Hello #socialcoop, I am looking for a German Genossenschafts-prüfungsverband (Auditing Association for Cooperatives). Especially one with experience in Tech Coops. Please recommend me some if you have worked with/heard about them :)
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@akshay @harryfk @VillageOneCoop
You may want to consider to register your #coop outside of #FRG instead, and become a #EuropeanCooperative.
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@jpreisendoerfer @harryfk @VillageOneCoop
Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about European Cooperatives.
I just looked at the Wikipedia page[1], it looks like people forming the cooperative have to be resident in at least two member states, which is not the case with us as we're all in Germany.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_cooperativa_Europaea
@akshay @harryfk @VillageOneCoop
Yes, when the #SCE is established ex novo, than 3 members from 2 states are needed.
It may nevertheless be worth the effort, because the rule in #FRG which requires #coop|s to join a meta-coop (rather than joining freely when seen fit), is actually a remainder of inhibiting #Nazi legislation from #Y1934, introduced into the coop law to bring the coops under control.
The german language term for this legislation is ›#Anschlusszwang‹.
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@harryfk @akshay @VillageOneCoop
There is an even larger graveyard of #coop|s which went unrealized because of ›#Anschlusszwang‹. :)
It's a topic of heated debate in #FRG for many decades since its introduction into the #cooperative act in #Y1934.
akshay
Harry Keller
Jörg Preisendörfer