Horticultural production cooperative
A horticultural production cooperative (abbreviated GPG ) was the partially forced merger of gardeners and horticultural companies in the GDR to form a socialist cooperative .
Foundation of the GPG
The SED decided on the 2nd Party Conference of the SED in East Berlin (July 9 to 12 1952) that measures the formation of cooperatives. In accordance with the collectivization and industrialization of agriculture, which represented one of the basic ideas of socialism , private gardeners and horticultural companies in the GDR should also participate in the planned social development towards socialism through cooperative ownership of the means of production and cooperative work. At that time, the cooperative law required that at least seven gardeners must join forces to form a GPG.
Economic aspect
The cooperative work led by the merger of individual gardeners and small private horticultural companies to a GPG for rationalization and increased effectiveness compared to individual production. This theoretical effect was turned into its opposite by decreasing motivation, since the state-regulated prices and specified production quantities hardly allowed higher profits to be achieved.
Horticultural production cooperatives
In October 1957 the first horticultural production cooperative of the GDR was founded in Caputh .
In larger cities there were one or more horticultural production cooperatives and in many villages there were parts of a GPG. As examples - also for the choice of company names - are representative:
- GPG early harvest in Marzahn
- GPG Red October in Bad Langensalza
- GPG Neue Zeit and GPG blossom joy in Luckenwalde
- GPG Happy Future in Frankfurt (Oder)
- GPG Alpina in Kleinmachnow
See also
- Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG)
- Craftsmen's Production Cooperative (PGH)
- Fisheries production cooperative for sea and coastal fishermen (FPG)
- Inland Fisheries Production Cooperative (PGB)
- GDR language
literature
- Klaus Schmidt (Ed.): Agriculture in the GDR - VEG, LPG and cooperations; how they became, what they were, what has become of them. Agrimedia, Clenze 2009, ISBN 978-3-86037-977-6 .
Web links
- Founding minutes of a GPG with the suggested name “V. Party Congress " - it was founded on September 10, 1959 under the name" Frohe Zukunft "
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Drabek: "Exemplary socialist company", the first gardeners' cooperative in the GDR was founded in Caputh . In: Potsdam Latest News , November 4, 2009; Retrieved April 14, 2010.
- ↑ Manfred Teresiak: Marzahn becomes a fully cooperative . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 3, 2001, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 170-175 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- ↑ Volkmar Wohlrabe: Blooming life's work on former fallow land . Free press - the daily newspaper, Chemnitzer Verlag and printing.
- ↑ Stadt Luckenwalde, Chronik und Geschichtliches ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. City of Luckenwalde, The Mayoress.
- ↑ Inventory Department II, urban and non-urban archives 1945 to 1990. Frankfurt (Oder) city archive.
