Business service
Helpful information and tips for everyday business life
On the following pages, we provide you with interesting and helpful information about our day-to-day business. This page is constantly being supplemented and updated with new information. If you have not found any important information today, we would be pleased if you would visit us again at a later date.
Do you have any suggestions for further content that could be added to the business website or do you disagree with certain topics? Then send us an e-mail to wirtschaftsfoerderung(at)hofheim.de.
Experts advise start-ups and young entrepreneurs
In cooperation with the Verein zur Förderung von Existenzgründungen VFE e.V. (Association for the Promotion of Business Start-ups), the City of Hofheim's economic development department offers free and competent advice and assistance to people who want to start their own business or have recently done so.
The consultation hour usually takes place on the 1st Monday of the month from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Hofheim town hall, Chinonplatz 2, room 4 (town hall entrance south, opposite the Esso gas station). Postponements are possible, e.g. for public vacations / vacations.
Registrations are required and can be made with business promoter Jonathan Raschke at the town hall on 06192 202-301 or by e-mail to jraschke(at)hofheim.de.
You can also register directly with Mr. Waldemar Haux on 06192 901810.
The consultation hour has been offered at Hofheim town hall since June 2007. An expert from the association answers questions on general business management, the business plan, marketing and personnel and all other questions relating to setting up and running a business. Issues that cannot be dealt with immediately will be referred to one of the other experts from the association.
Young entrepreneurs who have questions about business management after setting up are also welcome. The VFE (www.vfe-kelkheim.de) has been supporting start-ups in the Main-Taunus district and neighboring areas since March 1998. Fifty experts, known as "pilots" in the association, take on start-up projects completely free of charge and examine the concepts together with the founder in a start-up meeting with at least three experts.
The experts cover practically all sectors: Included are specialists for strategy and goal setting, financing, subsidized loans, sales and marketing, the entire commercial part of the start-up, quality management, data processing/IT, crafts, technology, natural sciences, medicine, tax and law. However, tax and legal advice is not provided. The pilot accompanies the founder during the start-up and is also the contact person for questions or minor problems afterwards.
Subsidies, what are they and who receives them?
A whopping 1,230 subsidy guidelines offer an average of €75,000 per company per year. The IfW Institute for Economic Research puts the amount of funding awarded annually at around €47 billion for 2022.
But what do you have to do to benefit from funding? The answer is simple: you first have to submit the necessary applications! However, this requires extensive information to help companies find their way through the "subsidy jungle". However, the multitude of guidelines and the many different types of subsidy make it almost essential to seek advice from specialists. One of the first addresses you should turn to is certainly theEconomic and Infrastructure Bank (see below for contact details). But also reputable, so-called subsidy guides, such as the company WABECOwill first check the eligibility of your project (free of charge) and then assist you with the next steps. However, the entrepreneur must also take the time to gather all the relevant information for the consultant and present it in detail in an application. After just a few days, the experts will be able to tell you whether or not you are eligible for funding.
A further overview of current subsidy programs, subsidies and the contact persons responsible for providing advice can be found below:
Bürgschaftsbank Hessen
As active self-help of the Hessian economy, the
Guarantee Bank Hesse promotes the economic success of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Small and medium-sized companies that are denied access to the capital market often require equity capital in addition to bank loans. When financing with equity capital, Bürgschaftsbank Hessen provides guarantees of up to 70 % of the equity capital, for example.
In addition, Bürgschaftsbank Hessen also provides default guarantees for small and medium-sized enterprises under certain conditions.
For start-ups in particular, Bürgschaftsbank Hessen provides the necessary security in the form of guarantees for their financing.
Bürgschaftsbank Hessen GmbH
Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 38-42
65189 Wiesbaden
0611 1507-0
0611 1507-22
info@bb-h.de
Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor
The Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor provides an overview of over 300 federal, state and European Union funding programs.
Companies, start-ups, business consultants and public institutions can search for specific funding programs, funding institutions and further information on the topic of funding.
In addition, the Federal Ministry provides various information, especially for business start-ups and on business succession.
Contact BMWA Berlin
Scharnhorststr. 34-37
10115 Berlin
Postal address: 11019 Berlin
030 2014-9
030 2014-7010
Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturbank Hessen (Wibank)
Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturbank Hessen focuses its activities on monetary business development in the state of Hesse. It concentrates on the (direct and indirect) support of small and medium-sized enterprises in the creation and maintenance of sustainable structures and competitive jobs. Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturbank Hessen works with all banks and savings banks on a non-competitive basis (house bank principle).
Further information can be found at www.wibank.de or call the
hotline directlyon 0180-5005 299
Wirtschafts- und Infrastrukturbank Hessen
Strahlenbergerstr. 11
63067 Offenbach
Contact Mr. Ulrich Lormann
069 9132-3262
ulrich.lormann@wibank.de
KfW Mittelstandsbank
The promotional offers of KfW Mittelstandsbank are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and freelancers. You will find all information about the current promotional programs in the areas of
- Building, housing, saving energy
- Environmental and climate protection
- infrastructure
- education
and information on loan securitization.
In the Service section you will find repayment calculators, newsletters on various topics and the loan application.
KfW Bankengruppe
Palmengartenstraße 5-9
60325 Frankfurt am Main
069 7431-0
069 7431-2944
Possibility to register and deregister your business online
The city of Hofheim am Taunus offers all tradespeople the opportunity to register their business online from the comfort of their office or home using the migewa online program.
Whether you are registering, re-registering or deregistering, migewa online will guide you through the necessary form fields.
If you have any questions, you can of course also contact the responsible clerk at the town hall. You can reach Ms. Birgit Schneider on 06192 202 265 or by e-mail at bschneider@hofheim.de
Further information on business registrations (registrations, re-registrations or deregistrations):
The town of Hofheim am Taunus offers all tradespeople the opportunity to register their business online via the migewa online program from the comfort of their office or home.
Whether you are registering, re-registering or deregistering: migewa online guides you through the necessary form fields. We have already provided the corresponding link in the introduction.
However, you can also send the completed form directly to the relevant team at the town hall; the important thing here is your signature and the date of registration, de-registration or re-registration. In accordance with § 14 of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act, anyone starting the independent operation of a standing trade or that of a branch or dependent branch office must notify the competent authority for the location in question.
The following documents are required to process a business registration:
- ID card or passport of the business owner(s). Passport of the trader (for passport, confirmation of registration)
- For foreign nationals, a residence permit is also required
- 28.00 Euro fee plus 8.00 Euro for issuing a receipt
- For legal entities and registered sole proprietorships, AGs, KGs, etc. an excerpt from the commercial register showing the company's entry is required.
Certain types of business require a permit or trade card, i.e. you must first apply for a corresponding permit or trade card in order to be allowed to exercise your trade. This serves to protect the customer, i.e. the clientele you want to deal with later.
For example
- Security services
- Travel trade
- installation
- Gambling machines
- gambling halls
- Brokerage activities
- Restaurant business
- Alternative practitioners
You can also obtain further information from our trade team here.
Also important:
A business re-registration must be submitted if the registered office is relocated within Hofheim, the object of the business is changed, additional services are added or the name of the business operator is changed.
A business must be deregistered if the object of the business is no longer exercised and if the registered office in Hofheim is given up.
The prescribed forms must be used for the corresponding notification (business registration, change of registration or deregistration).
The fee for registering, changing or deregistering a business is € 28.00 plus € 8.00 for the confirmation of receipt.
The start, change or termination of a business must be reported within a period of 6 weeks.
For a personal visit, please make an appointment during office hours
- Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 12:00
- Tuesday from 16:00 to 18:00,
an appointment with Ms. Schneider, 06192 202-265, gewerbewesen(at)hofheim.de.
The FrankfurtRhineMain Regional Association's "Bauflächenexplorer" helps planners, member municipalities, companies, investors and the public to find suitable sites in the association's area according to their individual location requirements "at the click of a mouse". There are currently around 3,300 hectares of potential land in the municipalities of the RhineMain region. The aim of the building land explorer is to help find suitable sites more quickly and in a more targeted manner in future, thereby making an important contribution to the activation of building land in the region. The 3,300 hectares of potential land comprises 1,700 hectares of residential land and 1,600 hectares of commercial land. This includes half of the mixed-use areas.
The online application is available to everyone on the regional association's website via the geoportal at www.region-frankfurt.de/geoportal .
Trade Association for Industry, Trade and Crafts (IHH)
Your contact: Mr. Markus Buch, Ms. Ines Pierau
Burgstraße 28
65719 Hofheim am Taunus
Phone: 06192-24842, Fax: 23262
E-Mail: ihhhofheim@web.de
Trade association Wallau e.V.
Your contact persons: Mr. Michael Ströhmann, Ms. Monika Scheld
Nassaustraße 25
65719 Hofheim am Taunus
Phone: 0611-9465622, Fax: 9465623
E-mail: m.scheld€gmx.net
IHK office Main-Taunus and Hochtaunus district
Your contact: Ms. Valentina Scheu
IHK Frankfurt am Main
Office Hochtaunus / Main-Taunus
Ludwigstraße 10
61348 Bad Homburg
Phone: +49 6172 12100
Fax: +49 6172 22612
v.scheufrankfurt-main.ihkde
Main-Taunus District Craftsmen's Association
Your contact: Peter Sachs
Hattersheimer Straße 3
65719 Hofheim am Taunus
Phone: 06192-5037, Fax: 7600
E-mail: handwerk@kh-mtk.de