Economics Council (Prussia)
The Economic Council was in 1881, a body representing the Prussian should advise government on economic issues.
The National Economic Council was formed for Prussia by ordinance of November 17, 1880. The model was the French Conseil supérieur du commerce et de l'industrie . This was preceded by the assumption of the Prussian Ministry of Commerce by Otto von Bismarck and the change in economic policy initiated by him.
Its 75 members were each appointed for five years. 45 members were appointed by the chambers of commerce , the boards of the commercial corporations and the agricultural associations. Each of these groups designated 15 representatives. However, they did not have a free choice, but could only choose from a 90-strong shortlist drawn up by the government. The remaining 30 members were determined directly by the government, with at least 15 members of the artisan and working class.
The attempt to set up a corresponding Reich Economic Council failed in 1881 and 1882 due to the Reichstag's concerns that an economic parliament should be set up here.
The Prussian Economics Council advised u. a. "Basic features" presented to him in 1882 for a health insurance law.
The Economics Council was dissolved as early as 1887 after the House of Representatives refused funds for this body.
Well-known members of the Economics Council were z. B. Ernst Georg Philipp Ludolf August Wilhelm Freiherr von Hammerstein-Loxten or Oscar Henschel .
At the beginning of the Weimar Republic, the Provisional Reich Economic Council was set up, which was designed as an economic parliament and had further rights.
literature
- Wolfgang Schmierer: Economics Council . In: Gerhard Taddey (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German history . People, events, institutions. From the turn of the times to the end of the 2nd World War. 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-81302-5 , pp. 1283f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon 1905
- ^ Wilhelm Treue: Wirtschafts- und Technikgeschichte Preussens, Volume 56 of publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Historical Commission in Berlin, 1984, ISBN 311009598X , page 600, online
- ↑ Cf. the print of the protocol from March 6, 1882 in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , II. Department: From the Imperial Social Message to the February decrees of Wilhelm II. (1881–1890) , Volume 5: The statutory health insurance and the registered auxiliary funds , edited by Andreas Hänlein, Florian Tennstedt and Heidi Winter, Darmstadt 2009, No. 6.
- ^ Karl Hohmann, Horst Friedrich Wünsche: Basic texts on the social market economy: The social in the social market economy; Volume 2 of Basic Texts for the Social Market Economy, 1988, ISBN 3437402080 , page 77, online