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- Title
Sozialdemokraten in den Reichs- und Länderregierungen der Weimarer Republik 1918/19-1933. Eine Kollektivbiographie.
- Authors
Schröder, Wilhelm Heinz
- Abstract
The (fictional) form of address "Genosse Herr Minister" ("Comrade Minister") expressed in a pointed way the tension that the new Social Democratic Party ministers, the People's Representatives, and the senators of both the German Empire and the state government of the Weimar Republic experienced, because the new leading Social Democrat Party government and ministers were largely unprepared for the tasks involved with governing. The "Comrade Minister" represents in this case those socialists that saw the ministerial position as a party affiliated position and as a part of their career in that political party. Their conduct while in office was partisan and biased , which means it was politically motivated and impact-oriented. The "Sir Minister" on the other hand stood for those Socialists who regarded the position of minister as a public political office and as a part of a career in public service. Their conduct while in office was non-partisan, which means it was characterized as objective and administratively oriented. The aim of this collective biographical study is to place the Social Democratic Party ministers somewhere in the tension field between the two ideal types. The article is divided into five sections: 1) questioning the political parties of the Weimar Republic's ability to govern, with a focus on the SPD in particular, and 2) questioning the constitutional foundations of the capacity to govern and introducing the parliamentary governing system in the German Reich and the German nation, 3) naming and summarizing the results of the imperial and state elections as the most important determinants of the ability to govern, and collectively describing the government participation of the social democracy both in in the German Reich and the German nation, and 4) introducing the main part of the selected results of a collective biography of 213 social-democratic government members, which has the format of a typical annotated life span that has been illustrated with a case study, 5) Finally, the central question about the governing ability of the social democratic government personnel will be answered, and the special relationship between the SPD and the public service will be discussed.
- Subjects
GERMANY; REPRESENTATIVE government; GERMAN politics &; government; POLITICAL party personnel; SOCIALIST parties; CIVIL service; POLITICAL participation; PARTISANSHIP; SOZIALDEMOKRATISCHE Partei Deutschlands (Political party : Germany); SOCIALISM; ATTITUDE (Psychology); HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of socialism
- Publication
Historical Social Research - Supplement, 2011, p392
- ISSN
0936-6784
- Publication type
Article