Handwerkskammer

§ Section 91 Law on the Order of Crafts (Handwerksordnung - HwO)

Here you will find information about the tasks of the Chamber of Crafts.

The Chamber of Skilled Crafts performs sovereign tasks by law and is managed in the legal form of a corporation under public law. The task of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts is to represent the interests of the skilled crafts and to regulate the interests of the skilled crafts in the course of self-administration.

The Chamber of Skilled Crafts includes the owners of a craft business (crafts subject to licensing / crafts not subject to licensing) and crafts similar to crafts, as well as journeymen, employees with completed vocational training and apprentices.

The Chamber of Skilled Crafts offers a broad spectrum of consulting and services for its member companies and start-ups, ranging from technical, business management and legal consulting to consulting in vocational training.
The most important tasks of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts are:

• Promotion of the interests of the individual trades, also vis-à-vis politics and administration
• Maintaining the register of skilled crafts and the register of trades similar to skilled crafts
• Regulation of vocational training in the crafts and enactment of all necessary regulations for this purpose
• keeping the apprentice register
• Conducting and controlling the master craftsman and advanced training examinations
• Conducting and supervising journeyman's and retraining examinations
• enacting regulations for master craftsmen's examinations, further training and journeymen's examinations
• Promotion of the economic interests of craftsmen
• Legal supervision of craft guilds and district craft associations

• The Chamber of Skilled Crafts and Small Businesses includes the owners of a skilled crafts enterprise (trades subject to registration / trades not subject to registration) and trades similar to trades, as well as journeymen, employees who have completed vocational training and apprentices.
• The Chamber of Skilled Crafts offers a wide range of consulting and services for its member companies as well as start-ups, ranging from technical, business management and legal consulting to consulting in vocational training.
• Points of contact: Chamber of Skilled Crafts Erfurt, Chamber of Skilled Crafts for Eastern Thuringia, Chamber of Skilled Crafts Southern Thuringia.

Chamber of Crafts Erfurt: www.hwk-erfurt.de
Chamber of Crafts for Eastern Thuringia: www.hwk-gera.de
Chamber of Crafts for Southern Thuringia: www.hwk-suedthueringen.de