Cooperative Association - Association of Regions
| Cooperative Association - Association of Regions e. V. | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| founding | 1862
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| Board | Ingmar Rega (Chairman), Siegfried Mehring (Deputy Chairman), Peter Götz, Marco Schulz |
| Members | 2619 (2019) |
| Employee | 1538 |
| Website | www.genossenschaftsverband.de |
The cooperative association - Association of Regions e. V. is a German auditing and advisory association, educational institution and lobbyist based in Frankfurt am Main . The association has 2,619 member cooperatives in 14 federal states (as of 2019).
history
The cooperative association has its roots in the Association of Acquisition and Economic Cooperatives on the Middle Rhine, which was founded on May 25, 1862. V. zu Wiesbaden and in the Association of Credit Cooperatives of Rhineland, Westphalia, Lippe and Waldeck, which was founded in the same year. It is the oldest regional association of the cooperative organization.
Over the years, regional associations have emerged across Germany, which the cooperatives initially voluntarily joined and subjected to testing. In view of the increasing number of bankruptcies of cooperatives at the beginning of the 20th century, every cooperative has since been legally obliged to belong to an auditing association.
Many of the regional associations have merged with the cooperative association over time in order to strengthen the range of services for the member cooperatives. Mergers took place in 1992 with the Genossenschaftsverband Kurhessen-Thüringen e. V., Kassel, and in 2008 with the Genossenschaftsverband Norddeutschland e. V., Hanover. The merger with the Mitteldeutscher Genossenschaftsverband e. V., Chemnitz, was decided in March 2013 with retroactive effect from October 1, 2012.
In 2017, the Genossenschaftsverband e. V. with the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Genossenschaftsverband e. V. to the Cooperative Association - Association of Regions e. V. The members of both predecessor associations approved this merger at the end of April 2017.
structure
As a member-related organization with a democratic structure, the association is based on the cooperative funding purpose. It sees itself as an interdisciplinary service company and offers solutions for all questions relating to cooperative corporate management. The member companies of the cooperative association are active in the areas of banking, agriculture, trade, commerce and services. The individual cooperatives offer around 164,000 jobs. The cooperatives are owned by the 7.6 million members.
The association supports its member cooperatives in the federal states of Berlin , Brandenburg , Bremen , Hamburg , Hesse , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia . For this purpose, in addition to its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, it has administrative offices in Neu-Isenburg, Düsseldorf and Hanover as well as offices in Baunatal, Berlin, Leipzig, Münster, Rendsburg, Rösrath-Forsbach and Schwerin.
The cooperative association includes 358 credit cooperatives (with total assets of over 481 billion euros), 437 agricultural goods / service cooperatives, 542 agricultural cooperatives, 638 commercial goods and service cooperatives and 644 energy, real estate and utility cooperatives. It employs more than 1,500 people.
tasks
In addition to the statutory examination, the association advises and supports its members and customers in all specialist areas and topics that the management of a company has to deal with. This includes educational services and qualification measures as well as individual advice on legal, tax, personnel and organizational issues.
Group of companies
The association maintains its own companies and works with cooperation partners.
- Educational institutions
- GenoAkademie, Hanover / Neu-Isenburg
- GenoKolleg, Münster
- Cooperative Academy Rendsburg
- Geno Training GmbH, Neu-Isenburg
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Genossenschaftsakademie, Rösrath-Forsbach
- Network partner
- AGRIZERT Certification GmbH, Bonn
- AWADO Consult GmbH, Berlin
- AWADO Deutsche Audit GmbH, Neu-Isenburg
- Geno Bank Consult GmbH, Münster
- GenoHotel Baunatal GmbH, Baunatal
- GENO-Hotel Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Rösrath-Forsbach
- GenoPersonalConsult GmbH, Neu-Isenburg
- GenoRechtAnwälte Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Neu-Isenburg
- RW Audit GmbH WPG / StBG, Münster
- VR Inkasso GmbH, Hanover
- Warth & Klein Grant Thornton, Revisionsunion GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf
- ZPU Center for Personnel and Company Development of the Rhenish-Westphalian Cooperatives GmbH, Rösrath-Forsbach
- Cooperation partner
- GenoTec GmbH, Neu-Isenburg
- Cooperative Foundation, Neu-Isenburg
- Pension fund of West German cooperatives VVaG, Münster
- Lower Saxony Volksbank and Raiffeisenbank Foundation, Hanover
- vr-karriere GmbH, Neu-Isenburg
- VR Foundation of the Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken in Northern Germany, Hanover
organs
The cooperative association is represented by the board of directors consisting of four members and appointed by the association council.
