19世纪德国国法学家洛伦茨·冯·施泰因被誉为德国社会国思想的先驱,其社会理论继承了黑格尔对于国家与市民社会的二元区分,用“人格理论”重塑国家功能,提出了“社会君主制”理论,即解决19世纪德国工业化初期所面临的阶级矛盾及社会问题不能靠暴力革命,而是通过超越阶级利益、具备中立性的君主所主导社会改革来实现,为社会国和干预型国家作出理论启蒙,同时为19世纪末德国的社会立法提供了思想渊源。 Lorenz von Stein, a German national jurist in the 19th century, was hailed as the forerunner of German social state thought. His social theory inherited Hegel’s dual distinction between state and civil society, using “personality theory” Reshape the state function and put forward the theory of “social monarchy”. That is to say, the solution to the class contradictions and social problems faced by the early 19th century German industrialization can not be achieved through violent revolution, but is led by a neutral monarch that transcends class interests. Social reform to achieve the theory of enlightenment for social countries and interventionist countries, while providing the ideological origins of social legislation in Germany in the late 19th century.