The Chilean government had encouraged German immigration…
1852 CE to 1863 CE
Before that, Bernhard Eunom Philippi had recruited nine working families to emigrate from Hesse to Chile.
The origin of the German immigrants in Chile began with the Law of Selective Immigration of 1845.
The objective of this law was to bring people of a medium social/high cultural level to colonize the southern regions of Chile; these are between Valdivia and Puerto Montt.
The process is administered by Vicente Pérez Rosales by mandate of President Manuel Montt.
The German immigrants have revived the domestic economy, and they have changed the southern zones.
The expansion and economic development of Valdivia had been limited in the early nineteenth century.
To stimulate economic development, the Chilean government had initiated a highly focused immigration program, through which thousands of Germans have settled in the area, incorporating modern technology and skills to develop agriculture and industry.
Some of the new immigrants stay in Valdivia but others are given forested land, which they clear for farms.
For ten years after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, numerous liberal immigrants come from Germany, exiles of the revolutions.
They settle primarily in the Llanquihue in the towns of Frutillar, Puerto Octay, Puerto Varas, Osorno and Puerto Montt.
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