Divorce in Berlin.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

Divorce in Berlin.

Statistics have just been published on the subject of divorce in Berlin. ! Ifc appears that in 1880 the Landgericht pronounced degree of divorce in 412 cases, and later figures are-1881, 484; 1882, 729; 1883, 788; and 1884, 754; a total of 3,16? divorces for five years. Of these 3,167 cases, 1,071 are attributable to infidelity, or 33"8 percent, of the whole ; to desertion,.Bl7 (25 - 8 per cent.);' mutual consent, 746 (22-2 per cent.); ,w;hile in 166 cases divorce was granted on account of the heavy criminal punishment of the respondents, 147 oh account of ill-treatment, 5,7 on account of wounded honour, 41, on account of antipathy on one side, 17 oh account of illness, and so on.' Of the marriages disannulled, 97 were of more than 25 years' duration ; but the bulk of the divorces fell to marriages of 2to 12 years' duration, an especially large number, falling to those of from 7to 12 years. Ih 348 cases (11 per cent.)'the difference , between the ages of the divorced persons was more than 10 years, a In 18S4 divorce was pronounced in [42 cases, in which the differences ranged from 11 to 15 years;. 27 in which it was from 16 to 20, and 16 in which it was over 20 years. ' It is noteworthy that of the .3,167 divorces referred to 1,033 fell to the independent artisan ■ class, 722 to workpeople and. journeymen, 688 to business people, 199 to officials, 195 to the servant classes, 1.83 to the categories of artistic and learned professions, and 28. to the military order. As.,to J religion, 2,562 divorces were of l?rocestanfe ) -14 : of Catholics, #of Dissenters, and 26 of Jews.