Hamburg Cooperative Museum
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| place | Hamburg , Germany |
| Art |
Social history museum
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| opening | 2015 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 3000 |
| operator |
Heinrich Kaufmann Foundation Tuesday - Thursday 2pm - 5pm
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| management |
Hanne Hollstegge (contact person)
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The Hamburg Cooperative Museum in the trade union building at Besenbinderhof has been showing 175 years of cooperative history since May 2014, with a focus on consumer cooperatives . The museum is supported by the Heinrich Kaufmann Foundation. Its first director was Burchard Bösche . The focus in the presentation of the museum is the "Pro" ( consumer, building and savings association "Production" ). "Pro" was founded in Hamburg in 1899. In a short time it grew into one of the largest consumer cooperatives in the world. Hamburg was the city of the public economy . The Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine (GEG) had its headquarters here, which once owned more than 50 factories and was the most important German wholesaler in the food sector. In 1904 the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives was founded, which is still based in Hamburg and looks after 330 member cooperatives . The first honorary citizen of Hamburg after the Nazi era was Henry Everling , managing director of "Pro" and the GEG and founder of the children's recreation home in Haffkrug on the Baltic Sea.
Collections
The museum has a collection of exhibits from the consumer cooperatives, both from West German and GDR consumption. Many items were donated by former employees of the cooperative, the majority, almost 3,000, but bought in a twelve-year process. The museum archive goes back to 1855, including numerous periodicals such as the ZdK yearbook or the consumer cooperative round-up . The museum has a collection of photos and films about the consumption establishments. The history of retail can be seen in the evolution of the cash register . Topics are also cooperative housing projects, funeral associations, national insurance and labor cooperatives.
literature
- Burchard Bösche: The Hamburg Cooperative Museum. In: Tiedenkieker. Hamburgische Geschichtsblätter , ed. from the Association for Hamburg History , NF No. 7/2016, pp. 37–42.
