Bush allowance
Bush allowance is a colloquial term for an allowance for German civil servants or soldiers for service outside of their home country.
Concept emergence
Originally, "Buschzulage" was an eloquent word creation for the colonial allowance of the imperial German officials, who were sent to the colonial countries of Africa - analogous to word formations such as Bushman or Machesser. After 1960 , bush money was used by Bundeswehr soldiers for ' maneuver money, allowance'.
Special payment for West German civil servants in the new federal states
In the 1990s, "bush allowance" was also a colloquial term for a special payment for civil servants from the old federal states that was valid between 1990 and mid-1995 and was paid in addition to the western salary in the east of the republic in order to offer an incentive for temporary work there. Initially tolerated by almost everyone, it quickly aroused displeasure, as "Bush" supposedly stands for an area with poor infrastructure and sometimes desolate (such as the Australian bush ); the allowance to compensate for going to this area despite these supposed disadvantages. In this context, “Busch” meant the new federal states . The reason for the displeasure associated with the bush allowance was, on the one hand, the degradation of East Germany and its inhabitants, assuming "Busch" was "uncivilized", and on the other hand the associated discrimination through the additional payment, which by construction only West Germans, but not East Germans, can enjoy could.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "The expression bush premium", Gerhard Müller, Der Sprachdienst (Wiesbaden), issue 6/2006, p. 194 f. Strongly supplemented and expanded online version ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. December 2011.
- ↑ How a state parliament learned to walk: Memories of a West German construction worker in Thuringia , Joachim Linck, Cologne 2010, p. 114
- ^ Illustrated lexicon of German colloquial language , Heinz Küpper
Web links
- Bush allowance was among the forbidden words of the year in 1994 ( memento from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )