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The terms of the 1990 Unification Treaty precluded former agricultural land owners, expropriated by the Soviet Occupation authorities, from reclaiming their vast pre-war agricultural estates. In western Germany and in the newly privatized farms in eastern Germany, family farms predominate. In the 630,000 farms, there are 750,000 full-time ...
During land reform in November 1947, around an eight of Saxony's agricultural land (1,212 estates with 260,000 hectares of land) was expropriated and given to new farmers. According to the Potsdam Agreement , large German companies and the property of the most active Nazis were transferred to the control of the Allies of the second world war.
In the 1830s, land reforms began to be discussed in Europe by various influential social economists such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky and Eduard Bernstein. An early proponent of land reform in Germany was Hermann Gossen with his 1854 book Die Entwicklung der Gesetze des menschlichen Verkehrs und der daraus fließenden Regeln ...
The agricultural policy in the GDR occurred in three phases. The first of which was the so-called Bodenreform ("land reform"), where around 40% of the land used for cultivation was expropriated and redistributed without compensation. In 1952 the second phase of collectivization coincided with the abolition of privately owned and run farms.
Walter Ulbricht visiting an LPG collective farm in Trinwillershagen in January 1953. 1986 wheat harvest in an LPG.. In East Germany, a Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft (LPG) (English: 'Agricultural Production Cooperative') was a large, collectivised farm in East Germany, corresponding to the Soviet kolkhoz.
The Kaldenkirchen Sequoia Farm (German: Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen) is a German arboretum that has been used as a biological institute for many years. Part of the protected area in the city of Nettetal , it is situated in the " Kaldenkirchen Grenzwald" (forest bordering Germany and the Netherlands ).
BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition, racing to finalise a 2024 budget draft that was delayed by a court ruling, has made unexpected changes, including modifying plans to cut ...
Seven million forced laborers left for their own land, but about 14 million Germans came in from the East, living for years. It took nearly a decade for all the German POWs to return. In the West, farm production fell, food supplies were cut off from eastern Germany (controlled by the Soviets) and food shipments extorted from conquered lands ended.