Study title

Due to the foundation of the German Empire on January, 18th in 1871 the idea of a German centralist state was rejected. The “union of sovereign German princes” formed the foundation for the Germen federalism, divided into three parts. But the municipal level gained it’s full meaning as third administrative unite only over time. The analysis of the communities’ development process is the focus of the study. Two central questions have to be answered: the question of the leading motives of urban development and the question of the development success. This study gives an overview of Germans larger communities’ development before the First World War, with special emphasis on the economic, financial and political aspects of this development. Datatables in the search- and downloadsystem HISTAT (Topic: Städtestatistik / urban statistics): The data of the annex-tables A3 (inhabitants, revenues, municipal net expenditures of prussian towns on police administration and on other administrations of public safety for the years 1888, 1898, and 1908) and of A14 (Indicators of urban development in 1912) are archived as cross-sectional tables. These tables can be ordered under the study-number ZA8442. Data and study description only available in German language. A 01: Die Entwicklung der kommunalen Ausgaben in Mark pro Kopf für die öffentliche Armenpflege (1885-1912) A 02: Die Entwicklung der kommunalen Volksschul-Gesamtausgaben in Mark pro Kopf (1888-1912) A 04: Die Entwicklung der kommunalen Ausgaben in Mark pro Kopf für den Hochbau (1888-1911) A 05: Die Entwicklung der kommunalen Ausgaben in Mark pro Kopf für den Tiefbau (1888-1911) A 06: Die Entwicklung des kommunalen Gesamtschuldenstandes in Mark pro Kopf (1887-1913) A.07 Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Einwohnerzahl absolut (1871-1913) A 08: Die Entwicklung der Gemeindesteuereinnahmen in Mark pro Kopf (1888-1913) A 09: Die Entwicklung der an die Stadtkasse abgeführten Netto-Betriebsüberschüsse der kommunalen Gaswerke in...