Society for Agricultural History
The Society for Agricultural History ( GfA ) is a specialist society founded in 1953 in the vicinity of the Stuttgart-Hohenheim University of Applied Sciences .
The aim of the association is to research agricultural history , to inform the interested public and to establish contacts. Especially under the aegis of the agricultural historian Günther Franz since the end of the 1950s, the company played a major role in the reorientation of agricultural history. The journal for agricultural history and agricultural sociology (ZAA) published by the association contributed to this . The association, particularly the Agricultural Heritage Initiative , is the collection point for agricultural historical material in Germany.
The GfA has invited the members of the dissolved working group for agricultural history to join, is based in Frankfurt am Main and is a member of the European Organization for Rural History .
The GfA is continuing an initiative initiated by Max Güntz to collect and publish information on the development of agriculture. The forerunner of the ZAA since 1902 was the magazine Landwirtschaftlich-Historischen Blätter , which had been published in the Society for the History and Literature of Agriculture since 1904 and was published between 1913 and 1942 under the title Yearbook of the Society for the History and Literature of Agriculture .
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- Werner Rösener : Introduction to Agricultural History . Darmstadt, 1997. p. 13