"Ich schwöre untertänig Treue und Gehorsam": Der politische Eid im Deutschland des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

该项目分析了1815年至1990/91年期间德国的政治宣誓-与最初的申请没有变化。其目的是对在完全不同的政治和社会环境下，特别是在政治变革时期，试图确保国家权威和政治忠诚以及对这些主张的社会反应做出关键陈述。通过政治宣誓，Eidgeber宣誓效忠和服从以及对Eidnehmer（即国家）的诚实行为。这包括承认现有的政治秩序。在所研究的时期内，每一种政治制度都使用这种誓言。这些问题，即政府使用誓言追求的目标，希望达到什么目的，以及他们在个人和社会上引起了什么反应，是该项目的重点。由此，可以说明政治“忠诚”的生成是在文化历史传统、世俗化、政治权力和国家权力的转型等因素的相互作用下进行的。

The project analyses - unchanged from the initial application - political oaths in Germany between 1815-1990/91. The goal is to make key statements about attempts to secure state authority and political loyalty as well as social responses to these claims under completely different political and social circumstances, and especially in periods of political change. By a political oath an Eidgeber swears fidelity and obedience and honest conduct in office to the Eidnehmer (i.e. the state). This includes a recognition of the existing political order. Every political system within the studied period used such oaths. The questions, which objectives the governements pursued by using oathes, what was hoped to achieve, and what reactions they provoked individually and socially, are the focus of the project. By this, the generation of political "loyalty" in the interplay between cultural and historical traditions, secularization and the transformation of political power and state power can be illustrated.