General widows' catering facility

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The general widow 's pension was a Prussian insurance company that existed from 1775 to 1882 for the payment of widow's pension (widow's benefit) or orphan's pension (orphan's benefit). It was founded in 1775 under the name Königlich Preußische Allgemeine Wittwen-Verpflegungs-Anstalt as a personal corporation, thus under a state guarantee, and was open to private individuals for the first time. Their statutes were the regulations for the Kgl. prussia. general widow catering institution of December 28, 1775.

It ousted the Berlin pension institution for widows , which had already been founded in 1773, but which was only open to Prussian civil servants and instead of fixed pensions to widows only paid annual surpluses to the widows. During the Fourth Coalition War in 1806, the General Widow's Catering Establishment collapsed and was reorganized in 1816. In the course of the reorganization, access to the Prussian officials was restricted, for Prussian officers there was already the officer's widow's fund from 1792. Since 1817, Prussian civil servants were obliged to join, which continued until 1882. In 1882, the general widow's catering facility was closed due to the law of May 20, 1882 and the Prussian state took over the provision for survivors directly.
The general directorate of the general widow's catering establishment was considered a department of the Prussian Ministry of Finance.

Offices

Widows' catering facility in Behrenstrasse around 1835

In 1788 the construction of a service building for the widows' catering facility in Behrenstrasse  41 began according to plans and under the direction of the chief building officer Conrad Friedrich Wilhelm Titel (1754–1840). The building was completed in 1794 after several interruptions. The building was then the seat of the widow's catering establishment until 1822 and then served as the residence of the Prussian Interior Minister Friedrich von Schuckmann . From 1823 to 1829 the management of the widows' catering facility was located at Molkenmarkt 3 ( Palais Schwerin ), from 1830 to 1854 at Schützenstraße 7 and from 1855 to 1882 at Taubenstraße 29. From 1885 the building in Behrenstraße was used by the State Library and destroyed in WWII. The new building erected in the 1960s is now used by the Berlin Student Union .

Directors and Chairmen

Directors

  • 1775–1784: Friedrich Christian Hieronymus von Voss was the first director of the royal general widow's catering establishment and general director of the Kurmark and Neumark fire society and first deputy of the Kurmark landscape
  • 1786–1790: Alexander Friedrich George Graf Schulenburg-Blumenberg , Minister of State at the General Directorate responsible for the maritime trading company, banking matters, the widows' catering facility and fund and the tobacco administration
  • 1814–1832: Johann Stephan Gottfried Büsching as Lord Mayor of Berlin from February 1814 to March 1832, he was also director of the general widow's pension and the officer's widow's fund
  • In 1869 he became director of the general widows' catering facility - Iobann Gustav Rudolf Meinecke , Undersecretary of State in Prussia. Ministry of Finance, b. August 24, 1817 in Köslin

Chairperson

Pastors and church officials

Pastors and church officials also had the right to join the general widows' catering facility.

Contributions and Payouts

  • The contribution should amount to 20% of the man's salary, so the statutes of the widows' catering facility demanded.
  • The permission to marry could be linked to the purchase of the widows' catering facility for the future wife. However, the possibility of shopping also depended on the woman's age.
  • “The father may have a pension insured for his unmarried daughter, the brother for his sister, etc., and every unmarried or married man for the unmarried woman, yes, she can choose a man herself, whose death the insurance is provided for. - Both are seen as married people, and like a true widow she keeps half when she marries. «Regulations für die Kgl. prussia. general widow catering establishment of December 28, 1775. § 29
  • In the first year after the purchase, the widows' catering institution did not pay out a pension, in the second year half and in the third year only the full insured contribution.

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  4. ↑ Oliver Janz: Citizens of a special kind: Evangelical pastors in Preussen 1850-1914, Walter de Gruyter 1994, page 393, ISBN 311014140X
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  9. ↑ www.berliner-klassik.de ( Memento from February 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (Alexander Friedrich George Graf von der Schulenburg-Blumenberg)
  10. ^ Edition Luisenstadt, 1998
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  12. ^ Hans-Peter Huebner: Pastor in the social insurance, published 1992 JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 1992, page 24, ISBN 3161458850
  13. ↑ Joachim Grossmann: Artists, court and bourgeoisie: Life and work by painters in Prussia 1786-1850, Akademie Verlag 1994, page 168, ISBN 3050024127
  14. ↑ Ancestors and relatives of the Blank family Notes on Dr phil Dr theol Karl Wilhelm Moritz Snethlage
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