Free ticket
A free ticket (also: free ticket ) is a ticket given free of charge . The term is also used as a metaphor in the sense of extensive prior approval without control.
history
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Since the beginning of the railway construction in the 19th century, free tickets have been issued for certain groups of people. So issued z. For example, on January 16, 1854, the Prussian Minister of Commerce issued a “Regulations concerning free journeys on the railroad”. According to this, the (senior) employees of the railway company as well as certain inmates of orphanages and workers and craftsmen on duty were given free tickets.
Today there are claims to free transport for some of the severely disabled. In many countries, schoolchildren receive free tickets as part of school transport . Members of the police , customs or the state criminal investigation offices also receive such a certificate on duty and for the weekly trip home.
Employees of railway and other transport companies also receive free rides and other travel discounts such as employee discounts. The scope varies, from using only one's own connections to free travel exchanges in an international framework, through mutual agreements, to membership in the FIP association . Free travel as a deputate has been customary for railway companies since the beginning.
For MPs
The right of a parliamentarian to use the railway free of charge is also referred to as a free ticket, free ride or free ride.
In the German Empire, free travel for members of the Reichstag was introduced in 1874. It was intended to compensate for the fact that MPs (until 1906) did not receive any diets. Originally, it should only be about the journey from home to the capital, which was different for the individual MPs. But many MPs used the free ticket to travel around the country and engage in political agitation. One such MP was Ludwig Windthorst from the Catholic Center Party, who was said to have given three speeches in three locations on a single day. In 1881 he traveled for two weeks in constituencies from the Ruhr area to Lake Constance.
Less gifted speakers, such as Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , mocked such travel activities. Between the main and runoff elections in 1884, he succeeded in getting the Federal Council to abolish free travel. But in those ten years she had done a lot in bringing popular, nationally known politicians together with the local chapters. Margaret Lavinia Anderson speaks of a nationalization of the political arena. Free travel was only reintroduced in 1906.
The members of the Bundestag receive a network card from Deutsche Bahn, but this may only be used to exercise their mandate. Otherwise, business travel expenses of an MP will be reimbursed on a case-by-case basis.
See also: Bonus miles affair
supporting documents
- ↑ Free ticket, the. In: www.duden.de. Retrieved April 10, 2015 .
- ↑ "Regulations concerning free journeys on the railroad"
- ↑ Margaret Lavinia Anderson: Apprenticeship Years of Democracy. Elections and Political Culture in the German Empire . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009 (Articles on the History of Communication 22) p. 427.
- ↑ Margaret Lavinia Anderson: Apprenticeship Years of Democracy. Elections and Political Culture in the German Empire . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2009 (Articles on the History of Communication 22) p. 429.
- ↑ Bundestag.de ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2010 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. , Accessed on August 7, 2010.
