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The "Gepag", large purchasing and production stock corporation of German consumer associations, was the goods and economic center of the consumer cooperatives based on the Christian trade union tradition until it was brought into line by the National Socialists in 1933 .
history
Gepag emerged in 1923 from the wholesale purchasing center of German consumer associations (GEZ) founded in 1912 . It was the counterpart of the "black consumer cooperative movement of the Cologne direction ", to the "red large-scale purchasing company Deutscher Consumvereine GmbH", the Hamburg direction . In the course of the National Socialist conformity in 1933, it was part of the Reichsbund der Deutschen Konsumentgenossenschaften GmbH (GEG) .
The Gepag flag
The registered trademark of the Gepag for their own packaging was the word Gepag with the flag, the so-called Gepag flag. It should stand for quality and value for money. The initiative to introduce the own brand with the Gepag flag came from Fritz Klein . The trademark of the Gepag was the Gepag flag .
literature
- Fritz Klein: Under the consumer cooperative flag , published in: Consumer Cooperative Library, No. 12, published by the Reichsverband deutscher Konsumvereine. Publishing house: "Gepag", large purchasing and production corporation of German consumer associations, Cologne 1927, 127 pages
- Wilhelm Fischer: 60 years versus 60 years of service to consumers. 1894 - 1954. Festschrift Hamburg 1954. 362 pages.
- Erwin Hasselmann : History of the German consumer cooperatives. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, 740 pages.
- Burchard Bösche , Jan-Frederik Korf: Chronicle of the German consumer cooperatives. 150 years of consumer cooperatives in Germany. 100 years of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives Hamburg 2003