GERMANY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



Districts 



I,oans 



1914 



Bautzen 



Chemnitz 



Dresden 



I^eipzig 



Zwickau 



Kingdom of Saxony 1914 

 » » » 1 91 3 



6,399,198 



590,360 



1,169,097 



1,991,426 



191,975 



10,342,056 



Average for a co-operative 

 society 



6,129,413 164,082 



593,488| 84,337! 



73,069' 73,069' 



142,245! 142,245 



152,036 



84.7S4 



74.503 



158,901 



Average 

 for a member 



1,5381 1,498 



1,081 1,150 



1,096 1,143 



2,114 2,235 



63,992' 63,992 60,482 1,587 1,463 



— i 130,912 



I i 



10,003,2051 j 129,912 



1,513 — 



1,509 



b) Savings and Credit Societies and Societies for the Purchase of Mer- 

 chandise. — This important group includes 242 co-operative societies 

 having 13,889 members, and a total turnover of 133,523,109 marks — which 

 gives an average of 9,614 marks for one society — , profits amounting to 

 256,288 marks, and deposits amounting to 19,746,969 marks — which 

 gives an increase of three and a third millions on the preceding 3^ear. 



The average deposits of each co-operative society, member and saver 

 in each circle are, respectively, as follows : 



Zwickau Kingdom 



For a co-opera- 

 tive society. 



For a member. 

 » )^ saver . . 



88,895 

 606 



Chemnitz 



49,968 



1,205 



520 



Dresden 



60,516 

 1,234 



499 



I,eipzig 



171.392 

 1,919 



977 



47.072 

 896 



569 



^1.559 



1,278 



644 



The greater part of the sums received were converted into loans, 

 8,182,719 marks being lent for fixed terms and 1,385,010 marks on current 

 account. In addition merchandise to the value of 4,887,056 marks was 

 delivered. 



The net profits amounted to 276,396 marks as against 249,675 marks 

 in the preceding year. 



d) Co-operative Purchase and Sale Societies. — Of the seventy-five 

 co-operative societies which belong to this group, forty-five have furnished 

 financial data relative to the year from i July 1913 to 30 June 1914, the 

 others data for 1914-1915. 



These seventy-five co-operative societies had 6,562 members and a 

 total turnover of 129,041,380 marks, which gives an average of 19,665 

 marks for one society. The value of the merchandise issvung from them 

 was 19,111,237 marks and their profits amounted to 124,522 marks. 



Their total circulating funds amounted to 6,019,645 marks. 



e) Co-operative Pasturage Societies. — The twenty-two federated 

 co-operative societies derived 144,320 marks from pasture dues and 38,246 



