The Mieterbund Wiesbaden und Umgebung e.V. is one of 320 tenants' associations in Germany that are united under the umbrella of the German Tenants' Association (DMB) and a member of the DMB Landesverband Hessen e.V., which has also been based in Wiesbaden since 1979.

The Mieterbund Wiesbaden und Umgebung was founded on June 21, 1919 in the Lyzeum on Wiesbaden's Schlossplatz as "Mieterschutzverein e.V., Sitz Wiesbaden". By the end of 1928, the number of members had already risen to over 3,000. During the Nazi era, the association was "brought into line" and the number of members fell rapidly. However, it was never dissolved. After the Second World War, at a public meeting in the former Dotzheimer Straße air raid shelter in 1946, the members re-adopted the pre-1933 statutes and elected Adolf Holzhäuser as first chairman and Emil Gerhardt as his deputy. The management was taken over by engineer Wilhelm Rumpf, who carried out the advisory work in his bombed-out apartment at Walkmühlstraße 36. He was also the managing director of the state association of tenant protection associations in Hesse, which was founded in Frankfurt am Main in the same year.

Since 1955, the tenants' association Wiesbaden und Umgebung has been housed in its current office at Adelheidstraße 70. Today, more than 12,000 households belong to it. One of its tasks is to provide members with personal advice on their rental matters. It is also committed to a social and ecological housing and rental policy, the introduction of social rental contracts and the expansion of housing supervision. It has also been involved in the creation of the Wiesbaden rent index since 1976.