In a sample probe of H-K-T's members, the social classes represented were as follows: 26.6% of civil servants and members of German administration 17.6% of artisans 15.7% of businessmen 14.0% of teachers 10.7% of landowners 4.2% of clergymen 2.7% of army officers 0.7% of rentiers 6.5% of other professions 1.3% of people with no designation By 1913 the Society had roughly 48,000 members.
Willi Stoph, who has died aged 84, seemed for much of his public life to be a diligent, colourless servant of the German Democratic Republic, espousing its causes with a zeal that was easily exceeded by his arch-rival and GDR leader Erich Honecker.
Scores of other investigations are also under way against former servants of the East German state, from economists and judges to sports trainers and doctors.Time for an amnesty, eight years after the wall came down?
The number of German civil servants was very small.
Terror alone cannot explain the almost bizarre efficiency of German civil servants, worrying about cleaning bins and foreign bursaries right up until the 11th hour, or – more impressively – organising an exemplary relief effort for Dresden in the aftermath of the February bombings.
Nearly four-fifths of German senior public servants have been in public administration for more than two decades.
The German PRTs are led jointly by a military commander and a diplomat, and the soldiers are complemented by teams of civil servants and aid workers.A new sort of German nationalismMr Schröder also introduced another novelty into Germany's post-war foreign policy: a kind of German Gaullism.
These laws prohibited marriages between Jews and people of Germanic extraction, extramarital relations between Jews and Germans, and the employment of German women under the age of 45 as domestic servants in Jewish households.
The law also forbade the employment of German women under the age of 45 as domestic servants in Jewish households.
Their umbrella organisation Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ressortforschungseinrichtungen ( Working Group of Departmental Research Institutions)—represents more than 20,000 employees with permanent civil servant contracts.* When employees with temporary contracts are included, these research institutions employ more than 20% of German scientists.
