Public Expectations and Bureaucratic Experts: The Commissions of the German Confederation as Places of Political Bargaining (1816-1848)

该研究项目调查了1816年至1848年间德意志联邦委员会的形成、内部结构、工作人员和活动。目的是展示德意志邦联的联邦制是如何被付诸政治实践的，外滩是如何试图在公众眼中获得合法性的，以及与之相关的社会和文化谈判过程。在多方面的行政文化史背景下，该项目旨在阐明行政部门与社会之间的多种交流过程以及官僚机构与行政行动对象之间的相互作用。这也将使我们更深入地了解德意志联邦宪法的象征性颁布及其对人民生活的实际影响。在项目的第一阶段，研究的重点是政府的原始材料。在延长期间，将更仔细地观察来自非政府机构的消息来源，以便分析德国公众对德国联邦的看法，并详细说明公众对德国联邦的期望。与此相关，本文还打算研究联邦作为德意志民族政治秩序的自我代表的形式和内容。通过这种方式，该项目旨在展示参与谈判进程的所有代理人的观点，包括政府和非政府机构。为此目的，将分析下列额外的原始材料：日报、期刊出版领导机关；2. 联邦重要成员国的议会记录；3. 单独的政治小册子和书籍。从这些来源获得的见解将被纳入正在编写的广泛专著中。延长期限的另一个目的是为在项目过程中收集的研究数据（德国联邦委员会、委员会成员、向联邦提出的请愿书）的备份、储存和再利用作出规定。为此目的，将在一个联机数据库中提供研究数据。

The research project investigates the formation, the inner structure, the staff and the activities of the committees of the German Confederation between 1816 and 1848. The object is to show how the federalist system of the German Confederation was put into political practice, how the Bund attempted to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the public and which were the social and cultural negotiation processes involved with this. In the context of a multi-faceted cultural history of administration, the project intends to shed new light on the manifold communication processes between administration and society and the interaction between bureaucratic agents and the objects of administrative actions. This will also allow to increase our insight into the symbolic enactment of the constitution of the German Confederation as well as its practical impact on the lives of the population. In the first phase of the project the research has focused on governmental source material. In the extension period, a closer look will be directed at sources from non-governmental agents, in order to analyse the perception of the German Confederation in the German public and to describe in detail the expectations of the public with regard to the Confederation. In connection with this, it is also intended to research the forms and the content of the Confederation’s self-representation as a political order of the German nation. In this way, the project aims to present the perspectives of all the agents involved in the negotiation processes, the governmental as well as the non-governmental. For this purpose, the following additional source material will be analysed: 1. leading organs of the daily and periodical press; 2. the minutes of the parliaments of important member states of the Confederation; 3. separate political pamphlets and books. The insights gained from these sources will be incorporated into the extensive monograph which is being prepared. A further object of the extension period is to make provision for the backup, storage and re-use of the research data which have been collected in the course of the project (committees of the German Confederation, members of the committees, petitions directed at the Confederation). For this purpose, the research data will be made accessible in an online database.