As a scholarly term, the phrase Ganzes Haus (literally “whole house/household”) goes back to the cultural scientist and conservative social critic W.H. Riehl (1823–1897) [10. 164]. Riehl interpreted the two-generation nuclear family as a symptom of the decline of modern civilization and distinguished it from the earlier term Haus (Eng. household, French maisonnée, Ital. casa), where not only several generations of blood relatives but also farmhands (Servants in husbandry) and other …