Regional value stock company

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The Regionalwert Aktiengesellschaft are citizens' joint stock companies of the social entrepreneurship movement that finance businesses ranging from organic agriculture to food processing to retail and catering .

Mission statement and idea

The economic model of Regionalwert AG is the subsistence economy . The initiator Christian Hiß does not want to go back to individual, self-sufficient farms , but rather to transfer the idea to entire regions. The aim is to bring producers together at various levels of value creation with consumers and shareholders in the public limited company. The people involved should thereby have a say in their supply and thus increase local food sovereignty . The aim is to support companies that are unattractive for many investors due to a lack of financial returns, but which undertake to adhere to social and ecological sustainability standards and thus generate "ecological added value". Therefore, both the financial success and an "accountability based on sustainability criteria" are carried out. Entrepreneurial action is intended to solve social problems and promote the agricultural turnaround .

history

The first Regionalwert-AG was founded in 2006 in Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl for the Freiburg administrative region by the gardener and farmer Christian Hiß . In 2011 it had 500 shareholders. There are now regional stock corporations in the areas of Munich , Hamburg , Rhineland (since 2017) and Berlin-Brandenburg. In some other regions work is being done to found it, and in the Rhine-Main area there is also a citizens' working group inspired by Regionalwert AG.

structure

The Regionalwert AGs are structured according to the applicable German stock corporation law . Citizens and organizations (such as companies, churches, foundations) can acquire registered shares with restricted transferability, which restricts trading. The highest body is the general meeting , the shareholders are represented by a supervisory board vis-à-vis the management board . The board of directors manages the business. The companies in the agricultural and food industry that are fully or partially financed with financial capital from the citizens are called partner companies. They are not an official body of the stock corporation and although they have the right to speak, they have no voting rights in the general meeting.

The Regionalwert Treuhand is the roof of the public stock corporations. It grants the rights of use to the protected word and image mark and advises interested regions.

Awards

The initiator Christian Hiß was awarded the German Sustainability Prize for founding the first Regionalwert AG .

literature

media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Madeleine Böhm, Simon Funcke: Regionalwert AG as an example of a successful regional corporate network , Working Paper 09-2017, Center for Renewable Energies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
  2. ↑ Christian Hiß: Rural agriculture - a model for regional supply economies . In: Critical Agricultural Report 2017 . ABL Verlag ( kritischer-agrarbericht.de [PDF]).
  3. ^ A b Felix Oldenburg: How Social Entrepreneurs Work - Observations on Social Entrepreneurship in Germany . In: Helga Hackenberg, Stefan Empter (Eds.): Social Entrepreneurship - Social Business: For the company , pp. 119–132, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17759-5 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-92806-7_7 .
  4. ↑ Tobias Federwisch: Social entrepreneurship in rural areas: Perspectives of a new adaptation strategy . In: Swantje Grotheer, Arne Schwöbel, Martina Stepper (eds.): Take it sporty - planning as an obstacle course, ISBN 978-3-88838-389-2 , publishing house of the ARL - Academy for spatial research and regional planning, Hanover, pp. 98-109 .
  5. ↑ Birgit Weitemeyer: A new public benefit? Organizational and legal forms of nonprofit organizations . In: Annette E. Zimmer, Ruth Simsa (ed.): Research on civil society, NPOs and engagement: Quo vadis? Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 41-62, ISBN 978-3-658-06177-7 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-06177-7_2 .
  6. ↑ Miriam Rummel: Who are Social Entrepreneurs in Germany? Sociological attempt to sharpen the profile . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18366-4 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-94152-3 . P. 42.
  7. ↑ Christian Hiß: Calculate correctly! Through the reform of the financial accounting for an ecological-economic turn . oekom, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86581-749-5 .
  8. ↑ Jens Blankennagel: Regional organic shares: New company wants to drive the agricultural turnaround. In: berliner-zeitung.de . May 17, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  9. ^ Annette Jensen: Organic farmer with stock company: The vegetable capitalist . zeo2 2/2014.
  10. ↑ www.regionalwert-ag-isar-inn.de , accessed on May 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ Axel Schröder: Regionalwert AG Hamburg: Citizens save farms . In: Deutschlandfunk , July 16, 2015.
  12. ↑ Farmers found citizens' stock corporation , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , country report, April 25, 2019 ( mp3 ).
  13. ↑ Steffen Preißler: 850 Hamburgers invest in regional food . Hamburger Abendblatt , March 8, 2019.
  14. ↑ Frank Jung: Northern Alliance for the Agricultural Turnaround , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, January 9, 2019.
  15. ↑ www.regionalwert-hamburg.de , accessed on May 26, 2019.
  16. ^ Regionalwert AG Rhineland. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Gunther Willinger: This is how the agricultural turnaround works from below . In: Die Zeit , April 15, 2018.
  18. ↑ Annette Lübbers: Ecological, regional and fair: Regionalwert AG Rheinland supports organic farmers through citizen shares . In: Publik Forum 4/2018, p. 62.
  19. ^ Regional value Berlin-Brandenburg , accessed on May 26, 2019.
  20. ↑ Ina Matthes: A share in cow and cabbage . MOZ.de Märkisches Medienhaus, July 14, 2018.
  21. ↑ www.regionalwert-treuhand.de , accessed on May 26, 2019.
  22. ↑ Dirk Posse: Sustainable companies in a post-growth society . A theoretical and empirical study. Association for Ecological Economy eV, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9811006-2-4 , p. 97 ( PDF, 1 MB ).
  23. ↑ Christian Hiß becomes the first “Social Entrepreneur for Sustainability” , Council for Sustainable Development , 2009.