Austrian Cooperative Association

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Austrian Cooperative Association (Schulze-Delitzsch)
Seat Inner city
founding 1872 (General Association of Self-Help-Based Business and Economic Cooperatives in Austria)

place Vienna 1 , Löwelstrasse 14
president Gerhard Hamel
Board Robert Makowitz, Peter Haubner
Members Credit, commodity, service, consumer and productive cooperatives
Website www.genossenschaftsverband.at

The Österreichischer Genossenschaftsverband (Schulze-Delitzsch) (ÖGV) represents the interests and auditing of the Volksbank Group and of around eighty goods, services, consumer and productive cooperatives that are members of it.

The association in the legal form of an association was founded in Vienna in 1872 as a general association of self-help based commercial and economic cooperatives in Austria .

The association's management is the responsibility of the association's two-person executive committee. The association council, which essentially performs the tasks of a supervisory board, consists of members of the Volksbank and goods and service groups and is headed by association president Gerhard Hamel.

The association includes banks as well as goods, service and productive cooperatives. Other members have the status of “extraordinary” and “corresponding”.

history

The forerunner of today's ÖGV was the General Association of Self-Help-Based Employment and Business Cooperatives in Austria, founded in 1872, i.e. before the creation of the Austrian Cooperative Act of 1873 . After a turbulent founding phase and the merger with a competing association founded around the same time, he was shaped for decades by the association attorneys Hermann Ziller (term of office 1874–1892) and Karl Wrabetz (1892–1919).

Ziller and the other founders of the association saw themselves committed to the unconditional principle of self-help in the sense of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch , and this tradition was preserved. Regardless of the fact that state aid was still gaining in importance towards the end of the 19th century, especially in the area of ​​rural cooperatives (which was to increase in the interwar period), the General Association remained on the Schulze Delitz line. As a result, the politicized workers' cooperatives broke away from the General Association at the beginning of the 20th century and formed their own auditing association , the Central Association of Austrian Consumers , although the bourgeois consumer cooperatives such as the Erste Wiener Consum Verein continued to generally exist until 1933 Association remained.

In the First Republic, it was particularly important to the association and its association attorney Otto Neudörfer to achieve unity in their own area of ​​commercial goods and credit cooperatives. This goal, which was achieved with great effort, had to be given up again at short notice under the Nazi regime by breaking up into an Alpine and a Danube-country association. Only after 1945 did a calm and prosperous development begin again.

The management of the association

Association President (from 1962)

In the course of the structural reform at the beginning of the 1960s, the Association Committee (today Association Council) was created, which is chaired by the Association President. Since 1972, the association's president has been elected by the Association for a period of five years.

Board of Directors (from 1962)

The association received a new structure at the beginning of the 1960s, with an association committee consisting of voluntary members being set up in addition to an association board consisting of three full-time members. In 1962, in addition to the association attorney, the board areas for the credit cooperatives (later auditing credit cooperatives) and the goods and services cooperatives were created. In 1972 the possibility of appointing a fourth member of the board was created in view of the constantly growing tasks in the statutes. The board of directors has consisted of two members since February 2015 and three members since January 1, 2020.

Board members (chronological)
  • Franz Groß (since 1/2020)
  • Peter Haubner (since 1/2018)
  • Wolfgang Schmidt (interim 7/2017 to 12/2017)
  • Robert Makowitz, board member (1/2017 to date)
  • Heribert Donnerbauer , board member (11/2016 to 5/2017)
  • Walter Reiffenstuhl, board member (12/2015 to 3/2016)
  • Christian Pomper, Association Attorney, (3/2015 to 11/2016)
  • Margareta Steffel (2001 to 2014)
  • Rainer Borns (2001 to 2012)
  • Bernd Spohn, CEO (1999 to 12/2015)
  • Hans Hofinger (1985 to 2/2015)
  • Walter Brandner (1985 to 2001)
  • Gerold Piringer (1985)
  • Gerhard Schinko (1979 to 1984)
  • Oskar Wladarsch (1973 to 1997)
  • Stiglbauer (1968 to 1972)
  • Paul Störck (1965 to 1984)
  • Erik Wintersberger (1963 to 1972)
  • Hermann Reihs (1962 to 1968)
  • Josef Zahn (1962 to 1963)

Honorary board member (until 1962)

After the re-establishment of the Austrian Cooperative Association after the end of the Second World War , the management of the association was represented by an honorary board of directors and a full-time association director.

  • Karl Lakowitsch (1946 to 1961), chairman of the board and then president of the association until 1968
  • Stadler (1945 to 1961 board member and deputy chairman of the board, from 1961 honorary chairman of the association)

Honorary supervisory board (until 1955), then control committee and later association council

  • Rudolf Deibl, Member of the State Parliament and Vienna City Council (1946)

Association directors and public administrators

  • Josef Zahn (several times interim)
  • Josef Rois public administrator (1945/1946), association director (1946 to 1961)
  • Franz Gild (1942 to 1946) Alpine cooperative association
  • Meinrad Natmeßnig (1938 to 1941) Alpine cooperative association
  • Paul Poindecker (1938 to 1945), Danube Country Cooperative Association

Committee Chair (Select Committee, Full Committee)

Association attorneys

  • Peter Haubner (2018 to date)
  • Wolfgang Schmidt (2017, interim)
  • Heribert Donnerbauer (2016 to 2017, interim)
  • Christian Pomper (2015 to 2016)
  • Hans Hofinger (1985 to 2015)
  • Paul Störck (1973 to 1984)
  • Erik Wintersberger (1968 to 1973)
  • Hermann Reihs (1964 to 1968)
  • Josef Zahn (1962 to 1963)
  • Josef Rois (1946 to 1961)
  • Karl Rehling (1933 to 1937)
  • Otto Neudörfer (1920 to 1932)
  • Karl Wrabetz (1892 to 1919)
  • Hermann Ziller (1872 to 1892)

Association Secretaries

  • Wolfgang Schmidt (2002 to date)
  • Wolfgang Gmeiner (1987 to 1992)

literature

  • Johann Brazda , Robert Schediwy , Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy. On the history of the Austrian Cooperative Association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872–1997 , Vienna 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Brazda, Robert Schediwy, Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy, On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997 , Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch), ed., Vienna 1997, p. 285ff.
  2. ^ Johann Brazda, Robert Schediwy, Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy, On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997 , Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch), ed., Vienna 1997, p. 301f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 38.6 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 44.3 ″  E