Hans Kampffmeyer (30 January 1876 in

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– 28 May 1932 in

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) was

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activist in the

Garden city movement The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and ...

. Hans Kampffmeyer was head of the

Austrian Association for Settlements and Small Gardens The Austrian Settlement and Allotment Garden Association (german: Österreichische Verband für Siedlungs- und Kleingartenwesen, OVSK) was an organisation established following the First World War to support people in need of housing and the allotme ...

from 1919 to 1920. He was then appointed as a consultant to the Vienna city authorities working at the municipal Siedlungsamt together with

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. In 1920 he launched the journal ''Der Siedler'' with

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. This journal had a circulation of 40,000 and between 1920 and 1922 it played a key role in coordinating the settlers movement. Kampffmeyer considered that in Austria the garden element of the movement was the most important in that lack of food rather than lack of housing was the most pressing problem. In 1925 Kampffmeyer worked with

VOKS VOKS (an acronym for the Russian ''Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo Kul'turnoi Sviazi s zagranitsei'' — Всесоюзное общество культурной связи с заграницей, All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Co ...

, the ''All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries'' of the

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to set up the ''Österreichischen Gesellschaft zur Förderung der geistigen und wirstschafftlichen Beziehenungen mit der UdSSR''.

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