Uma Alemanha em miniatura: o projeto de imigração e colonização étnico particular da colonizadora Meyer no noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul (1897-1932)

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Neumann, Rosane Marcia
• Orientador(a): Gertz, René Ernaini
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: RIO GRANDE DO SUL - HISTÓRIA; RIO GRANDE DO SUL - HISTÓRIA - SÉCULO XX; IMIGRAÇÃO ALEMÃ - RIO GRANDE DO SUL; COLONIZAÇÃO ALEMÃ - RIO GRANDE DO SUL; COLÔNIAS - RIO GRANDE DO SUL
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3867

This paper aims at analysing the private colonizer project from the Company of Colonization Dr. Herrmann Meyer, and its implementation in the colonial complex, under the cultural, economic and social aspects, in the first decades of the 20th century, in the northwestern region of Rio Grande do Sul. It deals about a foreign capital company, with its headquarters in Leipzig, Germany, owned by Dr. Herrmann Meyer, associate-owner of the Bibliographic Institute from that city, which had the purpose of forming a German ethnic colony, aconfessional, providing the necessary support so that immigrants and colonists could reach a fast economic and social development, offering religious and educational assistance, as well as the possibility of becoming the owners of a colonial lot. It was a for-profit undertaking, but, at the same time, it was intended to be differentiated in relation to others for its cultural work in favor of the germanity maintenance, point stood out by the advertising. A colonial complex located in the cities of Cruz Alta (colony Neu-Württemberg which is nowadays the towns Panambi and Condor) and Palmeira das Missões (colonies Xingu, Erval Seco, which are respectively the towns Novo Xingu and Erval Seco; property Boi Preto, currently a district of Chapada town) is delimited as space of study, in the period between 1897, when the company began to buy territories, and 1932, the year which marks the official closing of its activities due to the death of its owner. For doing the research and the sources handling, theoretical-methodological contributions were searched in the micro-history. This way, it deals about a study of immigration and colonization, linked to the new cultural history.