Celler Agricultural Society

The Celler Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft was a society founded in Celle in 1764 , in which agricultural topics and developments were discussed. The farmers hoped that it would gain greater weight in politics and the public. Since the time frame moves before industrialization, it must be taken into account that this society roughly corresponds to today's (business) business associations, since a mechanization of this kind was not yet foreseeable. The chambers of agriculture later developed from this type of agricultural society .

history

The Celle Agricultural Society was founded on March 18th in the Stolzisches Haus in Celle. Eight gentlemen were significantly involved in the foundation:

• Privy Councilor Burchard Christian von Behr
• Legation councilor Jobst Anton von Hinüber
• Consistorial Councilor and General Superintendent Johann Friedrich Jacobi (1712–1791)
• District Administrator Wilhelm Christian von Behr
• District Administrator Christian Ludwig von der Wense
• District Administrator Heinrich August von Bülow
• Colonel Emmerich Otto August von Estorff
• Secretary at the Higher Appeal Court Friedrich Wilhelm Elderhorst.

The circle of members had continued to consist of eight people; only honorary membership was offered to some high-ranking personalities. According to Deike, the refusal to accept new members was a precaution not to jump to conclusions. In contrast to the common research opinion, which considers the establishment of law firms to be a fad, other reasons were decisive, at least that is what Dieke claims, but without naming them precisely. The decisive and characteristic feature of the Celle Agricultural Society and its members was the focus on experiments and trials, with no attention to abstractions and theories. The outstanding protagonist in society was Jobst Anton von Hinüber, who had spent his studies in England.

Other well-known members

• Friedrich Ernst von Bülow , director (1792–1802)
• Wilhelm Dietrich Hermann Flebbe , member
• Theodor Hagemann , member (1817–1827)
• Ernst zu Mecklenburg , honorary member since the company was founded
• Albrecht Daniel Thaer , member (1780-?)
• Andreas Ludolf Jacobi , director

Fonts

• Royal Agricultural Society (Ed.): Albrecht Thaer. Its life and its meaning in the past and present. In memory of the 100th anniversary of death on October 26, 1928 , Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Hanover, Hanover 1928.

literature

• The creation of the Celle Agricultural Society. Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Economic societies and the beginnings of modern agricultural reforms in the 18th century by ... Volume 113. ISBN 3-7752-5889-2
• Deike, Ludwig: The Celler Sozietät and Landwirtschaftsgesellschaft von 1764 , pp. 161–194 in Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German patriotic and non-profit societies . Munich 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Festschrift for the secular celebration of the Royal Agricultural Society. Hanover: Klindworth 1864, p. 50