[GBay] Re: Anfrage: Heimatrecht

["Geschichte Bayerns (Dr. Georg Köglmeier)" <georg.koeglmeier_AT_soziologie.uni-regensburg.de>]

Von: 	Mathieu DENIS <dma_AT_CMB.HU-BERLIN.DE>
An:	<H-GERMAN_AT_H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Datum:	10/15/2009 8:09 
Betreff:	Re: Query: Heimatsrecht
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Beitraege zu folgender Anfrage: http://is.gd/4lfJ5


From: H-German editor Mathieu Denis <dma[at]cmb.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: re: Query: Heimatsrecht
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009

[The original query can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/yjajtvr]


1.
Dear Tom,

to your query on "Wanderschaft" you could have a look in _Juergen 
Kocka, Arbeitsverhaeltnisse und Arbeiterexistenzen. Grundlagen der 
Klassenbildung im 19. Jahrhundert, Bonn (J. H. W. Dietz Nachf.) 1990, 
p. 295-351 (chapter 5: Gesellen und Meister). There you will also find 
a lot of literature. Best regards,

Stefan Mueller
Freie Universitaet
<muest300[at]web.de>

2.
I think of two people who might be helpful: Mack Walker, now retired 
from Johns Hopkins, and his former student, now a professor at the 
University of Toronto, Edward (Ned) Shorter. You probably know Mack's 
important book on German Home Towns, and he is both very well informed 
and very helpful to other researchers. I'm not sure that Ned has done 
anything with Heimatrecht since we were in graduate school together 
(working with Mack Walker), but he might have some suggestions. Best 
wishes, 

Jerry Soliday (an early modernist)
U Texas-Dallas 
 <soliday[at]utdallas.edu>

3.
Tom, 

Bavaria's system of Heimatsrecht did indeed provide various forms of 
social welfare to those who qualified -- one reason why this system of 
regulation was so heatedly contested during the nineteenth century. Of 
direct relevance to your story are Bavaria's trades law of 1852 and the 
gutting of most Heimatrecht regulation via the "Social Laws" passed in 
1868-69. Bavaria was unique among the German states in preserving its 
residency laws into the Second Empire, and while this complex of issues 
-- rights of residency, social welfare, marriage rights and 
occupational mobility -- continued to animate Bavarian politics into 
the twentieth century, I am not aware of any particular Bavaria v. 
Prussia/Reich dynamic to these controversies. 

The final chapters of Mack Walker's _German Home Towns_ provide a 
readily available & reliable source regarding these matters. Emil 
Riedel's _Commentar zum bayerischen Gesetze ueber Heimat, Verehelichung 
und Aufenthalt vom 16. April 1868_ offers a detailed critique of 
residency laws as a chief cause of Bavaria´s economic stagnation. 
Finally, because these issues remained a source of social tension and 
legislative revision, several Beilagen published under the auspices of 
the Bavarian Landtag contain useful Denkschriften pertaining to these 
matters. If you can get your hands on these volumes, a Denkschrift from 
Band I (1912), 459-90 presents one helpful example. 

John Abbott
Purdue University Calumet
<jra9999[at]hotmail.com>

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