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 :)

Please #boost for visibility.

@akshay Hey there! When we started @VillageOneCoop earlier this year, we worked with https://www.pruefungsverband.de, however, we wrote the Satzung and business plan with a lawyer initially (https://www.ra-rutzen.de). Happy to answer any questions you might have!
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@harryfk @VillageOneCoop Thanks a lot for the suggestion! 🙂

@akshay @harryfk @VillageOneCoop

You may want to consider to register your #coop outside of #FRG instead, and become a #EuropeanCooperative.

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🏷️ #SCE #SocietasCooperativaEuropaea

@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

Societas cooperativa Europaea - Wikipedia

@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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@jpreisendoerfer @akshay We looked into the SCE when we founded @VillageOneCoop, but we couldn’t identify a single tangible advantage over the eG, apart from branding aspects. Quite the opposite actually: Because there are so few SCEs (only 35 in the whole EU, as of 2017) no tax accountant or lawyer knew much about them, so consultation would’ve been a lot more expensive. Plus, the 30k capital requirement and members in two states are dealbreakers in many cases.

@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.

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