Karl Jellinghaus

Karl Jellinghaus (born March 29, 1897 in Almelo , Netherlands ; died March 4, 1973 in Hagen ) was a German municipal civil servant , social politician and expert on standard rates for social assistance .

Life

Karl Jellinghaus was the son of a master cooper . After elementary school he did an administration apprenticeship from 1911 to 1914 and passed the assistant examination at the town of Haspe . He then attended a commercial training school. In September 1916 he was drafted as a soldier and after the end of the war he was a prisoner of war until May 1919. Then he became a member of the SPD and went back to the service of the Haspe city administration, which employed him in the war welfare and professional office. In 1926 he became head of the welfare office. In 1929, with the municipal reform, Jellinghaus moved to the city administration of Hagen, where he headed the unemployment welfare office.

In 1929 he became a member of the city council for the SPD and its parliamentary group leader. In the local elections in 1933 he was re-elected and was also elected to the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was dismissed for political reasons in September 1933 and became unemployed. In 1935 he found a job at the Deutsches Gemeindeverlag Berlin . Jellinghaus was drafted as a soldier again in 1939 and was taken prisoner by the US at the end of the war in 1945.

From August 1945 Jellinghaus was again active in the welfare office of the city of Hagen and became city councilor and department head for youth and welfare care. In 1947 he was elected city ​​director and in 1955 as the successor to Ewald Sasse as senior city director . In 1947 he became chairman of the social committee of the German Association of Cities (DST) and developed a lively association activity also with the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe and the German Association for Public and Private Welfare (DV). Jellinek was instrumental in the formulation of the Federal Social Welfare Act (BSHG) and in the first standard rate ordinance in 1962. In 1959 he was elected social judge at the Federal Social Court.

Jellinghaus received the Decoration of Honor of the German Red Cross and the Great Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Fonts

• Experiences and lessons from the provision and welfare of war victims; Review and outlook . Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1948
• Indicative rate policy: a sub-issue of welfare . Lecture printed as a manuscript. 30 pages. Dortmund: Westfälische Verlagsanstalt, 1949

literature

• Michael Heisig: Jellinghaus, Karl , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , pp. 279f.