East Prussian Land Company
The East Prussian Landgesellschaft was established as a public corporation in Königsberg i. Pr . Founded . It was intended to counter the rural exodus, which, along with structural weakness and unprotected borders, was one of the central problems facing East Prussia.
meaning
East Prussia had given 739,000 people to industry since 1840 . Only the smallest part of them had got a job in the industrial plants of the German East - in the Schichau works or in the cellulose works in Königsberg , Tilsit and Ragnit . Most of the emigrants were born farmers' sons. After the founding of the German Empire in 1871, the rural exodus in East Prussia intensified ; because industrialization offered the poor rural population tempting prospects in the west of the empire.
Supported by Prussia , the East Prussian Landgesellschaft was supposed to enable the later sons of the farmers to have their own farm. In the whole province the inner settlement was strongly promoted by the rural society. Before the First World War , she set up 1,600 settler positions on 35,000 hectares of former large estates . There were predominantly peasant farms of 15–20 ha, but also artisan and workers' settlements of 1–2 ha. The debt relief of old property was promoted by the Property Consolidation Act, primarily in the Olsztyn administrative district. Also cooperative associations were involved, the East and West Prussian agriculture strong. The settlement, supported by the Landgesellschaft and the state cultural offices, created 7,820 new jobs on 94,000 hectares between 1919 and 1930, i.e. in twelve years. In more than twice the time since 1891, only a little over half of these had been done.
The general director of the East Prussian Landgesellschaft was the a. D. Arthur Gramberg († 1917). Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl was director from 1909 to 1932 ( Preußenschlag ). As a non-profit provincial settlement company, it was a limited liability company (Germany) during the Nazi era from 1933 to 1942 .
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on East Prussian Landgesellschaft in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Annual report 1908–1936 (econbiz.de)
Individual evidence
- ^ R. Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002
- ↑ Renewal and progress 1807-1914 (preussenweb.de)
- ↑ Landesbauernführer, Vol. 1 (2017)