HZK

This article explains the former health insurance company HZK; for the center of the Humboldt University see Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology

HZK
social insurance	Statutory health insurance
legal form	Public corporation
founding	January 1, 1914
resolution	June 30, 2008
Seat	Hamburg

The HZK (originally Hamburgische Zimmer Krankenkasse ) was a German health insurance company in the Workers' Replacement Insurance Association (AEV) and was part of the statutory health insurance . On July 1, 2008, it merged with the Gmünder Ersatzkasse . Most recently, the HZK looked after 96,500 insured persons at 15 locations. The head office was in Hamburg .

history

In 1877 the central sickness and death fund for carpenters was founded in Hamburg . Following the principle of self-help based on solidarity, the members of this professional self-help organization support each other in the event of illness and disability . This merger took place before Kaiser Wilhelm I made questions of social security a matter of state in 1881 . In 1908 the roofers received the right to join.

On January 1, 1914, the Reichsversicherungsordnung (RVO) for health insurance came into force and the Zimmererkasse was approved as a substitute fund. The inflation of 1923 made the financial situation of the carpentry insurance fund with 40 voluntary administrative offices precarious. After an upswing in the mid-1920s with a considerable increase in membership, another low followed during the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933. Self-administration of the carpentry was abolished in 1933 and replaced by an authoritarian system. With effect from January 1, 1936, the members of the bookbinding health insurance fund in Leipzig who are subject to compulsory insurance are transferred to the carpentry health insurance fund. The group of people is expanded to include bookbinders , fine bag makers and cardboard packaging workers. At the same time, the central, sickness and death fund of the carpenters changed their name to “Hamburgische Zimmer Krankenkasse for the German Empire from 1877 and health insurance for bookbinders and fine bag makers”.

During the first major attack on Hamburg on the night of July 24, 1943, the headquarters of the HZK in Hamburger Strasse was destroyed. In 1945 the remaining membership in the three western zones was recorded and about half of the remaining members were lost due to the dissolution of the replacement funds in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1953 the HZK regained its self-administration by law. The first representative assembly of the HZK consists of 10 members, the executive committee of three. The head office moves into new premises in Schäferkampsallee.

A first issue of the HZK member magazine “Under one roof” appears in 1959. In 1965 the head office moves to Eiffestrasse. The contribution system is centralized in the head office.

Electronic data processing began at HZK in 1968. The voluntary administrative offices are being dissolved and replaced by full-time offices. The headquarters of the HZK built its own administration building in 1981, which the company moved into in 1981. In 1989 the HZK was the third largest workers' occupational health insurance fund in the Federal Republic. After the accession of the GDR in 1991, the HZK was divided into an East and West cash office with separate households. Offices are opened in the new federal states. The "Nursing Fund at the HZK" started its work in 1995. On January 1st, the HZK changes its name to "HZK health insurance for construction and wood professions". In 1996 the cash register opened to everyone. As a result of the Health Structure Act, the board of directors and the representative assembly merge to form the administrative board. The management becomes a full-time board member, who is elected for six years.

In 1997 the HZK had around 98,000 members and 45,000 family members, in 1999 there were 135,000 members. In 2000 the HZK got into financial difficulties and there was a change in management.

On July 1, 2008, the Gmünder Ersatzkasse (GEK) and the HZK merged. The last chairman of the board was Berndt Krause. At that time, a total of 1.7 million people were insured with the “new” GEK.

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