Slush fund

A reptilian fund is in a broader sense a " slush fund " from otherwise diverted from public funds funds, or hidden before the tax black money, which is usually used for political influence or the payment of bribes and no public accountability must be placed on their use. Reptiles Funds also reserve fund be named.

In a narrower sense, the term of Otto von Bismarck infers that ( the Guelph funds) and funds from the Hessian Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I took after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 funds from the confiscated private property of King George V of Hanover to to purchase a positive press and to obtain the consent of the Bavarian " Fairy Tale King " Ludwig II to the war against France and the creation of the new German Empire under Prussian hegemony. Even Heinrich Wuttke had criticized this in the strongest terms.

The term derives from a speech of Bismarck, which he held on January 30, 1869 during the consideration of the seizure of the assets of the Elector of Hesse in the Prussian House of Representatives, in which he described the working in the service of the deposed elector agents as " malicious Reptiles". However, the opposition press related this expression to the journalists and organs that were in the service of the government.

Yet, it may also be the title with 300: rewrite designated for promotion of information science budget title of the German Federal Chancellery, which since the founding of the Federal Republic only subject to the audit of the Federal Court. The opposition suspected the German Federal Government on several occasions to divert from the federal budget funds to finance the election campaign, but this has never been proven. The title was 300 in 1967 subject to parliamentary control. Similar titles were later used then for example the prisoner ransom of political prisoners from East Germany.

The German Federal Government, according to press reports, a reptile fund is paid out inter alia ransom for German hostages abroad.