- Hermann Kennemann
Hermann Kennemann-Klenka (1815-1910) was a
Prussia npolitician and landowner, co-founder of theGerman Eastern Marches Society . He was notable as one of the main supporters ofGermanization of Polish lands then ruled byGerman Empire .Kennemann used to be one of the members of various Prussian economical and political organisations in the
Province of Posen . Among them was the Society for Support of German Interests founded after the failedJanuary Uprising and then theJunker Society founded in 1865.In 1894, together with
Ferdinand von Hansemann andHeinrich von Tiedemann , he created the "Society for Support of Germanness in the Eastern Territories", later renamed theGerman Eastern Marches Society . Although Kennemann was considered one of the leaders of the German nationalist movement in the area, his age and the influence of the society's chief, Tiedemann, made his influence over its fate largely symbolic. However, he remained its member and one of the sponsors until his death in 1910.References
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Witold Jakóbczyk , "Przetrwać na Wartą 1815-1914", "Dzieje narodu i państwa polskiego", vol. III-55, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1989
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