Honored new master craftsmen in the arena

Ceremony in Dusseldorf
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Honored new master craftsmen in the arena

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The Chamber of Crafts had prepared a large stage for the championship celebration.
Photo: Hans-Juergen Bauer (hjba)

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Düsseldorf The new masters of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts were given a large stage – and praised to be heard. Because in the 130 recognized skilled trades there is currently a shortage of 250,000 skilled workers nationwide.

Isabelle Domingues-Jung was shocked. The Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts had informed her that she had not passed the master craftsman’s examination for the hairdressing trade. “But we made a mistake there,” says Alexander Konrad, head of the communications department at the Chamber of Crafts. “On the contrary, Ms. Domingues-Jung passed the master’s examination in 2021 as the best of her year.”

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On Sunday, the master hairdresser, like 825 other masters of her subjects, came to the big master’s ceremony of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts in the Merkur Spielarena and was delighted with her certificate of honor. “To be honest, the master’s exam wasn’t my goal from the start. At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to stay in the job. But during my training I developed a passion for it,” says the 30-year-old. “It’s a surprise that I’ve now become the best of my year.”

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Alongside master optician Jennifer Gerecke, Domingues-Jung is the only best-in-class to live in Düsseldorf. For Gerecke, however, the “apprenticeship” is not over yet, because she also wants to acquire the qualification as an optometrist (measurements and evaluations of visual functions). “The optician’s profession is becoming more and more medical. Cooperation with ophthalmologists is becoming increasingly important,” says Gerecke. “As an optometrist, I’ll have more professional opportunities later.”

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The Chamber of Crafts had prepared a large stage for the championship celebration. Not only the spatial dimension in the arena was impressive, but also the number and importance of the well-wishers. In addition to Chamber of Commerce President Andreas Ehlert, there were also NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU), NRW Greens Chairwoman Mona Neubaur, Düsseldorf Mayor Stephan Keller (CDU), Members of the Bundestag Thomas Jarzombek (CDU), Manfred Todtenhausen (FDP) and Andreas Rimkus (SPD) and as keynote speaker Hans Peter Wollseifer (President of the Central Association of German Crafts) in the arena.

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Ehlert and Wollseifer wrote the politicians quite a bit about the importance of craftsmanship on the agenda. “We need to finally shape a positive narrative of the future again. The debates shouldn’t always be about why something doesn’t work or works. But: How do we make something possible? How do we make Germany and Europe more competitive? How do we manage to combine economic reason with social and ecological responsibility? And above all: How do we shape and shape the developments and dynamics of the future?” asked Wollseifer and directly gave some of the answers himself. “It is no hollow pathos when I say: the trade needs you. Our country needs you.” He also called for equal treatment of academic and vocational training so that Germany can make progress in the energy transition, climate protection, sustainability, mobility, digitization and in coping with demographic change.

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“If the federal government wants to build 400,000 apartments per year, then it needs the trades,” said the president of the central association. “If the federal government wants to put seven to ten million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, then it needs tradespeople to install charging stations.”

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Andreas Ehlert ventured a personal look at the political future. “We put the Minister of the Interior and Mona Neubaur extra close to each other. You can get used to what it will be like at the cabinet meetings in the near future,” says Ehlert. “I can very well imagine Mona Neubaur as Minister for Climate Protection, Economics and Crafts.”

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