Hans von Kanitz
Hans Wilhelm Alexander Graf von Kanitz-Podangen (17 April 1841 in Mednicken – 30 June 1913 in Podangen) was a German politician for German Conservative Party and Junker.[1]
Life
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Kanitz was born in Mednicken, in the Province of Prussia (now Drushnoye, Zelenogradsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast).[2] In 1894 he proposed the Kanitz Plan: an import monopoly for grain, whereby all grain imports would be made on the government's account and resold on the home market at a price calculated from the average price of the last 40 years.[3] If import prices were below this level, the profits would go into a reserve fund that would be used to subsidise imports when the price rose above the average.[3] As grain prices at that time were lower than they had been for most of the previous 40 years, the effect of the Kanitz Plan would been considerable price rises.[3]
The Chancellors Leo von Caprivi and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst both opposed the scheme, with the latter condemning it as a dangerous step to socialism.[3] August Bebel, the Chairman of the Social Democrats, replied that a policy to make one class wealthier at the nation's expense, especially at the expense of the working class, was anything but social.[3]
The Kanitz Plan was adopted in modified form by the Nazis and by the Federal Republic.[4]
From 1885 to 1913 Kanitz was member of Prussian House of Representatives. Kanitz was from 1890 to 1913 member of German Reichstag for German Conservative Party.
Notes
[edit]- 1841 births
- 1913 deaths
- People from Zelenogradsky District
- People from the Province of Prussia
- Von Kanitz family
- Counts in Germany
- German Protestants
- German Conservative Party politicians
- Members of the 8th Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 9th Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 10th Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 11th Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 12th Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the Prussian House of Representatives