Housekeeping

The profession of Gebäudereinigers is a recognized training occupation in Germany in the craft. The three-year operational training is completed by a theoretical and a practical test.

History

The historical origin of the Building craft dates back to the 17th century. After the Thirty Years' War in North Germany attracted so-called wall and a car washer with brushes, brooms and ladders and buckets packed into the cities to clean facades. Cleaning work were certainly always on the activities of the people. The " Building Cleaning Industry " can be derived, however, " service personnel " neither of the so-called " car washers " that occurred after the Thirty Years' War in North Germany, and also offered facade cleaning, nor by the employees in the tradition of the classic. The Craft of Gebäudereinigers in its current form has only emerged with the advent of industrialization in the 19th century in Germany. After the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay and entrepreneurs through cost- glass production this building material opened wide strata of the population in 1861, the conditions for commercial glass cleaning were created. 1878, the Frenchman Marius Moussy in Berlin to be "French Cleaning Institute ". The company is exclusively engaged in the glass cleaning. Former employees Moussys make soon autonomously and establish in other cities further purification Institute. From this point, the glass cleaning industry grew steadily. The flourishing industry in Germany in the " early days " attracted the construction of large commercial buildings, office buildings, railway stations and ministries with huge natural stone facades and massive windows to be.

The first facade cleaning by a mechanical driving head was performed in 1888 in Frankfurt am Main.

The entrepreneurs set up in 1901 a profession organization, the " Association of Cleaning Institute entrepreneurs in Germany". Initiator is the Göttingen publisher Ernst Kelterborn, the first scientific journal "International Journal of Central Institute for cleaning and related businesses " published in April 1901. In the Articles of Association provides for the establishment of " districts and local groups " before - the forerunner of the country's guild associations and guilds. Individual entrepreneurs demand the recognition of the cleaning activities as crafts.

Between 1914 and 1918 almost all male workers of the cleaning industry were drafted into the army or obliged to work in economically important equipment company. The women who work as farm managers and Glass Cleaner Interior to take their place. During the war, the Association one of its activities.

In the year 1920, in the southwest of the " Association of Cleaning Institute entrepreneurs in Southern Germany " and founded in the west of the "West German cleaning business association ." In Hanover, the first Guild for the glass cleaner industry is founded. Until the beginning of the "Third Reich" created more 381 guilds as free guild Kiel 1926; Free guild Dusseldorf 1926; Free guild Stuttgart 1927.

1929, the " Reich Association of the Glass and Building Cleaning guilds " was founded. The association consisted of six regional associations: West German Cleaning Business Association, Association of Cleaning Institute entrepreneurs in southern Germany, northern Germany, East Germany, Saxony, Central Germany.

On 30 January 1933, the Nazis take power and organize the craft through the introduction of new compulsory guilds. All artisans are obliged to join a guild. The government on June 30, 1934 published a directory of trade to which this provision applies. Here also the building cleaners are listed and thus throughout the empire recognized as a " craftsman ". The guilds are " brought into line", ie, the Board must consist in its majority of members of the NSDAP. After the rich -wide recognition as a craft of the Reich Association of the Glass and Building Cleaning guilds is dissolved.

The profession of Gebäudereinigers is recognized as a craft since 1934 and formed the state since Cleaners and masters from. The Cleaners gets a journeyman's certificate after three years of training / testing. Then he can sit a master craftsman, but no longer is today mandatory to start a business.

Circa 2600 establishments in Germany alone, some of which exist already more than 100 years, have joined together in guilds. Since the amendment of the Crafts Code no more training is required to make self-employed as a building cleaner. The direct consequence was an increase in the number of farms by 7000 (2003) on last 35 636 on June 30, 2010. Champion operations of guilds see their job also to counteract this development and to strengthen the reputation of the Building craft through professional services.

Further education

As a "classical" training opportunities subsequent to the fellows are training the / r Cleaners / in the following alternatives to training available:

• Master
• LEH Bachelor study Food, Nutrition
• LEH Bachelor direction Hygiene
• Facility Management Bachelor
• Master Facility Design and Management
• General Service Manager / in (PRT )

The master in building cleaning trade, the classical upskilling dar. Although with the recent revision of the Crafts Code of the master constraint in building cleaning trade has fallen, the master craftsman is very popular as before. A qualified education today is more than ever necessary to run a business or economically can get into responsible management positions. Therefore, the master craftsman is the key to the new ways and possibilities.

With the league title the Champion Cleaners are, however, also other options open. The master's certificate entitles even without proof of university entrance for engineering studies ( FH ) Industrial Engineering with specialization in cleaning and hygiene management / engineering.

Teaching content of the preparation exam for Master Cleaners:

Part I: professional practice

• Laboratory exercises
• Specialized practical exercises

Part II: Trade Theory

• Materials Science
• Specialist technology
• Order Processing
• Compartment calculation
• Protection rules
• Data processing

Part III: Economic and Legal

• Accountancy
• Economics
• Law and social work

Part IV: Berufs-/Arbeitspädagogik

• Legal bases for vocational education
• Planning and implementation of training

Audit process

The master's examination consists of four independent parts of the exam:

• Part I: Practical examination ( master's examination work and work sample )
• Part II: Trade Theory
• Part III: Economic and Legal
• Part IV: Working and Pedagogy

Fields of work

The Cleaners has much to do with customers, and his field of work covers areas such as:

• Glass cleaning
• Maintenance cleaning
• Facade cleaning, graffiti removal
• Floor Cleaning
• Hospital cleaning
• Pest control
• Decontamination work
• Free surface cleaning
• Carpet Cleaning
• Basic cleaning
• Construction building cleaning
• Disinfection of all kinds
• Traffic area cleaning

And many more.

Therefore he needs specific expertise, in order to eliminate dirt (matter in the wrong place ).

The training to impart knowledge on building cleaners

• Conservation
• Chemistry
• Material Science
• Operation of cleaning machines
• Dealing with scaffolding, working platforms and access equipment
• Basic cleaning and coating of flooring
• Teppichshamponierung
• Glass and facade cleaning
• Maintenance cleaning
• Interim cleaning process
• Transport cleaning
• Disinfection measures
• Preventive pest Control

Many commercial cleaning companies offer their customers also facility management, so complete maintenance of the building. This includes among others:

• Pick-up and delivery services
• Winter service
• Garden Care
• Janitor Service
• Depending on the location of the object and the elevator car rescue

However, these areas of activity not included in the job description of Gebäudereinigers.

In the vocational school special knowledge is provided, inter alia, in

• Cleaning Technology
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Economy
• Policy

Minimum wage

On 9 March 2007, the German Bundestag decided to open the building cleaning industry in the provisions of the posting of workers. The (2005) 848.000 -collar workers were entitled to a minimum wage for which the employer and the IG Bauen -Agrar-Umwelt agreed at € 7.87 per hour in West Germany and € 6.36 in East Germany until February 2008.

The tariff minimum wage was increased in 2008 by 3.5 percent, after which the IG Bau and employers agreed in their collective bargaining for the cleaning sector in mid-August 2007. The new collective agreement was signed by both sides on 7 September 2007 and was originally intended to come into force on 1 January 2008. The yet in force because of a veto by the Federal Ministry of Economics only since March 1, 2008 the minimum wage for contract cleaners is 8.15 Euro 6.58 Euro in Western and in Eastern Germany. This occurred on 1 October 2009 again suspended.

In order to enforce a new minimum wage, the IG BAU led a strike in the autumn, at the end of the collective bargaining parties agreed on new minimum wage. Under the collective agreement of 29 October 2009, the minimum wage for workers in the internal cleaning of 8.40 euros to the west and 6.83 euros in the east, the minimum wage for workers in the glass and facade cleaning 11.13 euro in the west and 8, 66 EUR in the east. These wages were by decree from the March 10, 2010 allgemeinverbindlche minimum wages. From 1 January 2011, these rates to 8.55 euros ( interior cleaning west) or 7,00 € ( interior cleaning east) and 11,33 Euro (glass and facade cleaning west) or 8,88 € (glass increase and facade Cleaning East). On 1 January 2014, the minimum wage rises in the west 1 9.31 euro, on 1 January 2015, 9.55, in the east it is 1 January 2014, 7.96 euro and 9.55 euro 1 January 2015. The minimum wage increased 2 to the west of January 1, 2014, to 12.33 euros, 1 January 2015 to 12.65 EUR; in the east it rises to 10.31 euros on 1 January 2014 and at 10.63 euro on 1 January 2015.