From Guild Welfare to Bismarck Care.
Professional guilds and the origins of modern social security law and insurance law in Germany.
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German literature on the history of insurance stresses the importance of professional guilds for the shaping of insurance and insurance law. Similarly, scholars researching the genesis of Germany’s social security claim the importance of guilds as predecessor of social security. However, there is a problem with both narratives: the impact of guilds is commonly asserted but has never been analytically established. Against this background, the present contribution offers an analysis of the support offered by professional guilds from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.
German literature on the history of insurance stresses the importance of professional guilds for the shaping of insurance and insurance law. Similarly, scholars researching the genesis of Germany’s social security claim the importance of guilds as predecessor of social security. However, there is a problem with both narratives: the impact of guilds is commonly asserted but has never been analytically established. Against this background, the present contribution offers an analysis of the support offered by professional guilds from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Its overall conclusion is that modern literature is correct in holding that Germany’s social security is rooted in guild welfare. However, medieval guild support had to go through two phases of transformation in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century before it was apt as a model for Bismarck’s social security legislation. By contrast, professional guilds had no direct impact on modern insurance and insurance law.
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Phillip Hellwege
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»Den Leserinnen und Lesern wird eine sehr gut lesbare Darstellung angeboten, die reich an historischen Details ist und überzeugend argumentiert,dass genossenschaftliche Zusammenschlüsse in Deutschland einen größeren Einfluss auf die Entwicklung von Versicherung (im Sinne der Sozialversicherung) und auf zumindest das Sozialversicherungsrecht hatten, als man dies für ganz Europa sagen kann.« Tobias A. Jopp, in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- u. Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Heft 2/2023
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