Workers' housing cooperative

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AWG apartments in Brandenburg , 1959
Apartment block of the AWG "Aufbau" Apolda, built in 1955

A workers' housing cooperative ( AWG for short ) was the union of employees in companies and institutions in the GDR to form a socialist cooperative , with the purpose of building, maintaining and managing apartments as cooperative property. Workers' housing cooperatives were subsidized by the state with interest-free loans, among other things. The members performed work and acquired shares in the cooperative.

history

Cooperative buildings from 1909 in Apolda
Mamos model kit around 1970.

As early as the first three decades of the 20th century, trade unionists and social democrats tried to improve the living conditions of working-class families. Housing cooperatives were formed in larger and smaller cities of the German Empire , which raised the starting sum for the construction of workers' apartments by investing savings from numerous members. With the support of SPD mayors or at least strong SPD parliamentary groups in the respective city councils, by taking out loans and granting subsidies , the first projects could be realized.

Not least in connection with the protests in June 1953 , the Council of Ministers of the GDR decided on December 10, 1953 to adopt the “Ordinance on the further improvement of the working and living conditions of workers and the rights of the trade unions” on the approval of workers' housing associations as a voluntary association issued by workers, employees and members of the intelligentsia for the cooperative construction and maintenance of housing .

The state supported the cooperatives by providing building land free of charge, taking over the development work and interest-free loans amounting to up to 85% of the construction costs. On March 4, 1954, the GDR Council of Ministers passed the ordinance on the financing of workers 'housing and a model statute for a workers' housing cooperative . The regulations were adopted accordingly by the magistrate in the eastern part of Berlin . In an order dated October 22, 1954, it was decided to set up a special auditing association for workers' housing associations.

The first cooperatives included the workers' housing cooperative of the state-owned company Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk in Dresden ( AWG TuR for short - today Sächsische Wohnungsgenossenschaft Dresden eG , founded on March 24, 1954) and the AWG of the Warnowwerft in Rostock (today housing cooperative Warnow Rostock-Warnemünde eG , founded on April 4, 1954).

The distribution of the apartments was differentiated according to family size, order of entry, living situation and personal requirements of the members, but also according to their performance at work and their social participation. Since the AWG were mostly organized and formed according to operational units, there was a direct connection between the workplace and the receipt of an apartment.

In 1988 there were around one million AWG apartments in the GDR. In 1990 the AWG statutes were adapted to the cooperative law of the Federal Republic, the cooperatives were retained. The buildings actually erected before 1990 have been run as old new buildings ever since .

The separation of ownership of the land and the buildings erected on it meant that after the fall of the Wall, federal German law had to be established with the help of the Property Law Cleansing Act and the Old Debt Aid Act .

Some of the AWG dealt with in Wikipedia with their history are housing cooperative "Glück Auf" Gera , housing cooperative "Aufbau" Strausberg , housing cooperative Lichtenberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marvin Brendel: The workers' housing cooperatives of the GDR. "Instrument of Socialism". genossenschaftsgeschichte.info, accessed on July 9, 2016 .
  2. ↑ 50 years - development to the housing cooperative Treptow-Süd eG. Law Gazette of the German Democratic Republic No. 129. www.wg-treptow-sued.de, 2007, accessed on July 16, 2016 .
  3. ^ Government of the GDR: 145th meeting of the government of the GDR on December 10, 1953. in: Bundesarchiv, DC 20-I / 3 (series of resolutions and sessions of the plenum of the GDR Council of Ministers) / 208, p. 155 (158) . Federal Archives - www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de, December 10, 1953, accessed on July 9, 2016 : “... 4. According to the wishes and needs of workers, it is necessary to set up workers' housing cooperatives and to provide them with state aid promote. The Ministry of Construction is instructed to work with the Ministry of Finance and in agreement with the trade unions to draw up a model statute for these workers' housing cooperatives within three months. The long-term loan plan for 1954 provides for special loans to be made available to workers' housing cooperatives on preferential terms in the amount of at least DM 50 million. "
  4. ↑ 50 years - development to the housing cooperative Treptow-Süd eG. Prolog. www.wg-treptow-sued.de, 2007, accessed on June 25, 2016 : "This ordinance and the analogous ordinance of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin from 6.1.1954 created the legal framework for the formation of workers' housing associations (AWG) and their extensive government support. As early as March and April 1954, further laws and implementing regulations followed, such as B. the "Ordinance on the Financing of Workers 'Housing Construction" of March 4, 1954 and the "Announcement of the Model Statute for a Workers' Housing Cooperative". "
  5. ↑ InBöter, CUSTOMER MAGAZINE OF STADTWERKE ROSTOCK AG. 50 years of housing cooperatives in Rostock. www.swrag.de, June 2004, accessed on June 20, 2016 : "The protests of June 1953 and the general dissatisfaction resulted in a legal regulation for cooperative housing construction on the basis of sponsoring companies."
  6. ↑ a b Government of the GDR: 145th meeting of the government of the GDR on December 10, 1953. in: Bundesarchiv, DC 20-I / 3 (series of resolutions and sessions of the plenum of the GDR Council of Ministers) / 208, p. 155 ( 158). Annex B: Ordinance on the further improvement of the working and living conditions of workers and the rights of the trade unions of December 10, 1953, II. On the expansion of the housing construction program. Federal Archives - www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de, December 10, 1953, accessed on July 9, 2016 : “5. For workers' housing, parcels that are publicly owned are to be made available for free and unlimited use. "
  7. ^ Government of the GDR: 155th meeting of the government on March 4, 1954. in: Bundesarchiv, DC 20-I / 3 (series of resolutions and sessions of the plenum of the Council of Ministers of the GDR) / 218, p. 99-107 (101-107 ). Annex E: Ordinance on the financing of workers' housing (including materials). Bundesarchiv - www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de, March 4, 1954, accessed on July 9, 2016 : "(Single pages: http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/ DC_20_I_3_0218_0101.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0102.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/ DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0103.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0104.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20 20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0105.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0106.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/20digitalisate/DC20-Idigitalisate 3-20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0107.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0108.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/digital I-3-20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0109.png ) "
  8. ^ Government of the GDR: 155th meeting of the government on March 4, 1954. in: Bundesarchiv, DC 20-I / 3 (series of resolutions and sessions of the plenum of the GDR Council of Ministers) / 218, p. 108 - 122 (110 - 124 ). Annex F: Model statute for a workers' housing association (108 - 122). Bundesarchiv - www.argus.bstu.bundesarchiv.de, March 4, 1954, accessed on July 9, 2016 : "(Single pages: http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/ DC_20_I_3_0218_0110.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0111.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/ DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0112.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0113.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3- 20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0114.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0115.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/20digitalisate/ 3-20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0116.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0117.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/digital I-3-20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0118.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digi talisate / DC20-I-3-20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0119.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0120.png , http: // www . de / digitalisate / DC20-I-3-20614 / DC_20_I_3_0218 / DC_20_I_3_0218_0121.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0122.png , http: // www_0122.png bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0123.png , http://www.bundesarchiv.de/digitalisate/DC20-I-3-20614/DC_20_I_3_0218/DC_20_I_3_0218_0124 "
  9. ↑ Helmut Jenkis : The non-profit housing industry between market and social ties (part: vol. 2) . Duncker and Humblot, 1985, pp. 645-1039 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  10. ^ Sächsische Wohnungsgenossenschaft Dresden eG (SWGD): HISTORY. www.swg-dresden.de, 2016, accessed on July 9, 2016 : “ March 24th, 1954 : Founding of the workers' housing cooperative of the state-owned company Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk by 69 workers as the first AWG in the GDR. ... - ... End of 1964: The AWG TuR includes ... "
  11. ^ German digital library: Dresden. Workers' housing cooperative (AWG), Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk, early 1954. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accessed on July 9, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Chronicle of the City of Rostock from 1945-1979. Volumes 3-4 from Small series of the Rostock City Archives. Special issue. Rostock City Archives, 1978, accessed on June 25, 2016 : "As the first AWG founded in the GDR, the Warnowwerft AWG celebrates its 20th anniversary"
  13. ^ Housing association "WARNOW" Rostock-Warnemünde eG: history. Home »Cooperative» History. www.wg-warnow.de, accessed on July 9, 2016 : “The AWG was founded on Sunday, April 4, 1954. 69 of the 90 comrades willing to found the company are present. They declare "that only cooperative and never private property is created by workers' housing cooperatives."
  14. ^ Ordinance on the housing cooperatives of November 21, 1963, Journal of Laws of II. 1964, page 17.