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Better advice from the Cologne Tenants' Association – your partner in matters of tenancy, leasehold and road law
A strong community
With over 66,000 members, the Cologne Tenants‘ Association is the third largest within the German Tenants’ Association. ‘The high number of new members is also due to our strong customer focus. With more than 50 employees, we see ourselves not only as a service provider for our members, but also as a representative of the interests of all tenants in our region,’ says Franz-Xaver Corneth, our chairman.
Purpose of our organisation
We actively protect the interests of our members in rental and housing matters. We also endeavour to unite all tenants in Cologne and the surrounding area – with the following objectives:
- Realisation of a social and ecological housing and rental policy in municipalities, the federal state and the federal government, the promotion of a social and ecological housing industry and the improvement of housing conditions
- Safeguarding the rights and interests of tenants and leaseholders in all areas of the rental and housing sector
- Protecting tenants in housing matters and against ineffective and unreasonable contractual conditions
- Idealistic promotion of the non-profit housing, housing estate and co-operative sector
- Protecting the interests of tenants through information and public relations work
The bodies of our association are the Executive Board, the Advisory Board and the General Assembly. All information on the tasks and election of our bodies can be found in our Articles of Association.
Tenant protection EG – Secure and good housing in a co-operative
In 1925, the Cologne Tenants' Association, then known as the “Mieterschutzverein Köln”, founded the housing and building cooperative Mieterschutz eG. The aim was and is to offer the members of the co-operative sensibly calculated usage fees by constructing and providing modern flats and to rule out terminations due to personal use.
German Tenants' Association NRW
The DMB NRW in Düsseldorf is the umbrella organisation for all tenants' associations in North Rhine-Westphalia. Together with fourteen other state associations, the DMB North Rhine-Westphalia is itself a member of the German Tenants' Association. The primary task of the state associations and their executive boards is to represent the interests of tenants vis-à-vis the state government and political parties.
German Tenants' Association
The German Tenants' Organisation is structured “from the bottom up”. As a tenant, you become a member of your local tenants' association, which in turn is affiliated to the respective regional association. The regional associations are members of the German Tenants' Association (DMB) in Berlin. It is the umbrella organisation for around 350 local tenants' associations, which represent your interests nationwide with around 500 advice centres. Over 3 million tenants are organised in the DMB.