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The present study is an attempt to present the development of German livestock since the beginning of the 19th century in numbers and partly also graphically. As the objective of the investigation was to describe this development in broad terms it is based on 20 years intervals. “The information starts in 1816 because an earlier start did not seem appropriate as a consequence of the war years. The following evaluation years are 1833, 1853, 1873, 1892, 1913 and 1927. For processing the data material an appropriate demarcation of the geographical districts was of crucial importance. An appropriate unit for Prussia and Bavaria is a government district (Regierungsbezirk), for Saxony the district office (Kreishauptmannschaft), for Württemberg the district (Kreis), for Baden the federal commissioner district (Landeskommissarbezirk), for Hesse the province (Provinz) for Oldendburg the region (Landesteil) and for Alsace-Lorraine the district (Bezirk). The other regions were not subdivided. The Thuringian States have always been combined into one unit. All regions were defined after the administrative division of 1927. For Baden an earlier administrative division in 11 districts was translated into the division in four federal commissioner districts of 1927” (Ritter, a. cit., p. 5 f.). As an Introduction to the investigation an overview over the territory size of the relevant districts will be given. This data is based on the sizes of 1927; the whole district designation is based on this year. In those tables you also find data about the population in the different districts for different years of censuses because the data of the density of livestock becomes more meaningful in combination with data about population density. For the years after the foundation of the German Empire the results of the censuses for the years of 1871, 1890, 1910 and 1925 were used. It was always possible to use numbers of population level, which are only few years away from the respective...