Land reform movement
The term land reform movement , also land reform movement , summarizes people and groups who campaign for land reforms .
history
In ancient Rome , the brothers Gaius Gracchus and Tiberius Gracchus sat down in the 2nd century BC. As part of the Gracchian Reform, he advocated land reforms, the former being killed by his political opponents and the latter being driven to suicide. The work of the Gracchi led to a century of Roman civil wars and a long-lasting split in Roman society into Popularen (proponents of land reforms) and Optimates (defenders of the status quo ).
Also in the various peasant wars in Europe belonged u. a. Land reforms and similar issues to the aims of the insurgents.
Examples of land reform movements are Irish Land League , MST , Via Campesina , FIAN .
Land reform movement in Germany
In Germany there was a land reform movement at the end of the 19th century, which was based on the American land reformer Henry George (see Georgism ). 1888 was by Michael Flürscheim , the founder and director of the Gaggenau iron works , the German Federal Government for land tenure reform established.
An important exponent of the German land reform movement was Adolf Damaschke with the German Federation for Land Reform . In 1913 Damaschke published his ideas on land reform, which became the basis of the land reform law of 1920.