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Article 20, paragraph 1 of the Basic Law stipulates: "The Federal Republic of Germany is a democratic and social federal state." By definition, a state is a welfare state that focuses its policy is that the people who find themselves in an emergency situation, which they by their own means not able to be overcome to ensure a secure its existence in order to let them continue to participate in all social and political developments. It is based on a social market economy, which was coined in the German region mainly by the former Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. The welfare state is to be distinguished from the welfare state as it is practiced in some Scandinavian countries. The welfare state is based as opposed to the welfare state but also on a market order, but makes use of extensive government intervention in the economy to ensure social justice in a society. The modern welfare state in the wake of the industrial revolution in the 19th Century founded to address the resulting impoverishment of the working class. An example is the social legislation of the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The welfare principle aims to but always to secure the political order in a country where it escapes by ensuring the existence of the individual breeding ground for violent overthrow of the system.

Indicator of the welfare

The welfare state are attributed by leading social scientists and economists in general the following characteristics. First, the State is required by the individual to secure a minimum subsistence level in emergency situations a social security to offer. Second, the welfare state, the task of preserving the social justice in a society. This means that he will seek the fairest possible distribution of social and economic burden on all population groups. Furthermore, the government is committed to social equality and social peace in a society secure. In the case of the Federal Republic of Germany is called the Basic Law a few areas where it is the state to protect individual rights. They are essentially Article 1, the protection of human dignity, Article 2, the protection of marriage and family, especially the mothers, and 6, the protection of youth.

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