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I would like to combine groups and organizations. I am using groups to sync with Drupal and would like to have the additions an organization has in CiviCRM.

Example:
- In Drupal there is an OG for each organization within an umbrella organization.
- Each OG is synced to a group in CiviCRM, to add memberships to the contacts.
- In CiviCRM I would like to add relationships, e.g. a contact is a chairman of a CiviCRM organization/group.

Is there a solution?

Yes I didn't really understand this on first read

if your OG member is representing all the contacts connected to an Organisation, and some of them are just 'members' and others are 'chairmen' but they should all be in the same OG, then i tend to agree with Coleman that the 'group' concept might not be what you are after.

There are ways you can make everyone who has a 'current' relationship to an organisation be added to an OG. I don't recall how much of that solution we have published but you could check in the available extensions as we tend to push out our contributions where we can.

And if it helps you can of course use the drupal 'civi contact reference' field to 'link' the node to the civi organisation - not sure what that adds for your use case, but it can for example mean you could pull the organisations contact details in to a block on the OG home page etc