Korruption im Kaiserreich

The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It is not a history of practices of corruption in its various forms during the Kaiserreich. Instead, the focus is on Korruptionskommunikation, namely public debates, particularly in the print media, about various phenomena of corruption of individuals, groups and institutions, which mutated in a few cases into political scandals. Furthermore, the title is somewhat of an understatement, for a good part of the book looks at corruption scandals in France. In fact, Rothfuss presents a very lucid treatment not only of the so-called War Office Scandal of 1887, which involved the selling of prestigious medals and titles and implicated French President Jules Grévy, but also of the well-known Panama scandal that rocked the French Republic and its institutions in the early 1890s. These scandals also received much attention in the German press, and Rothfuss uses the German accounts analytically to...

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