AGDW – Die Waldeigentümer (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Waldbesitzerverbände e.V.) (AGDW)

AGDW is the national umbrella association of owners of private, municipal and corporate forests in Germany, founded in 1948. Its members are 13 state forest owners' associations, through which it represents around 2 million forest owners towards the Bundestag, ministries and the EU. At European level it works as a member of CEPF (the Confederation of European Forest Owners). It serves forest owners, but indirectly: a farmer connects to it through the state association.

According to the statutes, only forest owners' associations organised at least at state level can be members of AGDW; individual forest owners cannot join. As a forest owner you can join your state's forest owners' association (Waldbesitzerverband, e.g. Bayerischer Waldbesitzerverband, Forstkammer Baden-Württemberg) — the list is on the AGDW website.

The organisation does not publish its membership fee — ask directly. AGDW fees are paid by the member associations (the fee rules are set by the Hauptausschuss); as an individual forest owner you pay the fee of your state association.

• Representing forest owners in federal politics and in the EU
• Positions on forest law, EUDR, climate and energy policy
• Masterclass training (occupational safety, accident insurance, EUDR)
• Coordinating the state forest owners' associations
• Network of young forest owners (Junge Waldeigentümer)

• waldeigentuemer.de
• waldeigentuemer.de – Der Verband und seine Geschichte
• waldeigentuemer.de – Die 13 Mitgliedsverbände
• waldeigentuemer.de – Satzung (Fassung vom 26.03.2021)
• waldeigentuemer.de – Impressum