Interpretation of German Hamburg Terms

Hamburg system in Germany refers to a system for managing poverty alleviation affairs, which is named after its origin in Hamburg, Germany.

After the industrial revolution, the population of Hamburg increased sharply, the gap between the rich and the poor increased, beggars and the poor gradually increased due to unemployment and other reasons, and even beggars lined up in the market and begged along the street, which became one of the most serious social problems in Hamburg, and the general public called for solutions.

1788, according to the plan drawn up by Professor Bush, in order to enable the voluntary committees elected by the parliament to carry out their work smoothly and to investigate and provide relief to individual poor people, Hamburg adopted a regional management system for poverty alleviation, dividing the city into 60 districts, with 1 supervisor in each district, and setting up a central office to comprehensively manage the poverty alleviation business in the city, which is called Hamburg system by social work circles.

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Improvement of Hamburg system in Germany;

1852, after imitating and improving the Hamburg system, the German town of Herbaud proposed the "Herbaud system". The system divides the whole city into 564 districts, each district has about 300 residents, including no more than 4 poor people, and each district has 1 relief workers, which comprehensively manages poverty alleviation work.

The helper must contact the rescuer, and the rescuer must go to the helper's home to conduct a family survey first, and then give subsidies after finding the need. After the subsidy, it is still necessary to investigate once every two weeks. Relief funds must be the legal minimum standard, and it is not allowed to cultivate the dependence of the poor. Relief workers are also responsible for preventing poverty during the period (for example, introducing jobs, training and managing homeless people).

Every 14 road section in the city is a rescue area, and each district has an inspector to lead the rescuers in each road section. The 14 section in the district has formed a relief Committee, which meets every two weeks. The district inspector is the chairman of the meeting, discussing the disaster relief work in the whole region, and making reports or suggestions, which are submitted to the Central Committee formed by the joint organization of all districts in the city.

As the highest relief agency in the city, the Central Committee generally controls and manages the relief affairs of poverty-stricken clinics, hospitals and hospitals in the city, and holds meetings every two weeks.