Germany: Schulze-Delitzsch-House

On Tuesday I got a postcard from Germany.

It shows the Schulze-Delitzsch-House in Delitzsch. Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, born in Delitzsch in 1808, was a German politician and economist. He was responsible for the organizing of the World's first credit unions and was also co-founder of the German Progress Party. In this house in Delitzsch, which back then belonged to a master shoemaker, he initiated in 1849 the foundation of the first cooperative in Germany. As such it is an important historic site, but it is not very well known and it was just after the German Reunification that the house was saved from its ruinous condition. Since then it houses the German Cooperative Museum. In 2016 the museum had a share in the successful inscription of the Idea and practice of organizing shared interests in cooperatives on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO.

One of the two stamps showing a panorama of Bonn (issued 02-01-2020), the former capital of West Germany, was used on this card.

Thank You very much Marcel!