L'inévitable restructuration des coopératives agricoles (LPG) dans l'ex-RDA

1. The German re-unification brings to the former German Democratic Republic (GRD) an unprecedented development : a new legislation, an agricultural reform, a new labor and productive cooperatives status, a re-distribution of land. Land as well as capital have then to be considered as new economics and social important stakes. A news law for the restructuration of enterprises provides the implementation of private economy. II. The end of the soviet model : In the course of 1972 used by cooperatives of class III is greater than that of cooperatives class I and II. Land was reduced to a means of production that was detained by the cooperatives and/or the state. Local taxation is introduced on the basis of past productivity evaluations. This tax takes equally into account the distance to the market and the reasoning of L. v. Thünen, a marginal cost analyst, who began to be rehabilitated by historians in the middle of the 1980s. III. What kind of status for the land : private or cooperative ? In 1991 there were about 600 failures in the field of agriculture. The law allowed until 31/12/1991 for the cooperatives to disappear. In so doing they had to chose between several juridical models fora market economy integration.