Peasants Mutual Aid Association
The Association of Peasant Mutual Aid ( VdgB ) was a mass organization of peasants in the German Democratic Republic - led by the SED, as well as all other political parties and mass organizations of the GDR. Recently (1989 ) had the VdgB 640,000 members in 8,000 local organizations.
History
From the formed since the fall of 1945 commissions for land reform and committees of mutual Bauernhilfe, (East) in November 1947 at the First German Farmers' Day in Berlin, the Central Association of Peasant Mutual Aid ( " ZVdgB " ) established that in November 1950 with the Central Association of agricultural cooperatives in Germany to unite the peasant mutual aid / farmers' trade unions ( VdgB / BHG ) merged. Highest organs of the Association of Peasant Mutual Help were the " German Farmers' Day ", later the "central delegates conferences ". The aim of the organization was initially to support land reform and later the construction of a socialist agriculture. For that began in 1952 collectivization of DDR Agriculture - formation of agricultural production cooperatives ( LPG) - operated by the SED along the lines of " Lenin's cooperative plan ," the VdgB / BHG also continued with its burden of functions on the issue of seed, fertilizer and feed and in the collection of agricultural products a.
As an organ of the press appeared in 1946, the weekly newspaper The Free Bauer, from 1985 as VdgB Newspaper Our village. After 1957, the only organization " Association of Peasant Mutual Aid ', or abbreviated " VdgB ", called (order of V. German Farmers' Day ). It consisted of the local organizations of the VdgB whose work of district directors, district directors and to the board of VdgB was guided and controlled. The district board members and the Central Committee of the VdgB were also the economic managerial and " balance " institutions and Auditing Association of Cooperatives of VdgB, especially of Peasant trade cooperatives ( BHG ) ( 1989: 272 legally independent companies 26,000 employees ), the two wine cooperatives in the GDR in Freyburg and Meissen and the 86 dairy cooperatives ( for this test only service), which were themselves institutions of local organizations VdgB. The VdgB was a member of the National Front of the German Democratic Republic and was represented in municipal councils, and from 1950 to 1963 and from 1986 to 1990 in the People's Chamber.
At least since the seventies saw your tasks reinforced - in addition to material - technical supply of farms - to improve the working and living conditions in the villages, the maintenance of rural traditions of Culture and Sport and the holiday planning of cooperative farmers ( " Holiday Service " - including " VdgB convalescent home Ringberg house " in Suhl with over 180,000 travelers since its opening in 1979, "guests and holidaymakers home of VdgB " in goats back ). The GDR international relations supported the VdgB with the exchange of farmers' delegations and qualification of officials of other countries in the agricultural school of engineering VdgB " Friedrich Wehmer " in Teutschenthal. A separate division in the Central Committee of the VdgB tried to establish relations with the FRG, especially with the German Farmers Association ( DBV). Your work financed the VdgB from profit transfers by VdgB cooperatives, especially BHG.
During the turn of 1989/90, the VdgB shared in the farming community of the GDR eV ( for representing the interests of farmers ) on the one hand and the Raiffeisen Association of the GDR eV (especially for the Peasant trade unions ) on the other, but its work no later than the accession of the GDR ceased with the FRG. German of the (West ) Cooperative organization vehemently supported demand - - Preceding that was the Federal Agency for the (BAKred - BaFin today ) after October 3, 1990 the right to audit the cooperative associations had lapsed in the acceding territory on 30 August 1990 and they to connect to the associations in the former West Germany had. Except for Saxony all Raiffeisen associations of this demand came in the GDR; the Thuringian Association decided its liquidation in September, 1990, the merged in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - hitherto tolerated - 1993rd in Saxony- Anhalt, it did not even came to an association's establishment in the legal sense. The tasks as umbrella organizations were from the West German co-operative organizations ( German Cooperative and Raiffeisen Confederation ( DGRV ), Association of local cooperative banks ( BVR ) and the German Raiffeisen Association (DRV ) ) taken over the Federal Republic. The Raiffeisenverband the GDR was converted into the working circuit of cooperative associations and liquidated around 1994. As East German association remained only the Cooperative Association of Saxony - founded on 19 April 1990, later (from 2004) middle German Cooperative Association ( Raiffeisen / Schulze- Delitzsch) eV exist until this 2013 eV with the Cooperative Association, Frankfurt, by fusion in this rose.
Chairman
- Otto Körting, SPD / SED November 1947 - March 1950
- Friedrich Wehmer, SED, 1950 - February 1964
- Ernst Wulf, SED, March 1964 - October 1979
- Fritz Dallmann, SED, September 1982 - March 1990