Chamber of Commerce and Industry Fulda

The Fulda Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the district of Fulda .

history

prehistory

There were no chambers of commerce in the Electorate of Hesse , only local trade associations. After the annexation by Prussia , the law on the chambers of commerce was passed on February 24, 1870 and the Hanau Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1870. In 1892 the merchants of the Fulda region demanded the establishment of a chamber of commerce in Fulde. The Prussian government did not approve this, instead the chamber district of the Hanau Chamber was expanded in 1893 to include the former Schlüchtern, Fulda, Hünfeld and Gersfeld districts. On April 1, 1920, the first office was set up in Petersberger Strasse in Fulda as a branch of the Frankfurt / Hanau Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In the era of National Socialism , the chambers were brought into line and eliminates the self-management of the economy. On April 1, 1943, the Gauwirtschaftskammer Kurhessen was formed and the IHK was dissolved.

After the Second World War , the IHK were re-approved. In the new federal state of Greater Hesse, the establishment of an independent Chamber of Commerce and Industry based in Fulda was also approved. The constituent meeting of the general assembly took place on March 28, 1946.

On January 10, 1946, the state government formally decreed the abolition of the Gau economic chambers in Hesse and the restoration of the law of 1933. The minister of economics and transport was to oversee the chambers . These regulations met with the contradiction of the American occupying power: They saw the public law position of the chambers as an important instrument for steering the economy during the National Socialist era . In implementing the American demands, the state government therefore decreed the performance of public law tasks in May 1946 and ordered the chambers to continue as private law associations without compulsory membership. The final regulations for the Chamber, its competencies and its election were laid down in a circular of December 5, 1846. The consequence of the discontinuation of compulsory membership was the withdrawal of a larger number of small businesses. The larger chambers lost up to 50% of the members, the smaller between seven and fifteen percent.

With the occupation statute in 1949, the Federal Republic regained a good part of its sovereignty. Apart from Bavaria and Hesse, the states of the American occupation zone now returned to the model of public chambers (in the British and French zones this was the case immediately after the war). The SPD -governed Hessen had completely different plans: According to the government's will, the IHKs were to be dissolved and replaced by chambers of commerce. These should be filled equally by employers and employees. The employer representatives should be nominated by the trade associations and the employee representatives by the trade unions. However, these plans were not implemented because a nationwide regulation was made instead.

With the entry into force of the “Act on the Provisional Regulation of the Law of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry” on December 22nd, 1956, the chambers are again corporations under public law. The advisory board of a chamber is now called the "plenary assembly".

In 1968, today's IHK building ("Walter Bauer House") was built at Heinrichstrasse 8 in Fulda.

President

1946: Dr. Hermann Muth , general partner of Hutstoffwerke Fulda Muth & Co.
1951: Franz Weber , co-owner of the mechanical weaving mill Nicolaus Weber
1957: Dr. Walter Bauer , CEO of Valentin Mehler AG
1968: Dr. Anton Klein , owner of the special factory for woodworking machines Wilhelm Klein & Sons
1978: Erich Deinhardt , chairman of the supervisory board of Gummiwerke Fulda GmbH
1987: Dr. Thomas Schmitt , managing partner of the printing company Parzeller GmbH & Co. KG
1995: Helmut Sorg , managing partner of Edmund Sorg GmbH
2009: Bernhard Juchheim , managing partner of Jumo GmbH & Co. KG
2019: Dr. Christian Gebhardt , managing partner of G + M Steuerberatung Dr. Gebhardt & Moritz

Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 56; Greater Hesse State Ministry to the Chambers of Industry, Commerce and Crafts of the State of Greater Hesse, January 10, 1946
↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 56; Circular decree of the Greater Hesse State Ministry to the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the State of Hesse, May 9, 1946
↑ HWA Abt. 9, Nr. 37; Circular decree of the Greater Hesse State Ministry on the reorganization of the Hesse Chamber of Commerce and Industry, December 5, 1946
↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 58; Draft law on the formation of chambers of commerce (Chamber of Commerce Act) of July 18, 1951
↑ Ulrich Eisenbach: Between commercial interest representation and public law mandate; in: Helmut Berding (Ed.): 125 years of the Giessen Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Economy in one region. Hessian economic archive. Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-9804506-1-9 , pp. 5-43.

[1] HWA Abt. 9, No. 56; Greater Hesse State Ministry to the Chambers of Industry, Commerce and Crafts of the State of Greater Hesse, January 10, 1946

[2] HWA Abt. 9, No. 56; Circular decree of the Greater Hesse State Ministry to the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the State of Hesse, May 9, 1946

[3] HWA Abt. 9, Nr. 37; Circular decree of the Greater Hesse State Ministry on the reorganization of the Hesse Chamber of Commerce and Industry, December 5, 1946

[4] HWA Abt. 9, No. 58; Draft law on the formation of chambers of commerce (Chamber of Commerce Act) of July 18, 1951

[5] Ulrich Eisenbach: Between commercial interest representation and public law mandate; in: Helmut Berding (Ed.): 125 years of the Giessen Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Economy in one region. Hessian economic archive. Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-9804506-1-9 , pp. 5-43.