuing education
  • Central Services | Law and taxes

people

President

Former managing directors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Law on the Chambers of Industry and Commerce of February 10, 1923, GS Thuringia 1923, page 98-102 (IHKG Thuringia 1923), quoted from: Martin Will: Self-administration of the economy: Law and history of self-administration in the Chambers of Industry and Commerce, Craft guilds, district craft associations, chambers of crafts and chambers of agriculture, 2011, ISBN 3161507053 , page 341, online  ; Legal text online at [1]
  2. ^ History of the IHK Erfurt
  3. ^ Chresten goes - Bauhaus new IHK President , Ostthüringer Zeitung from September 15, 2010.
  4. ↑ Dieter Bauhaus is the new President of the IHK , Deutschland Today from September 16, 2010
  5. ↑ Bernd Jentsch (Thüringer Allgemeine): For the first time, a woman is at the helm of the IHK Erfurt. September 21, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2019 (German).

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