 The German minority living in Congress Poland, which had earlier suggested the annexation of all territory up to Łódź in a letter to the German government, also supported such proposals.The German government developed and agreed to these plans in March 1918, and in April gained support in the Prussian House of Lords; the plans for this were debated and developed across a wide spectrum of political parties and interested groups such as political scientists, industrialists, and nationalist organisations like the Pan-German League.Friedrich von Schwerin, head of administration in Frankfurt/Oder and chairman of the Society for Inner Colonization stated, "The German people, the greatest colonizing people on earth, have again been given a great colonizing task.