Citizens into Dishonored Felons

Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933

Timon de Groot (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-386-9 (ISBN)

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Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights—such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting—as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany’s criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons demonstrates how criminal punishment was never solely a disciplinary measure, but that it reflected a national moral compass that authorities used to dictate the rights to citizenship, honour and trust.

Timon de Groot has a PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. “Rights of citizenship are conditional rights”: Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Trust in the Criminal Codes before German Unification

Chapter 2. Institutions of Honor: A Leveling Society Searching to Protect Its Institutions

Chapter 3. Political Offenders vs. Common Criminals: Challenging the Distinction

Chapter 4. “The chain of dishonor”: Petitioning for Rehabilitation in Imperial Germany

Chapter 5. “The blessing of the war”: World War I as a Chance for Rehabilitation

Chapter 6. “Your honor is not my honor”: Disenfranchisement and Rehabilitation as a Political Battleground from the War to the End of the Weimar Republic

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Studies in German History
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 10 Illustrations; 3 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-83695-386-0 / 1836953860
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-386-9 / 9781836953869
Zustand	Neuware