Source
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 | -- | -- |
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, 6th ed. Stuttgart, 1923, vol. 3, pp. 740–41; original German data reprinted in Johannes Hohlfeld, Deutsche Reichsgeschichte in Dokumenten 1849–1934. Berlin, 1927, pp. 85–86.