Reichsverband deutscher Konsumvereine
The Reichsverband deutscher Konsumvereine e. V. in Cologne left the Association of West German Consumers, founded in 1909 . V. emerged. It was the central association of the consumer cooperatives based on the Christian trade union tradition. He represented the so-called black consumer cooperative movement of the Cologne direction , in contrast to the red , the Hamburg direction . In the course of the National Socialist conformity in 1933 , he went into the Reichsbund der Deutschen Konsumentgenossenschaften GmbH (GEG) .
Peter Schlack became chairman of the association and remained so until May 19, 1933.
The goods and economic center of this association was the GEZ and later the "Gepag", large purchasing and production stock corporation of German consumer associations .
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber: SBZ manual , University of Mannheim. Department of History and Politics of the GDR., Institute for Contemporary History, Publisher: Oldenbourg; 2nd edition 1993, 1106 pages, ISBN 3486552627 , page 767