Gotha contract

The Gotha Treaty was signed on July 15, 1851 in Gotha between 17 of the German states in order to make detailed provisions about which homeless persons a state is obliged to take over at the request of another and under what conditions this must be done.

Essentially, the question of the takeover obligation was regulated in such a way that every state must take over its nationals, even if, according to its legislation, they have already lost their citizenship . Such persons are on an equal footing who have never been relatives of the latter, but have stayed there for a longer period of time, or were married or born there.

The provisions of the Gotha Treaty were explained and supplemented by the final minutes of the Eisenach conference of April 25, 1854 and the final and separate minutes of another Eisenach conference of July 29, 1858 . The legal status created by the Gotha contract had undergone radical changes as a result of the Free Movement Act of November 1, 1867 and the Act on Support Residence of June 6, 1870 . It was then only applied in Bavaria and Alsace-Lorraine , neither of which had introduced the law on support residence.