Emsland GmbH

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The Emsland GmbH was on March 7, 1951 in the legal form of a limited liability company established. The shareholders were the Federal Republic of Germany , the State of Lower Saxony and the following eight districts at that time: Aschendorf-Hümmling , Lingen , Meppen , Grafschaft Bentheim , Leer , Cloppenburg , Vechta and Bersenbrück .

The task of Emsland GmbH was the planning, coordination and financing of the regional development, the cultivation of the wastelands, the expansion of the then hardly existing infrastructure and the settlement of industrial companies. The federal government has drawn up an Emsland plan to implement the goals . The entire development work was originally planned for a period of ten years. In fact, the measures lasted almost forty years. In 1989 Emsland GmbH was wound up .

The managing directors of Emsland GmbH were:

  • Georg Sperl (up to 1971)
  • Gerhard Hugenberg

Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Emsland GmbH was Hanns Deetjen , until 1944 Walther Darré's press adjutant (public relations officer) and from 1955 to 1965 State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture.

literature

  • Christof Haverkamp: The development of the Emsland in the 20th century as an example of state regional economic development . (Emsland / Bentheim series, Volume 7), Sögel 1991
  • Werner Franke / Jósef Grave / Heiner Schüpp / Gerd Steinwascher (eds.): The district of Emsland. Geography, history, present. A circle description. Meppen 2002 ISBN 3-930365-13-8

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  1. ↑ Manfred Fickers, "The Emsland has got a whole new face", in: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, July 20, 2010, online, https://www.noz.de/lokales/meppen/artikel/171182/das-emsland- got-a-completely-new-face
  2. ^ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany, Documentation Center of the State Archives Administration of the GDR (ed.), "Brown Book of War and Nazi Criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin - State, Economy, Administration, Army, Justitz, Science", 3rd, revised and extended edition, State Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin (East) 1968, p. 362