Horst Peters (lawyer)

Horst Peters (born April 30, 1910 in Stettin ; † May 14, 2000 in Düsseldorf ) was a lawyer and from 1969 to 1975 President of the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia . As an expert, he decisively shaped the social justice system and the health insurance system in the Federal Republic of Germany .

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Horst Peters studied since 1928 in Königsberg and 1929/30 in Bonn Law and in 1928 a member of the fraternity Germania Königsberg and 1929 the Bonn Burschenschaft Frankonia .

He wrote his dissertation in 1935 on “The tasks and structure of health insurance companies”. He was initially employed in this area, from 1933 to 1936 at the AOK in Düsseldorf and from 1936 to 1948 at the company health insurance fund of the Reich at the Reich Insurance Office in Berlin (after the war in Itzehoe ), initially as an assessor , and in 1939 as deputy head.

At the end of 1942 Peters was called up for military service and remained a soldier on the Eastern Front until the end of the war , most recently as a lieutenant . He was wounded and received several awards for bravery.

In November 1945, Peters (since 1943 government director ) resumed his service at the Reich Insurance Office and was immediately seconded to the Schleswig-Holstein State Insurance Institute and then to the State Government in Kiel , where he was responsible for refugee care and resettlement in the Ministry of Reconstruction.

In 1947, Peters was one of the founders of the " Verlag des Mitteilungsblatt für die Sozialversicherung" in Lübeck , along with Max Richter and State Director Wilhelm Goettsch , which was renamed Asgard Verlag in 1950 .

In 1949 Peters was appointed to the Düsseldorf Oberversicherungsamt, in August 1951 he was appointed to the state service as a senior government councilor and in 1952 was appointed director of the Düsseldorf Oberversicherungsamt.

With the establishment of the social justice system in 1954, he became president of the social court in Düsseldorf.

In 1969 he was appointed the highest social judge in North Rhine-Westphalia by the state government and was President of the state social court in Essen until his retirement in 1975 .

In the years 1952/1953 Peters belonged to an expert committee at the Federal Ministry of Labor , which was responsible for the completion of the draft of the social security code. In 1954 he was appointed to the advisory board formed by the German Bundestag for the reorganization of social benefits and chairman of the committee for disease control at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

He was an impartial member and deputy chairman of the Federal Committee for Doctors and Health Insurance Funds, and since April 1970 deputy chairman of the commission for the creation of a social security code and the expert commission for the further development of social health insurance .

As an expert in social law , he has proven himself through numerous publications. In addition to his involvement in the Social Security Code , the handbook of health insurance , its history of social insurance , the multi-volume commentary on social justice that was published under his collaboration and team leadership, and his compilations of the case law of the Reich Insurance Office and the Reich Supply Court should also be mentioned.

For many years, Peters was a lecturer in social security at various administrative academies and training organizations for the social partners. For almost two decades he was chairman of examination boards for health insurance employees. In 1947 he was a co-founder of the publishing house of the newsletter for social security , since 1950 Asgard-Verlag .

Honors

1976: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1985: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 138-140.

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Individual evidence

↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 369.

personal data
SURNAME	Peters, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	April 30, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 2000
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 369.