IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt

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The IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt is the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for the Main Franconia region . The IHK district includes the Lower Franconian cities and districts of Würzburg and Schweinfurt as well as the districts of Rhön-Grabfeld , Bad Kissingen , Haßberge , Main-Spessart and Kitzingen . The IHK currently has around 72,000 member companies. It currently employs around 140 full-time employees.

Seat

IHK office in Schweinfurt (photo edited )

The main office is in Würzburg in the Zellerau district. The IHK is represented in the region with an office in Schweinfurt.

structure

The highest body of the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt is the IHK plenary assembly, which is composed of 80 directly elected and a maximum of ten percent co-opted honorary members. The general assembly is re-elected every four years in accordance with the IHK statutes and the election regulations. Fundamental decisions are reserved for the general assembly. In particular, it has legislative competence, it issues the statutes and contribution regulations; It also sets the business plan and sets contributions and fees. The election committee proposes the distribution of seats for the electoral groups. The allocation of seats to the electoral groups is decided by the outgoing general assembly before the election.

According to IHK law, the economic characteristics of the region and the macroeconomic importance of the trade groups should be taken into account. The benchmarks should be the economic performance of the electoral group, the number of employees subject to social insurance contributions and the absolute number of companies in the respective electoral group.

The general assembly elects the president, two vice-presidents and twelve other presidential members from among its members. It appoints the general manager and determines the basic lines of the IHK policy. General manager is Ralf Jahn. The current president is Klaus D. Mapara. Baldwin Knauf holds the office of honorary president.

The assembly members elected from the city and district of Würzburg and Schweinfurt represent subregional economic interests in the district committees of Würzburg and Schweinfurt. As local subdivisions of the IHK, there are five committee committees in the districts, each with 15 elected volunteer committee members. The IHK also maintains various specialist committees and a vocational training committee in which six representatives from employers, employees and vocational schools from Main Franconia advise on matters relating to vocational training.

tasks

The content-related work of the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt is divided into the business areas

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

In addition to the representation of interests and services for the commercial sector, it also includes more than 50 public tasks, for example the appointment of experts or the function as a “point of single contact” for the implementation of the European Services Directive .

history

From the beginning to the end of the Weimar Republic

In 1819, Bavaria was the first merchants from the Palatinate to speak out when they wanted to set up a chamber of commerce. On May 19, 1843, King Ludwig I granted permission to set up the Chamber of Commerce, which was constituted by protocol on June 6. The "Chamber of Commerce for the administrative region of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg with its seat in Würzburg" began its activity under the chairmanship of the Würzburg businessman Anton Fischer. The services were based on three pillars: expert work for the state authorities, representation of interests vis-à-vis these authorities, and services for companies belonging to the chamber. The beginnings of the Main Franconian Chamber of Commerce and Industry go back much earlier. The oldest verifiable source is a document from Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn with the order to found an institution to control the privileges of foreign wool and cloth traders and to establish a "proper institution", the oldest forerunner of the later trade guild, or chamber of commerce, 1669.

In 1914 the construction of the first own chamber building was finished. The classic field in which the Chamber tried to improve the infrastructure and thus create the conditions for further economic development was transport policy. At the beginning of the Weimar Republic, the Chamber started a major initiative when it came to channeling the Main (1917 foundation of the Main-Danube river network). In 1927 the name was changed to "Chamber of Commerce and Industry".

The time of National Socialism

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists took the DC circuit held in the Würzburg Chamber of Commerce on March 24 1933rd On that day, Gauführer Heinrich Störrlein from the National Socialist Combat Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises occupied the chamber building with a group of SA men, forced the Presidium to resign and appointed himself President of the Chamber of Commerce. Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk developed the idea of ​​making the Party Gaue basic units of the state structure and in April 1942 issued an ordinance that dissolved the previous chambers and established Gau economic chambers , including in Main Franconia. The chamber's statute of January 1, 1943 essentially reproduced the ministerial ordinance; it was a subordinate executive body of the state authorities, especially the economic offices. She was involved in the conversion of factories to manufacture for armaments as well as in the war-related shutdowns and the constant downsizing in favor of frontline operations. The chamber was involved in the management of raw materials and energy, the outsourcing of war-critical operations and other emergency measures that were supposed to maintain production, as well as the use of craft businesses to repair aircraft damage.

the post war period

After the Second World War, District President Adam Stegerwald obtained permission from the local military commander to transfer the remains of the Gau Chamber of Commerce to a Chamber of Commerce for Main Franconia. As president, he proposed the general director of the Würzburg company Koenig & Bauer , Hans Bolza , who was then appointed to this office by the military government. At its constituent meeting on May 28, 1945, the chamber traded as "Wirtschaftskammer Mainfranken" and described itself as the legal successor to the Gauwirtschaftskammer Mainfranken, whose assets and staff ( denazification was still to come) it took over. Wilhelm-Hugo Zapf, who remained in office during the war, was dismissed in the course of denazification, and Josef Klingler, a business graduate, took his place for a short time. Only with the appointment of Alfred Brandenstein in August 1947 (until 1965) did continuity emerge in the management, which Dieter Schäfer succeeded from 1966 to 1993.

After efforts to split off from Aschaffenburg and Schweinfurt, a draft reform changed the name of the chamber to "IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt" and envisaged the rotation of the presidential office in rotation between Würzburg, Schweinfurt and the committee districts as an essential innovation, which meant that the IHK committee districts were equally important alongside the two cities and completed the principle of third parity introduced in 1948. With the new statutes passed by the general assembly on April 11, 1961 and approved by the Ministry of Economic Affairs on July 6 of the same year, a solution was found after the separation of the Aschaffenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry that met the needs of the Main Franconian economy.

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On July 16, 1990, the IHK moved into the new headquarters in the Würzburg district of Zellerau. The move from the city center was also seen as an impetus for the district, which was still underdeveloped at the time. In Schweinfurt the IHK has an office in the “Am Hainig” industrial park.

In 2004, the old management structure was replaced by a management board and division manager level. Today the managing director and two deputies make up the executive board, a total of 12 divisional heads are responsible for the operational work areas.

The IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt is involved in several institutions for the promotion of the commercial economy in Mainfranken, including the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum (TGZ) GmbH, of which it is the main shareholder alongside the city and district of Würzburg.

In 2018 the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt celebrated its 175th anniversary.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IHK Würzburg Schweinfurt. Retrieved December 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ § 5 IHKG
  3. ↑ § 5 IHKG
  4. ↑ Dieter Schäfer, The Justification of the Chambers of Commerce in Bavaria, in: Claus Grimm (ed.), Aufbruch ins Industriezeitalter, 4Bde, Munich 1985, Vol. 2, pp. 269–279, pp. 269f.
  5. ↑ Harm-Hinrich Brandt , "A capable organ of the trade and factory owner status", The Chamber of Industry and Commerce Würzburg-Schweinfurt in 150 years, 1993, p. 91.
  6. ↑ Dieter Schäfer: How we became what we are, series of publications by the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt, No. 37/2015, ISBN 978-3-943920-12-3
  7. ↑ Dieter Schäfer, The reasons for the chambers of commerce in Bavaria, in: Claus Grimm (ed.), Aufbruch ins Industriezeitalter, 4Bde, Munich 1985, Vol. 2, p. 170.
  8. ↑ Dieter Schäfer, The founding of the Chambers of Commerce in Bavaria, in: Claus Grimm (ed.), Aufbruch ins Industriezeitalter, 4Bde, Munich 1985, Vol. 2, p. 172.
  9. ↑ Dieter Schäfer, The Justification of the Chambers of Commerce in Bavaria, in: Claus Grimm (ed.), Aufbruch ins Industriezeitalter, 4Bde, Munich 1985, Vol. 2, p. 230.

literature

  • Dieter Schäfer: The justification of the chambers of commerce in Bavaria, in: Aufbruch ins Industriezeitalter , Munich 1985, Volume 2, p. 269-279, p. 269 f.
  • Harm-Hinrich Brandt : A capable organ of the trade and factory owner status , The Chamber of Industry and Commerce Würzburg-Schweinfurt in 150 years, IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt, 1993, ISBN 3-926879-14-9
  • Dieter Schäfer: How we became what we are , publication series of the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt, No. 37/2015, ISBN 978-3-943920-12-3 , digitized

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '4.6 "  N , 9 ° 54" 32.9 "  E