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Submitted by: Raffael Scheck (rmscheck@colby.edu) I am finalizing a book manuscript on female politicians in the DVP and DNVP 1918-1933. In the primary sources I noticed a concern of women from both parties to improve the economic situation of a group called the "Kleinrentner" - sometimes also the "Kapitalrentner." Obviously, these people lost what they had saved for their old age during the inflation and received poor indemnification afterwards. Women from the DVP and DNVP constantly fought for a Kleinrentnergesetz in the Reichstag, but the most promising bill failed in 1928. In _The Great Disorder_, Gerald Feldman gives a lucid summary of the Kleinrentner (small rentiers) in the inflation years and refers to an article by Karl Christian Fuehrer in Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte (1990), which covers the same period. Apparently, two thirds of the Kleinrentner were women. The group was organized in the Deutscher Rentnerbund. My questions are: Is there literature on the Kleinrenter after 1924? What exactly is the difference between the terms Kleinrenter and Kapitalrentner? How are these terms most commonly translated into English? Thank you very much.
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