Your tenants' association for carefree living in legal matters – become a member and benefit from the advantages!
0221 20237-0
99, -Euro per year
Welcome to the Cologne Tenants' Association – better advice on all aspects of tenancy, lease and road law
Dispute with the landlord? That doesn't have to be the case. As a member with us, we make sure that you get your rights – without it costing you a lot of time, money and nerves. Disagreements can quickly arise over utility bills, deposit repayments or cosmetic repairs. Such disputes are often difficult to resolve without legal support. As a member of our tenants' association, you will receive expert legal advice to help you assert your claims quickly and effectively. Our lawyers resolve most cases out of court.
Why you should become a member
- You receive concrete help on all topics relating to renting
- You receive well-founded answers to your questions
- You save yourself expensive legal disputes with your landlord
- You are represented at a political level
- You receive first-hand information
- Our employees and legal advisors are always there for you
Interested, questions, need advice?
Give us a call: 0221 2020237-0
Our services
- Conclusion and cancellation of rental agreements
- Heating and utility bills
- Rent increase
- Defects and maintenance
- Cosmetic repairs
- Subletting
- Eviction proceedings
- Noise nuisance
- Deposit and estate agent's fee
- Review of social rent
- Housing benefit application
- Furnished tenancy
- Business tenancy
- Urban redevelopment and modernisation
99, -Euro per year
First-class legal advice for just 99 € per year
Our lawyers advise and represent our members in more than 35,000 individual appointments every year and resolve 97% of disputes between tenants and landlords out of court. This experience and success is unique. But we are not only there for you when there is trouble: We also represent your interests at local, regional and national political level.
Membership begins on the day we receive your declaration of membership and the first contribution has been paid.
To help you better prevent disputes over operating costs, we provide you with the German Tenants' Association's Operating Costs Check. Check your bill conveniently online and get an initial overview.
The Tenants' Association and the DGB are working together to ensure affordable and adequate housing in Cologne.
On May 19, 2026, the new joint series on the state of the housing market kicked off with Cologne-based rent activist Kalle Gerigk, who has been fighting for many years against displacement, for the right to housing, and against homelessness—as an activist with “Right to the City” and chairman of “Homeless People with a Future, Inc.”
In the main hall of the DGB building, he answered questions from Hans Jörg Depel and Judith Gövert, as well as from the audience.
Who is Kalle Gerigk? Why is the issue of affordable housing so important to him? What are his concrete ideas and concepts for improving the dire situation in the housing market?
About the new event series: The housing market in Cologne has been strained for years—rising rents, displacement, and a lack of affordable housing characterize the situation for many people in our city. The new event series “An Hour on the Housing Issue” by the Cologne Tenants’ Association and DGB Cologne-Bonn addresses the challenges of the housing market. A guest speaker will present their proposed solutions for improving the situation in Cologne’s housing market.
125 years of the Cologne Tenants' Association –
We celebrate our anniversary!
We have been standing up for tenants' rights since 1900 – and this year we are celebrating our 125th anniversary! This anniversary is an occasion to celebrate, but also an obligation for the future. Our commitment remains: consistent, humane, future-orientated – today and in the decades to come.
Tenant knowledge from A to Z!
You're always smarter afterwards! To avoid this, we have compiled important information on typical tenant-landlord topics for you. They will enable you to familiarise yourself with the basics. If you would like individual advice, become a member now – or contact our lawyers directly as a member.
