Specificities of the Family Life of the Elites: Senior Civil Servants Working in Bohemia in the Second Half of the 19th Century and at the Beginning of the 20th Century
2022
Abstract
The aim of this study was to analyse certain aspects linked to the marital status of senior civil servants who held office in Bohemia between 1861 and 1918. A closer analysis of this sample of 1,087 men revealed certain specificities that would merit a more detailed analysis in the future.
While higher-ranking officials can be seen as members of an elite class, they did not usually belong to this group throughout their lives. For many civil servants, especially those of Czech nationality, civil service became an opportunity for social advancement.
Only some of them are descendants of the traditional elite classes; much more often they are members of the so-called new elites.