Part 11: Insurance and Thrift 



GERMANY. 



THE PRINCIPAL FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES 

 FOR THE INSURANCE OF CATTLE IN EAST PRItSSIA. 



SOURCES : 



Maktens, Administrator : Vom Hauptverbande Ostpreussischei Viehversichemngs-vereinc. 

 Berichte fiir 1914 und 1915 {The Principal Federation of East Prussian Societies for the In- 

 surance of Cattle : Reports for 1914 and 1915). Georgine, nos. 65-66, 69-70 and 77-78 of 14 

 and 28 August and 25 September 191 5 and nos. 39-40 and 41-42 of 13 and 20 Ma^' 1916, 

 Koenigsberg. 



§ I, General report of activity in 1914 and 1915. 



The federation was definitely founded on 11 November 1913 by the 

 union of sixteen societies, and after having freed itself from the guardian- 

 ship of the Chamber of Agriculture it reached the important position of 

 an independent enterprise, deriving profits from its reinsurance fund and 

 the subsidies allotted to it by the Chamber of Agriculture and the province, 

 in the form of sums assigned to administrative ends. 



It was obliged at the beginning of the war to limit to the transaction of 

 current business its federal activity but this could resume its former course 

 from 15 December 1914. In the first year of its existence the federation 

 did no more than extend insurance within the territory of the province, prii.- 

 cipally by founding new societies in favour of which it pursued an energetic 

 propaganda. But since the war continued, the following year — 1915 — 

 could not but be devoted to an effort to maintain the status quo and to re- 

 conquer lost ground. This was why the federation was obliged to confine 



