Subsidiarity obligation

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The so-called subsidiarity obligation (from subsidiary and subsidiary = supporting, providing help and subsidies (plural) = aid money from the state ) first appeared in the Middle Ages and still exists today. This duty implies social aid measures by a state or a government to help the socially disadvantaged. This term was used more and more in Germany. Due to the developments of the Vormärz , early industrialization and the resulting pauperism (mass poverty) and the social question , the municipalities were obliged to provide support, which were restructured into municipal insurance funds from 1855 onwards. The subsidiarity obligation should at least guarantee the “survival” of the lower classes who lived well below the subsistence level. Due to the enormous impoverishment in the 19th century, this was z. Sometimes impossible, which is why this “duty” on the part of the state could not be fulfilled nearly sufficiently.