Agricultural associations
Agricultural associations were founded in the legal form of an association towards the end of the 18th century and in the course of the 19th century. Its main historical goal was the exercise of educational tasks in agricultural regions.
history
The ideas of the Enlightenment penetrated into the regions of agriculture in Germany during the 18th century , whereby the transmission of mercantilistic and cameralistic knowledge was initially the driving force. In the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein , the initiatives for such reforms came from Philipp Ernst Lüders and Caspar Voght . The aim of these reformers was the implementation of a rationalistic economic management with an optimal benefit for the farmer and the state.
The first founding was the Oeconomic Reading Society in Cismar in East Holstein in 1798. Around 1820, further associations were founded with the aim of further training and advice to farmers . In Prussia , the number of clubs rose from ten in 1810 to a total of five thousand in 1910.
One of those associations that are still active in the Federal Republic of Germany is, for example, the Frankfurt Agricultural Association , which was founded in 1860 .
aims
The agricultural associations had set their own goals. In particular, the associations wanted to make a contribution to the education of farmers and advise this professional group in economic matters. For this purpose, the associations used trained hiking instructors , lectures were given and publications were distributed. The associations also had the goal of founding and operating agricultural schools as professional educational institutions . Lucas Andreas Staudinger created the first agricultural teaching and educational institute in Germany in 1797 on a leasehold in Groß Flottbek near Hamburg .
From these original objectives, the need for a concentrated representation of interests developed towards the end of the 19th century , so that the establishment of a chamber of agriculture could emerge from a large number of agricultural associations .
literature
- Peter Vollrath: Agricultural advisory and educational system in Schleswig-Holstein in the period from 1750 to 1850. In: Society for Schleswig-Holstein History (Hrsg.): Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 35.Wachholtz, Neumünster 1957
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt , Ortwin Pelc (Ed.): The new Schleswig-Holstein Lexicon. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, Lemma Agricultural Associations.
- ^ Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): The Chamber of Agriculture for the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. Career and development in the years 1896-1929. 2nd edition, Kiel 1929, p. 1.