Welfare Committee 1918/19

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Welfare committees were formed in late 1918 and early 1919 after the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I , in the context of the revolutionary uprisings in Germany and Austria . The self-designation as a “ welfare committee ”, based on the French Revolution, reflects the self-assessment of the participants as revolutionary. Nevertheless, in reality the welfare committees were often more devoted to mere administrative tasks, in the sudden political vacuum or even to fighting the radicals.

Cities with welfare committees 1918/19 (selection)

  • Karlsruhe : The welfare committee was the provisional government of Baden , since 9/10. November 1918. It was used on the initiative of the Lord Mayor Siegrist to maintain "peace and order".
  • Cologne : The Welfare Committee was a decision-making center initiated and led by Konrad Adenauer to organize the revolution.
  • Frankfurt am Main : The welfare committee was a revolutionary board of directors formed on November 8, 1918.
  • Füssen : The welfare committee founded on November 9, 1918 served the local administration here.
  • Graz : The Welfare Committee served here from October 20, 1918 as the Styrian regional administration.
  • Luxembourg : Here a public republican welfare committee was set up on January 9, 1919, which was supposed to unsuccessfully prepare a provisional republican government. The "Luxembourg Republic" was dissolved again after six days without having found support from the population.

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Michael Kotulla: German Constitutional Law 1806-1918. A collection of documents and introductions. Volume 1: Germany as a whole, Anhalt states and Baden. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2005, ISBN 978-3-540-26013-4 , p. 248.
  3. ^ Andreas Hunkel: Eduard Dietz (1866–1940). Judge, lawyer and creator of the constitution. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58523-8 , p. 59.
    Markus Schmidgall: The 1918/19 revolution in Baden. KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86644-727-1 , pp. 105ff.
  4. ↑ Volker Depkat: Turns of Life and Turns of Times. German politicians and the experiences of the 20th century. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57970-3 , p. 360.
  5. ↑ Boris Slamka: The seriousness of the hour. The United City Theater in Frankfurt am Main 1914–1918. Lit, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12579-8 , pp. 56f.
  6. ↑ Alexander Jordan: War for the Alps. The First World War in the Alpine region and the Bavarian border protection in Tyrol. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-428-12843-3 , p. 534.
  7. ^ Margarete Grandner: Cooperative trade union policy in the war economy. Austria's free trade unions in World War I. Böhlau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-205-05411-3 , p. 409.
  8. ^ Gast Mannes: Luxemburgish avant-garde. On European cultural transfer in the field of tension between literature, politics and art between 1916 and 1922. Editions Phi, Esch / Alzette 2007, ISBN 978-2-87962-235-4 , p. 27.