German Tenants' Association

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German Tenants' Association
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legal form registered association
founding 1900 in Leipzig
Seat Berlin ( ⊙ coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 51.2 ″  E )
precursor Federation of tenants' associations
purpose Representation of the interests of tenants of living space
people Lukas Siebenkotten (President), Melanie Weber-Moritz (Federal Director)
Employees 1300 (2018)
Volunteers 2500 (2018)
Members 300 local tenant associations (2019)
Website www.mieterbund.de

The German Tenants' Association e. V. (DMB) is a federal association of tenants' associations , which sees itself as the political advocacy of all tenants of living space , regardless of the state and parties, in Germany . It is the umbrella organization of 15 regional associations. These in turn form the umbrella associations of the local tenants' associations at state level as registered associations under the name "Deutscher Mieterbund" .

Not all local tenants' associations are members of a state association belonging to the DMB.

The German Tenants' Association is one of the associations in Germany that is allowed to carry out a model declaratory action .

history

In the second half of the 19th century, tenants began to come together locally to self-help institutions . In 1868 the first "tenants' association" was established in Dresden . This epoch was characterized by poor housing and a largely lack of rights for tenants . These efforts were made against the background of the social question and the labor movement in Germany . Similar to labor law between employers and employees, it was also possible in tenancy law at this time for the landlord to largely freely dictate contractual terms to the tenants. Since then, the tenants' associations have acted as a counterweight to the associations of home and landowners. The central association of urban house and landowner associations in Germany had existed since 1879.

In 1912 there were 800 member associations, in the early 1920s there were over 1,900. In 1907 they had around 25,800 members, in 1912 there were a total of over 300,000 members, in 1922 over a million tenants were organized in the associations.

In 1900, 25 tenants' associations founded the Bund der Mietervereine , which was later renamed the Bund deutscher Mietervereine , in Leipzig and thus laid the foundation for a German tenant movement. The first progress towards social tenancy law was enforced by the Tenant Protection Act in 1923.

The era of National Socialism marked the low point of the tenant movement, as from 1942, the Association of German tenants' associations , the Reichsbund the property owner as well as the German Siedlerbund gleichgeschaltet were.

After the Second World War the tenants' associations were re-established. The Central Association of German Tenants was founded in the British occupation zone in 1946 . In 1947, the Federation of West German Tenants' Associations followed in the American occupation zone . Both associations were merged in 1951 to form today's association, which has had its headquarters in Cologne since then  .

After the forced management of the housing market in the post-war period through the so-called "Lücke Plan", which was named after the then Federal Building Minister Paul Lücke , the greatest success was the creation of social protection against dismissal in tenancy law, which was introduced with the Second Housing Protection Act , which came into effect in 1975.

The tenants 'association of the GDR , founded in spring 1990, joined the German tenants' association in October 1990. The tenant organization was subsequently rebuilt in East Germany with extensive support from the West German tenants' associations. In September 2001 the DMB relocated to Berlin .

Organization and financing

The organization is structured in three stages. There are currently 320 local tenants' associations. They gather around three million members nationwide. You are a member of the respective regional association, which in turn belongs to the federal association.

The federal board is elected by the general assembly , the German Tenants ' Day, which is made up of delegates from the regional associations. The tenant day takes place every 2 years and defines the guidelines of the association's policy. The last venue was Cologne from 13. – 15. June 2019.

Presidents of the DMB were or are: Paul Nevermann (1967–1979), Gerhard Jahn (1979–1995), Anke Fuchs (1995–2007), Franz-Georg Rips (2007–2019) and Lukas Siebenkotten (since 2019). Directors were: Helmut Schlich (from 1982; † 2015), Franz-Georg Rips (1995–2008) and Lukas Siebenkotten (2008–2019).

The German Tenants' Association does not receive any state subsidies or subsidies. The associations are financed exclusively through the contributions of their members. The associations decide independently on the amount of their contributions. The amount of the contributions in the regional and federal associations is based on an allocation.

At the international level, the DMB is affiliated with the International Union of Tenants .

Focus of work

While in the local tenants' associations , which are members of a regional association of the German Tenants' Association, the focus is on advising members on their rights and obligations as well as legal protection against tenants - including in court - the focus of the activities of the German Tenants' Association and the regional associations is political Area. The association is heard as an expert in the legislative process and issues opinions on current tenancy law and urban planning issues. The DMB has traditionally shown close proximity to the trade unions in the DGB and the SPD . Presidents and directors of the DMB were and are in many cases SPD party members.

The German Tenants' Association is particularly committed to "maintaining and expanding social tenancy law" as well as "affordable rents" and for "sufficient housing supply, in particular for the maintenance and constant promotion of social housing." Housing policy and urban development measures.

Since 1948 the DMB has published the trade journal Housing Industry and Tenancy Law . More extensive public relations work has been carried out since the 1960s, in particular through its own publications (tenant lexicon, tenant newspaper, numerous brochures). The publications appear in the association's own DMB publishing and management company.

The association has been running DMB Rechtsschutz-Versicherung AG , based in Cologne, since 1982 .

The operating cost table has been published annually since 2004 .

Fonts

  • Deutscher Mieterbund (Ed.): The Tenant Lexicon - Edition 2015/2016 . The reference work for experts and laypeople. DMB-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944608-03-7 .
  • German Tenants' Association (Ed.): The Tenant Lexicon - Edition 2018/2019 . Current tenancy law and the latest case law, DMB-Verlag, Berlin, November 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-17676-2 .
  • German Tenants' Association: Housing Industry and Tenancy Law . DMB-Verlag, ISSN  0173-1564 (since 1948).
  • Deutscher Mieterbund (Ed.): Tenant newspaper . DMB-Verlag, Berlin (members' newspaper; six issues a year; archive ; published since 1952; previously under the title: Miet- und Wohnrecht, before: The tenant and leaseholder).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New board elections at the German Tenants' Association. Lukas Siebenkotten new DMB President Witzke, Schmid-Balzert and Nembach replace Hessenauer, Effenberger and Clausen German Tenants' Association. June 14, 2019. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ DMB tenants' associations. In: mieterbund.de. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Federal Office of Justice: List of qualified institutions in accordance with Section 4 of the Injunctive Action Act (UKlaG). Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ All information on the history of the German Tenants' Association and the tenant movement from: Schader Foundation: Actors in housing policy: German Tenant Association ( Memento from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) . 2010. Accessed on November 19, 2011, as well as Deutscher Mieterbund: Profile. 100 years of DMB history ( memento from October 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c d Schader Foundation: Actors in housing policy: Deutscher Mieterbund ( Memento from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) . 2010. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ German Mietertag Cologne. In: www.mieterbund-nrw.de. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ German Tenants' Association: Profile: Tasks and Goals ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2011.