The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)
Richard J. Evans, David Blackbourn
Language: English
Pages: 371
ISBN: 2:00259589
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in 1991, this collection of original studies by British, German and American historians examines the whole range of modern German bourgeoisie groups, including professional, mercantile, industrial and financial bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois family.
Drawing on original research, the book focuses on the historical evidence as counterpoint to the well-known literary accounts of the German bourgeoisie. It also discusses bourgeois values as manifested in the cult of local roots and in the widespread practice of duelling.
Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this important reissue will be of value to any students of modern German and European history.
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Zeitschrift, 220 (1975), 324-56. This is one of the questions posed in Blackbourn and Eley, Peculiarities. It has recently been directly addressed in James J. Sheehan, 'Wie bürgerlich war der deutsche Liberalismus?', in Dieter Langewiesehe (ed.), Liberalismus im 19. Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 1988), 28-44. Langewiesehe himself has also written extensively and illuminatingly on German liberalism. See Liberalismus in Deutschland, and 'Liberalismus und Bürgertum in Europa', in Kocka (ed.), Bürgertum,.
1903. 8 Accounts of moving to the outskirts of town are legion in autobiographies and biographies of members of the economic elite, peaking around the turn of the century.9 This trend was channelled in some cities by property developers, who opened up suburban 'colonies', where the wealthy bought tracts of land and built, at first, summer homes. With the extension of train and tram lines out into the suburbs, the wealthy began to build imposing homes they could live in all year round. Berlin had.
15,000 Marks in rent per year. Several also had summer villas in the suburbsY Nevertheless, it is interesting that a group that could have lived in a mansion in the suburbs would have chosen to live in an apartment because of the central location. Carl Fürstenberg moved during the course of his life a number of times back and forth between central Berlin and Grunewald, torn between the two alternatives. Urban living meant a short trip to work and an intensive social life. The city was not lacking.
Hermann Kellenbenz, 'Louis Hagen, insbesondere als Kammerpräsident' , in Rheinisch- Wesifdlische Wirtschaftsbiographien, 10 (Münster in Westfalen, 1974), 140; Zentrales Staatsarchiv, 84 ARRIVING IN THE UPPER CLASS 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 Dienststelle Merseburg, Geheimes Zivilkabinett, 2.2.1. Nr. 1596, BI. 5; on Duisberg, see Curt Duisberg, Nur ein Sohn. Ein Leben mit der Grosschemie (S tu ttgart, 1981) , 14-15. Quotation in William Manchester, The.
The industrial bourgeoisie can be identified. In general the chemical and electrical industries, and parts of the processing and finishing industries in engineering were more conciliatory than coal, iron, and steel. For example, the German Democratic Party, arguably the only 'bourgeois' party really committed to the new Republic, initially received substantial financial support from the giant electrical firm of Siemens; whilst Carl Duisberg ofIG Farben and Hermann Bücher of AEG adopted a position.
