German Agriculture Council

The German Agricultural Council was formed in 1872, had its seat in Berlin and was forcibly transferred to the Reichsnährstand in autumn 1933 .

Tasks and composition

The Agriculture Council was a college made up of representatives from the chambers of agriculture in the individual German federal states and recognized by their governments. It was supposed to look after the agricultural interests in the entire scope of the German Reich , also in relation to the Reich legislation and the Reich administration . To do this, he could submit the required reports and present himself to the Reich Chancellor without being asked or turn to the Reichstag with motions . The Agriculture Council had to turn to the individual governments on all questions that were not connected with the Reich legislation but were of importance for the agriculture of the Reich.

The funds necessary for the management were raised by the chambers of agriculture according to a distribution standard determined by statute. The number of members was determined based on the voting rights of the states in the Bundesrat . Before the First World War , the Agriculture Council had 74 members, 25 of them from Prussia.

The Agriculture Council met annually and has since been represented by a nine-member standing committee.

Members

• Adolf Buchenberger
• Nikolaus von Below
• Ernst Brandes
• Ernst von Hammerstein-Loxten
• Emil Hölck
• Richard von Könneritz
• Franz Xaver Lang
• Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz , President
• Ernst Valentin von Strebel
• Adolf Tortilowicz from Batocki-Friebe
• Conrad von Wangenheim
• Friedrich von Wedell-Malchow , President

General Secretaries

• Traugott Mueller (around 1894)
• Heinrich Dade (1895–1923)

organs

• Archive of the German Agriculture Council
• Agricultural Policy Journal

Web links

• Agriculture Council 1908
• Early newspaper articles on the German Agricultural Council in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Agricultural Council in the German Digital Library
2. ↑ On the inside title of the book "The American Irrigation Industry and Other Agricultural Travel Observations from North America" ​​by Dr. Traugott Mueller, which was published by Paul Parey in Berlin in 1894, Mueller is listed as "General Secretary of the German Agricultural Council."