Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association
| Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association (BWGV) |
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| legal form | eV |
| Seat | Stuttgart (legal seat is Karlsruhe) |
| founding | January 1, 2009
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| president | Roman Glaser |
| Board | Monika van Beek |
| Members | 800 cooperatives and cooperative-oriented companies of other legal forms |
| Employee | 570 |
| Organization type | Cooperative Association |
| Website | www.wir-leben-genossenschaft.de |
The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association e. V. (abbreviated BWGV ) with its legal seat in Karlsruhe is an auditing, advisory and educational association as well as lobbyist for cooperative companies in Baden-Württemberg in the legal form of a registered cooperative (eG). The Baden-Württemberg cooperatives have around 3.9 million members.
Association structure
The association includes:
- around 170 Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks ,
- around 330 Raiffeisen cooperatives
- around 300 commercial cooperatives
The legal seat of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association is in Karlsruhe (Academy in Karlsruhe-Rüppurr). There is also a seat in Stuttgart (GENO house). Roman Glaser is president of the association and chairman of the board, Monika van Beek is the association director and member of the board.
tasks
The main tasks of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association are the four pillars of advice, education, representation of interests and auditing of the member cooperatives in cooperative, legal, tax and economic matters.
The association examines the bookkeeping, the annual financial statements and the management report, but also the economic situation and the correctness of the management of the members. The BWGV undertakes the statutory audits according to § 53 of the Cooperative Society Act, group audits according to § 14 PublG, audits according to § 340 k HGB and the supplementary regulations of the KWG and the WpHG and the preparation of expert opinions.
In addition, the members are advised on legal and economic issues, primarily in the areas of business administration, legal and tax issues, sales or public relations and advertising.
The academy of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association in Karlsruhe- Rüppurr offers seminars for employees and managers of the member cooperatives. Every year around 21,000 participants attend the seminars of the Karlsruhe-Rüppurr Academy. The academy also operates its own hotel.
history
Eleven Württemberg and five Baden craft banks and advance payment associations founded the Association of Economic Cooperatives in Württemberg and Baden on August 21, 1864 in Stuttgart. On August 11, 1867, the Association of Upper Baden Credit Cooperatives and in the same year a Lower Baden Cooperative Association was founded in Constance. The Raiffeisen cooperatives and their associations came into being at the beginning of the 1880s. After around 90 years of separate work, the commercial (Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch ) and rural cooperative associations ( Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen ) merged in Württemberg in 1970 and in Baden in 1971. On October 23, 2008, the members of the Baden and Württemberg cooperative associations decided to merge the two associations on the basis of the annual financial statements as of December 31, 2008. With the approval of the annual accounts by the last association days of the two associations on March 3, 2009 and the entry in the register of associations on July 15, 2009, the merger became legally effective. 2012 was the International Year of Cooperatives . In the course of this, the student cooperatives project, supported by the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association, has been running since then. In 2014 the BWGV celebrated its 150th anniversary. In 2015, the association organized the Baden-Württemberg Year of Cooperatives under the patronage of Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister, Winfried Kretschmann , in which the diversity of Baden-Württemberg's cooperatives is presented.
Events
Once a year - always on the first Saturday in July - the cooperative day takes place, on which numerous cooperative companies and the BWGV present themselves. The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association itself organizes several events on behalf of its members and is a partner at various events to support the region and its members.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Press release of the BWGV , accessed on September 25, 2017.
- ↑ Employer website of the BWGV , accessed on January 9, 2017.
- ↑ Record: For the first time, more than 3.9 million cooperative members in the southwest. April 28, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Hagenbucher: Over 100 billion euros: Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken with strong lending business. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
- ^ Organs of the BWGV. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Thomas Hagenbucher: Sale of the BWGV Academy: University of Hohenheim expands campus for a new Big Data Lab. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .