Indygenat

The Indigenat ( Eingeborensein, nationality, local affiliation, national law, from the Latin indigena " native ") is the membership in a community ( county, state ). In some German states also pastor of non-native origin needed before 1871 the Indigenatserteilung to take office may.

Nobility

In the case of the nobility, it was the granting of citizenship to a foreign nobles and at the same time the recognition of his peerage, including admission to the local nobility. To purchase a country estate in the new home he still needed a special permit, the Inkolat. The granting of Indigenats was in some Central European countries, such as Prussia (jus indigenatus ), a prerogative of the sovereign, in others, such as Poland and Hungary, a matter of the Reichstag.

Bismarckian Reich Constitution

According to Article 3 of the constitution of 1871 was a common Indigenat for the entire German Reich. This meant that members of each state were treated in any other member state as German nationals and were admitted to all public offices and civil rights as locals. In the case of the nobility were needed since 1871 no more Inkolat to acquire estates and no Indigenat to be included in the nobility of the new home, provided that the peerage was located caused by the confirmation / awarding of a German sovereign.

Basic law

The idea of ​​Indigenats is still in Article 33 paragraph 1 GG included, according to which every German in every country of the Federal Republic of Germany has the same civic rights and duties.

Ostfriesisches Indigenat

The East Frisian landscape gives the Indigenat as a kind of honorary citizenship to non - East Frisians, who have rendered outstanding services to East Friesland.