Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry

logo
legal form Corporation under public law
founding 1900
Seat Oldenburg (Oldb.) (Lower Saxony, Germany)
management President Gert Stuke
Website ihk-oldenburg.de

The Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry is one of 79 chambers of industry and commerce in Germany with its seat in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony).

As a corporation under public law, it represents the interests of companies in the region by virtue of the Federal Chamber Act of 1956; 68,613 companies (01/2020) from the districts of Ammerland , Cloppenburg , Friesland , Oldenburg , Vechta , Wesermarsch and the cities of Delmenhorst , Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven are members.

The IHK area corresponds to the former Oldenburg administrative district , which was established when the State of Lower Saxony was established in 1946. The borders form the island of Wangerooge in the north and the district of Vechta in the south. The eastern and western borders of the chamber region are the independent city of Delmenhorst and the district of Ammerland.

history

Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce in the 1960s
IHK building in the 1960s and today: clear lines and lots of glass still characterize the face of the main building at Moslestrasse 6.

The forerunner of the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry was the Oldenburg Trade and Commerce Association .

On March 30, 1840, 66 representatives from industry, trade, craft and civil servants met in Oldenburg to discuss whether and in what form an "official" professional representation could be created for these groups. The government was open to the plans of the meeting, so that in February 1841 the first general meeting of the "Oldenburg Trade and Commerce Association" could take place. Due to the success of the trade association, the voices for the establishment of a “real” chamber of commerce were already louder between 1882 and 1885. At the request of the government, the trade association drew up a draft of a Chamber of Commerce law, which the State Ministry submitted to the Oldenburg State Parliament in 1900. The state parliament passed the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce Act in February 1900, which came into force in May 1900. The constituent assembly of the new chamber took place on July 11, 1900. This was the hour of birth of the Chamber of Commerce for the Duchy of Oldenburg . The state of Oldenburg (then still duchy) was almost the last of all German federal states to receive a chamber of industry and commerce. The first president was the Oldenburg entrepreneur and chairman of the Oldenburg-Portuguese steamship shipping company August Schultze . The name Chamber of Commerce and Industry was only officially introduced on August 1, 1924.

On June 12, 1908, the first own building was inaugurated at Moslestrasse 4 in Oldenburg.

Organization of the Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce

The 71-member general assembly, which is re-elected every five years, is the highest body and decision-making body of the IHK. The presidium is elected by the members of the general assembly in a constituent meeting. The current presidium was elected on December 1, 2015. The Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce is established jointly by President Gert Stuke and General Manager Dr. Thomas Hildebrandt (since January 1, 2019). The executive committee includes the entrepreneurs Michael Engelbrecht, Maike Kornemann-Kuhnt, Jan Müller, Tom Nietiedt, Stefan Schnier and Franz Thole as vice-presidents. Karl Harms is honorary president.

Performance profile

The Oldenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce is dedicated to six business areas: training and further education; Establishment and promotion; Law and taxes; Innovation, energy, environment; Business worldwide; Our region. The IHK provides information and advice to companies, for example in the areas of dual training, foreign trade, corporate environmental protection, innovation and competition law. It performs sovereign tasks for the company instead of the state, for example in vocational training and in the field of experts. It also bundles the interests of the economy in the IHK area and represents them in relation to politics and administration, for example in questions of regional development and transport infrastructure. Together with industry, the IHK is accelerating transport projects such as the A1 expansion, the construction of the A 20 coastal motorway , the JadeWeserPort , efficient rail connections and waterways.

As a member of the Oldenburg landscape , also a corporation under public law, it is committed to preserving the Oldenburg identity, which also shapes the economy and trade of the region.

job4u training fair (Oldenburg)

The IHK training fair job4u, which has been in Oldenburg since 2008, is the largest training fair in north-west Germany in terms of visitor numbers (around 10,000 annually) and takes place annually in the Weser-Ems halls in Oldenburg. Since then, more than 160 companies, universities and institutions have participated once a year and offer those looking for training a mixture of company contact exchange, information forum and entertainment program suitable for young people.

Northwest Metropolitan Region

The Oldenburg Chamber of Commerce is committed to the north-west metropolitan region . 16 cities and districts from the north-west, the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony as well as six chambers of industry and commerce work in close coordination on the ten selected future fields of the metropolitan region.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.ihk-oldenburg.de/vv
  2. ↑ https://www.ihk-oldenburg.de/ueberBlick
  3. ↑ Hans Friedl: Schultze, August Karl Friedrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 652 f. ( online ).
  4. ↑ Alexander Hajek, “100 Years of Economic Spaces”, 2008
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  6. ↑ [2]
  7. ↑ job4u Fair Oldenburg
  8. ↑ NORTH-WEST Metropolitan Region