See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH WILHELM See also:

• FRIEDRICH WILHELM RAIFFEISEN (1818-1888)

RAIFFEISEN (1818-1888)  , founder of the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• SYSTEM

system of agricultural co-operative See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks, was 1 The See also:

• PREAMBLE (Med. Lat. praeambulum, from praeambulare, to walk before)

preamble to the See also:

• FOREIGN

Foreign Enlistment See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 187o stated that its See also:

• OBJECT

object was "to make See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision for the regulation of the conduct of Her See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

Majesty's subjjects during the existence of hostilities between foreign states with which Her Majesty is at See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace." This preamble was repealed by the Statutes See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

Law Revision (No . 2) Act 1893 . z R. v . Sandoval, 1886, 56 Law Times, 526 . 2 R. v . Jemeson, 1896, 2 Q.B., 425 . See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HAMM

Hamm on the Sieg on the 3oth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March x818, being the son of Gottfried See also:

• RAIFFEISEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1818-1888)

Raiffeisen, burgomaster of that See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . Educated privately, he entered the See also:

• ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery in See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne, but defective eyesight compelled him to leave the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army . He then entered the public service at See also:

• COBLENZ (KOBLENZ)

Coblenz, and in 1845 was appointed burgomaster of Weyerbusch . Here he was so successful that in 1848 he was transferred in a like capacity to Flammersfeld, and in 1852 to Heddersdorf . Raiffeisen devoted himself to the improvement of the social See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the cultivators of the See also:

• SOIL

soil, and did See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• WORK

work in the planning of public roads and in other ways . The See also:

• DISTRESS

distress of the years 1846-41, the causes of which he discerned in the slight amount of See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit obtainable by the small landed proprietors, led him to seek for a remedy in co-operation, and at Heddersdorf and at Weyerbusch he founded the first agricultural co-operative See also:

• LOAN (adapted from the Scandinavian form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Swed. Mn, Icel. lan, Dut. leen; the O.E. laen appears in " lend," the ultimate source is seen in the root of Gr. Xeiaecv and Lat. linquere, to leave)

loan banks (Darlehnskassenverein) .

These banks were called after him, and their See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation resulted in a widespread system of See also:

• LAND

land banks, supported by the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . In 1865 the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of his See also:

• HEALTH

health compelled him to retire, but he continued to take an See also:

• INTEREST

interest in the See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement he had originated, and in 1878 he founded at Neuwied a periodical, Das landwirtschaftlicheGenossenschaftsblatt . He died on the r ith of March 1888 . Among Raiffeisen's writings are, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Darlehnskassenvereine als Mittel zur Abhilfe (Neuwied, 1866; new ed., 1887); Anleitung zur Geschafts- and Buchfahrung landlichen Spar- and Darlehnskassenvereine (new ed., 1896); and Kurze Anleitung zur Griindung von Darlehnskassenvereinen (new ed., x893) . See A . Wattig, See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (189o); H . W . See also:

• WOLFF (less correctly WOLF), CHRISTIAN (1679-1754)
• WOLFF, CASPAR FRIEDRICH (1733-1794)
• WOLFF, JOSEPH (1795–1862)

Wolff, See also:

• PEOPLE

People's Banks . A See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

Record of Social and Economic Success (1895); and Fassbender, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1902) .