Central Moor Commission
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Central Moor Commission |
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| Supervisory authority | Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests |
| founding | 1876 |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Authority management | most recently Max von Landsberg-Velen |
| Web presence | - |
The Central Moor Commission , Commission for Moor Matters , Central Moor Commission , Central Moor Commission or just briefly Moor Commission was an advisory body of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Prussian central authority based in Berlin .
history
Karl Rudolf Friedenthal founded the commission in 1876. Its purpose was the collection, appraisal and promotion of all measures pertaining to the peatland in order to better cultivate and use peatlands . In connection with and under their supervision, the moor experimental station was built in Bremen in 1877 .
By the rules of procedure of February 17, 1893 issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, its activities were extended to the promotion of efforts aimed at improving the cultivation of the light sandy soil. The chairman and members were each appointed by the minister for three years. From 1895 the state of Oldenburg was represented by its own member.
Chairperson
literature
- Handbook on the Prussian State, published by the Prussian State Ministry for 1938 , Berlin 1938, p. 138
- Central Moor Commission: Minutes of the ... Meeting of the Central Moor Commission: on ... (Formerly: Commission for moor matters: Meeting of the Central Commission for moorland. ) Berlin: German newspaper 1878 to 1930
- Moritz Fleischer: The activity of the Central Moor Commission according to the official minutes of its 1st to 11th meeting in the years 1876-79. Parey, 1882
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ German National Library: Central Commission for the Moorlands .
- ↑ German National Library: Central Moor Commission .
- ^ Gustav Friedrich von Schoenberg: Handbook of the political economy, in connection with Ministerialrat A. Buchenberger, Gustav Schönberg. Volume 2, Issue 3, H. Laupp, 1891, page 84.