Franz Ruland (lawyer)

Franz Ruland (born September 25, 1942 in Saarbrücken ) is a German lawyer. He was the managing director of the Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions until it was converted into part of the German Pension Insurance Association.

Life

Ruland completed a legal education in 1972 with the second state examination in law and a doctorate . He then worked at the Institute for Politics and Public Law at the University of Munich until his habilitation in 1978 . He then moved to the Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions (VDR) as head of the legal department. From 1980 to 1983 he took on a full professorship for public law with a focus on social security law at the University of Hanover . In 1983 he returned to the VDR, where he took over management in 1992. While managing director at VDR from 1992 to 2005, Ruland u. a. Member of various government commissions (“Further Development of Pension Insurance” 1996–1997, “Sustainability in the Financing of Social Security Systems” 2002–2003, “Structural Reform of Pension Compensation” 2003–2004). In addition, since 1998 Ruland has chaired the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich. Ruland has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, the Federal Cross of Merit First Class and the Grand Cross of Merit. From April 2009 to March 2013, Ruland was Bert Rürup's successor , a member and chairman of the Social Advisory Council .

Positions

Ruland had been a member of the SPD since 1965 . In May 2014 he declared his resignation in protest against the SPD's pension policy. He considers the introduction of the deduction-free pension after 45 years of insurance from an age of 63 to be a violation of the general principle of equality , since those affected would be treated differently compared to pensioners who would start the old-age pension at the age of 65; The former would draw the pension longer, which could mean a difference of 30,000 euros for an average earner, at the expense of the insured with low pensions.

Awards

• 1998: Federal Cross of Merit (on ribbon)
• 2002: Federal Cross of Merit (1st class)
• 2006: Large Federal Cross of Merit

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Ruland in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of former and current members on the website of the Social Advisory Council, accessed on November 30, 2013.
2. ^ Dietrich Creutzburg: Because of retirement at 63: Pension Pope Ruland resigns from the SPD . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 28, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2014.