Auf dem Schreibtisch jedes preußischen Beamten. Fernwirkungen von Robert Graf Hue de Grais bis nach Japan
On the Desk of Every Prussian Civil Servant. Robert Graf Hue de Grais: Influences even on Japan

Summary/Abstract: Robert Graf Hue de Grais was a proliferate and influential writer on public law and administration. His handbook on constitution and administration in Prussia and the German Reich, published in 25 editions between 1881 and 1930, was the standard reference work for generations of Prussian civil servants in the Kaiserreich and the Weimarer Republic. It even influenced, through a translation into Japanese, administration in Japan, and was noted in the USA, Belgium, France. Count Hue de Grais was also influential through his proposals on administrative reforms, as civil servant – he was Regierungspräsident of Potsdam – and in civic education. Part of his archive is now opened, a hundred years after his death.

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