Die sozialen Konsequenzen der Restitution von Grundeigentum in Deutschland und Polen
作者:Birgit Glock、Hartmut Häußermann、Carsten Keller
DOI:10.1007/bf03204036
日期:2001.12
The article compares the policy, process and consequences of property restitution in the two contrasting post-Communist countries Poland and Germany: In Poland, there are still ongoing debates about what the legal regulations on property restitution should look like; in Germany, on the other hand, most of the restitution claims have now been settled. The stated goals of property restitution policy in both countries have been twofold: One aim has been the creation of justice by returning property to the legal owners, i.e. the moral dimension. Another one has been the dimension of privatization - or the functional aspect - of restitution. Here, property restitution should provide an effective mean for privatization policy by distributing formerly state-owned assets to private hands. Our analysis of the social and economic consequences of restitution in Poland and Germany shows, that the implementation of restitution policy has lead to a creation of new social inequalities and to a production of new injustices by overcoming old ones. By looking at two neighborhoods in the metropolitan region of Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg and Kleinmachnow), we show that the acceptance of restitution by the affected residents differs to a great extent.