Vorphila-Brief Landesökonomiekollegium Berlin 1850, Over Hanf-Anbau, Sign Chain

You are bidding on an interesting one Pre Philatelic Coverfrom 1850 out of Berlin.

TheState Economic College turns to the board of Minden-Revensbergisches main agricultural association in Bielefeld.

Concerns the Cultivation of hemp cultivation.

Dated Berlin, 15. August 1850.

Transcription: "We request the board of the Minden-Ravensberg agricultural main association with reference to our letter of 13. April last year, kindly to send us the desired expert opinion on the proposals of Consul Delius for the promotion of hemp culture. In particular, we ask for an answer on the point suggested in that letter of instruction through scriptures and through guidance on the practical process by means of particularly competent hemp builders etc. In the obliging letter of the board dated 28. v. Mts. Due to the approval of funds for flax and hemp cultivation, it is noted that they intend to send travel commissioners to Belgium to learn how to prepare hemp. As far as we know, the countries in which this branch of the economy is practiced in an exemplary manner are not Belgium, but the papal legations, Lombardy, Alsace and Baden. We ask for a statement on this as soon as possible."

The "Annals of Agriculture in the Royal Prussian States", vol. 1850, p. 113, in the treatise "Report of the Commission of the Second Chamber to Investigate the Distress of Spinners and Weavers in Silesia, in Eichsfelde and in Westphalia. 1. Special report from Westphalia": "Consul Delius proposes increasing domestic hemp cultivation through corporations and contracts with the German Navy."

Signed in representation "chain", ie the Secret Higher Government Council Gottlieb Wilhelm Chain (1784-1864), who was one of the founding members of the Landesökonomiekollegium, which was re-established in 1842; from 1858 to 1864 he was its president.

Scope:a text page, two blank pages and an address page (34.3 x 21.5 cm).

Format (folded): 9 x 17.3 cm.

Condition:Letter folded in the middle. Paper browned and somewhat stained, with small tears in the fold. address sheet trimmed at an angle; the seal is incomplete. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Ostbhf 23-08

About the State Economics College (source: wikipedia):

TheState Economic College was a "central agricultural authority" subordinate to the agricultural department of the Ministry of the Interior in Prussia, and from 1848 to the Ministry of Agriculture as a technical advisory board. After the appointment of its first members in March 1842, the Landesökonomiekollegium began its activities with the opening of its sessions on March 30, 1842. July of the year.

The first attempts to set up state economic colleges took place between 1811 and 1815. So on the 17th October 1811 issued the "Instructions for the General Commissariats for the Regulation of Landlord and Peasant Conditions and for the State Economic Collegia", after previously on 3. October 1811 seven general commissioners were appointed by the king, "for the Kurmark the privy councilor and knighthood director von Goldbeck" (1768-1867), son of Heinrich Julius von Goldbeck, "for the Neumark the district administrator von Sack" (* 1770), " for Lower Silesia the government councilor v. Lüttwitz" (1776-1837), "for Upper Silesia the government councilor and general landscape representative of Jordan" (1762-1833), the father of Ludwig Alexander von Jordan, "for East Prussia the landscape councilor of Sydow" (1775-1840), "for West Prussia the Landrath Freyherrn von Schroetter" (1779-1854), a son of Karl Wilhelm von Schrötter, as well as "for Pomerania the Landequerry von Brauchitsch". Collegii” appointed.

With the "Ordinance for the improved establishment of the provincial authorities" of 30. On April 1, 1815, the state economics college was abolished.

It was not until three decades later that the establishment of a state economics college was tackled again, when on 3 May 1841 by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. approved the founding of the college and appointed Ludolph von Beckedorff as its director. When it was founded in March 1842, twelve full members were appointed; four “from the class of ministerial councillors”: Adolph Maetzke, Gottlieb Wilhelm chain, Gustav Schwinck and Georg von Viebahn; three “from the class of scientific technicians”: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici, Heinrich Gustav Magnus and Alexander von Lengerke; five "from the class of practical farmers": Christoph August von Bredow, Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz, Johann Gottlieb Koppe, Carl von Treskow and Carl von Wulffen. The extraordinary members were "not yet appointed". With the exception of Alexander von Lengerke, who as general secretary of the college received an annual salary of 1,600 thalers, the other members "accepted their position as honorary posts with great willingness".

According to the printed “List of full and extraordinary members of the Königliches Landes-Economie-Collegium” from January 1867, the number of members of the college rose to 50: in addition to the chairman and the general secretary, there were 28 full and 20 extraordinary members.

In 1878 and 1898 it was reorganized. From 1898 until its dissolution in February 1921, it served as the office of the Chamber of Agriculture for processing common affairs. The Main Chamber of Agriculture took its place. Of the 34 members of the Landesökonomiekollegium, 25 were elected, 2 each from 11 chambers of agriculture and one each from the chambers in Kassel and Wiesbaden and the agricultural central office for Hohenzollern, while a further 9 members were appointed directly by the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture.

The state economics college was convened for several days in February each year. The negotiations were subsequently published in the »Agricultural Yearbooks«.

persons

Ludolph von Beckedorff, director from May 1841, president from June 1845.

Hans von Schwerin-Löwitz, President from 1901