Kółko Rolnicze „Snop” w Samarzewie i jego kontynuacje organizacyjno-prawne w okresie powojennym
Farmer Association „Snop” in Samarzewo and Its Organisational and Legal Continuations in the Post-War Period

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1920s, in Samarzewo, the idea of establishing an farmer’s association appeared. It obviously had a much older origin in the Polish lands. The abolition of serfdom triggered the need to organise various forms of activity in rural areas. The very process of establishing agricultural association swas initiated in different regions at different times and proceeded at different rates. It also showed some specific differences in the various annexed terrytories.The first farmer’s association in Samarzewo was probably established in the mid-1920s. The next procedure for the registration of an agricultural association was undertaken at the end of 1930. It was then that the new statute of the Samarzewo Machinery Ring was approved by the provincial governor and the farmer’s association was entered in the Register of Associations and Unions. The association in Samarzewo failed to become active and remained only a structure on paper. In February 1937, steps were taken to reactivate them. The first meeting to reconstitute this structure was attended by 35 inhabitants.The first of September 1939 saw the end of the Samarzew associations activity. We had to wait almost twenty years for the revival of the idea of associations in Samarzewo. The sixties saw the greatest development of the Samarzew Farmer’s association. It was then that Mieczysław Urbaniak became its president and led it until its dissolution in the mid-1970s. This development was interrupted by administrative and legal changes in 1973. At that time, the entire machinery stock was gradually transferred from the Farmer’s associations to the Cooperative Farmer’s Associations. In April 1996, a resolution was passed in Samarzewo to withdraw from SKR “Warta” in Ladek.In this form, the associations operated until 2023, when the last president initiated the decommissioning procedure. This is how the nearly 100-year history of farmer’s associations in Samarzewo ended. Undoubtedly, these organisations had a very significant impact on the economic but also social image of Samarzewo. Obviously, their function was subject to certain modifications depending on the political and economic environment in which they had to operate. However, they always stimulated development and effective forms of farming, but, equally importantly, they were a kind of school of social activity.

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