Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern

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The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern is the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the Main-Kinzig district . Founded in 1871, it is based in Hanau am Main. The IHK is a corporation under public law . It has around 25,000 member companies. The IHK is one of the 80 chambers of industry and commerce in Germany represented by the umbrella association of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry , based in Berlin and Brussels.

history

The Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Commerce was founded on April 27, 1808 based on the French model by a decree of the Prince-Primate Carl Theodor von Dalberg based on a request from the Frankfurt merchants of April 25, 1808. Since Hanau was part of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , the chamber was also responsible for Hanau. The history of this "Grand Ducal Chamber of Commerce" ended with the fall of the Grand Duchy.

With an edict of June 29, 1821, the state organization in Kurhessen was reorganized. Line ministries were established. The Ministry of the Interior was now responsible for trade and commerce. An agricultural association and a trade and industry association were founded in order to involve those affected. In 1822 a deputation of the association was also formed in Hanau. In 1834 a reform of the organization of the association was carried out under pressure from the Kurhessische estates assembly , which however retained the strong position of the governing committee and thus did not take into account the main demand of the liberals , namely the strengthening of the members. The March Revolution in 1848 led to the dissolution of the association. The task was now taken over by a commission at the Ministry of the Interior without the involvement of business.

In 1849 an "Association for Trade and Industry" was formed in Hanau. It was now an association under private law that shaped economic policy in close coordination with the Ministry of the Interior. On May 23, 1855, the similarly structured Free Association for Trade and Industry was founded in Cassel in the residence. From 1863 the local associations worked together in the state assembly of the Kurhessischer trade associations. Even after the IHK was founded, the association continued to exist, but quickly lost its importance. For details of the history of the Hessian Chamber of Industry and Commerce , see Chamber of Commerce and Industry Kassel-Marburg .

After the annexation of Kurhessen 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. The constituent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce took place on April 27, 1871. The chamber was responsible for the city and the district of Hanau. In 1890 responsibility was extended to the former district of Gelnhausen and in 1893 to the former districts of Schlüchtern, Fulda, Hünfeld and Gersfeld.

In 1922 the IHK Hanau and the IHK Frankfurt am Main merged to form the IHK Frankfurt / Hanau.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists and the recent DC circuit IHK Hanau. The plenary assembly was replaced by an “election” in which only a “national unified list” took place. With the Reich Law of August 20, 1934, the Chamber was placed under the Reich Minister of Economics and the Führer principle was introduced. In March 1935 a "Hesse Chamber of Commerce " was formed, in which the Hanau and the other Hessian chambers such as the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce were merged. On April 1, 1943, the Gauwirtschaftskammer Kurhessen was formed and the IHK was dissolved. In addition to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chamber of Crafts was incorporated into the Gau Chamber of Commerce .

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".

tasks

Since the IHK law means that all traders from industry, trade and the service sector, with the exception of the exclusively craft companies, are IHK members, the IHK is obliged to take into account the overall interests of all companies in its advice to politics and administration.

In this context, the IHK takes on several tasks assigned by the state, for example in vocational training , exporting goods or publicly appointing and swearing in as well as appointing experts . In addition, the IHK prepares opinions for administrations and courts and takes on registration and inspection tasks.

Since 1999 the management of the IHK-Forum Rhein-Main has been with the IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern. In the IHK forum, the IHKs Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Fulda, Gießen-Friedberg, Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern, Limburg, Rheinhessen (Mainz), Offenbach am Main and Wiesbaden have come together to bundle the economic interests of the region .

organization

At the IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern, around 40 full-time employees work in the business areas

  • Location policy
  • Business start-ups and business support
  • Initial and continuing education
  • Innovation and the environment
  • International
  • Law and taxes

They are supported by around 500 entrepreneurs and company representatives who volunteer their time - most of them as auditors.

The highest body of the IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern is the general assembly. Its 39 voluntary members are directly elected by the companies belonging to the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for five years, with each company having one vote regardless of size. The formation of electoral groups ensures that the general assembly reflects the economic structure of the IHK district and its economic characteristics. The general assembly determines the guidelines of the IHK work and decides on all questions that are of fundamental importance for the member companies or the work of the IHK. Among other things, the general assembly approves the business plan every year and sets the IHK contributions in the business statutes. The General Assembly elects the President and Vice-Presidents from among its members.

Legal status

In addition to the statutory provisions of the federal government with the IHK law and the state with the Hessian implementation law for the IHK law, the statute law forms the basis of the work of the IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern.

Others

The IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern publishes the magazine Wirtschaftsraum Hanau-Kinzigtal . With it, the IHK informs its member companies about regional and national economic events.

literature

  • Martin Will: Self-administration of the economy: Law and history of self-administration in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district handicrafts, chambers of crafts and chambers of agriculture, 2011, ISBN 3161507053 , page 316-317, online
  • Harm-Hinrich Brandt , Economy and Economic Policy in the Hanau Area 1597-1962, Hanau, 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern: About us ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed November 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hanau.ihk.de
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ HWA Abt. 9, No. 58; Draft law on the formation of chambers of commerce (Chamber of Commerce Act) of July 18, 1951
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern: IHK-Forum Rhein-Main ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed November 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hanau.ihk.de
  8. ↑ IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern: Organization chart  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). Accessed November 15, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / hanau.ihk.de  
  9. ↑ IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern: General Assembly ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed November 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hanau.ihk.de
  10. ↑ IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern: Statutes of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern from October 17, 1957, last changed on November 26, 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF). Accessed November 15, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / hanau.ihk.de  
  11. ↑ IHK Hanau-Gelnhausen-Schlüchtern: IHK-Zeitschrift ( Memento of the original of August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed November 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hanau.ihk.de