East Westphalia plan

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The Ostwestfalenplan was an economic development measure in the period from 1953 to 1969 by the state government in North Rhine-Westphalia and the government of the Detmold district under Gustav Galle and was intended to help the strongly rural development area of Ostwestfalen , which was also burdened by the reception of a large number of refugees offer for industrial settlement.

The Ostwestfalenplan was composed of the support measures for the traffic, for the commercial economy and for the water management.

This was particularly successful in Bielefeld - Sennestadt with the new city quarter, in Paderborn through the expansion of industry and the establishment of new branches of production such as the furniture and food industries, in the Kalletal and Extertal through the settlement of industry.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Galle: The administrative district Detmold. Happy composition - connecting task - serving member. Article in: Monographs of German Economic Areas, Volume 4: Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The administrative district of Detmold, Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1957
  2. Federal Employment Agency, Regional Directorate North Rhine-Westphalia: Comparative Analysis of State Labor Markets, p. 54 (PDF file; 3.35 MB)