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    Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (30 March 1818 – 11 March 1888) was a German mayor and cooperative pioneer. Several credit union systems and cooperative banks...
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  • Raiffeisenbank or Raiffeisen Bank refers to cooperative banks in Europe that are rooted in the early credit unions of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The name is...
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  • Raiffeisen usually refers to Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888) and the cooperative endeavors he inspired in several European countries: Deutscher...
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    inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen in Alsace–Lorraine under German rule, in the 1880s. Crédit Mutuel was a member of the International Raiffeisen Union...
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    the ideas and the initiative of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, where farmers founded their own credit banks to finance seeds...
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  • the International Raiffeisen Union (IRU), which is an association of cooperatives based on the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. Since its creation...
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    Raiffeisenbanken ("Raiffeisen banks"), the latter in tribute to 19th-century cooperative movement pioneer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The Cooperative...
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    Amalie Raiffeisen (2 August 1846 - 11 January 1897) was a German social reformer. By the 1860s her father, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, was almost blind...
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    under Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). The movement to create rural cooperative banks initiated in Germany by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen spread...
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    services to the local markets. The bank was rooted in the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, the founder of the cooperative movement of credit unions, who...
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  • philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), cooperative leader Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (1806–1876), scholar Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow (1821–1878)...
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    1864, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen founded the first rural credit union in Heddesdorf (now part of Neuwied) in Germany. By the time of Raiffeisen's death...
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  • Tyrolian Raiffeisen), which is a member of the International Raiffeisen Union, an association of cooperatives based on the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen...
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    Raiffeisenbank (Russia) (category Raiffeisen Zentralbank)
    Russia among 50 companies. In 2018, Euromoney magazine called Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen "The best bank for private banking services for wealthy customers...
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    Balthasar Krems (1760–1813), inventor of the sewing machine Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer and founder of the cooperative movement...
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    through the efforts of pioneers Franz Herman Schulze'Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The concept of financial cooperatives crossed the Atlantic at...
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    Washington, 2007. Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The Credit Unions. Fifth (1887) edition, translated from the German by Konrad Engelmann. Raiffeisen Printing &...
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    Hamm (Sieg). It is the home of the Raiffeisenmuseum honouring Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen who pioneered rural credit unions. Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis...
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    municipalities with a population of 2,564 in 1817. From 1845 to 1848, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen was the mayor. The mayoralty was renamed in 1927 to Amt Weyerbusch...
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    tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer Ewald Schnug sen. (1930–2013), Master...
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    Austrian savings and loan cooperative to use the system devised by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The original company name was Girozentrale der österreichischen...
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    (1778-1850), painter Emilie Storck (born 1827 in Remagen), wife of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen Baptist Schneider (1867–1946), photographer in Remagen Rudolf...
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    originated in Germany, with Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen who developed cooperative banking models that led on to the credit...
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    poverty. At about the same time, but independently to Spooner, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen founded the first cooperative lending banks to support farmers...
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    European credit union movement in the 19th century (such as Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen) and the founders of the microcredit movement in the 1970s (such...
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    cooperative banks inspired by the model created in Germany by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. The first of these Spaaren Leengilden ("savings and loans associations")...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen founded the first rural credit union in the village of Heddesdorf (now a suburb of Neuwied) in Germany. Raiffeisen's approach...
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    Marx and Friedrich Engels 1852: Credit union by Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch in Saxony, later further developed by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen 1879:...
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    farmers' organization and was based on the cooperative model of Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen. At the end of the 1890s a new organisation was created to group...
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  • (1852, urban), then by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1864, rural). While Schulze-Delitzsch is chronologically earlier, Raiffeisen has proven more influential...
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