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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.
By 1900, the British co-operative movement had grown to 1,439 co-operatives covering virtually every area of the UK. [ 6 ] The later minute books for the REPS (Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society) are held by Rochdale Boroughwide Cultural Trust but the wider records of the movement are held by the National Co-operative Archive at Holyoake House ...
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]
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.
In some co-operative economics literature, the aim is the achievement of a co-operative commonwealth, a society based on cooperative and socialist principles. Co-operative economists – federalist, individualist, and otherwise – have presented the extension of their economic model to its natural limits as a goal.
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 museum also wants to highlight importance of the personalities who have had a significant impact on the movement. The main themes of the museum are: the development of the early co-operative movement; the Rochdale Principles; inspirational co-operators; history of retail; the growth of the movement, and its 20th-century social history
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.