Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the U.S.

In the second half of the 19th century building by German settlers took place, encouraged by the Prussian Settlement Commission.

Majority of Polish sources translate the title as Colonization Commission rather than Settlement Commission, which is more politically charged.

Heads of the Settlement Commission were among the architects and supporters of those plans.

The authorities, however, continued efforts to Germanize the region, including through the activities of the Prussian Settlement Commission, founded in 1886.

The Prussian Settlement Commission relocated 154,000 colonists, including locals.

This was despite efforts of the government in Berlin, which established the Settlement Commission to buy land from Poles and make it available only to Germans.

One measure was to set up a Settlement Commission, that was to attract German settlers to encounter the Polish population growth.

The state-controlled Settlement Commission was to buy off land and estates from the local Poles and sell it, at a much lower price, to Germans.

Driven by nationalist intentions, the Prussian state established a Settlement Commission as countermeasure, that was to settle more Germans in these regions.