Chamber of Commerce and Industry Southern Upper Rhine

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The South Upper Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a Chamber of Commerce and Industry based in Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

The first guild regulations for merchants in Freiburg were handed down as early as 1425. The Freiburg Chamber of Commerce goes back to the Grand Ducal Baden Law on Chambers of Commerce of December 11, 1878. On September 16, 1879, there was a meeting of the representatives of the companies in the Freiburg district, who spoke out in favor of a chamber of commerce in Freiburg. Thereupon the Ministry of Commerce issued the statute of the new Chamber of Commerce on January 12, 1880. The chamber should then have 15 members. Eight were elected in the city of Freiburg, two each in the districts of Emmendingen and Waldkirch and one each in the districts of Neustadt and Staufen and in the city of Breisach . On July 29, 1880, the first chamber was elected. It was constituted on August 31, 1880 and elected the Freiburg factory owner Eduard Fauler as its first president. When it was founded, the chamber district had 172,520 inhabitants. In 1886, parts of the Breisach district were spun off from the chamber area. In 1896 the Neustadt district was assigned to the newly established Villingen Chamber of Commerce .

At the height of hyperinflation at the end of 1923, the Baden chambers issued emergency money . Since 1924 the chamber has been called the Freiburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry. With the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the self-management of the economy was abolished and the IHK Freiburg into line . The Chamber President Erich Schuster, Director of the Rheinische Creditbank was replaced and the leader principle was introduced. The chamber itself was dissolved and integrated into the Baden Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In 1935 this structure was dissolved again and the IHK Freiburg became independent again. The chamber districts of the IHK Villingen and IHK Lahr were added to the Freiburg Chamber. In 1942 it was dissolved again and part of the Gau Chamber of Commerce

On April 22nd, 1945 the IHK Freiburg was re-established by the French occupying forces. In May 1945 Friedrich Leibbrandt was appointed President. In 1986 INH Freiburg and IHK Lahr merged to form today's Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Southern Upper Rhine.

Chamber building

Wentzingerhaus, seat of the Chamber from 1906 to 1925

From 1880 to 1905 the chamber had its seat in Kaiserstraße 54, today Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 186–188. From 1906 to 1925 the office was in the Wentzingerhaus on Münsterplatz. From 1925 to 1926 the chamber worked in Werderstrasse 7. In 1926, it moved to Wilhelmsstrasse 26. Today the chamber has its seat at Schnewlinstrasse 11-13. The branch in Lahr is located at Lotzbeckstraße 31.

Personalities

President

Eduard Fauler, first President of the Chamber of Commerce

Web links

literature

  • 75 years of the Freiburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1955