Karl Jung (lawyer)
Karl Jung (born September 7, 1930 in Oberbruch , Hesse ; † July 13, 2005 in Berlin ) was a fully qualified German lawyer , civil servant and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor . Until the end of 2003 he was the acting chairman of the Federal Committee of Doctors and Health Insurance Funds . He became known as the "father of long-term care insurance ". Karl Jung played a key role in German social legislation .
Life
After completing his legal training, Karl Jung began his career in 1958 as a judge in Hesse. Soon he turned to social law . In 1961 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Labor, where, after briefly working for the Ministry of Social Affairs in Baden-Württemberg, he took over the management of the department for health insurance and health care as ministerial director in 1983 . He thus held a key position in German social policy.
Act as civil servant or state secretary
In the 1980s, Karl Jung worked intensively on converting the more than one hundred year old Reich Insurance Code , which until then had regulated the matters of statutory health insurance , into the fifth book of the Social Code (SGB V). This came into force in 1989 with the Health Reform Act. This law also created the fixed amounts for pharmaceuticals . The fixed amount regulation was legally controversial for a long time and it was not until 2002 that the Federal Constitutional Court confirmed Jung's legal opinion.
With the legal development of long-term care insurance ( SGB XI ), together with the then Federal Labor Minister Norbert Blüm , who pushed for political implementation, Karl Jung set a monument for himself. He developed long-term care insurance as a pay-as-you-go model and implemented this in collaboration with Blüm in violent political disputes.
From 1990 to 1991, Karl Jung first worked as an advisor to the GDR Ministry of Health , and after reunification took over the management of the Berlin branch of the Federal Ministry of Labor. There he played a key role in the formulation of the unification treaty for labor and social affairs.
Jung was appointed State Secretary in 1994, one year before his retirement, for his services.
Acting as chairman of the federal committee
After leaving the Federal Ministry of Labor in 1995, Jung took over the office of Chairman of the Federal Committee of Doctors and Health Insurance Funds. There, Jung was involved in the preparations for the introduction of the fixed amounts for medicinal products, with which the committee had been mandated by law. In 2001 he also took over the chairmanship of the coordination committee for joint tasks in outpatient and inpatient medical care (established by the Health Reform Act 2000 ). During his tenure as Chairman, important decisions were made, such as: B. the implementation of the structured treatment programs for chronic illnesses as well as approx. 100 service law guidelines for the health insurance companies. Karl Jung held both honorary positions until December 31, 2003, when both bodies were dissolved by the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act and replaced by the Federal Joint Committee on January 1, 2004 .
From January 2004, Jung became involved as the construction commissioner for a planned foundation for prevention and health care and as a consultant on questions of social security, health policy, rehabilitation and prevention.
On July 13, 2005, Karl Jung died as a result of a lung disease in the Berlin Charité .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit (October 13, 1995)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.altenheim.net/Infopool/Nachrichten/Karl-Jung-Vater-der-Pflegeversicherung-ist-tot
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Young, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberbruch , Hessen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 2005 |
| Place of death | Berlin |