Cooperative Association of Bavaria

Bavarian Cooperative Association V. ; (GVB)
legal form	Registered association
purpose	Education, testing, advice and representation of the interests of the Bavarian cooperatives
Seat	Munich
founding	1893
place	Munich
Board	Jürgen Gros (CEO and President), Alexander Büchel (Member of the Executive Board)
Former board members	Michael Horlacher , Hellmut Horlacher
Employee	502
Website	www.gv-bayern.de

The Bavarian Cooperative Association e. V. (GVB) is the service provider and statutory auditing association of the Bavarian cooperative organization. Its seat is Munich . The GVB is part of the cooperative financial network .

tasks

The association has four specific tasks:

Check: The cooperative check promotes the cooperatives and ensures the protection of their members and business partners.

Advice: The GVB advises and supports its majority Bavarian members on legal, tax, personnel and organizational issues.

Education and training: For the educational and training purposes of the member cooperatives, the GVB offers education and training programs in its educational institutions.

Representation of interests: This is the basis for the successful implementation of member interests in politics.

In order to better carry out their tasks and to avoid the introduction of state supervision, individual cooperatives formed cooperative associations early on. Today membership in an association is compulsory. The association has the legal form of a registered association .

history

As early as the middle of the 19th century, the first cooperatives based on the principles of self-help, self-responsibility, self-administration and the principle of identity , which can be traced back to Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen .

In 1862, the “Munich Loan Association (with solidarity )”, the oldest commercial credit cooperative in Bavaria, was founded.
In 1922 the commercial state associations founded in 1867, 1900 and 1902 merge to form the "Bayerischer Genossenschaftsverband eV"
In 1946 the name of the Bavarian State Association is changed to the "Bayerischen Raiffeisenverband eV"
In 1989 the Bavarian Raiffeisen Association and the Bavarian Genossenschaftsverband eV merged to form the "Bavarian Cooperative Association (Raiffeisen / Schulze-Delitzsch) eV" based in Munich.

GVB today

The Bavarian Cooperative Association (GVB) employs around 500 people, 252 of them in the various specialist departments in its Munich branch and 250 auditors in the field (as of January 1, 2017).

The GVB has represented the interests of Bavarian cooperatives for more than 125 years. Its 1,212 members include 227 Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks as well as 985 companies from sectors such as agriculture, energy, trade, crafts and services. With around 50,000 employees and 2.9 million shareholders, they form one of the largest medium-sized business organizations in the Free State. (As of December 31, 2019)

Other institutions of the GVB are to realize social and educational-political engagement: the ABG GmbH , the Hotel am Badersee in Grainau , the Raiffeisen / Schulze-Delitzsch Foundation of Bavarian Cooperatives and the Historical Association of Bavarian Cooperatives

Journalist awards

Since 2012, the Bavarian Cooperative Association has awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen Prize for economic education and the Hermann Schulze Delitzsch Prize for consumer protection to the Bavarian Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken as journalist prizes for outstanding journalistic work in print , TV , radio or Online media . Both prizes are endowed with 8,000 euros each. In addition, young journalists who were in journalistic training at the time of publication of the submitted work will be awarded a prize of 4000 euros for young journalists on the topic of digitization.

The previous winners included: B. the Medienwerkstatt Franken (2014), Christiane Hawranek (2015), Philipp Grüll and Frederik Obermaier (2016) as well as Katrin Langhans and the Catholic School of Journalism ifp (2018).

Board

Chairman of the association council and honorary association president: Wolfgang Altmüller
CEO and President: Jürgen Gros
Member of the board: Alexander Büchel

people

Michael Horlacher , Director of the Bavarian Raiffeisen Association from 1945
Hellmut Horlacher , President of the Bavarian Raiffeisen Association from 1971

Web links

www.gv-bayern.de

Individual evidence

↑ Details on the journalist awards . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.
↑ Journalist Prize - The 2014 Prize Winners . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.
↑ Journalist Prize - The 2015 Prize Winners . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.
↑ Journalist Prize - The 2016 Prize Winners . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.
↑ Journalist Prize - The Prize Winners 2018 . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.

[1] Details on the journalist awards . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.

[2] Journalist Prize - The 2014 Prize Winners . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.

[3] Journalist Prize - The 2015 Prize Winners . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.

[4] Journalist Prize - The 2016 Prize Winners . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.

[5] Journalist Prize - The Prize Winners 2018 . In: gv-bayern.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.