Question

Who were the ‘Junkers’?
(a) Soldiers
(b) Large landowners
(c) Aristocracy
(d) Weavers

Answer 1

Answer:

b) land owners is the correct answer for this question

Answer 2

In Prussia, the wealthy landowners were known as Junkers.

Junkers

• The Junkers belonged to Prussia's landed nobility.
• The landed nobility and upper classes of Prussian and German society were referred to as "junkers" within Prussia and later in Germany.
• The term "junkers" was used to refer to all members of the landed nobility who held expansive estates. Small peasants with few privileges owned these estates.
• The bulk of Junkers experienced a social decline either as Nazi Germany rose to power or as the Second World War came to a conclusion.
• The monarchy and military worked together to crush Germany's liberal effort to construct its nation, with the help of the country's wealthy prussian landowners.

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