Poor relief (German Armenpflege), also called Christian charity (German Liebestätigkeit, Latin caritas; in recent German more often Armenfürsorge [care of the poor] and Wohltätigkeit [beneficence]), is a term that has established itself in scholarly literature on poverty since the work of Georg Ratzinger in the 1860s [1]. It covers the basic intellectual, material, structural, and personal issues with respect to treatment of the poor. Poo…