Rich landowning families in the area have clashed with government officials seeking to distribute their land.
He came from Germany's landowning aristocracy.
Most of them were economically dependent on patronage from landowning families for survival over the year, for employment, for credit or emergency expenses.
Only 13 per cent of the widows with landowning fathers inherited as daughters, while 51 per cent of those with landowning husbands inherited as widows.
For the landowning classes, the demonstration of investment of labour and capital had moral and political connotations through the trope of improvement.
In most of the borderland, village communities are dominated by landowning males who stay with their land and marry wives from nearby villages.
