Part 1 : Co-operation and Association 



GERMANY. 



THE GENERAL RAIFFEISEN FEDERATION OF NEUWIED 



IN 1914-1915. 



SOURCE : 



JAHRESBERICHT DES GENERALVERBANDES LANDLICHER GENOSSENSCHAFTEN FUR DEUTSCH- 

 LAND E. R. FUR 1915 UND STATISTIK DER RAIFFEISENSCHEN GeNOSSENSCHAFTEN FUR 1914 



{Annual Report of the General Federation of Rural Co-operative Societies in Germany for 

 191 5 and Statistics of Co-operative Societies of the Raiffcisen Type in 1914). 



At the end of 1915 there were in Germany 28,652 rural co-operative 

 societies of which 5,680 or 20 per cent, belonged to the General Raiffeisen 

 Federation, 16,857 or 58 per cent, to the General Federation of German 

 Rural Co-operative Societies of Offenbach, and 6,115 or 22 per cent, to the 

 nine independent district federations. 



The General Raiffeisen Federation includes members of two kinds, 

 direct and indirect members. 



Its direct members are : one central bank ; fifteen central co-opera- 

 tive societies of which six are co-operative banks and nine co-operative 

 stores ; thirteen district federations, of which two have their headquarters 

 at Berhn, and one each at Brunswick, Breslau, Dantzig, Erfurt, Frankfort- 

 on-Maine, Cassel, Coblentz, Koenigsberg, I^udwigshafen, Niiremberg and 

 Strasbourg. 



The indirect members are 1,598 co-operative credit societies ; and 1,066 

 co-operative societies not transacting credit operations, namely sixty-five 



