A politically turbulent time followed, whereby 1846 with the re-election of general Bulnes occurred a stabilization as a president. Its successor became, in 1851, Manuel Montt, who arranged the administration, law and finances and also promoted immigration. From that point on, it was the policy of the Chilean government, during the presidency of Manuel Montt, to invite in various ethnic groups and offer land grants for settlement. The minister in charge, Vicente Perez Rosales, consulted a friend who was at that time Chilean Consul in Hamburg. Massive emigration is usually triggered by poor living conditions in the homeland.
Migrants therefore are usually mostly poor and unskilled.
This is also the case of the Spaniards of Galicia and the Italians from Southern Italy who emigrated in large numbers to Argentina, as well as the Irish, Poles, Mecklenburgian Germans who did so to the United States. However, the migration of Germans to Chile was less important in terms of quantity than of quality. The first German colonisation was at the Llanquihue lake and in the Frontera. Encouraged by these first successes in 1846 by Philippi, thirty settlers from Hessen were recruited for Bella Vista. In 1852 Germans founded Deutsche Player Maiten, Volcan and Puerto Octay, as well as in 1853, Puerto Montt.