German pension insurance Saarland
| German pension insurance Saarland |
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| social insurance | Statutory pension insurance |
| legal form | Public corporation |
| founding | April 1, 1922 as "Saarland Insurance Company" |
| Jurisdiction | Saarland |
| Seat | Saarbrücken |
| Managing directors | Stephanie Becker-Kretschmer |
| Insured | 1,081,377 |
| pensioner | 160.271 |
| Budget volume | 1.805 billion euros (as of 2018) |
| Offices | Headquarters: Martin-Luther-Straße 2–4, 66111 Saarbrücken |
| Employee | approx. 430 civil servants and employees |
| Website | DRV Saarland |
The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Saarland (formerly Landesversicherungsanstalt für das Saarland ) is a regional carrier of the German pension insurance based in Saarbrücken . The services range from individual advice on all pension issues to medical or occupational rehabilitation and the calculation and payment of pensions. According to the 2018 annual report, there were 1,081,377 insured persons and 160,271 retirees.
history
Before the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 , there was no administrative or political entity that coincided with today's Saarland or the former Saar area (1920-1935). After the Second Paris Peace Agreement in 1815, the land on the (central) Saar with its various territories belonged largely to the Union of the Kingdom of Prussia ( Rhine Province ), the area of Blieskastel, Homburg and St. Ingbert to the Kingdom of Bavaria ( Bavarian Palatinate ).
When the state insurance institutions began their work for disability insurance in the territory of the German Empire on January 1, 1891, the "Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt Rheinprovinz" (state insurance company) based in Düsseldorf was open for the Prussian part of the state on the Saar , and for the Bavarian (Palatinate) Area the "Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt Pfalz" in Speyer is responsible.
This administrative division was in place until the end of the First World War . After the Versailles peace treaty, the Saar area was separated from Germany and placed under the administration of the League of Nations. This meant an interruption of the connections with the national insurance companies of the German Reich and made the establishment of an own insurance company necessary.
The beginning
On the basis of the “Ordinance on the Establishment of an Insurance Company” of October 14, 1921, five civil servants began building the Saarland insurance company on April 1, 1922 in the premises of Saarbrücken Castle . The first task of the new Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt Saargebiet was to carry out the further payment and calculation of the pensions for the pension recipients living in the Saarland. Gradually, the staff of the institution was strengthened and the work area expanded by setting up a contribution department, a treatment department and a cash, asset and loan department.
During this time it was not easy for the Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt to carry out the tasks it was assigned to. There was increasing concern about the inadequate legal and financial basis for expanding statutory and voluntary benefits. According to the Versailles Treaty, the Saarland social insurance system was governed by the law in force at the end of the war. While the difficult post-war period, the devaluation of money and the new legal view led to changes in the legal regulations in the Reich, the old regulations remained in the Saarland. As a result, the differences between Saarland law and German law became ever greater and more and more disadvantageous for those insured on the Saar. The first attempt at harmonization, the so-called “Frankfurt Agreement”, did not bring the hoped-for success. It was not until the “Heidelberg Agreement” between the Saar Government Commission and the German Reich Government on social security matters of October 13, 1927 that decisive improvements were made. It brought about an approximation of the law of the Saarland social insurance to the German law and assured the Saar the financial support of the general association of German insurance carriers. This gave the Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt the opportunity to provide the same benefits as in the Reich, to carry out preventive health care and to contribute to the elimination of the large housing demand on the Saar. The conversion of the pensions according to the agreement began with effect from November 1, 1927. A total of around 55 million Reichsmarks had been transferred to the institution by the time it was reorganized .
1920-1939
In the 1920s, the state insurance institution's pension portfolio and benefits grew rapidly. The institution's pension portfolio, which began in 1923 with around 400 disability, widow's and orphan's pensions, rose to over 25,000 pensions by 1934. In the period from 1927 to 1934, the state insurance institute, with the support of the German insurance carriers, paid an average of around 2 million francs (320,000 Reichsmarks) annually for voluntary benefits. At the same time, around 16 million Reichsmarks were made available for the construction of around 3,400 apartments to promote housing construction for the insured. At the end of 1934, the assets of the state insurance company amounted to 133 million francs (around 22 million Reichsmarks).
The seizure of power by the National Socialists and the return of the Saar area to Germany in 1935 resulted in significant organizational changes. The Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt Saargebiet became the Landesversicherungsanstalt of Saarland in 1935 and currently employs around 80 civil servants and employees. The organs of democratic self-government were abolished. Their tasks and powers were transferred to the head of the institution, to whose support an advisory board was formed, which consisted of three insured persons and three “managers” as well as one representative each from the doctors and the local authority. The insurance company for salaried employees , which had previously been part of the same union , was taken over by the Reichsversicherungsanstalt for salaried employees in Berlin.
A department for joint health insurance tasks was newly established and began operating on April 1, 1935. The tasks of this department were the operation of sanatoriums, rest and convalescence homes, preventive health care as well as participation in tasks of population and health policy, the regulation of the medical service, the joint administration of the reserves of the health insurance funds, the administration of the shared responsibility for the district of the State insurance institute and the examination of the health insurance companies and health insurance associations. After the currency changeover in 1935, premium income rose and benefits could thus be expanded.
Second World War
At the beginning of the Second World War , the state insurance company was relocated due to the war situation. The documents were brought to Darmstadt , and the state insurance company was housed in the offices of the state insurance company Hessen and other office buildings. The return to Saarbrücken took place in August 1940. Since the original offices in the castle building were used for other purposes, the college for teacher training (formerly Ludwigsgymnasium) in the Hohenzollernstrasse became the new office building.
The Landesversicherungsanstalt des Saarlandes and the Landesversicherungsanstalt Pfalz were merged in 1940 under the name Landesversicherungsanstalt Saar-Pfalz with headquarters in Saarbrücken. The workforce was reinforced by civil servants and employees from Speyer . Finally, on the basis of an ordinance of the Reich Minister of Labor with effect from January 1, 1942, the institution also became the carrier of the disability insurance for the occupied area of Lorraine under the name Landesversicherungsanstalt Westmark .
The administration building on Hohenzollernstrasse burned down in an air raid on the night of July 29, 1942. Only a small part of the documents and files could be saved. The institute was housed in a former officers' mess in Saarlouis and, after a necessary repair of the burnt-out administration building, was relocated in autumn 1943. After another fire caused by a major attack on the night of October 5, 1944, the State Insurance Company moved to Speyer at the beginning of November 1944, where administrative work continued until the end of the war.
From 1945
After the end of the war, the social security institutions were no longer able to carry out their tasks because the buildings and most of the files were destroyed. After the current pension payments were discontinued at the end of March 1945, the task was to resume them as soon as possible and to raise funds for the pension benefits. The premium income was low, the asset reserves were largely lost, since the assets were mainly invested in now worthless Reich treasure notes.
After the Saarland was separated from Germany a few months after the end of the war, the French military government ordered the Saarland to set up its own insurance carriers whose activities were limited to the Saarland. From July 1, 1947, pension, health and accident insurance for all insured persons in the Saarland, with the exception of mining and railways, were combined in the State Insurance Institute for the Saarland. In addition, the implementation of the ironworkers' pension insurance was entrusted to her. By ordinance of September 20, 1945, the State Insurance Institution for the Saarland was established with its seat in Saarbrücken.
From 1947 to the end of 1952, the state insurance institute was also responsible for the family allowance fund. In addition, it was responsible for the joint tasks of health insurance and formed an administrative community with the newly established municipal accident insurance association. The main administration was housed in the Saarhüttenknappschaft building on Großherzog-Friedrich-Strasse, the other offices in the Saarbrücken-Burbach Hüttenkrankenhaus. In May 1947, office space was rented in the Weinhold department store on Bahnhofstrasse, where the institute's departments were brought together again. Management has been delegated to a technical committee.
As a result of the general economic upswing, the number of employees and thus the number of insured rose sharply. As early as 1950, 277,000 insured workers and employees were recorded. The provisions based on the Reich Insurance Code have been continuously expanded and supplemented by new laws. The contributions, assessment ceilings and benefits have been adjusted again and again as a result of the progressive price increases and creeping devaluation in the French and Saarland economic area, partly by increasing percentages, partly by granting fixed allowances.
The additional services in the area of health care have been expanded. The six hospitals entrusted to the institution as well as the children's sanatorium in Kleinblittersdorf, the lung sanatorium in Ludweiler and the sanatorium in Sonnenberg were built or rebuilt. In addition, thanks to the positive development of the financial situation, mortgage loans could be granted to the insured to promote housing construction in Saarland.
After the Saarland was accepted into the political association of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, the legal and financial basis of social security as well as the organizational structure of the state insurance company changed. In 1957 the new pension regulation laws were introduced, which brought about a significant improvement in pension benefits and their adaptation to the dynamic development of labor incomes. A year later the state insurance institute was given self-administration again. A new management was elected in June 1959.
The organization of social insurance in Saarland was adapted to the conditions in Germany in 1960. The responsibility of the state insurance institute was again limited to the pension insurance for workers, the Hüttenknappschaftliche pension insurance and the joint tasks in health insurance. A general local health insurance fund based in Saarbrücken was set up for health insurance . In addition, state health insurance funds , guild health insurance funds , company health insurance funds and substitute health insurance funds were approved. The accident insurance was taken over by the professional associations existing in Germany; In addition, an agricultural trade association and a community accident insurance association have been set up in Saarland . The pension insurance for employees was again the responsibility of the Federal Insurance Agency for employees in Berlin.
The state insurance company was expanded in the following years. For example, in 1966 it was decided to set up a central information point. The technical standards of data processing in the area of the state insurance company have been continuously developed and adapted to the latest state.
In 1976 the institution of the elected voluntary "insured elders" was introduced for the LVA. In 1990, the legislature decided to transfer the previous medical examiner service (VÄD) of the State Insurance Institute for Saarland to the medical service of the health insurance (MDK) in Saarland.
literature
- Karl-Werner Albert, LVA for Saarland: The State Insurance Institute for Saarland reports: 100 years of pension insurance on the Saar. A reflection of the country's history. Ed .: LVA for Saarland. Saarbrücken 1990, p. VIII .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Rentenversicherung Saarland: Annual report 2018, key figures 2018 at a glance. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .