"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。目标是就在完全不同的政治和社会环境下，特别是在政治变革时期，确保国家权威和政治忠诚的努力以及社会对这些主张的反应发表关键声明。通过政治誓言，避难者宣誓忠诚、服从和诚实的行为在办公室对艾德内默(即国家)。这包括承认现有的政治秩序。研究期间的每一个政治制度都使用这样的誓言。这些问题，即政府利用宣誓实现哪些目标，希望达到什么目标，以及它们在个人和社会上引发了什么反应，是该项目的重点。通过这一点，可以说明在文化和历史传统、世俗化和政权与国家权力转型的相互作用中产生的政治“忠诚”。

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.