The Sächsische Wohnungsgenossenschaft Chemnitz eG is a housing cooperative based in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. Its roots include the Bau- und Sparverein Glösa, registered on 1 August 1910, and the Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft für Chemnitz, founded on 12 February 1911. The present SWG name was adopted in 1990; its formal registration as a cooperative was completed on 10 June 1992.1
The cooperative provides housing across ten districts of Chemnitz. At the end of 2024, it owned 3,926 apartments, along with commercial units, parking spaces and rental garages; it reported around 10,000 members and tenants.34 It offers apartments primarily to members, while also letting a limited number to non-members.4
SWG’s purpose is to support members through good, secure and socially responsible housing. The cooperative says that any surplus is used to benefit the cooperative and its members, including through modernisation, maintenance and improvements to residential surroundings. Members have a voice in fundamental decisions through a representative assembly, and the cooperative’s stated principles include one vote per member regardless of shareholding.1
Its work includes managing and improving existing homes as well as pursuing new construction and updated apartment layouts. The organisation identifies demographic change, climate change and changing housing needs as factors shaping its future planning.1 The executive board includes Heiko Richter and Frank Winkler.6 Its registered address is Dresdner Straße 80, 09130 Chemnitz.6