Railway Insurance Company

The Bahnversicherungsanstalt ( BVA ) was a carrier of the statutory pension insurance in Germany in the legal form of a corporation under public law .

The origins of the Bahnversicherungsanstalt (BahnVA) - based in Frankfurt am Main - lie in the pension funds for the workshops and operations workers of the railway.

The pension fund for the workers of the Prussian State Railway Administration existed since 1891 and was divided into two departments:

• Section A : for statutory old-age and disability insurance
• Section B : for additional pension benefits (to survivors, death benefits, etc.)

On January 1, 1935 , the Reichsbahnversicherungsanstalt was created, a uniform pension insurance provider for all Reichsbahn workers, which was renamed the Bundesbahn-Versicherungsanstalt after the Second World War . With the establishment of Deutsche Bahn AG for 1. January 1994 , the federal corporation under public law was in Bahnversicherungsanstalt renamed.

The BahnVA was responsible for the statutory pension insurance and the supplementary pension for the workers and employees of the Deutsche Bahn AG and their outsourced companies as well as the federal railway assets . She was also responsible for the employees of the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration as well as the states of Bremen, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein.

As part of the organizational reform in the statutory pension insurance , which came into force on October 1, 2005 , the pension insurance carriers BahnVA and Seekasse were merged into the Federal Miners' Union under the name Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See .