The Sächsische Wohnungsgenossenschaft Dresden eG (SWGD) is a housing cooperative based in Dresden, Germany, and one of the city’s largest housing providers. It managed 9,603 apartments at the end of 2025. 24 Its work centres on providing and managing housing for its members; the cooperative is governed through a board, a supervisory board and a representative assembly elected by members. 24
The organisation was founded on 24 March 1954 as the workers’ housing cooperative of the state-owned Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk, established by 69 workers and employees. 1 Its first construction project began that July, and residents moved into the initial apartments in 1955. 1 The cooperative later grew through new construction and the incorporation of other Dresden housing cooperatives. 1 On 10 April 1990 it adopted its current name, and it was entered in the cooperative register in 1991. 1
SWGD’s homes are located in Dresden, with its housing stock concentrated in the city’s Old Town and northern districts. 8 It carries out renovation and modernisation of its housing, work that began on a larger scale in 1993. 1 The main office is at Fechnerstraße 15 in Dresden. 56 The current board members named in the organisation’s 2025 annual report are Jana Thomas and Torsten Munk. 4