District Craftsmen
The Kreishandwerkerschaft is the professional association of all independent craft guilds a region in a given city - district domiciled or administrative region. It is a corporation under public law and is subject to the legal supervision of the competent chamber of crafts , whose approval of the statutes gives the district craftsmen legal capacity.
tasks
According to the Law on the Order of Crafts ( HwO ), the district craft associations have the following tasks:
- to represent the overall interests of the independent craft and the craft-related trade as well as the common interests of the craft guilds of their district,
- to support the craft guilds in fulfilling their tasks,
- To create or support institutions to promote and represent the commercial, economic and social interests of the members of the craft guilds,
- to support the authorities in the measures affecting the independent craft and craft-like trade in their district and to give them suggestions, information and expert opinions,
- to conduct the business of the craft guilds at their request,
- to carry out the regulations and orders issued by the Chamber of Crafts within its jurisdiction.
The legal membership of the guilds in the district craftsmen is in §§ 86ff. HwO regulated.
The district craftsmen are headed by an elected district craftsman who usually comes from the circle of senior masters (or guild masters ) of the guilds belonging to them.
literature
Martin Will: Self-administration of the economy. Law and history of self-administration in the chambers of industry and commerce, craft guilds, district craft associations, chambers of crafts and chambers of agriculture. (= Ius publicum, vol. 199), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, esp. Pp. 607-722.