Agrarian

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The term agrarian denotes the representatives of the economic interests of the farmers , especially for the large Prussian landowners in the German Reich who organized themselves with the support of Otto von Bismarck in 1876.

Up until the 1890s, agrarian was the general term for the non-factional association of tax and economic reformers , the most important representation of agricultural interests within the East Elbe landowners.

Their influence reached its peak in 1893 with the establishment of the Federation of Farmers and, in the Weimar Republic, in the Reichslandbund from 1921.

Politically, the agrarians worked on the far right , supported by the East Elbe Junkers and the Prussian conservatives .

As an interest group , they fought for protective tariffs , high agricultural prices and subsidies for indebted large estates. Despite their support for Adolf Hitler in 1932/33, they very quickly lost their influence in the “Third Reich” , especially to the Reichsnährstand .

In other countries

There was a corresponding political force in Czechoslovakia, the farmers' union .

When the aristocratic landowners in Hungary more and more lost or threatened to lose their economic and political power to mobile capital in the last third of the 19th century, they organized an “agrarian movement” in order to maintain their primacy.

In Uruguay , a country where livestock was the main industry well into the 20th century, the agrarian lobby group, the Liga Federal de Acción Ruralista , had extraordinary political influence.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Wolfram Pyta: Agricultural Interest Policy in the German Empire . Stuttgart: Steiner, 1991, pp. 115–124 (quarterly for social and economic history, supplements, no. 97)
  2. ^ Georg Stöcker: Agrarian ideology and social reform in the German Empire: Heinrich Sohnrey and the German Association for Rural Welfare and Homeland Care 1896-1914. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, p. 29, note 62.
  3. ^ András Vári: Lords and Farmers. Hungarian aristocrats and agrarians on the way to the modern age (1821-1910) . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008. ISBN 978-3-447-05758-5 .
  4. ^ Henry Finch: Uruguay since 1930 . In: Leslie Bethell (ed.): Latin America since 1930: Spanish South America (= The Cambridge history of Latin America, Volume 8 ). Cambridge University Press, New York 1991. pp. 195-232, here p. 209.