The unemployment relief in the German "Social City" during the Weimar period

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380421
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: Mori Takahito 一橋大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 准教授 (10401671)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ドイツ / 社会都市 / 社会国家 / 失業扶助 / ハンブルク / ワイマール期

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research shows how the unemployment relief developed in German “Social City” during Weimar Republic. In Germany, the Reich begun to deal with the unemployment problem on the basis of the wartime welfare in 1915. Its administration was, however, in the hands of such urban organizations as municipalities and private charities, and the roll of the Reich was limited to offer them subsidies. This framework had been basically taken over by the unemployment relief of the Reich introduced in 1918 that served as the core system in this field until introducing the unemployment insurance of the Reich in 1927. The aim of the present paper is to examine the relationships in this framework between the Reich and the urban organizations, between the official and private sectors in the city, and between the unemployment relief and the social welfare in the municipality.

Free Research Field

西洋経済史