Lesy a lesní politika v zákonech k první pozemkové reformě v meziválečném Československu

• Authors: Michal Hrib , Josef Harna

Title variants

EN

Forests and Forest-related Policy in the Laws on the First Czechoslovak Land Reform between the Two World Wars

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Forests constituted in the First Czechoslovak Republic a major part of the natural resources available in the new state. It was therefore desirable to make the care of their healthy development and their balanced exploitation a matter of public interest. Forestry was mostly in the hands of the aristocratic owners of large estates. As there was no devastation of forest cultures, there was actually no danger in delay, and thus there was no reason for the state to take any immediate action. In spite of this, forests became immediately after the revolution one of the hottest topics of that time as they were an integral part of the first land reform, a major challenge to the state policy for a number of years after 1918. When all property transfers had been completed, a number of properties were excluded from confiscation and remained part of the original private estates, while some were not expropriated because the land reform had already finished in 1935 without having achieved the initial goals. A positive fact was that most of the confiscated property remained in the hands of the state. A company named State Forests and Estates with good management was established and entrusted with its care.

Keywords

EN

History; 20th century; Czechoslovakia; land reform; forests and; forestry

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 145-171

Contributors

author

Michal Hrib

• Fakulta lesní a dřevařská Česká zemědělská univerzita Praha, Czech Republic

author

Josef Harna

• Historický ústav AV ČR, Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic