Volksbank Achern

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Logo of the cooperative banks  Volksbank Achern eG
Head office of Volksbank Achern eG
Head office of Volksbank Achern eG
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Seat Hauptstrasse 45
77855 Achern
legal form registered cooperative
Bank code 662 913 00
BIC GENO DE61 ACH
founding June 20, 1868
resolution 2016
Association Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association
Website www.volksbank-achern.de
management
Board Clemens Fritz (Chairman)
Günter Quicker
Supervisory board Achim Frank (Chairman)
List of cooperative banks in Germany

The Volksbank Achern eG was a German cooperative bank based in Achern in Baden-Wuerttemberg . In 2015 it was ranked 214th out of 1,019 cooperative banks in Germany. In 2016 it merged with Volksbank Offenburg to form Volksbank in der Ortenau .

membership

The Volksbank Achern was supported as a cooperative bank by around 19,000 members. The main purpose of the cooperative was the economic promotion and support of its members (§ 2 of the statutes). According to the statutes, the members elected representatives from their ranks every four years (one representative per 30 members). The representative assembly met annually.

organs

Volksbank Achern eG was a registered cooperative . Its highest body was the representative assembly, which elected the supervisory board .

Cooperative financial group

The bank was part of the cooperative financial group Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken and a member of the Federal Association of German Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken (BVR) and its security scheme.

Business area

Business area of ​​the Volksbank Achern

The business area of ​​the bank extended in the Ortenaukreis over the area of ​​the city of Achern , the city of Renchen , the communities of Lauf and Sasbach as well as the Achertal .

Business areas

The business areas of the bank included corporate and private customer business. The organization of the bank was divided into the areas of corporate customers, commercial customers and liberal professions, private customer business, wealth management, real estate financing and brokerage, and payment systems. In addition, Volksbank Achern operated its own travel agency.

history

Opening of the new main building in 1964

In March 1868, 61 men came together under the leadership of Oberamtmann von Feder to discuss the establishment of an "advance payment and credit association for the district of Achern". On June 20, 1868, the founding meeting was called and the regulations were laid down in it.

On October 1, 1910, the company moved into its first bank building. In 1924, the balance sheet total exceeded the million mark for the first time and the bank had 613 members. Ten years later the first branch was opened in Renchen . In addition, the name was changed to "Volksbank Achern eGmbH".

In 1960 the balance sheet total reached the DM 10 million mark and the Volksbank had 837 members. In 1964, the new bank building was moved to its current location in Hauptstrasse. During this time, the branches in Sasbachwalden and Oberachern were also opened .

The balance sheet total at the end of 1968 was 24.9 million DM, the number of members rose to 1282. The years 1970 to 1982 were marked by many mergers with surrounding cooperatives and the change of name to "Volksbank-Raiffeisenbank Achern eG". The renovation work on the main building was completed in 1985. At the same time, the first ATM was put into operation. At the end of 1985 the bank had total assets of DM 336.9 million and 7,488 members. The 125th anniversary in 1993 was followed in 1998 and 1999 by the mergers with Spar- und Kreditbank Raiffeisenbank eG Ottenhöfen and Volksbank Sasbach eG. In 2006, renewed renovations were completed on the main building.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
  2. List of cooperative banks in Germany - as of December 31, 2015 ( Memento of March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 789 kB).
  3. Freiburg District Court GnR 470002 on October 7, 2016
  4. Business area of ​​the bank. Archived from the original on June 24, 2015 ; Retrieved July 30, 2013 .
  5. ^ Volksbank Achern real estate. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 16, 2014 ; Retrieved July 30, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksbank-achern.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '43.6 "  N , 8 ° 4' 20.2"  E