Lecture by Jan Ocker

This richly illustrated lecture examines the history of protest actions by Schleswig-Holstein farmers from the Weimar Republic to the present day. Special attention is given to the 'Landvolk movement' of the late 1920s, the demonstrations in the context of the German Farmers' Congress held in Kiel in 1971, as well as current protests in the 21st century. Jan Ocker is a research assistant at the Historical Seminar of Kiel University and his doctoral research focuses on Prussian agrarian history, specifically the 'Rentengüter' (rent estates) used for internal colonisation in Schleswig-Holstein and Posen-West Prussia at the beginning of the last century.