Otto Eduard Leopold Furst von Bismarck-SchonhausenMarch 1872
Religious schools are forced to undergo official Government inspection and in June religious teachers are banned from Government schools
Germany · Government / Reich, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Religious schools are forced to undergo official Government inspection and in June religious teachers are banned from Government schools
Under the May Laws administered by Adalbert Falk, the state begins to monitor the education of clergy closely, creates a secular court for cases involving the clergy, and requires notification of all clergy employment. The Jesuits are banned (and remained banned in Germany until 1917)
Introduces the May Laws subjecting the Clergy to State control
Under the May Laws of 1873 administered by Adalbert Falk, the state began to supervise the education of clergy closely, created a secular court for cases involving the clergy, and required notification of all clergy employment
Further May Laws against the Ultramontane clergy provoking Pius IX to annul them
The Congregations Law of 1875 abolishes religious orders, stops state subsidies to the Catholic Church, and removes religious protections from the Prussian constitution. Marriage becomes a mandatory civil ceremony, removed from the control of the Church
The social security systems installed by Bismarck (health care in 1883, accidents insurance in 1884, invalidity and old-age insurance in 1889) at the time are the most advanced in the world
Passes the Sickness Insurance Law
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