Board of Directors

The General Assembly elects an expanded board and an executive board. According to the bylaws, the full board must include at least ten representatives from the cooperative sector and up to five representatives from academia.

President

Dr. Michael Wellmann

Head of the Financial Services Division at Genoverband e.V.

Vice Chair

Prof. (Emeritus) Dr. Frank Schulz-Nieswandt

Director of the Department of Cooperative Studies at the University of Cologne

Treasurer

Thomas Mende

DZ Bank

The Extended Executive Board

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Hartmann-Wendels
  (Chair of Banking at the University of Cologne),
• Christoph Kaminski
  (Board Member of Volksbank Rhein-Erft-Köln eG),
• Sira Müller 
  (Die Ehrenfelder Nonprofit Housing Cooperative eG)
• Thomas Nonn
  (Member of the REWE Markt Executive Board),
• Dr. Sebastian Reichardt (
  Pax-Bank eG),
• Maximilian Schaback
  (Head of the Western Sales Division, R+V Versicherung),
• Marc Smolarek
  (Member of the Board of Volksbank Dünnwald-Holweide eG),
• Dr. Matthias Zabel
  (Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies e.V., Berlin),