Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914

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Volume 1 of Section II

The collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 is a long-term historical research project started in 1949 by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz .

The edition

The project documents the emergence of the German welfare state in selected source texts. The 35 source volumes (plus four supplements) have already appeared in print with around 5,500 source texts on around 21,000 text pages. The “source collection” is thus the most comprehensive edition of sources on the history of the 19th century in Germany and is unique in the world in documenting the emergence of the welfare state.

In the collection of sources, important sources are edited, which can be used to trace the emergence and development of the modern welfare state in Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The previously largely unknown source texts, mostly found in ministerial files, also offer basic information on the discussion of social issues in general and issues of social security in particular, in particular social insurance (health, accident and pension insurance), but also issues relating to women and health insurance Child labor, occupational safety and labor law.

The emergence and implementation of Bismarck's social insurance with the areas of accident insurance, health insurance and pension insurance is documented in a total of nine source volumes; likewise the topics poor relief, labor law and worker protection in three volumes each.

The sources - between 77 and 342 documents per volume - are provided with explanatory notes, most of which contain references to other sources. The volumes are made accessible through extensive registers of persons, places and subjects.

The “collection of sources on the history of German social policy” was most recently located in the human sciences department at the University of Kassel. Florian Tennstedt was the project manager until 2015 , after which Wolfgang Ayaß took over the management.

The digital edition

The digital collection of sources on the history of German social policy has been offering open access to the material since 2018 . A search across all volumes is possible there with extensive search functions. The volume basics of social policy. The discussion of the workers question on the government side and in public (Section II Vol. 1) is the first to be available digitally. Further volumes in Section II will follow, all other volumes will be added successively. All volumes of the source collection are also available as PDFs. The research data is available for further use under an open license ( CC-BY 4.0 ).

The individual source volumes

The edition is divided into so-called departments, each comprising seven to ten volumes. An introductory volume appeared in 1966.

I. Department. From the founding of the Empire to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) :

  1. Volume: Basic questions of state social policy. The discussion of the labor question on the government side from the Prussian constitutional conflict to the Reichstag election of 1881 (1994 )
  2. Volume: From Liability Legislation to the First Accident Insurance Bill (1993)
  3. Volume: Worker Protection (1996 )
  4. Volume: Labor Law (1997)
  5. Volume: Commercial benefit funds (1999)
  6. Volume: Retirement and Disability Funds (2002)
  7. Volume: Poor Law and Free Movement (2000, 2 half volumes)
  8. Volume: Basic Questions of Social Policy in Public Discussion: Churches, Parties, Clubs and Associations (2006)

II. Department. From the imperial social message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890 ):

  1. Volume: Basic questions of social policy. The discussion of the workers question on the government side and in public (2003)
  2. Volume: Part 1: From the second accident insurance submission to the Accident Insurance Act of July 6, 1884 (1995) ; Part 2: Extension Legislation and Accident Insurance Practice (2001)
  3. Volume: Worker Protection (1998)
  4. Volume: Labor Law (2008)
  5. Volume: The Statutory Health Insurance and the Registered Aid Funds (2009)
  6. Volume: The statutory disability and old-age insurance and the alternatives on a union and company basis (2004)
  7. Volume: Municipal Poor Care (2015)

III. Department. Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) :

  1. Volume: Basic questions of social policy (2016)
  2. Volume: The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance (2009)
  3. Volume: Worker Protection (2005)
  4. Volume: Labor Law (2012)
  5. Volume: Statutory Health Insurance (2012)
  6. Volume: The Practice of Pension Insurance and the Disability Insurance Act of 1899 (2014)
  7. Volume: Poor Management and Local Welfare Policy (2016)

IV. Department. Social policy in the last years of peace in the German Empire (1905–1914) :

  1. Volume: The Year 1905 (1982)
  2. Band: The Year 1906 (1987)
  3. Volume: Part 1: The Year 1907 (1994) ; Part 2: The year 1908 (1995) ; Part 3: The Year 1909 (1997) ; Part 4: The Year 1910 (2004)
  4. Volume: Part 1: The Years 1911–1914 (1993) ; Part 2: The years 1911–1914 (1998) ; Part 3: The years 1911–1914 (2002) ; Part 4: The Years 1911–1914 (2008)

Citation note

The individual volumes of the "source collection" should be cited as follows (example):

Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, Section II (1881–1890), Volume 3: Workers' Protection, edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 1998, No. 23.

(abbreviated with repeated quotation): Collection of sources, history of social policy, II. Dept., 3rd vol., No. 23.

literature

  • Wolfgang Ayaß: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , in: Yearbook of historical research in the Federal Republic of Germany. Reporting year 2005, Munich 2006, pp. 26–35.
  • E. Peter Hennock: Social Policy. Description and Documentation: The Quest for Clarity . In: German History 28 (2010), pp. 214-218.
  • Gerhard A. Ritter : Social Policy in the Age of Bismarck. A report on new source editions and new literature . In: Historische Zeitschrift 265 (1997), pp. 683-720.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the preliminary work in the Weimar Republic, cf. Lothar Machtan : Hans Rothfels and socio-political historiography in the Weimar Republic . In: ders. (Ed.): Bismarcks Sozialstaat , Frankfurt a. M. 1994, pp. 310-384.
  2. ↑ Cf. Winfried Baumgart (Ed.), Source Studies on German History in Modern Times from 1500 to the Present. Volume 2: 1815 to 1918 , Paderborn 2018, pp. 338–346.
  3. ↑ press release. Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, May 1, 2018, accessed on May 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ PDF downloads of the volumes of the source collection. In: Collection of sources on the history of German social policy. Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, accessed on May 7, 2018 .
  5. ^ Karl Erich Born, Hansjoachim Henning, Manfred Schick: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914. Introductory volume. FRANZ STEINER VERLAG GMBH, Wiesbaden 1966. ( digitized version http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fnbn-resolving.de%2Furn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Ahebis%3A34-2018040955252~GB%3D~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D)