Agrarian League

Agrarian League

▪ German political organization
German  Bund Der Landwirte 

      extraparliamentary organization active under the German empire from 1893. Formed to combat the free-trade policies (initiated in 1892) of Chancellor Leo, Graf (count) von Caprivi (Caprivi, Leo, Graf von), the league worked for farmers' subsidies, import tariffs, and minimum prices. Caprivi's successor promised to increase wheat tariffs, but by 1900 the Agrarian League had increased to 250,000 members—50,000 more than its mid-1890s membership. By then it had largely captured the Conservative Party, which in the Reichstag (parliament) represented the economic self-interest of Germany's landed class. In 1902 another new chancellor restored agricultural tariffs (partly in return for support for legislation in naval expansion) to their 1892 levels, though this was insufficient for the league. In 1921 it became the Reichslandbund, or State Land League.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • AGRARIAN LEAGUE — (in German Bund der Landwirte ), extreme conservative German organization for the defense of agrarian interests, formed in 1893. Its membership included most of the Protestant farmers and farm laborers in the period of the German Kaiserreich.… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Agrarian League —    See Reichslandbund …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

  • League of Communists of Croatia — Savez Komunista Hrvatske Leader see full list below …   Wikipedia

  • League of Communists of Yugoslavia — SKJ redirects here, it can also refer to Skj (trigraph) League of Communists of Yugoslavia Savez Komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија …   Wikipedia

  • Nordic agrarian parties — The Nordic agrarian parties, or Nordic Centre parties, are agrarian political parties that belong to a political tradition peculiar to the Nordic countries. Positioning themselves in the centre of the political spectrum, but fulfilling roles… …   Wikipedia

  • List of agrarian parties — This is a list of agrarian parties, that is parties which explicitly rely on farmer s as their main constituency and/or adhere to some form of agrarianism. For a list of parties called Agrarian Party , Farmers Party or Peasants Party see Agrarian …   Wikipedia

  • Peasants' League — The Peasants League (in Dutch: Plattelandersbond , PB) was a Dutch agrarian political party. The League played only a minor role in Dutch politics.Party HistoryThe party was founded on February 17 1917. In the elections of the 1918 the party won… …   Wikipedia

  • United Irish League — The United Irish League (UIL) was a nationalist political party in Ireland. It was founded and initiated on 16 January 1898 at Westport, County Mayo by William O Brien , initially supported by Michael Davitt. and John Dillon who worded its… …   Wikipedia

  • National Agrarian Party (Romania) — The National Agrarian Party (Romanian:Partidul Naţional Agrar) was a right wing agrarian political party active in Romania during the early 1930s. The party emerged in 1932 following a split in the People s Party and in response to the conversion …   Wikipedia

  • National-Christian Defense League — The National Christian Defense League (Romanian: Liga Apărării Naţional Creştine or LANC) was a virulently anti Semitic political party of Romania formed by A. C. Cuza.[1] Contents 1 Origins 2 Growth …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”