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The Zentralverband der deutschen Konsumgenossenschaften, or ZDK (English: The Central Association of the German Consumer Cooperatives) is for over one hundred years the syndicate of the Consumer Co-operatives in Germany. Today the federation, which stands in the Lassalle tradition of Cooperative continues to develop the cooperative thought, by promoting the reestablishment of cooperatives in the service sector.
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A cooperative is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned enterprise". Cooperatives are democratically owned by their members, with each member having one vote in electing the board of directors. Cooperatives may include:
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was a German mayor and cooperative pioneer. Several credit union systems and cooperative banks have been named after Raiffeisen, who pioneered rural credit unions.
A consumers' co-operative is an enterprise owned by consumers and managed democratically which aims at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members. They operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit. Consumers' cooperatives often take the form of retail outlets owned and operated by their consumers, such as food co-ops. However, there are many types of consumers' cooperatives, operating in areas such as health care, insurance, housing, utilities and personal finance.
The Deutsche Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband e.V. (DGRV) is the Co-operative federation for German Co-operatives.
Gustav Kessler (1832–1904) was a German trade unionist.
The Federal Ministry of Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims was part of the West German federal government from 1949 till 1969.
Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken is a brand of cooperative banks in Germany. "Volksbank" derives from People's Bank institutes and "Raiffeisenbanke" refers to banks founded on initiatives by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. Many cooperative banks in Germany have either "Volksbank" or "Raiffeisenbank" in their name – the nationwide services and associations in the cooperative branch of the German financing industry used the compound of the plurals of these words.
Deutscher Konsumentenbund is a European consumer advocacy group based in Kassel. It is a non-profit organization and registered with the European Commission to be a consumer rights lobby group with claimed 2,500 members. It submits stakeholder opinions to European Commission and appeared before the State government of Hesse in stakeholder hearing and Hessian antitrust state authority.
The General Commission of German Trade Unions was an umbrella body for German trade unions during the German Empire, from the end of the Anti-Socialist Laws in 1890 up to 1919. In 1919, a successor organisation was named the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, and then in 1949, the current Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund was formed.
Der Beck GmbH is a bakery chain founded in 1895. It is one of the 4% of biggest German bakeries with more than 5 million Euros revenue and more than 140 dependences in the metropolitan area of Nuremberg, owned today by Petra und Siegfried Beck, grandchildren of the founder family Ziegler.
Konsum is a cooperative retail chain founded in 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration in occupied East Germany. It consisted of grocery stores, retail markets, industrial plants, and restaurants, and was a direct competitor to the Handelsorganisation.
Sozialistische Monatshefte was a German journal edited by Joseph Bloch from 1897 to 1933 and published by the Verlag der Sozialistischen Monatshefte in Berlin.
Katrin Helling-Plahr is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 election.
Central Union of Roofers was a trade union representing roofers in Germany.
The Union of German Restaurant Workers was a trade union representing workers in hotels and restaurants in Germany.
The Central Union of Masons was a trade union representing bricklayers in Germany.
The Central Union of Construction Workers was a trade union representing building labourers in Germany.
The Central Union of Potters was a trade union representing pottery workers in Germany.
Simon Katzenstein was a German writer, politician (SPD) and political lecturer. During 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly, mandated to draw up a post-imperial national constitutions, and precursor to the parliament of a newly republican Germany.