War Personal Injury Act

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Basic data
Title: Law on Compensation for Personal Injuries Caused by War
Short title: (War) Personal Injury Act
Abbreviation: KPSG
Type: Imperial Law
Scope: German Empire
Legal matter: Social law
Original version from: July 15, 1922
( RGBl. P. 620)
Entry into force on: July 26, 1922
Last revision from: December 22, 1927
( RGBl. P. 515)
Entry into force of the
new version on: 		January 1, 1928
Expiry: October 1, 1950
( Federal Law Gazette p. 791 )
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Law on Compensation for Personal Injuries Caused by War (Personal Injury Law ) of 1920, as amended by the 1927 War Personal Injury Law, was a law for the compensation of civilians.

It granted Reich nationals who had suffered damage to life or limb as a result of the First World War inside or outside the Reich and who did not belong to the group of people covered by the Reich Supply Act (RVG), retrospectively from April 1, 1920, care for themselves and their surviving dependents in accordance with the RVG. In particular, personal injuries that were directly caused by acts of war by domestic or foreign armed forces, flight and expulsion or the involvement in a labor service (Section 2 KPSG) were equivalent to service damage under the RVG. For the period from April 1, 1920, the Personal Injury Act also applied to damage to life and limb within the meaning of the Act on Damage Caused by Civil Unrest of May 12, 1920 (Section 18 KPSG). Because the Reich government wanted to regulate the tumult personal injuries in the same way as possible as the military and civil personal injuries caused by the war.

The so-called Turmoil Damage Act regulated claims for damages to movable and immovable property as well as to life and limb that had been caused in connection with civil unrest through open violence or by their defense.

The Reichsversorgungsgericht defined the term "internal unrest" to the effect that movements would have to develop from within which, beyond a narrow spatial demarcation or a limited group of people, disrupt the calm of broader strata of the people, regardless of their motives. It depends on the extent of the impact and thus on the impact on normal public life. Large sections of the population would have to be filled with a feeling of concern for public safety, law and order.

This definition included the events in the early Weimar Republic such as the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch and the subsequent uprising of the Red Ruhr Army .

The Federal Welfare Act has been applicable since 1950 to persons who have been awarded benefits under the KPSG for damage to life and limb in connection with internal unrest through open violence or their defense against them ( Section 82 (1) No. 1a BVG).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. I p. 941 Austrian National Library , Historical Legal and Legal Texts Online, accessed on October 10, 2017
  2. ^ Martin Rath: Justice in the Weimar Republic: Reichsgericht zum Reichstumult LTO , June 2, 2013
  3. ↑ Nadja Ehlers: The development of public law strict liability in Germany Potsdam, Univ.-Diss., 2014, p. 115
  4. ↑ Reinhard Sturm: Kampf um die Republik 1919 - 1923 bpb , December 23, 2011