FORESTS AOT EMPLOYMENT IN GERMANY 



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Table 11. — Percent distribution of laborers in the State forests of Prussia in 1924 

 according to principal occupation 1 



Administrative district (Regierungsbe- 

 zirk) 



Konigsberg 



Gumbinnen 



Allenstein 



Schneidemiihl.. 



Potsdam 



Frankfurt -a. -O.. 



Stettin 



Koslin 



Stralsund 



Breslau-Liegnitz 



Oppeln 



Magdeburg 



Merseburg 



Erfurt 



Sehleswig 



Hannover 



Hildesheim 



Luneburg 



Stade 



Minden 



Arnsberg 



Kassell 



Wiesbaden 



Koblenz 



Diisseldorf 



Koln 



Trier 



Aachen 



Total 



Forest 



Small 



Farm 



Indus- 



Miscel- 

 laneous 

 unskilled 



work 



farmer 



labor 



trial work 



Percent 



Percent 



Percent 



Percent 



Percent 



17 



13 



17 



9 



44 



21 



22 



16 



3 



38 



19 



14 



19 



4 



44 



16 



12 



18 



4 



50 



11 



10 



10 



14 



55 



12 



15 



9 



8 



56 



10 



8 



14 



12 



56 



20 



9 



15 



2 



54 



17 



4 



19 



10 



50 



14 



13 



8 



11 



54 



10 



28 



6 



8 



48 



16 



8 



5 



8 



63 



9 



15 



8 



14 



54 



16 



13 



5 



12 



54 



8 



14 



36 



21 



21 



14 



27 



18 



9 



32 



43 



5 



4 



13 



35 



16 



32 



9 



5 



38 



17 



50 



14 



7 



12 



24 



23 



5 



14 



34 



30 



20 



2 



9 



39 



5 



32 



6 



17 



40 



2 



39 



4 



20 



35 



4 



41 



7 



10 



38 



17 



46 



15 



3 



19 



13 



4 



7 



12 



64 



10 



32 



3 



5 



50 



21 



17 



2 



3 



57 



14 



19 



11 



10 



46 



Total em- 

 ployed 



Number 

 6,737 

 6,326 

 10, 348 

 5,309 

 9,882 

 9,786 

 5,796 

 4,514 

 1,270 

 7,102 

 4,784 

 3,450 

 4,186 

 3,160 

 1,495 

 3,524 

 4,524 

 3,249 

 1,268 

 2,049 

 990 

 15, 508 

 5,360 

 2,246 

 445 

 634 

 3,149 

 1,049 



128, 140 



i Based on Treitschke (38) . 



As these figures indicate, the number of what might be termed "pro- 

 fessional" forest laborers is relatively low in Prussia, but varies con- 

 siderably for different districts. They comprise a particularly small 

 part of the total in the western districts of Wiesbaden, Koblenz, and 

 Kassell, and in Sehleswig. On the other hand, their numbers are 

 relatively large in the Hildesheim, Arnsberg, and Minden districts 

 of northwestern Prussia, and in East Prussia and Pomerania in the 

 northeast. The percentage of farmers and farm laborers is especially 

 high in the Stade, Sehleswig, Hannover, and Luneburg districts, all in 

 the northwest, and in the fihineland districts of Diisseldorf, Koblenz, 

 and Wiesbaden. The percentage of industrial workers is low in the 

 eastern districts, as might be expected, and also in several in the 

 extreme western part of the country (Aachen, Trier, Diisseldorf). It 

 is highest in Sehleswig and in Wiesbaden (Rhine Valley). The high 

 percentage of miscellaneous unskilled workers is accounted for by the 

 inclusion in this group of the women and children, most of whom are 

 not otherwise gainfully employed. 



In certain sections of Wurttemberg most of the forest workers are 

 small farmers or seasonal building workers such as carpenters and 

 bricklayers. The shareholders in some association (Korporation) 

 forests value the opportunity to work in the woods fully as much as 

 their share in the net forest income. An example is the Sondernach 

 forest, where each coowner has the right to 25 to 40 days' work a year, 

 at RM3 a day ($1.20). 



In Bavaria, in 1908, forest work was the main occupation of only 22 

 percent of the male forest workers; 47 percent were small farmers, 16 



