Table money

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Table allowances were funds or sums of money that were allocated to an individual or a specified group of people. They were grants that were granted on board German warships , remuneration for district administrators in the Baltic States or high-ranking people in Prussia .

Imperial Navy until 1918

Apart from the commander they were also of officers , doctors , engineers , pastors , cadets at sea , cadets and deck officers and passengers and officials who were assigned a trade official based. The table money for each day of presence on board was e.g. B. for the state secretary of the Reichsmarinamt and for the commanding admiral in the Reich war ports 30 marks, in the Baltic and North Sea 36 marks and abroad 60 marks, for the commander of a third to first rank ship 10, 12 or 18 marks, for each Member of the officers' mess 3.20, 3.50 or 5 marks, for each member of the cadet and deck officers mess 1.50, 1.75 or 2.50 marks, depending on the ship's stay at home or abroad. In the imperial army, comparable payments were referred to as table money .

Prussian cash

As in Prussia , in other principalities and kingdoms of Europe high and senior civil servants received, in addition to their wages, the payment of table money. Before Frederick the Great (1712–1786) they were also called “New Year's Money”, and the term “Tafelgeld” was only introduced in his time. But this gratuity was not granted without consideration , the recipient also had obligations to fulfill. This meant, for example: “... at all court festivals and annually at the time of Carnival they had to give assemblies that were funded by this money. Often the New Years or table allowances were as high as the salary itself. "

Table allowances for the district administrators in the Baltic States

The district administrators in Livonia and Oesel , as well as Courland and Estonia received "table money" from the district property, these were "money or sums of money that are assigned and intended to a noble gentleman to dispute his table, and in another meaning to run his court ."

Financial market

In the area of financial markets and also in terms of economics, the word "Tafelgeld" describes different characteristics:

“On the one hand, it is an outdated term for the overnight deposits of the individual banks. These are shown, for example, in the appendix“ Statistics of the euro area ”. Here they can be found under the heading "Financial and non-financial accounts" and the associated sub-heading "Important claims of the non-financial sectors". You can always read these values ​​in the current monthly report of the ECB. Table money is also used to describe a compulsory levy for feeding foreign and own military personnel. Another definition says that the table money is money that has been collected on various occasions such as festivities or banquets for people in need, thus a kind of alms. Fourth, it can be understood as the previous alimony payment to officers who have been removed from duty. Today this maintenance payment is still customary for suspended clergy. Furthermore, clergymen who received an income from several paid positions, which were also known as "benefices", had to give cash to the higher church authority, the diocese. This tax was referred to with the term Tafelgeld as well as Absentgeld. "

- Financial dictionary

literature

  • Table money . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, Volume 15, pp. 583-584.
  • Pay rule for the Imperial Navy in peace . Berlin 1892
  • Oesterreichischer Beobachter, Verlag A. Strauss, 1819, original from the University of California , digitized September 10, 2013, Russia: Payment of table money [3]
  • Franz Anton Jäger, The Absent or Table Money of the Parishes: A Simon Tax , Publishing Place: Ingolstadt | Year of publication: [approx. 1828] | Publisher: Attenkover (Digitized: Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek) [4]
  • Churpfalzbaierisches Regierungsblatt, Bavaria (Kingdom), published 1803, original by Princeton University , digitized Sept. 27, 2010, payment of table money to senior military personnel [5]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Table money. In: Economic Encyclopedia or general system of the state, city, house and agriculture [1]
  2. ^ Table money. In: Economic Encyclopedia or General System of State, City, House and Agriculture [2]