Locally anchored, nationally networked, committed to their members and democratically organized: These are the characteristics of cooperative banks such as your VR Bank Mecklenburg eG. In 1857, the "Vorschuß-Casse" was founded as one of the first credit cooperatives in Grevesmühlen. Self-help facilities became a successful model that is still proving its worth today. "What one person cannot do alone, many can." Cooperative banks have shared this conviction of the founding fathers Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen and Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch for over 160 years