Lübeck Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Lübeck Chamber of Commerce and Industry (in short: Lübeck Chamber of Commerce and Industry ) is the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Lübeck and the districts of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Ostholstein , Segeberg and Stormarn . The IHK is based in Lübeck. It has over 65,000 member companies (as of 2016).
history
In 1853 the merchants of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck merged to form the Lübeck Merchants' Association and appointed the Chamber of Commerce to their board of directors. The structures of self-government of the economy in Lübeck go back to the year 1378.
In 1934 it was renamed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and in 1937 it was reorganized into a Chamber of Commerce. The IHK district thus included the Lübeck district and today's four districts of Ostholstein, Segeberg, Stormarn and the Duchy of Lauenburg. In March 1942, the Lübeck Chamber of Industry and Commerce was incorporated into the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Commerce with its seat in Lübeck, the economic focus of the state. In October 1948, tradespeople elected a general assembly for the first time since the war, at that time still in free membership.
In 1986, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce initiated the establishment of the Lübeck Technology Center in order to found new, technically-oriented companies and create jobs . Today the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is committed to promoting the fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt , which is to connect Fehmarn and Denmark in 2022 .
organization
The highest organ of the IHK is the general assembly . It elects the honorary Presidium consisting of the Praeses and the seven Vice-Presides. The vice-presidents advise the president. Together they determine the main focus of the IHK's work and prepare the decisions of the general assembly. The President runs the Chamber of Industry and Commerce together with the full-time managing director.
The election takes place in electoral groups according to branches. Each member company has one vote to elect the general assembly. The voting weight of every company depends exclusively on the electoral group and differs many times over. The division of the electoral groups and the number of seats is determined by the outgoing general assembly at the suggestion of the electoral group committee before the election. The general assembly is elected for six years.
In the districts of the Duchy of Lauenburg, Ostholstein, Segeberg and Stormarn there are IHK economic advisory boards that deal with regional issues.
From October 2006 to 2010, the former Economics and Transport Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Bernd Rohwer, was chief executive of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce and Industry and, since January 2007, also the IHK Schleswig-Holstein . He made these tasks available in 2010. Lars Schöning has held the position of General Manager since 2013. As the first woman in this office, the General Assembly in February 2013 elected the entrepreneur Friederike C. Kühn as the new President.
Business areas
The content-related work of the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce is divided into eight business areas:
- Location policy
- Business start-ups and business support
- Initial and continuing education
- Innovation and the environment
- International
- Law and taxes
- Regional business area with the Ahrensburg and Norderstedt offices and the Bad Segeberg office.
tasks
The tasks of the IHK are the representation of the interests of the regional economy towards politics and administration, the services for the members and customers as well as the fulfillment of sovereign tasks, especially in the education area . According to law and statutes, it is the task of the IHK to promote the commercial economy in its district, to stand up for the overall interests of all IHK-affiliated companies, to balance and weigh up the economic interests of individual industries and companies, as well as the decency and customs of the "honorable businessman." " to protect.
In addition, the Lübeck Chamber of Industry and Commerce promotes the regional formation process with two regional offices and one regional office and supports the HanseBelt initiative, which is supported by the economy in its district .
Business figures
The income of the Lübeck Chamber of Industry and Commerce in 2009 amounted to around 9.07 million euros from contributions from almost 69,000 members and 1.3 million euros from fees. The contribution rate for the members is 0.15 percent of the trade income below the national average of 0.23 percent. 96 full and part-time employees and ten trainees work for the Lübeck Chamber of Commerce.
Hoghehus
In addition to the IHK administration building in Fackenburger Allee , from 1979 to 2015 the IHK owned the Hoghehus am Koberg, which was completely renovated from 1983 to 1985, as a conference building for training courses and events in the world cultural heritage of Lübeck's old town .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Performance report 2016 (PDF; 277 kB) [1]
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Wolter: Lübeck Chronicle October. In: Lübeckische Blätter 180 (2015), p. 334 ([digitized])