Hamburg Chamber of Commerce

The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chamber of Commerce for the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and was (then as Commerz - Deputation ) founded in 1665. It represents a chamber over 170,000 member companies - from one-man operation to internationally established company. The Chamber of Commerce is committed primarily for business-friendliness of conditions in the Hamburg economic area. Start-ups and entrepreneurs they support with extensive consulting and service offerings. It also takes about sovereign tasks in the dual vocational training (decrease of tests, etc.).

Seat

The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce has its seat directly behind the City Hall on Adolphsplatz 1 in the same building as the " Hamburg stock exchange ", which she is the bearer. Today's stock exchange stock exchanges AG has its headquarters in the town hall market - yard.

Organization

At the head of the Chamber of Commerce of Präses stands ( Fritz Horst Melsheimer since March 2011 ). The Präses represents the Chamber of Commerce together with the Chief Executive Officer (since 1996 Hans -Jörg Schmidt- Trenz ). The Bureau is next to the Church President from six Vizepräsides. It determines the focal points of the Chamber of Commerce and prepares the resolutions of the plenum. The plenum is the " Parliament of the economy" and every three years elected by the member companies. For this, the company will be divided into 13 groups according to choice of industries. The plenum has up to 66 members, who are volunteers. 54 candidates are elected directly, up to 12 additional Plenarier can be added elected by indirect election of the elected Plenarmitgliedern. To prepare and support the work of the Plenary and the Bureau committees and working groups are formed (currently 32).

The business education service includes all the activities of vocational and academic education. These are Chamber of Commerce Hamburg gGmbH offered in the field of vocational training since 1999 through its subsidiary HKBiS educational service and carried out. Furthermore, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce of the wearer that she founded in 2004, business school HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration.

Business

The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce has 287 full-time employees. The substantive work of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is divided into nine divisions:

Figures

The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce has revenue of approximately € 43.6 million, of which € 35.6 million in contributions from the member companies (2012 ). The membership fees are made up of a basic contribution of between € 0 and € 575 ( depending on the scope of the trade and after trade income ) and a contribution rate of 0.25 % of their trading income.

History

The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce is the oldest German Chamber of Commerce. It was founded in 1665 as Commerz - Deputation of driving the maritime trade Hamburg merchants. This had already in 1517 given the right to elect a board of directors, whereby the merger of gemeenen Kopmann emerged (today one meeting respectable salesman to Hamburg) was already on whose initiative the first German stock exchange in 1558 in Hamburg. 1710 received the Commercial Deputation seat and vote in the citizenry. 1735 involved the Commercial Deputation spaces over the 1669 -built city scale, which was between crane and Hamburg stock exchange on Nikolaifleet, near the town hall at the Trostbrücke. In the same year was in the Commerzbibliothek, the world's first business library. The Commercium called building was expanded in 1767. During the French occupation of Hamburg on a temporary basis a transformation into a chamber of commerce in the French style.

1841 opened the market in the new building on Adolphsplatz, which consisted only of the middle part of the present building at the time. It was at the same time as the new seat of Commerz - Deputation while on the old building was destroyed in the Fire of Hamburg in the year. In 1867, the Commerz - Deputation renamed in Chamber of Commerce. In 1907, the Chamber of Commerce officially the right also to represent the industry, which had been practiced on the Commission formed by their industry since 1900. 1933, the Act Betr. Preliminary neoplasm of Commerce in force and the whole was re-constituted. In 1934, now known as the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chamber of Commerce office Nordmark (Hamburg, Lübeck, Schleswig -Holstein, Mecklenburg, parts of northern Hanover ). With the Greater Hamburg Act, expanded the jurisdiction of the Hamburg Chamber in 1937 to Altona, Harburg, Wandsbek and William Castle. 1943 was " Gauwirtschaftskammer Hamburg " set, which also included the Chamber of Crafts and Commerce Nordmark. After the war took place in 1945 to rename the Chamber of Commerce in Hamburg. By federal and state law, the chambers 1955/1956 again received uniformly the status of a public corporation.

The Praesides Hamburg Chamber of Commerce from 1665 to today

  • Michael Heusch ( January 1665 - February 1667 )
  • Daniel Le Conte ( February 1667 - March 1668 )
  • Hinrich Busch ( March 1668 - February 1669 )
  • Johan Gull ( Guhl, Guhle ) ( February 1669 - November 1671 )
  • Frans von Bremen ( November 1671 - April 1674 )
  • Frans Schloyer ( April 1674 - August 1675 )
  • Barthold Jencquel ( August 1675 - September 1676 )
  • Frans de la Camp ( February 1678 - March 1678 )
  • Hinrich Witte ( March 1678 - April 1679 )
  • Simon Fock ( April 1679 - March 1681 )
  • Johan Cordes ( March 1681 - December 1683 )
  • Jochim Jarchau ( January 1684 - April 1686 )
  • Hinrich de Dobbeler ( September 1686 - May 1687 )
  • Peter Burmester ( May 1687 to May 1689)
  • Hinrich Kronenburg ( May 1689 to May 1690)
  • Herman Harbart ( May 1690 to May 1691)
  • Herman Krochman ( May 1691 - May 1692 )
  • Adrian Boon ( May 1692 to May 1693)
  • Paul ( Rudolph ) Amsinck (May 1693 May 1694 )
  • Walter Beckhoff ( May 1694 - July 1695 )
  • Hinrich of summer ( Sum) ( July 1695 - May 1696 )
  • Jacob Brommer ( May 1696 - September 1696 )
  • Johan Schulte ( October 1696 - May 1697 )
  • Thomas Dreyer ( May 1697 to May 1699)
  • Hermann Luis ( May 1699 - September 1700 )
  • Hans Hinrich of Dort ( September 1700 - March 1702 )
  • Jacob Greve ( March 1702 - August 1703 )
  • Johan Wischoff ( August 1703 - June 1704 )
  • Michael Wilcken ( June 1704 - June 1705 )
  • Joris Tamm ( June 1705 - June 1706 )
  • David Geismer ( June 1706 - June 1707 )
  • Hinrich Peter Kentzler ( June 1707 - June 1708 )
  • Adam Hübener ( June 1708 - June 1709 )
  • Joachim Boetefeur ( June 1709 - July 1710 )
  • Jürgen Greve (July 1710- October 1711 )
  • Matthias Schmid ( October 1711 - July 1712 )
  • Gerd sops ( July 1712 - March 1713 )
  • Jacob Vockmann ( March 1713 - April 1714 )
  • John Adrian Boon ( April 1714 - March 1715 )
  • Georg Jencquel ( March 1715 to May 1716)
  • Frans Mente (May 1716 June 1717 )
  • Gerd Burmester ( June 1717 - June 1718 )
  • Johan Caspar Weber ( June 1718 - June 1719 )
  • Lorenz Thiele ( June 1719 - June 1720 )
  • Hinrich Thor charging ( June 1720 - June 1721 )
  • Jacob Martens ( June 1721 - August 1722 )
  • Johann Berenberg ( August 1722 - September 1723 )
  • David Doormann ( September 1723 - October 1724 )
  • Philip Boon ( October 1724 - December 1725 )
  • Hinrich Jencquel ( December 1725 - September 1726 )
  • Albert Schulte ( September 1726 - June 1727 )
  • Andreas Beckhoff ( June 1727 - September 1728 )
  • Rudolf Berenberg ( October 1728 - December 1729 )
  • Raetje judge ( December 1729 - December 1730 )
  • Otto Hinrich ( December 1730 - January 1732 )
  • Nicolaus Jante ( January 1732 - March 1733 )
  • Johann Glöde ( March 1733 - April 1734 )
  • Rodrigo Voss ( April 1734 - March 1735 )
  • Peter Voigt ( March 1735 - February 1736 )
  • Johan Ludewig Hübener ( February 1736 - June 1737 )
  • Johan Diederich Beckhoff ( June 1737 to May 1738)
  • Peter Greve (May 1738- September 1738 )
  • Johan Diederich Cordes ( September 1738 - August 1739 )
  • Bartold Schlebusch ( August 1739 - July 1740 )
  • Christian Hollmer ( July 1740 - August 1741 )
  • Jerome Burmester ( August 1741 - April 1742 )
  • Paul Paulsen ( April 1742 - April 1743 )
  • Rudolph Kentzler ( April 1743 to May 1744)
  • Johann Arnold Ellermann ( May 1744 to May 1745)
  • Rudolph Michael Ridel (May 1745 March 1746 )
  • Samuel Diederich Mutzenbecher ( March 1746 - April 1747 )
  • Jacob Cornelius Berenberg ( April 1747 - August 1748 )
  • David Friedrich Klug ( August 1748 - July 1749 )
  • Simon Tamm ( July 1749 to May 1750)
  • Johann Hinrich Martens (May 1750 September 1751 )
  • Paridom Colldorf ( September 1751 - June 1752 )
  • Johann Georg Poppe (June 1752- November 1753 )
  • Johann Paul Dimpfel ( November 1753 - December 1754 )
  • Heinrich Hancker ( December 1754 - November 1755 )
  • Caspar Voght ( November 1755 - November 1756 )
  • Jerome Matthiessen ( November 1756 - October 1757 )
  • Jacob Jencquel ( October 1757 - April 1758 )
  • Frantz Nicolaus Lütjens ( April 1758 to May 1759)
  • Jürgen Schultz ( May 1759 to May 1760)
  • Paul Berenberg (May 1760 June 1761 )
  • Gotthelf Bagge (June 1761- January 1763 )
  • Johann Hinrich Dimpfel ( January 1763 - January 1764 )
  • Hinrich Christoph Lienau ( January 1764 - February 1765 )
  • Andreas Schütt ( February 1765 - February 1766 )
  • Frans Poppe ( February 1766 - February 1767 )
  • Johann Gottlieb Gerhard ( February 1767 - March 1768 )
  • Johann Conrad Klinck ( April 1768 - March 1769 )
  • Johann Friederich Tonnies ( March 1769 - April 1770 )
  • John Schu Back (May 1770- May 1771 )
  • Nicolaus Anton Johann Kirchhoff (May 1771- July 1772 )
  • Paridom Daniel Kern ( July 1772 - July 1773 )
  • Georg Heinrich Eimbcke ( July 1773 - June 1774 )
  • Johann Jacob Bohl ( July 1774 - March 1775 )
  • Hinrich Petersen ( March 1775 - March 1776 )
  • Johann Siegmund Westphalen ( March 1776 - March 1777 )
  • Jürgen von Spreckelsen ( March 1777 - April 1778 )
  • Friedrich Justus ( April 1778 - March 1779 )
  • Johann Ludewig weevil ( March 1779 - April 1780 )
  • Johann Bernhard Paschen (May 1780 September 1781 )
  • Johann Gerhard Greve ( September 1781 - September 1782 )
  • Franz Lorenz Gries ( September 1782 - August 1783 )
  • Jerome Martin Ohmann ( August 1783 - August 1784 )
  • Johann Daniel Klefeker ( August 1784 - July 1785 )
  • Christian Matthias Schröder (July 1785- July 1786 )
  • Frans Klefeker ( July 1786 - August 1787 )
  • Johann Ludewig Barthold Heise ( February 1789 - March 1790 )
  • Claus Hinrich Sunday ( April 1790 - February 1791 )
  • Georg Heinrich Sieveking ( February 1791 - March 1792 )
  • Johann Daniel Koch ( March 1792 - April 1793 )
  • Johann Diederich Luis ( April 1793 - March 1794 )
  • Johann Valentin Meyer ( March 1794 - July 1795 )
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Christian Eimbcke ( July 1795 to May 1796)
  • Johann Hinrich Rücker (May 1796 March 1797 )
  • David Hinrich Rowohl ( March 1797 - April 1798 )
  • Martin Johann Jenisch ( April 1798 - April 1798 )
  • Luer Anthon Prösch ( April 1798 - March 1799 )
  • Johann Friederich poppy ( April 1799 - April 1800 )
  • Johann Ernst Friedrich Westphalen ( April 1800 - July 1801 )
  • Pistorius Carl Wilhelm ( July 1801 to May 1802)
  • Jacob Hinrich Jencquel ( June 1802 - June 1803 )
  • Georg Wortmann ( July 1803 - March 1805 )
  • Nicolaus Bernhard Eybe ( April 1805 - March 1806 )
  • Hans Peter Moenck ( April 1806 to May 1807)
  • Johann Conrad Sievert ( June 1807 - April 1808 )
  • Carsten Wilhelm Soltau (May 1808 April 1809 )
  • Lüer Nicolaus Lütkens (May 1809- May 1810 )
  • Jerome Shillem (May 1810 June 1811 )
  • Johann Georg Hasche ( June 1811 - April 1812 )
  • Martin Garlieb Shillem ( March 1813 - August 1814 )
  • Frans Detlof Bieber ( September 1814 - April 1816 )
  • Jacob Albers ( April 1816 - April 1817 )
  • Ludewig Erdwin Seyler (May 1817 July 1818 )
  • Richard Parish ( September 1818 - June 1819 )
  • Henrich Droop ( July 1819 - June 1820 )
  • Peter Keetman ( s) ( July 1820 - September 1821 )
  • Siegfried Reinhard Baumeister ( September 1821 to May 1822)
  • Martin Joseph Haller ( May 1822 to May 1823)
  • Anton Diederich Schröder ( June 1823 to May 1824)
  • Christian Jacob Johns ( June 1824 to May 1825)
  • Johan Andreas Prell ( June 1825 to May 1826)
  • Franz Matthias Mutzenbecher ( June 1826 - May 1827 )
  • Johann Diederich stubble ( June 1827 to May 1828)
  • Nicolaus Bernhard Eybe ( June 1828 to May 1829)
  • Johann Christian Hinsch ( June 1829 to May 1830)
  • Jacob Henry de Chapeau Rouge (June 1830- June 1831 )
  • Peter Godeffroy (June 1831- June 1832 )
  • Ascan Wilhelm Lutteroth - legate (June 1833- June 1834 )
  • Johann Siemsen ( June 1834 to May 1835)
  • Gottfried Geffcken (May 1835- June 1836 )
  • Carl Wilhelm Schröder ( June 1836 - June 1837 )
  • Johann Georg Maack ( May 1837 to May 1838)
  • Ernst Heinrich Jacob Michahelles ( May 1838 to May 1839)
  • Johann Heinrich Carl Höber ( June 1839 - June 1840 )
  • Georg Friedrich Vorwerk ( June 1840 - June 1841 )
  • Georg Hinrich Büsch ( June 1840 - December 1841 )
  • Octavio Rudolph Schroeder ( January 1842 - December 1842 )
  • Adolph Eduard Vidal ( January 1843 - December 1843 )
  • Heinrich Geffcken ( January 1844 - December 1844 )
  • Johan Cesar Godeffroy ( January 1845 - December 1845 )
  • Theodor Dill ( January 1846 - December 1846 )
  • Justus Wilhelm Carl Rupert ( January 1847 - December 1847 )
  • Adolph Jacob Hertz ( January 1848 - December 1848 )
  • Theodor Wilhelm Schiller ( January 1849 - December 1849 )
  • Anton Daniel Pehmöller (1850-1851)
  • Robert Flor ( 1851)
  • August Joseph Schön ( 1852)
  • Wilhelm Gossler (1853 )
  • Johann Friedrich Carl Refardt, sen. (1854 )
  • Carl Ludwig Meister (1855 )
  • Robert Kayser (1856 )
  • Peter Franz BIANCONE ( 1857)
  • Adolph Godeffroy (1858 )
  • August Sander (1859 )
  • Claes Christian Crasemann (1860 )
  • Ferdinand Jacobson (1861 )
  • Edgar Daniel Ross (1862 )
  • Johann Georg Trautmann (1863 )
  • Heinrich Amsinck (1864 )
  • Peter Anton Rodatz (1865 )
  • Adolph Ferdinand Hertz ( 1866)
  • Johann Conrad Warnecke (1867 )
  • Gustav Adolf Schönberg (1868-1869)
  • Carl Johannes KOYEMANN (1870-1871)
  • Johann Friedrich Thomas Stahmer (1872 )
  • Marcus Wolf Hinrichsen (1873 )
  • Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Jacob ( 1874)
  • Alexander August Borgnis (1875 )
  • Heinrich August Müller ( 1876)
  • Johan Cesar Godeffroy (1877 )
  • Daniel Ross (1878 )
  • Ernst Gossler (1879 )
  • Arthur Lutteroth (1879-1882)
  • Johann Friedrich Carl Refardt, (1883-1884)
  • Adolph Woermann (1884-1885)
  • Robert Edward Julius Mestern (1885-1888)
  • Siegmund Hinrichsen (1889-1891)
  • Gustav August Rudolph Crasemann (1891-1895)
  • Carl Ferdinand Laeisz (1895-1898)
  • Adolph Woermann (1899-1903)
  • Heinrich Alfred Michahelles (1903-1907)
  • Max von Schinckel (1907-1910)
  • Edmund Henry Bohlen (1911-1914)
  • Gustav August Rudolph Crasemann (1915-1917)
  • Carl Friedrich Hermann Heye (1917-1918)
  • Franz Heinrich Witthoefft (1919-1923)
  • Hermann Rudolf Münch Meyer (1923-1927)
  • Anton Cornelius Hiibbe (1927-1931)
  • Carl Ludwig Nottebohm (1931-1933)
  • Hermann Victor Hugo Hiibbe (1933-1937)
  • Otto Joachim de la Camp (1937-1945)
  • Max Mörck (1945 )
  • Johann Jacob Paul Wirtz (1945-1946)
  • Albert Schäfer (1946-1956)
  • Alwin münchmeyer the Younger (1956-1959)
  • Hans Rudolph von Schroeder (1960-1963)
  • Rolf Stödter (1964-1968)
  • Herbert West Erich (1969-1974)
  • Rudolf Schlenker (1975-1980)
  • Carl Heinz Illies (1981-1986)
  • Peter Möhrle (1987-1990)
  • Klaus Asche (1990-1996)
  • Nicholas W. Schües (1996-2002)
  • Karl -Joachim Dreyer (2002-2008)
  • Frank Horch (2008-2011)
  • Fritz Horst Melsheimer ( since 2011 )

Hamburg's business

The monthly membership magazine Hamburg economy (own spelling: hamburger economy ) is the official publication of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. The Business Magazine illuminated economy and economic policy from a regional perspective, says regional policy decisions from the perspective of the economy and gives tips for daily management practice. In addition, readers get information on taxes, finance, law, foreign trade, sales, commerce, transport, vocational education and training. All the registered full members of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce to get the business magazine mailed, non-members can purchase the book at the Chamber of Commerce in the subscription.

Offices

  • Brussels ( since 1959)
  • Berlin (since 1992); previously Bonn (1956 to 1992)
  • St. Petersburg ( since 1993)
  • Kaliningrad ( since 1994)
  • Shanghai (since 2002)
  • Dubai ( since 2006)

Subsidiaries

  • HKS Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Service GmbH
  • Hamburg Chamber of Commerce educational service profit company
  • HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration
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