sentences:  Schulze-Delitzsch was an excellent organizer and advocate for the credit union idea.“Wherever he went, new people’s banks sprang up … by 1859 there were 183 with 18,000 members in Posen and Saxony.” 
  
  Schulze focused much of his attention on developing federations or trade associations to help protect the brand of these small organizations, ensure their stability and link them to the global banking system.As a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the German Reichstag he secured passage of a national credit union law in 1871.