Contains: a) Stoltenhoff's notifications of his retirement copies of Stoltenhoff's letters: Pastor Euler, Consistorial Councillor, of the Verein Rheinischer Kiderlager e.V., with resignation of the chair by Stoltenhoff; director Müller, Hilda-Schule in Koblenz, with resignation of the membership in the board of trustees of this institution; the paediatric hospitals Viktoria-Stift/Bad Kreuznach, resignation of his board membership; the Diakonie-Anstalt Duisburg, resignation of his board membership; retired Consistorial President D. Dr. Groos, Chairman of the Board of the Protestant Diakonieanstalten Kreuznach, with resignation of his board membership; Professor Pfennigsdorf of the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn; Bishop Vogt/Aachen; the Rheinische Provinzialausschuß für Innere Mission/Langenberg, resignation of his membership; the rectors of the University of Bonn, the Agricultural University of Bonn and the University of Cologne; the President of the Government of Trier; the Abbot of Maria Laach, Ildefons Herwegen; the Lord President of Koblenz; the Lord Mayor of Koblenz; testimony for the caretaker of his apartment; testimony for his secretary, Miss Julie Könitzb) Letters to Stoltenhoff about his retirement: of the Ebernburg Foundation (invitation to a meeting with the Führer, with Stoltenhoff's reply that after his retirement he was no longer a member of the board); Gertrud Stoll/St. Blasien; Pastor Nack/Cologne; Mr. Schneider/Rheinböllen; Pastor Weinmann/Pfaffendorf; Family von Waldthausen/currently Oberstdorf; Director of Studies Müller, Hilda-Schule in Koblenz; Pastor Gaus/Aßlar, Braunfels Synod; Pastor E. Juhl/Wuppertal-Barmen, Bundeswart; Chief President Freiherr von Lüninck/Koblenz; Superintendent Albert Becker/Rheydt, currently Emmerich; Pastor Seynsche/St. Wendel; Superintendent Hinrich Johannsen/Essen; Pastor Focke/Hamborn; Pastor Hanns Meyer/Dinslaken; Pastor A. Hensmann/Wuppertal-Barmen; Wilhelm vom Rath/Duisburg, for the members of the board of the Fliedner'schen Familienstiftung; Julie Könitz, secretary of Stoltenhoffs; Julia and Edwin Landau/z.Z. Taormina; Pastor Haun/Bonn; Pastor Eduard Stoltenhoff/Odenkirchen; Ellie Wolff/Aachen; Retired Pastor W. Rehmann/Bonn; Pastor Wilke/Kettwig; Dr. Landau/Koblenz; Pastor Reichhard/Saarbrücken, at present St. Johann; Telegram of the Board of the West German Young Men's Association/Wuppertal-Barmen; Superintendent Gillmann/Simmern; Pastor Ibeling/Düsseldorf; Parish Conference of the Meisenheim Synod - Pastor Teschemacher, Pastor Himmelthal, Pastor Röhrig, Pastor de Loo, Pastor Weber, Pastor Reindell, Pastor i.R. Fertung, Pastor Fröhlich, Pastor Bindseil, Pastor Götzel -; Pastor A. Brüggemann/Kettwig; Rector Geldmacher from the University of Cologne; retired priest Spies Friedrichsfeld; Superintendent Dr. Greeven/Langenlonsheim, Kreuznach Synod; Superintendent Nold/ Malstatt, currently Wasserburg; District President Dr. Saassen/Trier; Rector of the Rhine-Westphalian Federal State of Economics and Technology; Rector of the University of Cologne.Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Bonn; retired pastor Heim/Bad Godesberg; retired pastor Bonnet/Neuwied; from the Lower Rhine Deaconissenhaus/Duisburg; pastor Graeber/Wuppertal-Barmen; pastor Herbert Lempfert/Solingen-Ketzberg, currently Faltlau/Titisee; Lower Rhine Deaconissenhaus/Duisburg; retired Superintendent Albers/Emmerich; Pastor Möller/Elberfeld; Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft/Wuppertal-Barmen; Ernst Bunke from the magazine "Die Reformation"/Berlin; Pastor Adolf van de Loo/Medard, Meisenheim Synod; Mr Mettring/Wuppertal-Elberfeld; Mr and Mrs Zimmermann/Bad Godesberg; Retired Superintendent Von Schewen/Burscheid; M. And H. Hasenkamp/Koblenz; Dr. Vogt, Bishop of Aachen; Franz Rudolf, Bishop of Trier; retired pastor D.H. Kremers; director of the Diakonie-Anstalt Duisburg; retired Superintendent Wieber/Gießen; Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft/Wuppertal-Barmen; Pastor Hesse, Reformed Federation for West Germany/Wuppertal-Elberfeld; Pastor Schauß/Winningen; Abbot Ildefons Herwegen from Maria Laach Abbey; Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne; Pastor Teschemacher and the Presbytery of Böllbach/Sobernheim; Pastor Kinzel/Velbert; Theodor Fliedner/Madrid; Dean Pfennigsdorf of the Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn; Pastor Bender/Krefeld; Pastor Alsdorf, Schmidt/Saar; Rheinisch-Westfälischer Diakonieverein für evangelisch-kirchliche und soziale Wohlfahrtspflege/Köln-Lindenthal; Rheinsicher Provinzialausschuß für Innere Mission/Langenberg, Rheinland; Pastor Wilhelm Fliedner/Wittlich; Paul and Gertrud an Huef/ Neukirchen-Moers; Superintendent Klein/Düsseldorf; Pastor Hermann Haarbeck/Düsseldorf; D.H. Sasse/Erlangen; Rheinisch-Evangelische-Arbeiterkolonie-Lühlerheim/Düsseldorf; Superintendent Imig/Sulzbach, Saar; Pfarrer Krüssenberg/Ottweiler; Guste Stoltenhoff/Hephata; the board of directors of the Protestant social welfare institutions Kreuznach; the Diakonissenmutterhaus in Kreuznach; the management of the Diakonieanstalten Kreuznach; Else Gaul/Essen-Altenessen; pastor Rentrop/Königswinter; Superintendent Theodor Bungenberg/Inden; Superintendent i.R. O. Leibnick/Bad Godesberg; Pastor Focke/Hamborn; Dipl.-Ing. Hans Schäfer, Attorney at Law/Düsseldorf; Son Adalbert Stoltenhoff/Bonn; T.U. Frankfurt/Main; Dora Peters and P. Brinkmann, neighbour of Stoltenhoff in Koblenz; Heyd/Velbert; Pastor Disselhoff/Kaiserswerth; Retired Superintendent D. Meinberg/Bonn.Darin:Newspaper clippings about Stoltenhoff's retirement from various daily and church newspapers

On 19 May 1856 the Chamber of Commerce was established by Royal Decree for the district of Bochum. Gustav Müllensiefen, Crengeldanz, was the chairman when the company was founded. From 1872 to 1897 Louis Baare, director of the Bochumer Verein, presided. Changes in the district boundaries resulted mainly from changes in the area of the city and rural districts: from 1885, the Chamber of the City of Bochum and the districts of Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. The cities of Gelsenkirchen (1897), Witten (1899) and Herne (1906) left the counties. 1929 Chamber for the city districts Bochum, Gelsenkirchen (with Buer and Horst), Herne, Wanne-Eickel, Wattenscheid and Witten as well as Hattingen and further ten municipalities from the Ennepe-Ruhr district. 1943 in the course of the formation of the Gauwirtschaftskammern (chambers of commerce), spin-off of the city district of Gelsenkirchen (Reg.-Bez. Münster); Gelsenkirchen became a district of the IHK Münster; this regulation was not revised after 1945. After the communal reorganization in 1975 the affiliation of the cities Hattingen and Witten from the Ennepe-Ruhr district to the district of the Bochum Chamber of Commerce was controversial. 1982 they came after administrative court judgement finally to the chamber Bochum, which covers thus the city districts Bochum, Herne as well as the cities Hattingen and Witten from the Ennepe Ruhr district. 65 m Within the group of chamber archives, the collection contains the richest materials on the history of the Ruhr area from 1870 to 1914. Due to the rich recipient tradition, the collection contains information that goes far beyond the boundaries of the chamber. Statutes and rules of procedure 1879-1933 (5); correspondence of the management with the chairmen, including Louis Baare and Theodor Müllensiefen 1861-1934 (5); elections 1882-1929, 1947 (29); electoral rolls 1905-1933 (9); plenary assembly 1860-1974 (38); presidium 1945-1972 (4); activity reports of the in-house lawyer 1906-1916 (4); committees 1877-1910 (6); small and medium-sized enterprises, respectively Retail trade committee 1907-1937, 1975-1983 (10); wholesale trade committee 1975-1983 (1); landlord committee 1921-1925 (1); building committee 1950 (1); traffic committee 1966-1984 (2); right and tax committee 1925-1926, 1947-1959 (2); publications, periodicals 1897-1936 (10); congratulations, condolences 1933-1961 (9); Lectures and meetings 1920-1938 (8); anniversaries 1906-1932 (6); economic chronicle of the companies of the chamber district 1907 (1); general administration 1877-1933 (10); personnel administration 1900-1956 (6); finances and budget 1866-1950 (11); member companies 1923-1954 (47); buildings 1897-1960 (13). Minutes of plenary and committee meetings 1856-1920 (16); annual reports 1932-1951 (3). Chambers of Commerce (general) 1860-1936 (5); legal bases of the chambers 1896-1932, 1946-1952 (4); German (Industrie- und) Handelstag 1889-1973 (70); Working Committee on Transport at the German Industrie- und Handelstag 1950-1971 (5); budget plans and auditing 1927-1949 (2); Chamber of Commerce reforms 1919-1934 (4); reorganization of the chambers 1945-1951 (3); Chamber officials 1891-1940 (4); Association of the Managing Directors of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce 1916-1932 (2); Association of Middle-Class Officials of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce 1920-1934 (39); Pension Compensation Fund 1926-1936 (4); Versorgungsverband deutscher Wirtschaftsorganisationen 1943-1949 (1); International Chamber of Commerce 1925-1937 (3); German Chambers of Commerce Abroad 1897-1936 (4); Chamber Law (after 1945) 1948-1961 (2). Special-purpose chamber associations in Rhineland Westphalia 1919-1932 (22); joint tax committee 1923-1936 (2); state committee of the Prussian chambers of commerce 1920-1927 (2); unification of the chambers of commerce of the Lower Rhineland Westphalian industrial district and of the Lower Rhineland Westphalian industrial district, respectively Successor 1891-1929 (16); Zweckverband nordwestdeutscher Wirtschaftsvertretungen 1920-1933 (7); Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Industrie- und Handelskammern des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes bzw. Vereinigung der Industrie- und Handelskammern in der britischen Besatzungszone 1945-1949 (5); Kommission für Absatzwirtschaft der Internationalen Handelskammer 1952 (1). (Gau-)Wirtschaftskammer Westfalen-Lippe 1935-1946 (2); Bezirksausgleichsstelle für öffentliche Aufträge, Dortmund 1936-1942 (1); retail representation of IHKs in the fiduciary district of Westfalen 1936-1942 (1). Chambers of Labour 1908-1929 (3); Chambers of Agriculture 1926-1934 (3); Chambers of Consumers 1921-1922 (1); Chambers of Architects and Engineers 1926-1936 (1); Reichskulturkammer 1935-1936 (1). Law (general) 1870-1936 (7); judicial reform 1906-1932 (29); courts of honour of IHKs, commercial arbitration courts 1897-1937 (6); chambers of commerce 1861-1896 (8); bankruptcies and settlements 1860-1958 (14); individual bankruptcies 1926-1954 (21), etc. Küchel-Rottmann Group, Cologne, Gelsenkirchen 1929; Industrial Code 1856-1937 (6); Patents, Design and Trademark Protection 1897-1937 (8); Stock Corporation Law 1920-1937 (5); Examination of stock corporations 1886-1935 (9); Commercial Register (general) 1862-1950 (12); Commercial Register Bochum 1897-1938 (10); Gebr. Alsberg AG / Kaufhaus Kortum AG, Bochum 1933-1939 (1); Gebr. Fuchs, Wuppertal 1934-1938 (1); Commercial Register Gelsenkirchen 1925-1936 (4), Hattingen 1913-1937 (2), Herne 1892-1937 (4), Wanne-Eickel 1932-1935 (1), Wattenscheid 1901-1936 (3), Witten 1873-1931 (4); Antitrust law 1900-1937 (4); Westfälisches Kokssyndikat, Bochum 1896 (1); Verkaufsverein rheinisch-westfälischer Cementwerke GmbH 1904-1905 (1); Westdeutscher Zement-Verband GmbH, Bochum 1932-1933 (2); unfair competition, sales, conciliation offices 1894-1938 (15); premiums and discounts 1928-1940 (5); experts 1864-1954 (26); information on companies 1902-1951 (14); Expert opinions to authorities 1858-1918 (9), to private individuals 1965-1933 (5); commercial practices 1897-1926 (10); chartered accountants 1937-1952 (4); industrial monitoring 1947-1954 (1); absence guardianship for Fa. mouchel