Society for the Promotion of Internal Colonization
The Society for the Promotion of Inner Colonization (GFK) was founded on April 12, 1912 on the initiative of Friedrich Ernst von Schwerin and Max Sering . Their task was to promote the settlement of the sparsely populated eastern areas of the German Empire.
The journalistic organ was the magazine " Archive for Inner Colonization " . After Schwerin's death in 1925, Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl took over the management of the company until 1932 . Alfred Hugenberg played an important role in the GFK .
The tasks of the GFK included recruiting for the settlement, researching scientific questions, participating in settlement legislation as well as promoting and advising settlement authorities and settlement applicants.
The GFK was forcibly dissolved on June 26, 1934 in the course of the national socialists' harmonization measures. After the Second World War , it was founded in 1946 in Schleswig-Holstein and later in the entire British zone.
Several subsidiaries have been established since 1955, the most important of which is GFK GmbH, which was later renamed Deutsche Gesellschaft für Landentwicklung (DGL GmbH) and existed until 1994.
The area of responsibility after the Second World War mainly comprised the structural development of agriculturally used areas through advice and targeted support measures.