Deutscher Genossenschafts- und Raiffeisenverband

The DGRV represents the common interests of the cooperative organization in economics, right and tax political affairs in relation to the public, the media and the policy.

Besides the DGRV is member of the Internationalen Raiffeisen Union IRU, which is a platform for exchange of experience between the international cooperative organizations.

In addition the DGRV advises its members in questions of the marketing and management, accounting and the co-operative examinations system.

In addition the DGRV promotes the emergence of cooperatives at home and abroad.

Particularly in countries of the third world, in addition, in central and Eastern Europe, thereby the economic development is advanced.

The head office of DGRV is located in the building at Linkstrasse 12 in Berlin , designed by Arata Isozaki and completed in 1997; the Berlin office of the BVR is located in the same complex
The building at Adenauerallee 121 in Bonn , photographed here in 1968 when it was the seat of a regional Raiffeisen-Zentralbank , is now the Bonn office of the DGRV