| Titre | Les infrastructures urbaines en Allemagne avant 1945 | |
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| Auteur | Hartmut Hässermann | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 10, octobre-décembre 1992 | |
| Page | 25-31 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Hartmut HAUSSERMANN, The urban infrastructure of Germany before 1945. In his introduction, the author describes the public nature of the production of urban services in Germany today. He then examines the period 1850-1945, a time during which city councils were considered public corporations. 1) Municipal companies can be taken as a pillar of free local administration. 2) This type of administration, during the 19th century, was the exclusive political domain of a rising bourgeois class, which strongly oriented its direction. 3) This was true to such an extent that public management resulted more from pragmatism - one should always manage profit-making activities oneself - than from any political project termed municipal socialism. 4) The Weimar Republic merely kept up the tradition of a-political city management, which remained an important characteristic in the overall German scheme of things. However, with the economic depression, and the rise of National-Socialism, the power of the municipal councils-corporations was called into question. Cities had to come to terms with the Lander, the Reich, and the large regional companies of city services. The idea that local administration could be considered as a public corporation lost credibility. companies of city services. The idea that local administration could be considered as a public corporation lost credibility. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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