Working group housing advice

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The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnberatung e. V. (AGW) is the federal association of building and housing consultants. AGW was founded in 1973 on the initiative of the then Federal Minister for Urban Development and Housing, Lauritz Lauritzen .

tasks

As an umbrella organization, the AGW coordinates nationwide advisory services for private people interested in building, house and apartment owners as well as tenants in the individual advisory centers and supports them with materials, training and further education measures.

Integration of the AGW into the working group of consumer associations (AgV)

In the 1980s, the AGW was administered by a federal decision to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Konsumentverbände e. V. (AgV - umbrella association of consumer organizations). The aim was on the one hand to save costs for public consumer financing and on the other hand to preserve the independence of the AGW. After the integration, all consumer centers of the AGW immediately joined as members. From then on, they provided a dominant majority of the votes, although most of the consumer centers did not provide housing advice and did not plan to do so.

Activities during the integration phase

During the integration phase into the AgV, the AGW acted primarily as the publisher of consumer information for construction and living topics. Furthermore, she dealt with construction, housing and environmental advice as an integrated advisory service. The AGW was active in various construction and living-related technical committees at the federal level, including barrier-free living . On the controversial issue of the carcinogenicity of certain thermal insulation materials (artificial mineral fibers), she appeared for consumer associations as an expert at meetings of the Federal Environment Agency.

Dispute about the independence of AGW

With the dominant majority of votes from the consumer centers, the AgV controlled the AGW's ability to act. In their eyes, the managing directors appointed by the AGW board were speakers for the AGV. After a waiting phase, the AgV and the consumer centers finally dissolved the AGW and took over the AGW assets (consumer brochure rights) in the AgV fund. A small group of original founders of the AGW under the leadership of the Deutscher Werkbund Bayern e. V., however, wanted to maintain the independence of AGW. They initially succeeded in preventing the dissolution resolution, for which a three-quarters majority was required, with the narrowest possible qualified majority of one vote at the last moment. Thereupon the consumer centers left the AGW as a whole. Despite the failed takeover attempt, the AgV continued to withhold the originally public AGW subsidy and the AGW assets in consumer brochures. In response to this questionable approach, the AGW board of directors launched a successful petition at the German Bundestag. He sided with the AGW through his budget committee and demanded an amicable solution from both associations. Until this proposed solution, the AgV has been blocked from public funds from the federal budget.

Independence and ambiguity

As a result of the AgV's forced return by federal policy, the AGW obtained funds for the creation of modern consumer information material, primarily CD-ROM productions, from whose sale it was to finance its costs in the future. A cooperation with the Oikos publishing house in Bonn, which was commissioned with the production and partial distribution of the materials and was supposed to pay royalties to the AGW, failed. The attempt to finance the AGW through the sale of consumer information failed. The last known AGW managing director used, contrary to the statutory purpose as an umbrella organization , the introduced name for the acquisition of construction consultancies.

Association assets

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As of 2000, there were no more annual general assemblies in accordance with the statutes. The supervisory authority, the register of associations of the city of Bonn, responsible for the legal and statutory operation of registered associations, apparently did not carry out any regular inspections of the association. Research did not reveal whether the association still exists. A corresponding request to the Bonn register of associations has not yet been answered. This means that the whereabouts of the AGW association's assets is unclear until further notice.

Aftermath of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnberatung

After regaining independence, the AGW initiated u. a. the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gebäudepass e. V., which included well-known participants such as the Institute for Building Research Hannover e. V. The working group developed criteria for a building pass together with the Bauhaus University Weimar. These were used in different ways (e.g. model building pass for the “ House of the Future ” Hamburg).

The core concern of the AGW “Housing Advice” was taken up and continued in various ways on the Internet. Consumer guides and interactive designs were designed on new virtual building platforms by former AGW employees specifically for the need for housing advice in Germany.

Members

The following organizations belong to the AGW:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Bundestag, printed matter 7/2022. http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/07/020/0702022.pdf Retrieved October 16, 2014
  2. ↑ Advice on questions of ecological building and living. Competence and areas of cooperation in building and housing advice, environmental advice and energy advice. Author: Ruediger Drischel. https://www.baufachinformation.de/literatur.jsp?bu=1994029400163 Retrieved October 16, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de/B157-32276/druckansicht.htm Retrieved October 14, 2014
  4. ↑ http://bonn.branchen-info.net/fp_3622969.php Retrieved October 10, 2014
  5. ↑ http://web2.cylex.de/firma-home/karl-h--baeuerle-ikos-gmbh-2122113.html Retrieved October 10, 2014
  6. ↑ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 1999, - ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-weimar.de
  7. ↑ http://oeko-pro.de/referenzliste_oeko-pro.pdf Accessed October 12, 2014