Württemberg Cooperative Association
The Württemberg cooperative association Raiffeisen / Schulze-Delitzsch e. Until 2008 V. was the auditing, advisory and support association for all member cooperatives in the Württemberg region . The successor association is the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association .
organization
These included:
- 178 Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks,
- 177 Raiffeisen cooperatives and
- 77 Commercial Cooperatives.
These cooperatives had a total of over 1.9 million owners.
The purpose of the association was, among other things, the examination, advice (business, legal and tax), further education, information and representation of the interests of the members.
The association employed a total of around 400 people, 200 of them in the audit service alone. The supervisory authority of the association was the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics.
history
The Raiffeisen Association
In the rural areas of Württemberg, the cooperative system got off to a difficult start. It required a lecture by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen himself, which he had given on October 28, 1880 in the Stuttgart Liederhalle. In November and December of the same year, the first twelve Württemberg loan association associations were established. On July 26, 1881, 19 associations also launched the Association of Agricultural Credit Cooperatives in the Liederhalle .
The association founded by Schulze-Delitzsch
The idea of a cooperative spread through Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch also got off the ground more slowly in Württemberg than in other parts of Germany. At the beginning of the 1860s there were already around 700 advance payment and credit associations in Germany, but only just over ten in the Kingdom of Württemberg . On August 21, 1864, an association of economic cooperatives in Württemberg and Baden was formed in the Bürger-Museum in Stuttgart . Up to 500 commercial participants represented eleven craft banks and advance payment associations from Württemberg and five from Baden. Schulze-Delitzsch personally attended the meeting. After this association was founded, around 60 new craft and commercial banks were established by 1870. The trade and business associations viewed the new cooperative banks as a pacemaker for promoting the work of local businesses. The broader public acceptance of the association was promoted by the law on the private-law position of trade and business cooperatives, which came into force in Württemberg on January 1 , 1868 and which had been in force in the North German Confederation since July 4, 1868 .
Association of cooperative and Raiffeisen associations
On January 1, 1970, the Württemberg Genossenschaftsverband , which goes back to Schulze-Delitzsch, and the Raiffeisenverband Württemberg merged to form the Württemberg Genossenschaftsverband Raiffeisen / Schulze-Delitzsch eV in Stuttgart. The two Württemberg associations thus became pioneers in the unification of commercial and rural cooperative organizations in Germany.
Merger to form the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association
The members of the Badischer and Württembergischer Genossenschaftsverband decided on October 23, 2008 to merge the two associations on the basis of the annual accounts as of December 31, 2008. With the approval of the annual accounts on the last association days of the two associations on March 3, 2009 and the entry in Register of associations On July 15, 2009, the merger to form the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association became legally effective.