The wartime unemployment relief in German cities during WW I : the "Social City" under the total war

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In Germany, the outbreak of World War I brought about large-scale unemployment, so that the wartime unemployment relief was introduced into many cities as a countermeasure against the problem. Although the Reich government assumed a negative attitude toward the spread of such service at the beginning of the war, it began to offer subsidies for unemployment as part of the wartime welfare in 1915. However, the administration of unemployment relief was still in the hands of such urban organizations as municipalities and private charities. The study concludes from the overview of the wartime unemployment relief in cities as well as the case study of Hamburg that the "Social City" during World War I laid the foundation of the "Social State" of Weimar by inheriting the system of social relief in the 19th Century and developing the unemployment relief adopted to the social conditions in wartime.