Central association of the furrier trade

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"International German Red Fox Award 2020" - Exhibition of the Central Association of the Furrier Trade at the "Jagd & Hund" trade fair in Dortmund

The Central Association of the Furrier Handicraft is a representation of the furrier guilds of Germany and their members, as well as the German furriers who joined them as individual members . According to its self-image, the Federal Guild Association “has the task of looking after and promoting the economic, social and professional interests of the member companies. In addition to the representation of interests, the goals of the association's work include public relations, information, advice and further training as measures to increase the performance and competitiveness of the member companies. "

The organs of the Federal Guild Association are the general assembly and the board of directors; the association can form committees for special tasks, for example for vocational training, for fashion and for collective bargaining policy.

The association is a member of the Central Association of German Crafts , the German Fur Institute, the Federal Fur School Association and the Central Office for Combating Unfair Competition . If necessary, he concludes collective agreements for all companies in the furrier trade that are members of the parties to the collective agreement in accordance with the Collective Agreement Act . Contractual partners are all commercial workers, employees and home workers who are subject to collective bargaining agreements in accordance with Section 3 of this Act.

history

Trend model of the fashion committee at a fashion education conference in Aachen (1986/87 season)

With the end of the Second World War, the previous umbrella organization of the German furriers' guilds, the Reichsinnungsverband der Kürschner , dissolved. On May 28, 1946, one year after the end of the war, Adolf Höper (Celle) invited the representatives of the furrier trade to a first discussion about a new union. On July 31 of the same year, the furriers Erich Levermann (Hamburg), Carl Scherer (Hanover), Wilhelm Gosekuhl (Cologne), Franz Häupler (Düsseldorf), Heinz Thiemeyer (Münster) and Adolf Höper founded the zone guild association for the furrier trade of the British zone . First chairman was Erich Levermann, managing director Heinrich Glück , who had held this post at the Reichsinnungsverband since November 15, 1933. Next, the organization was rebuilt in the United Economic Area , followed by the furrier guilds in the French zone of occupation .

From this the central association of the German furrier trade gradually developed, initially based in Lüneburg, then in Frankfurt am Main, near the fur trade center Niddastraße , then Bad Homburg and today with the management in Kaiserslautern. The actual founding date with headquarters in Frankfurt is February 23, 1950. The previous territorial division into regional associations was retained. The main focus of the association's work, however, was transferred to the committees, while the headquarters took on mainly craft-political tasks. Committees were initially or still are: the vocational training committee, the fashion committee, the social policy committee and the committee for business administration and taxation.

Since 1949, the central association has organized the international design competition for the German furrier trade every year , at that time with the management in Lüneburg in the British zone of occupation. The novelty exhibition (from 1881) and the German fur fashion show (from 1921) were the forerunners of the performance competition for craft businesses producing fur. Usually a fashion seminar was held before the competition to inform the members about the latest fashion trends. In 2011, in corporation with the hunters' body, the International German Red Fox Award was added, a competition to promote the use of local hunter skins.

The fur sales had reached a unique high point during the German economic miracle . The association initiated the establishment of experience exchange groups, briefly referred to as "Erfa groups". Here owners of similar types of businesses, who were not in local competition, met regularly, not just to exchange experiences. Within the groups, for example, attempts were made to achieve price advantages through joint purchasing, or to buy clothing, fabrics or ingredients together that they would otherwise not have been able to get because of the sometimes required minimum quantities. Every year, the operating results of the participants were compared and evaluated here. For these numerical evaluations, which are not very familiar to many of the craftsmen who are more arrested in the practice, the central association sent an employee to each meeting, Alfred Seffern for many years, continued by Eberhard Haag after retiring . A regular information leaflet was published for the members, the “Chef-Tip”. Every year, the association determined and published the increase or decrease in turnover of the members from voluntarily submitted operating results; the participants received an anonymous comparison broken down into northern, southern and western Germany, federal states and sales figures. A particular challenge for the office since the 1970s has been the information and briefing about the newly added and constantly changing trade restrictions through supra-regional agreements (CITES), European ( EU species protection regulation ) and German legislation ( Federal Nature Conservation Act ).

Award ceremony by the chairman of the central association Carl-Hans Adrian to master furrier Andreas Fahnenstich (1995)

Also on the initiative of the Central Association of the Furrier Handicraft, which at that time still had the cumbersome interim name Working Group of the State Guild Associations of the Furrier, Hat and Cap Making Handicrafts of the American and British Occupation Area, the master school of the furrier handicraft was established in Hamburg , initially mainly around the ones caused by the long war Closing the gap in vocational training. The Federal Fur School in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1968 , later took on the task of training and continuing education for the next generation of masters in the Federal Republic . A foundation originally decided to promote the school and endowed with ample financial means became practically penniless as part of the currency reform and the master school became handed over to the city of Hamburg. In 1953 the general assembly of the central association rededicated the school foundation and named it the Institute for Vocational Promotion in the Furrier Craft .

The training of post-war furriers was also served by the first extensive, large-format textbook for the fur craft "Der Kürschner" published by the Central Association in the Federal Republic; the first edition appeared in 1953. The magazine “Rund um den Pelz”, later renamed “Pelz International”, was the official news paper of the Central Association of the Furrier Handicraft for decades (most recently published by Rhenania Fachverlag GmbH, Hamburg).

In 1973, the Central Association of the Furrier Trade moved its office from Bettinaplatz in Frankfurt to a newly acquired building in nearby Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , where the Central Association's archive will still be located in 2020. The legal owner was the Society for the Promotion of the Kürschnerhandwerk mbH . Due to the reduction in the number of furrier businesses, the central association's own management was given up; it is now handled by the West Palatinate District Craftsmen in Kaiserslautern.

The winter conference in Bad Soden in 1995, a difficult year for the fur industry worldwide with "renewed slump in sales", was the first public general meeting in which guild members could also take part. Only the Obermeister still had the right to vote.

Until the end of 2018, Helmut Knieriemen was the managing director of the District Craftsmen Association West Palatinate. He is still responsible for the management of the furriers there and is the contact person for inquiries about the furrier trade. In 2012 he was honored for his work, together with two other members of the association, with the Golden Badge of Honor , the highest award in the German furrier trade. Created as a gold medal , the award was first presented on May 31, 1976 to master furriers Levermann from Hamburg and Paul Kunze (Mannheim).

Practical competition for young furriers

Exhibition of furriers' apprentices at the fur fair (1958)

One of the main tasks of the Central Association of the Furrier Trade is the organization of the annual competition for young furriers. Until the International Fur Fair in Frankfurt was closed in 2008, the award-winning fur work by the trainees was exhibited there together with the winners of the International Design Competition of the German Furrier Craft .

The winners of the trainees are determined through practical work as well as a written and oral examination. If there was sufficient participation, the state winners were determined beforehand in a retreat. After a second exam, the three best furriers nationwide will be awarded. The winners received material and cash prizes, the training companies a certificate.

Species Protection Circle Germany e. V. - ASK

In 1979 the support group of the district handicrafts association for diverse animal species conservation and environmental protection e. V. founded, later renamed to Artenschutzkreis Deutschland e. V. , ASK for short . The declared aim is to campaign for the protection of animals and species and to support them with ideas and finances, as well as to promote cooperation with animal welfare organizations, for example the WWF in the past . The available funds decreased over the years due to the decline in members.

In 2003, for example, the Magdeburg Zoological Garden received a monetary donation; On October 30, 2003, the resettlement project for lynxes in the Harz National Park was € 5000, which in 2006 received another donation of € 8000. On February 14, 2004, at the suggestion of the local furrier guild, the Karlsruhe Zoo received a donation of 5000 €. The Nuremberg Zoo also received € 5,000 in 2008.

The chairman of the species protection group in 2020 is Egon Samabor .

Personal details

Links Dr. Knoop, association president in his first year of service in 1967

First elected board (February 23, 1950)

Erich Levermann, Hamburg (1st chairman, until 1966), Paul Kunze, Mannheim (chairman); Wilhelm Gosekühl, Cologne (assessor); Hermann Schwerdtfeger, Wiesbaden (assessor)

Central Association Presidents

  • Erich Levermann (1950–1966)
  • Karl G. Koester (1966–1976)
  • Alfred Hanert (1977-1983)
  • Otto Dabs (1984–1990)
  • Carl-Hans Adrian (1990-2002)
  • Wolfgang Jahn (2002-2009)
  • Susanne Plappert-Piller (2009–2012)
  • Egon Samabor (since 2012)

Central association manager

  • Heinrich Glück (1933 (Reichsinnungsverband; † 1967) - 1967)
  • Bert Knoop (1967–1999)
  • Helmut Knieriemen (since 1999)

Information and advice

The job promotion positions were subsidized by the Federal Ministry of Economics . The advice center temporarily employed three consultants, Alfred Seffern, Egon Beinhauer and Eberhard Haag. This service sector was given up at the end of 1987 and 1990, respectively, for financial reasons, mainly due to a drop in membership (the degree of organization fell from 67 percent to almost 30 percent).

A. Corporate Governance Information Center

The task of the information center for corporate management was company comparisons, consultations, presentations at guild meetings, seminars, and the publication of information material, for example the boss's tip .

management
  • Bert Knoop (1960–1967)
  • Heinrich Pelle (1967–1969)
  • Alfred Seffern (1969–1990)

B. Business advice center

The business advice center primarily looked after the groups to exchange experiences.

management
  • Eberhard Haag (1981–1990)

C. Technical advice center

The technical advice center dealt mainly with rationalization measures in skinning.

management
  • Egon Beinhauer (1972–1987)

Published publications (selection)

literature

  • Our association - the common company . Zentralverband des Kürschnerhandwerk (Hsgr.), Publication for its members. 3rd edition 1982.

Web links

Commons : Central association of the furrier trade  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reinhold Metz, Stephanie Metz: Homepage of the central association of the furrier trade . Last accessed on February 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ General collective agreement for industrial workers, employees and home workers in the furrier trade in the Federal Republic of Germany . Central association of the furrier trade, Bad Homburg (Hsgr,). Treaty of October 25, 1983.
  3. ↑ a b c C. Schmitz: The organization of the furrier trade . In: The furrier. Technical and textbook for the furrier trade. 2nd revised edition. Vocational training committee of the central association of the furrier trade (ed.), JP Bachem publishing house, Cologne 1956, pp. 24-27. (→ book cover and table of contents) .
  4. ^ A b c Bert Knoop: Information on the central association of the German furrier trade. March 2020, sheet 4 .
  5. ↑ Photo Eberhard Haag with an Erfa group in Solingen Ohligs, March 1983.
  6. ↑ 20 years of the Federal Fur School - the start of a new generation . Schulverein Bundes-Pelzfachschule (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main, 1988.
  7. ↑ drkn (Bert Knoop): Zentralverband des Kürschnerhandwerk relocates its office to Bad Homburg , In: Rund um den Pelz International , issue 4, April 1974, p. 190.
  8. ^ Winter conference in Bad Soden . In: Winckelmann Pelzmarkt , No. 1274, March 3, 1995, p. 1.
  9. ↑ High distinction for furriers - leadership of the furriers' guild receives gold pin of honor . Deutsche Handwerkszeitung, DHZ-Schwabseite, February 3, 2012 (PDF file; 1.2 MB). Last accessed on February 13, 2020.
  10. ↑ Furrier Association honored deserving members . In: Winckelmann Pelzmarkt No. 339, June 4, 1976, p. 12.
  11. ↑ a b c d e f g h Information on the Central Association of the German Furrier Craft, Bert Knoop, February 2020 sheet 1 , sheet 2 , sheet 3 .
  12. ↑ Harz lynx project receives species protection award . News archive 2002 - 2010 , gfn-harz.de. Last accessed on February 27, 2020.
  13. ↑ "fk": species protection price for Harz lynx project in: Bergpost Annerschbarrich . (PDF file; 2.0 MB) Last accessed on February 27, 2019.
  14. ^ H. Knieriemen: Minutes of the results of the general assembly of the species protection group Germany e. V. on Friday, March 12, 2004, 12 noon in Frankfurt . Kaiserslautern, March 26, 2004.
  15. ^ H. Knieriemen: Minutes of the general assembly of the species protection group Germany e. V. on Friday September 11th, 2009, at 6 pm in the "Romantikhotel zur Post", Hauptstr. 7, 82256 Fürstenfeldbruck . Kaiserslautern, September 16, 2009.
  16. ↑ a b c d "drknp" [Bert Knoop]: 50 years of the central association of the furrier trade . In: 50th anniversary of the Central Association of the Furrier Trade from February 11 to 13, 2000 in Berlin , pp. 16-17.