German pension insurance Rhineland-Palatinate

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social insurance Statutory pension insurance
legal form Public corporation
founding December 8, 1890
Jurisdiction Rhineland-Palatinate
Seat Speyer
Managing directors Saskia Wollny, Matthias Förster's deputy
Supervisory authority Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography
Insured 1.5 million (2018)
pensioner 640,883 (2018)
Budget volume 7.404 billion euros (2018)
Offices Then after
Employee 2,207 (2018)
Website DRV Rhineland-Palatinate

The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz is the regional carrier of the German statutory pension insurance in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is also the liaison point for the French, Luxembourg and Albanian pension schemes. The head office is in Speyer , there is another administrative office in Andernach . It is a corporation under public law with self-administration and thus legally independent. Self-governing bodies are the assembly of representatives and the board of directors, each composed equally of voluntary representatives of the insured and the employers . The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz is headed full-time by a managing director. Legal supervision is carried out by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography .

Tasks and achievements

tasks

As a pension insurance provider, the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rhineland-Palatinate has the task of absorbing the risks of reduced earning capacity , old age and death , which are covered in the system of statutory pension insurance , through cash and non-cash benefits. The insured , their relatives and survivors are entitled to benefits . The most important benefits are pensions of various types and rehabilitation , which aims to maintain or restore employability by means of medical benefits or participation benefits. In addition, the pension insurance contributes financially to the health insurance expenses of its pensioners . All other benefits such as reimbursement of contributions or severance payments for widow's or widower's pensions are of subordinate importance. Information and advice form a further focus of work. The pension insurance is financed on a pay-as-you-go basis . The funding comes from two sources, contribution payments and federal grants . The tax auditor monitors both the employer contributions and the pension insurance contributions collected by the health insurance companies . The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rhineland-Palatinate covers its staffing requirements to a large extent by means of the training and study places offered in-house . The course takes place at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration Rhineland-Palatinate in Mayen .

The former State Insurance Institution of Rhineland-Palatinate (LVA) was responsible for looking after the workers in their catchment area until the organizational reform in the pension insurance in 2005 , while the employees were looked after by the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees in Berlin. With the reform, this distinction was abolished. For all those newly insured after the reform, 55% will be assigned to their respective regional carrier, 40% to the German Federal Pension Insurance and five percent to the German Pension Insurance Knappschaft-Bahn-See . Before the reform, around half of the insured were assigned to the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees, and the trend is rising. In the medium term, five percent of the insured will receive a new provider as a compensatory measure.

Services

The benefits are based on the regulations on statutory pension insurance in SGB ​​VI , and are administered by the relevant pension insurance agency. The pensions represent the main task and can be divided into three types:

  1. Old-age pensions
  2. Death pensions
  3. Pensions due to reduced earning capacity

Further services are provided as part of medical rehabilitation measures aimed at maintaining or restoring the ability to work and supplemented by preventive services. Participation benefits include various measures to secure an existing job, support with qualifications or the search for a new job.

Connection point

Since the bilateral social security agreement with France and the adoption of the multilateral EEC regulations on social security for migrant workers , the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rhineland-Palatinate has also acted as a liaison office for Luxembourg with the respective national pension funds. With the progressive integration of the European Union , the Franco-German agreement has been overlaid by European social law, but is still valid. The ordinances are based on the principle of distribution or export of benefits, i.e. the pension benefits are granted by the contracting states in accordance with national law. Insurance periods in the other country are taken into account.

Legal basis and organization

Headquarters of the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate

The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rhineland-Palatinate is part of the indirect state administration , over which the responsible ministry exercises legal , but no specialist supervision . Self-administration refers to the "[...] independent [..] participation of those affected in the regulation of public affairs [...]". It is realized through the statute law , its own budget separate from the general state budget, and organizational and personnel sovereignty . Insured persons and employers form the self-governing bodies resulting from the social elections , the assembly of representatives and the board of directors. The elders of the insured also belong to self-administration. The relationship between the voluntary bodies , with equal representation from the insured and the employers, is determined by the law and the articles of association. The powers of self-government essentially include general decisions about investments, organization and personnel issues. The contribution and benefit law is largely regulated by federal law, but in rehabilitation there are still design options for self-administration. In the area of ​​budget and finance, their powers are restricted by legal requirements and state approval reservations.

Locations and advice centers

Speyer is the seat of the main administration and with around 1150 employees the largest location of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz. Located in Speyer-West , the administration buildings are concentrated around the high-rise building of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz, which defines the cityscape .

The branch in Andernach has been part of what was then LVA since 1946 and has been located in today's administration building since 1958. The insured and pensioners in the northern part of the country are looked after by their 233 employees. In addition to the two large locations, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz operates information and advice centers in Bad Kreuznach , Kaiserslautern , Koblenz , Mainz and Trier . Some of the service centers for rehabilitation and specialist rehabilitation advice are also located with them, while some information and advice centers are the headquarters of appraisers or the regional offices of the auditing service.

Rehabilitation clinics

The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz has four rehabilitation clinics of its own, each of which specializes in different areas of indication . The Mittelrhein-Klinik in Bad Salzig is a specialist clinic for psychosomatic and oncological rehabilitation. The Drei-Burgen-Klinik in Bad Münster primarily treats cardiovascular diseases and orthopedic diseases , while the Edelsteinklinik in Bruchweiler focuses on rehabilitation for children and young people and the specialist clinic in Eusserthal near Eusserthal focuses on the rehabilitation of people with addictions .

history

1890 to 1918

Before the Invalidity and Old Age Insurance Act came into force on January 1, 1891, state insurance institutions had to be established throughout the territory of the German Empire . In 1890, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria therefore set up the “Insurance Company for the Palatinate” in Speyer, the seat of government of the Palatinate (Bavaria) . Self-government existed from the beginning. In addition to the board of directors, a committee with legislative and control tasks was formed in December 1890. This counts as the foundation date of the insurance company. In the insurance company, which was organized according to the principle of official administration , two officials took up their work on January 1, 1891. The insurance was initially responsible for blue-collar workers and low-wage employees, and this year it paid out 1,280 pensions.

Because the six employees shortly afterwards suffered from the lack of space and the files could not be kept fire-proof, two plots of land at the cathedral were bought and a representative administrative building, today's Stadthaus (Speyer) , was built according to the plans of the architect Franz Schöberl by 1903 . In 1912, the Reichsversicherungsordnung (Reich Insurance Code ) introduced survivors' welfare as the third pillar alongside old-age and disability pensions. It was renamed the State Insurance Institute for the Palatinate . To improve the state of health of the population, healing methods and the construction of workers' apartments were promoted, and information and welfare offices were supported. Until the outbreak of World War I , pension insurance companies were financially better equipped than health insurance companies and therefore financed most of the health care measures. The First World War led to a shortage of personnel due to the drafts, at the same time new tasks had to be performed in the area of ​​war welfare, such as participation in war bonds . The economic situation of the LVA deteriorated due to a decline in contribution payments, which affected the pension payment.

1918 to 1933

After the war ended, the main building of the insurance company was confiscated by the French occupation until 1930 . The adjoining building alone was available to the 60 officers. In 1919 the Palatinate State Insurance Company was a founding member of the Association of German State Insurance Institutions . With the establishment of the LVA Saargebiet in 1922, minor territorial changes were made in its favor. Following the socio-political trend, the insurance company expanded its benefits. The pension now offered basic security, medical care was expanded, the Ramberg sanatorium was comprehensively expanded and new clinics were purchased.

Due to the mass unemployment during the global economic crisis , the social security funds lost income while an increasing number of people were dependent on their payments. The presidential cabinets had been in office since 1930, and their social policy was characterized by opposition to the previous welfare state. Emergency ordinances ordered significant reductions in benefits in order to stabilize the pension system, initially affecting disability pensions and then in 1932 leading to a reduction in all pensions. At the same time, the insurance system was transformed into an authoritarian system. For example, the self-administration powers of the insurance companies were gradually curtailed by the increasingly powerful ministerial bureaucracy.

1933 to 1945

The Stadthaus (Speyer) was the headquarters of the State Insurance Institution of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1903 to 1960.

After the National Socialists seized power, political opponents were persecuted . The exact sequence of these processes in the LVA Pfalz has not yet been precisely researched. There were politically motivated transfers of senior officials who were party members of the center or the Bavarian People's Party . Self-government was replaced by the leader principle . The management was now incumbent on a manager with exclusive decision-making powers, the self-governing bodies were dissolved and replaced by an advisory board. The first director was Ludwig Battenberg, whose career was ended by the Gauleiter Josef Bürckel after a series of serious conflicts both within the state insurance company and with other authorities . He was followed by the doctor and administrative officer Max Obé , who was held responsible for forced sterilization and euthanization murders in his medical work . The state insurance institute was now assigned the joint tasks of health insurance. In 1936 the medical examiner service was centralized, transferred from the health insurances to the pension insurance carriers and henceforth used for the "total medical surveillance of employees". In the same year, Section 615a was introduced into the Reich Insurance Code. He ruled that pension payments to all Jews and convicted enemies of the state should be suspended. The revocation of German citizenship for German Jews living abroad in 1941 brought the insurance carriers high profits through savings. This targeted disenfranchisement and deprivation of the groups of people persecuted for racist and political motives was also borne by the National Socialist State Insurance Institutions and was part of the racist social policy in favor of the “ national community ”.

During the Second World War , the main building was badly damaged by a bomb hit in 1940 and rebuilt. After the conquest of France, the state insurance institutions for the Palatinate and Saarland were merged to form the LVA Saarpfalz in 1941, with headquarters in Saarbrücken ; the insurance company was renamed LVA Westmark , with responsibility being extended to Lorraine . The LVA Westmark was thus part of the German occupation administration in France until the liberation of northern France. The head office was moved back to Speyer in 1944. With the advance of the Allied troops, operations were stopped at the end of 1944.

post war period

In the post-war period , administrative activities were resumed. The French occupation administration ordered the resumption of service in the social security system on June 18, 1945. The working conditions for the 320 employees were difficult because the main building had been confiscated for ten years and there were hardly any work materials and little experienced specialists available. As a result of the war, the state insurance institute was temporarily assigned the tasks of the Reich insurance institute for salaried employees , which had been closed down by the Berlin magistrate , the community accident insurance association and the war- disabled pension .

The geographical jurisdiction changed significantly. In July 1945 the areas on the left bank of the Rhine (territorially the later administrative district Rheinhessen ) of the LVA Hessen were added to the LVA Westmark, and in June 1946 the branch in Andernach was taken over by the LVA Rheinprovinz . In August 1945 the Westmark State Insurance Company was dissolved, legal successors were the LVA Pfalz-Hessen and the LVA for the Saar area. Shortly thereafter, it was renamed LVA Hessen-Palatinate. In April 1946 the responsibility of the LVA Hessen-Palatinate was extended to the administrative districts of Koblenz , Trier and Montabaur . With this quadrupling, it now covered the territory of the later federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Since 1947

After the founding of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1947, the name was changed to LVA Rheinland-Pfalz on July 21. The newly introduced works council was replaced in 1958 by a staff council . In 1948 self-government was restored. Checkpoints, today's advice centers, have been set up in all larger cities. In the course of the currency reform, the LVA lost its previous assets of 90 million Reichsmarks and received basic funding of 8 million DM. The pension insurance institutions participated in the reparation of National Socialist injustices in the pension insurance. In 1949, the Working Group to Combat Tuberculosis in Rhineland-Palatinate was created to contain tuberculosis. After the conclusion of the Franco-German agreement on social security, the National Insurance Institute was assigned the function of a liaison office for France in 1952 and, after the EEC regulations came into force in 1959, the function of an EEC liaison office for Luxembourg. In 1953, the newly founded Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees took over the tasks previously carried out in trust by the state insurance institutions.

New building measures followed in Andernach and Speyer, as the number of employees had meanwhile grown to over a thousand. Electronic data processing was introduced in the following decade .

After the German reunification , the state insurance institute Rhineland-Palatinate participated in the development of the LVA Thuringia together with the state insurance institutes Hesse , Lower Franconia and Saarland . The 2002 pension reform with the introduction of the funded Riester pension represented a turning point . Since the organizational reform of October 1, 2005, all statutory pension insurance providers have been operating under the common name of " Deutsche Rentenversicherung ". The Rhineland-Palatinate LVA became the Rhineland-Palatinate German Pension Insurance.

See also

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature and Sources

  • Administrative reports of the insurance company for the Palatinate, state insurance company Palatinate, German pension insurance Rhineland in the archive of the department of the management and for public relations work of the German pension insurance Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate: Statutes of the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate in the version of the resolution of the Representative Assembly of September 29, 2011
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  • Heinz G. Reuther, Karl Röhrich: 70 years of the State Insurance Institution of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Landesversicherungsanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz reports: From the office in 1890 to the high-rise building in 1960. In: Communications from the Landesversicherungsanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz, 1.1961, 8th year.
  • Hans-Georg Arnold, Petra Heiser, Walter Hoinka u. a .: Annual Report 2015. 125 years of the German Pension Insurance Rhineland-Palatinate. For the people. Also in the future. ed. from the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz, Speyer 2016.
  • Hans-Georg Arnold, Petra Heiser, Walter Hoinka and others: Annual reports, 2012, 2013, 2018
  • State Insurance Institution of Rhineland-Palatinate 1890–1990. In: Info LVA Rheinland-Pfalz 6.1990, supplement to: Gesichertes Leben, pp. I – VIII.
  • Werner Grotzer: Law, organization and administration of the statutory pension insurance. Chapter 19. International Pension Law and Alien Pension Law. In: Eberhard Eichenhofer, Herbert Rische, Winfried Schmähl (eds.): Manual of the statutory pension insurance. SGB ​​VI , Cologne 2011
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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Hans-Georg Arnold, Petra Heiser, Walter Hoinka u. a .: Annual Report 2018. Another good year. ed. from the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Rheinland-Pfalz, Speyer 2019.
  2. German Federal Pension Insurance: Table insured. Active insured total on 31.12. (excluding pension according to insurance carriers). Men and women. In: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (Hrsg.): Pension insurance in time series. October 2012 (DRV-Schriften, 22), Berlin 2012, pp. 18-19.
  3. German pension insurance. October 24, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  4. Ordinance No. 3 on social security for migrant workers (PDF) Ordinance No. 4 on the implementation and amendment of Ordinance No. 3 on social security for migrant workers (PDF) .
  5. On the creation and implementation of the Invalidity and Old Age Insurance Act, cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February Decrees of Wilhelm II (1881–1890), Volume 6: The statutory invalidity and old-age insurance and the alternatives based on trade unions and companies, Darmstadt 2004; Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 6, The Practice of Pension Insurance and the Disability Insurance Act of 1899 , Darmstadt 2014.
  6. Burckhard Jellonnek: The resurrection of the blood judge and T4 expert. The brown rope teams at Saar University after the end of the war . ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) Review of: Gisela Tascher: State, power and medical professional practice 1920–1956. Healthcare and Politics: The Saarland Example. In: Opus Kulturmagazin, p. 70 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lpm.uni-sb.de

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