Population Registration in Germany, 1842–1945
Information, Administrative Power, and State-Making in the Age of Paper
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry Frohman (0000-0001-9275-7833, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 503-532 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938919000931 |
| OpenAlex | W3105700577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
Population registration has figured only peripherally in histories of state formation in modern Europe. Although the registries never fully shed their original security function, the emergence of the interventionist state transformed the personal data or information collected by the registries into a central element of state administrative power. However, the ways in which this information could be used by both the civilian administration and the police to govern individuals and populations were limited by the use of paper as a means of data storage and transmission and by the information processing technologies available at the time. Rather than viewing the population registries and, later, the National Registry (Volkskartei) primarily as instruments of the Holocaust, this article embeds them in a longer, alternative history, which explores the relationship between population registration, information, information processing, and state formation between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century
Administration (probate law · Element (criminal law · Geography · Information Age · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Demography · European history and politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Public Administration
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Private lives and public surveillance
War Land on the Eastern Front
Control through Communication
The State of Freedom
Creditworthy
The Gestapo and German Society
Purging the Empire
Volkszählungen unter dem Nationalsozialismus
Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
Consigning the Twentieth Century to History
How We Became Our Data
The Government Machine
Der Staat als Zufall und als Notwendigkeit
Der Staat als Zufall und als Notwendigkeit
The Urn and the Swastika
Control Through Communication
After 1848
Absolute Destruction
Governing Gaza
The Nation-State and Violence
Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory
The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |