War indemnity | 5,000,000,000 Fr. | | Interest | 301,191,959 Fr. | | | 5,303,191,959 Fr. | = 1,413,651,189 thalers | | | | Paris contribution | | 53,505,865 thalers | Surplus of taxes and local contributions collected in France | | 17,600,000 thalers | | Total sum | 1,484,757,054 thalers | Minus value of railway in Alsace-Lorraine | | 86,666,666 thalers | | Net | 1,398,090,388 thalers | Expenditures: | | | 1. Reich Invalid Fund | | 187,000,000 thalers | 2. War invalid pensions before Reich Invalid Fund | | 16,196,674 thalers | 3. Compensation for war damages and contributions | | 38,800,000 thalers | 4. Indemnification of German Shipping Company | | 5,600,000 thalers | 5. Restructuring and equipping German fortresses | | 72,000,000 thalers | 6. Restructuring and equipping fortresses in Alsace-Lorraine | | 43,280,950 thalers | 7. Expansion of railways in Alsace-Lorraine | | 57,205,887 thalers | 8. Reich War Treasury | | 40,000,000 thalers | 9. Compensation for Reich expenditures for warfare, indemnification for railway administrations, restoration of war maps, war memorial coins | | 43,120,793 thalers | 10. Occupation costs | | 21,815,000 thalers | 11. Surplus costs of occupying army in Alsace-Lorraine | | 4,581,938 thalers | 12. Expansion of the navy | | 31,949,890 thalers | 13. Firing range of artillery testing commission | | 1,618,267 thalers | 14. Amount towards operating fund of the Reich Treasury and towards firm advances for the Army Administration | | 8,270,000 thalers | 15. Assumption of tariff and tax credits granted by German states | | 19,792,719 thalers | 16. Construction of Reichstag building | | 8,000,000 thalers | 17. Assistance for the Germans expelled from France | | 2,000,000 thalers | 18. Endowments | | 4,000,000 thalers | 19. Purchase of the Radziwill-Palace in Wilhelmstraße | | 2,011,328 thalers | | Total | 607,243,446 thalers | | | | Remaining | | 790,846,942 thalers | With interest approx. | | 793,000,000 thalers | Bavarian share | | 90,200,411 thalers | Remaining for the other German states | | 702,799,589 thalers | For their common account, towards paying off the Reich debt for coastal fortifications, extension of office buildings, etc. | | 6,119,000 thalers | Württemberg receives | | 28,500,870 thalers | Remaining for North German Confederation, Baden, and South Hesse | | 668,179,719 thalers | For the common account: | | | Operating fund of the postal administration | 1,750,000 thalers | | Restoration of the army | 106,846,810 thalers | 108,596,810 thalers | Remaining for distribution among | | 559,582,609 thalers | North German Confederation | 530,116,053 thalers | | Baden | 20,133,182 thalers | | South Hesse | 9,333,674 thalers | 559,582,909 thalers | Source: F. Hirsch, ed., Gebhardts Handbuch der Deutschen Geschichte [Gebhardt's Handbook to German History], 6th ed. Stuttgart, 1923, vol. 3, pp. 740-41. Original German data reprinted in Johannes Hohlfeld, Deutsche Reichsgeschichte in Dokumenten 1849-1934 [The History of the German Reich in Documents 1849-1934]. Berlin, 1927, pp. 85-86. Translation: Erwin Fink |