Administration in Germany in 1983
| Published date | 01 June 1983 |
| Date | 01 June 1983 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002085238304900201 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Editorial
Administration in Germany in 1983 :
An Outline of its Orientation and Some Examples
of its Problems
by
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Joseph H. KAISER,
Freiburg,
President of the German Section
of the International Institute
of Administrative Sciences
The Government of the Federal Republic
Germany has been divided several times in
of Germany and the Senate of Berlin have
the course of its history : between Guelphs
invited the International Institute of Adminis-
and Ghibellines, Catholics and Protestants, the
trative Sciences (IIAS) to hold its XIXth Con-
Houses of Hapsburg and Hohenzollern, East
gress of Administrative Sciences from Sep-
and West. This is the destiny of the centre
tember 19th to 23rd, 1983 in Berlin. The
of Europe. Will any of the guests whom we
XIth International Congress of Administrative
expect at the International Congress of Ad-
Sciences was held in Wiesbaden in 1959 (1).
ministrative Sciences still want to see Germany
through the eyes of Madame de Stael : naive
Germany: nowadays this means two states
and romantic (2) ? Will others expect to be
in one nation. Berlin, the former capital of
reminded of German philosophy ?
Prussia and the German Reich, as well as
&dquo; Germany as a whole &dquo; (Potsdam Agreement
Emmanuel Kant taught at K6nigsberg,
of 1945) are under the responsibility of the
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel in Berlin,
Four Powers, i.e. the United States of America,
Martin Heidegger at Freiburg, and Karl Marx
the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France,
was bom in Trier.
Will our guests perceive
which exercise supreme power over all sectors
a contrast between the image of Germany con-
of Berlin as occupying forces. The continua-
veyed by the media abroad, or the one that
tion of this Four-Power responsibility for
they have formed themselves, and what they
Berlin was confirmed by the Quadripartite
actually find ? Some foreigners (and many
Agreement of 1971. The Governments of the
Germans too) deplore the fact that concrete
French Republic, the United Kingdom and the
structures have been built everywhere; this was
United States of America which have the res-
nevertheless a necessity when the German peo-
ponsibility have stated in this connection -
ple were hurriedly rebuilding the cities after
and this is incorporated in the Agreement -
the Second World War and creating the infra-
&dquo; that the ties between the Western Sectors
structure of a densely populated country.
of Berlin and the Federal Republic of Ger-
Some visitors seeking German Innerlichkeit
many will be maintained and developed, taking
(contemplativeness) as they know it from our
into account that these Sectors continue not
classical literature are put off by manifestations
to be a constituent part of the Federal Republic
of materialism -
a materialism that is largely
of Germany and not to be governed by it &dquo;.
a compensation for years of excessive ideology
Under the existing ties, the Federal Republic
and deprivation.
is entitled to represent the interests of West
Manifestations of national consciousness
Berlin in international
are
organizations and at
less marked in
international conferences. Berlin is de facto
Germany than in the neigh-
divided in the same way as the nation.
(2) She was surprised that there was no centre
commun de lumières et d’esprit...
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