Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives
| Central Association of Consumer Cooperatives (ZdK) |
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| purpose | Interest group for cooperatives |
| Chair: | Mathias Fiedler |
| Establishment date: | 1903 |
| Number of members: | 448 (2017) |
| Seat : | Hamburg |
| Website: | Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives |
history
The Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives was founded as the umbrella organization in 1903 in Dresden as the Central Association of German Consumer Associations and has since been based in Hamburg , the former stronghold of the cooperatives and the common economy . It was founded because in 1902 the bourgeois-conservative General Association of German Acquisitions and Economic Cooperatives, the SPD and cooperatives closely related to the trade unions (the so-called "Hamburg direction") excluded. The Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives e. V. (ZdK) than eingetragenener Association of association of consumer cooperatives in Germany. Its organs are the executive board, association council and the association day. The former administration building is next to the trade union building at Besenbinderhof.
At its peak in 1922, the ZdK had 1,350 member cooperatives with a turnover of 1.24 billion Reichsmarks. The cooperatives had thus become an important economic and power factor. They were therefore also referred to as the "third pillar" of the labor movement .
After the National Socialists came to power , the SA occupied the administration building of the ZdK in Hamburg on May 2, 1933. The ZdK was dissolved and reappeared under the old name after the war.
The crisis in the consumer cooperatives from the 1970s and the collapse of Coop AG had led to a loss of members and a realignment.
Today's development
Today the association is further developing the concept of cooperatives by promoting the establishment of new cooperatives in the service sector . Cooperatives in the energy supply such as Greenpeace Energy , schools, village shops, world shops, bookshops, cinemas, housing projects, coffee importers, housing cooperatives , historians and business consultants form the core of the ZdK membership.
literature
- Bernd Wulf: Producer-Consumer Association Landwege eG , Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives, Hamburg 2006
- Fritz Großmann: 100 years of co op Nord Schwarzwald Konsumgenossenschaft eG , Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives, Hamburg 2007
- Dr. Burchard Bösche : The Cooperative Hospital Salzhausen , Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives, Hamburg 2008
- Detlef Grumbach , Dr. Burchard Bösche: Economic associations - village shops as economic associations - Economic associations as small cooperatives , Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-839190-41-8
- Erwin Hasselmann : In the current of time, 60 years of the Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives. In: Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives e. V., Hamburg (ed.): Contributions to the theory and history of the cooperative system . Publishing company of German consumer cooperatives, Hamburg 1963.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guide to the sites of persecution and social-democratic resistance in Hamburg - Die Innere Stadt, publisher, Working Group of formerly persecuted social democrats (AvS), Hamburg 2005 p. 49
- ↑ Guide to the sites of persecution and social-democratic resistance in Hamburg - Die Innere Stadt, publisher, Working Group of formerly persecuted social democrats (AvS), Hamburg 2005 p. 49
- ↑ Guide to the sites of persecution and social-democratic resistance in Hamburg - Die Innere Stadt, publisher, Working Group of formerly persecuted social democrats (AvS), Hamburg 2005 p. 50