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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.
In Russia the village co-operative (obshchina or mir), operated from pre-serfdom times until the 20th century. Raiffeisen and Schultz-Delitsch developed an independently formulated co-operative model in Germany, the credit union. The model also moved abroad, reaching the United States by the 1880s and the Knights of Labour's projects. [39]
The societies were pre-cooperative organizations based on the principle of benevolent assistance. To ensure liquidity equalization between the small credit banks, in 1872 Raiffeisen created the first rural central bank at Neuwied , the “Rheinische Landwirtschaftliche Genossenschaftsbank” (Rhenish Agricultural Cooperative Bank).
The DGRV organises central enterprises of their regional federations - managing 5,500 enterprises and 16.6 million cooperative members, although the primary cooperatives are not a directly members of the DGRV. Approximately 400,000 people work and 35,000 people train within the German co-operative movement.
Amalie Raiffeisen (2 August 1846 - 11 January 1897) was a German social reformer.. By the 1860s her father, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, was almost blind.By handling his correspondence with him she was indispensable in his creation of the Cooperative movement in Germany.
Cole was also a theorist of the co-operative movement and made a number of contributions to the fields of co-operative studies, co-operative economics and the history of the co-operative movement. In particular, his book The British Co-operative Movement in a Socialist Society examined the economic status of the English CWS (the predecessor of ...
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The sixth of the Rochdale Principles states that co-operatives cooperate with each other. According to the ICA's Statement on the Co-operative Identity, "Co-operatives serve their members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative movement by working together through local, national, regional and international structures." [2]