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An Örtlicher Landwirtschaftsbetrieb (ÖLB) was a type of agricultural operation in the GDR in the first half of the 1950s. These were holdings in which uncultivated areas were combined that had not been worked by the previous managers. They only emerged where there was no agricultural production cooperative as a transitional form. The areas of the companies belonged to a state land fund and were subject to trust management by specially created administrative offices at district level. They were responsible for the management. Often units in one place were relatively uncultivated and the administrative offices created an administrative apparatus for them. They were tended by farm workers who were managed by a trustee, mostly close to the SED.

There were two large groups that had left their yards. New farmers who left their farms after a short time because they needed farm buildings and resources such as seeds, fertilizer, animals and the like. a. and they often did not have the necessary knowledge and skills to run the business. And also GDR refugees who had fled to the Federal Republic of Germany because of the persecution of, in particular larger and economically successful, individual farmers .

1954 began to convert all local farms into agricultural production cooperatives. The LPGs created from ÖLBs usually had considerable economic difficulties at the beginning, as the neglected areas could only be recultivated with additional effort. That was difficult for those LPGs in which there were no managers with the appropriate skills and in which no operating resources and machines from the predecessor companies had been brought in.

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  1. ↑ Jürgen von Both Freiherr von Maercken zu Geerath: Agricultural company law: The agricultural enterprise in the field of tension between general company law and special agricultural law . Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 33/34, ISBN 9783642597718 .