Franckenstein's Clause

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As Franckensteinsche clause one by the Center politician Georg Arbogast and from Franckenstein (1825-1890) named clause in § 8 of the Customs Act referred on 9 July 1879 according to which customs duties and indirect taxes that exceeded a total of 130 million marks, the Kingdom of Transferred to the individual states according to the population and, if necessary , had to be reclaimed from them as a matriculation fee . The empire remained dependent on the individual states. The clause was not repealed until the financial reform of 1904 (law of May 14, 1904, RGBl. 169).

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Web links

Wikisource: Franckenstein Clause  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Conrad, Der deutsche Staat, Ullstein Buch 1969, p. 160.