So it took until 1893 that an agitation committee (Agitationskomitee) was founded in Saarbrücken in order to tour the Trier Region spreading SPD ideas and encouraging the foundation of local organisations in that region, of which the Prussian part of the Saar Basin formed part until 1920.
In the Saar Territory there was no home-rule by the citizens but a government, the Governing Commission (, Reko) appointed by the League of Nations [REF].