The Prussian regulation of 9. March 1839 (actually: Regulation over the occupation of juvenile workers) was a law, with which the Prussian king Friedrich William III. forbade the Kinderarbeit. It is considered as the first German law to the industrial safety.

Historical development

Already in the year 1828 the royally Prussian lieutenant general Heinrich William of horn (1762-1829) in its land military business report had made the Prussian king attentive on the fact that he could not apply no more because of the Kinderarbeit spread in the industry and "the physical degeneration "of the population in the Rhine country, caused thereby, the necessary troop contingent. Work times of 13 hours under health-endangering conditions were not at that time for children rarity. "The factory children "suffered frequently from physical and mental-mental damage, while the compulsory schooling was often completely neglected.

Due to this Horn' report Friedrich William still instructed IIITH in the same year Secretary of cultural affairs baron Karl from the stone to the old person stone (1770-1840) and Minister of the Interior baron Friedrich von Schuckmann (1755-1834) to sketch a law for the restriction of the Kinderarbeit in Prussia.

But only eleven years later (1839) the Prussian regulation was issued. Reasons for the delay were the authority disputes between the Ministries involved (cult US, interior, handels and war Ministry) and likewise between the Prussian government and the district governments, as well as the substantial Gegenwehr of the lobbylobby lobby. A bill was therefore only compiled in the year 1835 by the administration of the governmental district Rhine country under her upper president Ernst von Bodelschwingh (1794-1854).

The Provinzielle regulation to the safety device of the sufficient training and religious education for in the factories, compiled by him, employed schoolable children represented the basis for the regulation of 1839. Only on initiative of the rheinischen Provinziallandtags a legislative initiative of the Prussian governmental districts came on basis of the provinziellen regulation of 1835 at king Friedrich William III. to conditions.

Contents

By that Prussian regulation was forbidden to children up to the ninth Lebensjahr the regular work in the factory, in mountain, hut and pounding works. The work time of the young people under 16 years was not allowed to exceed ten hours. Young person under 16 years, which could not prove three-year school time, according to which they read "the native language common "and "made "has a beginning in the letter, became the factory work forbidden. From factories which own schools were attached, were excluded and which guaranteed a requirement for education. Night work of 21 o'clock to 5 o'clock, sunning and Feiertagsarbeit was forbidden for young people.

Local police and school administrative boards should take over control functions. For the case of offences sanctions were threatened. The responsible Ministries should issue special regulations, in order to ensure one "to adherence to the and health of the factory hands ".

In the kingdom Bavaria and Grossherzogtum bathing were issued to 1840 similar regulations, in the other German countries even only into the 1860er years.

Literature

• Nikola Arldt, Bettina Istas: The emergence of the Prussian regulation over the occupation of juvenile workers in factories v. 9. March 1839. Housework, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of, Frankfurt/Main 2003.
• Nikolas 165 years restriction of the Kinderarbeit in Prussia. A contribution at the beginning of the social legislation in Germany. In: MRM - Human right magazine number 2/2004, page 141 f., human right center of the University of potsdam (Hrsg.), potsdam 2004.
• Sabine Jaki: The national legislation to the Kinderarbeit in early 19. Century: The example of the Prussian regulation of 1839. , Intermediate test work, University of meal Duisburg 2005.
• Christiane Cantauw Groschek, Ulrich Tenschert: Child everyday life in conditions and country 1800-1945. Pictures and reports from archives for Volkskunde. In the series of publications at that time with us in Westphalia. Rheda 1992.

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