State farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg
| State Farmers Association in Baden-Württemberg eV (LBV) |
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| purpose | Professional interest group for agriculture |
| Chair: | Joachim Rukwied (President) |
| Establishment date: | 1989 by merger |
| Number of members: | 38,500 |
| Seat : | Stuttgart and Ravensburg |
| Website: | www.lbv-bw.de |
The state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg e. V. (abbreviated LBV ) is in the legal form of a registered association organized circle umbrella organization of farmers in the main and supplementary income in Baden-Wuerttemberg and ordinary member of the German Farmers' Association . The association's headquarters are in Stuttgart and Ravensburg . With the Baden Agricultural Main Association, South Baden has its own farmers' association.
The state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg e. V. (LBV) has existed since 1989, when the Württemberg-Baden farmers 'association, founded in 1947, merged with the state farmers' association for Württemberg and Hohenzollern . Today the LBV is the third largest farmers' association in Germany with around 38,500 members. He is actively committed to the interests of his members and the local agriculture in full and part-time. He is one of the most important negotiating partners for agricultural policy in Baden-Württemberg and one of the most influential member associations of the German Farmers' Association (DBV).
Mission and goals
The state farmers' association advocates the interests of its members in the agricultural and agricultural policy framework. This results in the following goals, which also reach into related political and social areas:
- Strengthening rural areas
- Partnership relationships between producer and consumer
- Presentation of the national cultural and social achievements of agriculture
- Maintaining the productivity and competitiveness of farms in full and part-time employment
- Securing and expanding markets
- Perspectives for the next generation
- Reduction of distortions of competition and bureaucratic barriers
- Social security for members
- Production of environmentally friendly renewable raw materials
District farmers' associations
The state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg e. V. (LBV) represents around 38,500 farmers from Baden-Württemberg. 24 independent district farmers' associations represent the interests of the farming profession at regional level. Individual district association areas can be described as follows in terms of number of members, type of agriculture, cultivated areas and other regional features:
| Surname | Members | Area description | Others |
|---|---|---|---|
| District farmers' association Biberach - Sigmaringen | 5800 | 60% arable and 40% grassland are cultivated on 137,000 ha. There are full-time businesses in the Sigmaringer part of 30%, in the Biberach part even 49%. | Agriculture, dairy farming, cattle, bull and pig fattening as well as pig producers are the mainstays of the district. Fruit growing and special crops are represented on a smaller scale. |
| District farmers' association Esslingen | 850 | 70% of the businesses are part-time businesses. 52% of the association area are Alb areas, 34% Filder, 7% each Schurwald, Neckar Valley, Glemswald and Schönbuch. | The total agricultural area of 20,600 hectares is divided into 10,527 hectares of arable land, 9637 hectares of grassland and 473 hectares of special crops (of which 133 hectares are vineyards). |
| District farmers' association Heilbronn-Ludwigsburg | 4300 | 77% arable land, 9.3% of the area or 5000 hectares are vineyards. The vineyard area of the city and district of Heilbronn is the largest wine-growing area in Württemberg. The grassland share is 11.2%. | Permanent crop and market fruit farms dominate. Around a quarter of the agricultural area is in water protection areas. |
| District farmers' association Karlsruhe | 780 | Rhine plain: vegetable growing outdoors and in greenhouses, also under foil; Asparagus, tobacco. Kraichgau: Agriculture with wheat, brewing barley and sugar beet, but also animal husbandry as well as viticulture and fruit growing. In higher-lying locations on the edge of the Black Forest with altitudes up to over 600 m grassland and cattle farming. | A structural change is visible: there are both farms with a focus on arable farming and land facilities of more than 150–200 ha, but also part-time farms that only grow 30 ares of asparagus or keep three boarding horses. 3500 boarding horses with around 2000 dairy cows, most of which are kept by farmers. |
| District farmers' association Main-Tauber-Kreis | 2300 | High proportion of part-time farmers, specialty crops, viticulture. | Focus on arable farms in the lower district, processing mainly in the upper district, lowest population density in Baden-Württemberg with 100 people / km². |
| District farmers' association Reutlingen | 1850 | 80% of the businesses are part-time businesses. | Founded in 1975 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler. Dairy farming dominates the Swabian Alb . |
| District farmers' association Tettnang | 976 | In addition to the Hallertau , the area is known for growing hops. In addition, fruit and berry cultures shape the landscape of the northern shore of Lake Constance. | Traditional grassland management and dairy farming in the eastern part of the association. |
| District farmers' association Tübingen | 1800 | 80% of the 700 farms in total are part-time farmers and cultivate a total area of 20,000 hectares, in the Tübingen district two thirds are farmed as arable land and one third as grassland. In the Zollernalb district, 85% of the farms are part-time, 1150 farms manage around 35,000 hectares, 40% arable land and 60% grassland. | The agricultural uses extend from 300 m above sea level in the Neckar valley to an altitude of 1,000 m. Wine growing on the Neckar slopes via the favored arable farming areas in the Gäu to extensive sheep pasture on the juniper heaths in the Alb highlands. |
| District farmers' association Ulm-Ehingen | 4350 | Agriculture, pig breeding and fattening. | A third of the agricultural area is grassland that is cultivated by cattle farms, with a focus on dairy farming. |
Other associations:
- Eastern Alb farmers' association
- Allgäu-Upper Swabia farmers' association
- District farmers' association Böblingen
- District farmers' association Calw
- District farmers' association Enzkreis
- District farmers' association Esslingen
- Freudenstadt regional farmers' association
- District farmers' association Göppingen
- Heidenheim district farmers' association
- District farmers' association Neckar-Odenwald
- District farmers' association Rhein-Neckar
- District farmers' association Rottweil
- Schwäbisch Gmünd Farmers' Association
- Farmers' Association Schwäbisch Hall-Hohenlohe-Rems
- Farmers Association Stuttgart
- District farmers' association Tuttlingen
- District farmers' association Zollern-Albkreis
Swabian farming school
The LBV is the sponsor of the Swabian Farmer's School in Bad Waldsee, which was founded on December 22, 1949 by Bernhard Bauknecht. The founding fathers of the LBV in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ernst Geprägs and Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, built up and expanded this training center into what is today the LBV's training center . All three were, until their death, sought-after specialist lecturers in the fields of ecology , economics , agriculture, modern agricultural technology and rural agriculture .
Trade journals of the LBV
- BWagrar Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt , published weekly, for farmers in Northern Württemberg and Northern Baden
- BWagrar Schwäbischer Bauer , published weekly, for farmers in southern Württemberg and Hohenzollern
Services
The following service companies belong to the state farmers' association as subsidiaries:
- ADIA-Zert GmbH, control and certification services
- AgriConcept Beratungsgesellschaft mbH, construction supervision, management consulting, appraisals
- AGR-Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, tax advice, accounting
- Book office Landesbauernverband Baden-Württemberg GmbH, tax advice, business advice, accounting
- BWagrar Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt and Schwäbischer Bauer, trade journal for agriculture and rural life with online offer
- LBV Unternehmensberatungs-Dienst GmbH, insurance, asset planning
- LGG Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, tax advice, accounting for LuF and trade, company formation
- PRO-CM Computer-Management und Service GmbH, IT system house for agriculture and trade
- QS Landwirtschaftliche Qualitätssicherung Baden-Württemberg GmbH, advice and support for participation in quality assurance programs
- Service and marketing company Landesbauernverband Baden-Württemberg mbH, milk exchange, service offers
history
History of the agricultural representation in Baden-Württemberg
After the great famine in 1817, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg set up an agricultural association. This should serve to stimulate and spread agricultural industry and economic prosperity. Wilhelm I had a personal interest in agriculture and was known as the "king of farmers". On September 23, 1817, the king called an agricultural festival into being, which is still held today as the main agricultural festival. A magazine was also announced, although it was not published for the first time until 1834. Today the magazine is known as BWagrar Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt based in Stuttgart. The Agricultural Association was primarily a funding instrument for practical agriculture. It is therefore closely related to the founding of the agricultural teaching and research institute in Hohenheim (later the Hohenheim Agricultural School). In the eighties and nineties, the association dealt with new tasks: founding agricultural cooperatives, promoting the insurance industry, quoting prices and supplying workers.
History of the LBV
The establishment of the farmers' associations in Baden-Württemberg is closely related to the division of the state into two zones of occupation. The founding committee for the Baden Agricultural Main Association (BLHV) met in southern Baden on May 29, 1946, and its founding meeting took place on November 18 of the same year. This association had to be limited to the southern Baden part of the country, since northern Baden, but also northern Württemberg, was under American occupation. South Württemberg and Hohenzollern were under French administration.
Development in the north
In the north of Baden-Württemberg, farmers Heinrich Stooß and Jakob Dobler were committed to starting an association again. In late autumn 1946, a provisional organizing committee of the main association of Württemberg-Baden farmers' associations took place, the first meeting of which took place in December 1946 in Stuttgart. In addition to the initiators, ten other farmers from Württemberg and seven farmers from Baden took part. Heinrich Stooß took over the chairmanship. He wanted an organization that would take on similar tasks to the traditional farmers' associations of the pre-National Socialist era. In the winter of 1946/47 the founding committee finally met three times under the direction of Franz Ströbele before the founding meeting of the Württemberg-Baden farmers' association took place on March 14, 1947. Previously founded district farmers' associations (KBV) took part in the meeting. The adopted future statute determined that the professional association is an amalgamation of the district farmers' associations and that its main task is to represent agriculture, forestry, horticulture, viticulture and other branches of agriculture. The seat of the association is Stuttgart. The association's first president was Franz Ströbele, and Waggershauser's first managing director.
Post-war president in the Stuttgart Association
- Franz Ströbele (1947–1952)
- Heinrich Stooß (1952–1968)
- Carl Dobler (1968-1989)
Development in the south
In southern Württemberg, including the Hohenzollern areas, professional reorganization was carried out early on. In the winter of 1946/47 there was a wave of founding local associations and district farmers' associations. The French occupying power had initially prevented the 15 KBVs from merging to form a state farmers 'association, until the state farmers' association for Württemberg and Hohenzollern was finally founded on September 25, 1947. The driving force were Bernhard Bauknecht and Franz Weiß. Bernhard Bauknecht was elected the first President of the South Württemberg Association. Association headquarters was initially in Sigmaringen, from 1951 in Ravensburg.
The presidents of the Ravensburger Verband
- Bernhard Bauknecht (1947–1973)
- Ernst Geprägs (1973–1989)
The merger - the LBV is created
In May 1989 the delegates of the Northern and Southern Association in Ulm decided to merge the two associations. The state capital Stuttgart was chosen as the headquarters, while the previous headquarters of the Southern Association in Ravensburg was retained as part of the office. The delegates elected Ernst Geprägs as the first president of the state farmers' association. The co-founder of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg, Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, was elected the first vice-president and lobbyist of the LBV in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg . Geprägs and Schnitzler are considered to be the founding fathers of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg.
President of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg since 1989
| 1989-1997 | Ernst Geprägs |
| 1997-2006 | Gerd Hockenberger |
| 2006 – today | Joachim Rukwied |
Main agricultural festival
Every four years the Cannstatter Volksfest is connected to the Main Agricultural Festival (LWH) - the original trigger for the autumn hustle and bustle on the Cannstatter Wasen. Many suppliers show their products and services for everything to do with agriculture, such as high-tech for cultivation and harvesting, storage, refrigeration technology, livestock farming and much more. The main agricultural festival lasts 9 days (first week of the fair) and, unlike the fair, costs admission. The rhythm of the organization has changed since the main festival in 2006: the event previously took place every three years, now at irregular intervals. Presidents and officials of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg open the main agricultural festival with a speech. The main speakers and jointly responsible for the execution were among others the co-founders of the state farmers' association in Baden-Württemberg, Ernst Geprägs and Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler. The last main festival took place in Stuttgart from September 29 to October 7, 2018.
literature
- P. Ackermann: The German farmers' association in the political power play of the Federal Republic. Mohr, Tübingen 1970. ISBN 978-3-16-830211-7 .
- State farmers 'association in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): For farmers in Baden-Württemberg - 50 years of the state farmers' association. Stuttgart 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The legal seat is Stuttgart: Entry at the Stuttgart District Court under VR 34 (see joint register portal of the federal states )
- ↑ LBV: Farmers' Association (BV) on site ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Status 2010.
- ↑ BWagrar , the online offering of agricultural weekly paper.
- ^ A b c d e f g State farmers 'association in Baden-Württemberg (ed.): For the farmers in Baden-Württemberg - 50 years of the state farmers' association. Stuttgart 1997.
- ^ Heinrich Maurer: The state farmers' association - growth from two roots . Ed .: Landesbauernverband in Baden-Württemberg e. V. Stuttgart 1997, p. 142 ff .
- ↑ Agricultural Main Festival 2018. Online at Messen.de, accessed on January 2, 2017.
