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Japanese: ライフアイゼン

1818‐88
German agricultural cooperative leader. Born in Hamm on the Sieg River, a tributary of the Rhine, as the son of a town mayor. At the age of 17, he volunteered to join the army, but was discharged in 1842 due to eye disease. He worked as a temporary employee at the Koblenz city hall, then as a district clerk in Mayen, before becoming mayor of the Bayerbusch municipality at the age of 27 in 1845. He served as mayor of towns and villages throughout the Rhineland-Palatinate until he retired in 1865 due to blindness, and thereafter devoted himself entirely to the agricultural cooperative movement. Moved by the plight of rural people suffering from the poor harvest of 1846-47, he used his own money to establish a consumer cooperative (1846) and sought to provide relief to farmers through joint grain purchases and cooperative bread-making.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1818‐88
ドイツの農業協同組合指導者。ライン川支流のジーク河畔ハムに町長の子として生まれる。17歳のとき志願して軍隊に入ったが眼病のため1842年除隊，コブレンツ市庁臨時雇からマイエンの郡書記を経て，45年27歳でバイエルブッシュ自治区長となった。以来65年失明のため退職するまでラインラント･ファルツ州各地の町村長を務め，以後もっぱら農業協同組合運動に全身をささげた。1846‐47年の凶作に苦しむ農村民の窮状に心うたれ，私財を投じて消費組合を設立(1846)，穀物の共同購入や組合製パンなどによって農民救済を図った。

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