The thesis deals with the Prussian central administration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The aim of this thesis is to illustrate the development of central administration in Prussia by analysing the practices from which a successful administrative system emerged. The study of public administration also looks at administrative organisation. This outlines the steps in the creation of the administrative apparatus that Prussia had at its disposal during these two centuries, elements of which are also present in certain aspects of today's Germany.
Based on the analysis of secondary sources, we have found that both internal and external factors influenced the development of central administration in Prussia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Internal factors have included power struggles, political turmoil and revolutions. External factors have mostly been military attacks or wars, which have led to, among other things, loss of territory and new approaches to reorganising public administration. As regards the impact of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practices, we have found that they have had an impact on other countries and their systems. We have also found that several organisational elements from the period in question can be detected in the modern German civil service, such as the creation of agencies and territorial organisation at the middle, regional level.
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