Between 1880 and 1910, Germany was the world's leading producer of sugar, regularly accounting for more than one-fifth of the total world suply. Sugar beet cultivation, sugar milling and sugar refining were nutured by a complex web of production incentives, export subsidies and scientific-technical research. Click here for a guide to some of my recent papers on sugar topics and data on the sugar industry itself.
Diederich Hahn was the most famous and controversial Agrarian radical in Wilhelmine Germany. A historian by training, Hahn was an archivist for the Deutsche Bank for seven years before his election to the Reichstag in 1893. From 1897 until his death in 1918, Hahn was the Director of the Bund der Landwirte, Germany's largest and best-organized special interest group. In this role, Hahn proved to be an agitional and organizational innovator of the highest order, leaving his imprint upon German rural politics long after his passing. Click here for an update of my work on Hahn and German rural politics.
Agrarianism in the Regierungsbezirk Stade
In my research on Diederich Hahn, I have come upon some interesting material that will change the way scholars understand both German agrarianism and the dynamics of local politics. Click here for further information on this project.
citations
No historian likes to work in a vacuum, and I am no different. Click here to view where my work has been cited.