Gerhard Siegl

Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg

Produziert in Projektpartnerschaft mit dem vorarlberg museum Layout und Abwicklung Frank Mätzler, Bregenz Druck Druckerei Thurnher Rankweil Offenlegung gemäß §25 Mediengesetz: Das vorliegende Jahrbuch stellt die Fortführung des Jahrbuchs des Vorarlberger Landes-museumsvereins unter leicht verändertem Titel (seit 2011) dar. Das Jahrbuch des Vorarlbe...

Gerhard Siegl From the “Austrian Problem” to the “National Sanctuary”. Austrian Mountain Farming in the Nazi Era This article deals with the agricultural policy and racial ideology relating to mountain farming between 1938 and 1945, when Austria was a province of Nazi Germany. The Alpine farmers were confronted with numerous economic in- novations...

This article deals with the agricultural policy and racial ideology relating to mountain farming between 1938 and 1945, when Austria was a province of Nazi Germany. The Alpine farmers were confronted with numerous economic innovations and with the National Socialist "blood and soil" ideology, considering mountain farmers as the essential "raw mater...

In March 2016, the most prominent object in an Olympic Games memorabilia mail bid auction was the 1964 Innsbruck torch. With a minimum bid of $225,000, it was also by far the most expensive item. The torch highlighted the auction and was described as “very rare” and “of utmost importance”. It was sold at a spectacular price. Given the high sales pr...

Produziert in Projektpartnerschaft mit dem vorarlberg museum Layout und Abwicklung Frank Mätzler, Bregenz Druck Druckerei Thurnher Rankweil Offenlegung gemäß §25 Mediengesetz: Das vorliegende Jahrbuch stellt die Fortführung des Jahrbuchs des Vorarlberger Landes-museumsvereins unter leicht verändertem Titel (seit 2011) dar. Das Jahrbuch des Vorarlbe...

Produziert in Projektpartnerschaft mit dem vorarlberg museum Layout und Abwicklung Frank Mätzler, Bregenz Druck Druckerei Thurnher Rankweil Offenlegung gemäß §25 Mediengesetz: Das vorliegende Jahrbuch stellt die Fortführung des Jahrbuchs des Vorarlberger Landes-museumsvereins unter leicht verändertem Titel (seit 2011) dar. Das Jahrbuch des Vorarlbe...

Rural commons are natural resources exploited for agrarian purposes by organised social collectives in accordance with rules of use. As for the area concerned, this refers primarily to woods, pastures and waters, but in part also to meadows and arable land. This paper tries to shed light on the historiography of rural commons in the Alps and is org...

Niels Grüne/Gerhard Siegl: Contrasting persistence of rural commons in Tyrol and the Baden Palatinate (eighteenth–twenty-first centuries): Particularly in German-speaking agrarian historiography, research on rural commons has long been under the spell of their dissolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a result, the continuance of...

Niels Grüne/Jonas Hübner/Gerhard Siegl: Institutions and practices of the collective use of resources in the European agrarian economy. Comparative reflections and research perspectives. The last contribution sums up the major results of this volume. It adopts a comparative per- spective by relating the various observations to each other and by p...

Klaus Brandstätter, Gerhard Siegl Conflicts over wood resources and sustainable forest management in Tyrol from the Middle Ages to the 21st century To meet the growing demand for timber caused by the mining boom, since about 1450 the sovereigns drew on common woodland, drastically limiting residents’ use rights. In 16th-century decrees to regula...

The study concentrates on the history of mountain farming in the years 1938 to 1945, when Austria was occupied by National Socialist Germany. Despite the topographical differences of alpine farmland compared to lowland farmland there is no special literature dealing with mountain farming in this period of time so far. On the structural level the Na...

An intact landscape has not only an esthetic value; it also increases the quality of life for the resident population and the attractiveness for tourists. The landscape also provides essential ecological services for the society, such as soil conservation, preservation of biodiversity, and provision of clean water. The typical cultural landscape in...

This paper focuses on the ideological and economic position of the Austrian mountain farmers within the National Socialist agrarian policy. When the Nazi regime took over in Austria in March 1938, Germany was confronted with a completely different agriculture in terms of topographical and structural charac-teristics. Ignoring the voices calling for...

An intact landscape has not only an esthetic value, but it also increases the quality of life for the resident population and attractiveness for tourists. The landscape also provides essential ecological services for society, such as soil conservation, preservation of biodiversity, and provision of clean water. The typical cultural landscape in Tyr...

"Parts of the agricultural and forest areas in Tyrol have always been used communally, meaning their use had been open for all members of a community. Since the beginning of feudalism the sovereigns (nobility or clergy) were the owners of the land, but without having a serious impact on the exertion of user rights. Between the mid 19th century and...