Abstract

Faulenbach deals with the new relationship of the Social Democratic Party and trade unions after the Second World War, especially with the importance of the civil services for this relationship. He takes a closer look at the change of the social composition and the political self-understanding of the party. In this context, contrasts and conflicts between the party and the unions between 1945 and 1989, which show the different roles and the entanglement of both, are examined. The results enlighten the increasing importance of the civil service in social democracy as part of the modernization of the people’s party on the one hand and German particularities on the other hand, which are strongly connected with the tradition of state and the special German idea of politics.

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