Based on the educational association (See above), which came into being during the Russian time, the German Bessarabian Peoples’ Council began to develop gradually. The German Peoples’ Council, headquartered in Tarutino, was founded in 1920 and it was a formation of Rumanian nationals of German background to preserve their heritage and interest. Later it was renamed District Council (Gaurat) and it existed until 1940. It created the counterbalance to the Rumanization pressure by the Rumanian state on the German minority.
The Peoples’ Council had the task of lessening the impact on the Germans caused by the Russian Liquidation Laws and the Rumanian agricultural reform, by having the community money and the schools returned to the church communities. They also resisted the progressive Rumanization of the school system.
Presidents of the Peoples’ Council were Christian Kalmbach, Daniel Haase and Otto Bronesky.

The Peoples’ Council was a beneficial institution, although not all of its activities can be called good ones. Until 1934 it successfully resisted the full Rumanization effort in the political arena. After 1933 national socialistic tendencies developed inside the institution, influenced by Germany. We do not know how much Krasna was engaged with the Peoples’ Council. There was an election of a communal council held in Krasna, ¹⁾ which nominated Max Marthe as the Krasna member of the Peoples’ Council.