Heinrich Reiter

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Heinrich Reiter (born August 27, 1930 in Freising ) is a German lawyer . From 1984 to 1995 he was President of the Federal Social Court .

Life

After studying law in Munich and Würzburg and the state examination in 1953 and 1967, Reiter was in 1960 with a thesis on an international legal topic doctorate .

Reiter began his professional career after passing the first state examination in 1957 at the Lower Bavaria-Upper Palatinate State Insurance Institute. A year and a half later, he became the deputy managing director of the Agricultural Employers' Liability Insurance Association of Upper Bavaria before becoming a judge at the Munich Social Court in 1960 . From 1965 to 1984 he worked in the Bavarian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In 1968 he joined the CSU .

From July 1, 1984 up to and including August 31, 1995, Reiter was President of the Federal Social Court in Kassel, succeeding Georg Wannagat . In his judicial work, the focus was on pension and unemployment insurance .

In 1990 he was awarded the title of honorary professor at the LMU Munich .

In addition to his job, Reiter worked as an arbitrator in the collective bargaining disputes in the printing industry and chaired the anti-doping commission of the DSB and NOK .

Reiter was co-editor of the journal Die Sozialgerichtsbarkeit (SGb) and one of the founding editors of the Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialrecht (NZS).

He is married and has two sons.

Positions

During his tenure as President of the Federal Social Court, Reiter had made repeated and decidedly socio-political statements. So he spoke out against a move away from the earnings-related pension in the statutory pension insurance. Pension insurance must remain affordable in the long term. However , he repeatedly “passionately” rejected a “basic” or “national pension”, which was discussed in the 1980s with a view to the imminent demographic change , because it would disadvantage those who had worked hard.

He also worked to exclude minor benefits from statutory health insurance. Only "risks in need of protection" should be covered by health insurance.

In Reiter's opinion, the burdens and risks of social security should always follow objective and system-based objectives, not political opportunity and enforceability.

His proposal to introduce court fees in disputes relating to statutory health insurance physicians , which, like the lawyer 's fees, should be based on the value of the medical fees in question , had also become known ; the rest of the social judicial procedure should, in principle, remain free of court costs.

Reiter criticized the fact that even among lawyers, social law is only understood by experts, but in many cases no longer by citizens. He called on the social judges not to live in the “cloud cuckoo home of legal interpretations”, but to be clear about speaking the law “in a very concrete situation in society”.

After the accession of the East German federal states to the federal territory, Heinrich Reiter turned against a relocation of the seat of the Federal Social Court from Kassel to Erfurt; as a result, the Federal Labor Court , which had also been established in Kassel, moved there in 1999 .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Heinrich Reiter: The expression of the principle of the European equilibrium in international law . In: Rechts- u. political science faculty . Diss. V. January 8, 1960, Würzburg 1960.
  • Heinrich Reiter: The welfare state requirement in a united Germany . In: New journal for labor and social law . CH Beck, 1991, ISSN  0179-5155 , p. 3-7 .
  • Heinrich Reiter: Social law aspects of sport . In: Meinhard Heinze (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Wolfgang grid. For his 65th birthday on May 30, 1995 . Chmielorz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-87124-131-8 , pp. 779-788 .

literature

  • Contributions to the symposium for Heinrich Reiter on November 13, 1995 . In: Quarterly journal for social law . No. 3 . Heymanns, 1996, ISSN  0941-861X , p. 153-242 .
  • Peter Masuch: Prof. Dr. jur. Heinrich Reiter for the 80th In: New journal for social law . CH Beck, 2010, ISSN  0941-7915 , p. 492-493 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 85th birthday of the former President of the Federal Social Court, Prof. Dr. jur. Heinrich Reiter. In: Media Information No. 21/15. Federal Social Court, August 27, 2015, accessed on March 13, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c Federal Social Court: shorter proceedings than other federal courts. Most of the lawsuits in 1986 were directed against the Federal Labor Office. In: Handelsblatt. Jan 29, 1987, p. 4.
  3. ^ A b Siegfried Löffler: President of the Federal Social Court: Doctors should pay court fees in the future . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt . tape 84 , no. 7 . Deutscher Ärzteverlag, Berlin February 11, 1987, p. A-318 – A-319 ( aerzteblatt.de ).
  4. ↑ a b Peter Masuch: Prof. Dr. jur. Heinrich Reiter for the 80th In: NZS . 2010, p. 492, 493 (with reference to: Heinrich Reiter: On the problem of systematic distribution of risks and burdens in social law. NZS 1992, 2).
  5. ↑ a b Munzinger: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 1/1996 of December 25, 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Reiter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising