Gap professor

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As a gap professors are university teachers new law in the former East Germany referred to its active between 1995 and 2005 working lives have ended and fall under a supply gap. Alternatively, they are also referred to as post-graduate professors.

These are university professors born between 1930 and 1940 who, in the process of the reunification of Germany, after double evaluations with regard to professional qualifications and personal integrity as “professors of the new law”, shaped the process of renewing the university system, including those in the GDR politically motivated an appointment to the professorship was denied.

This group of professors is made up of three key date regulations determined exclusively by the date of birth

  • the grandfathering of a pension fund acquired in the GDR with the position of a university professor withdrawn (as of June 30, 1995)
  • A civil service provision, which is common in Germany for professors, was not granted due to advanced age despite continuous employment at universities and colleges (different until October 3, 2005 in Saxony and around April 1, 2003 in other new federal states) and
  • A VBL supplementary pension is not or only marginally awarded for reasons of age (complete exclusion until December 31, 2001).

According to the new law, university lecturers will receive the lowest pension of all professors in Germany. The retirement benefits of the persons concerned are almost exclusively based on SGB VI, the statutory old-age pension. University professors who, for technical reasons and a lack of integrity, were unable to continue their employment at the universities in the new federal states are better cared for than university professors under the new law thanks to a grandfathered pension. They feel discriminated against, especially since a decision is unlikely to be made before a biological solution.

University professors who moved to the old federal states were mostly civil servants.

Christoph Bergner devoted himself in particular to university renewal after the collapse of the GDR. A topic that remains from this time is the problem of the so-called “gap professors”.

The effort to clarify a decision on social and labor courts up to the Federal Constitutional Court was unsuccessful, as were all efforts of the association for salaried professors and university lecturers of new law and employees in the higher service of the authorities in the new federal states e. V. The courts have formally referred to the Unification Agreement and the reference date regulation. Unmistakable severity must be decided politically.

Declare not responsible: Federal President's Office , Federal Chancellery , Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , Federal Ministry of the Interior , Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy , the Commissioner for the New Federal States, Saxon State Chancellery, and Landtag Brandenburg .

The respective state governments are responsible for the supply situation that has arisen. You tried to refer the solution to the federal government and thus approved the delay in this matter. Only in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have the gap professors been spared the serious disadvantage in terms of old-age provision, as they were civil servants regardless of their age. In a response to the small question from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group in January 2017, the Brandenburg State Parliament for the 6th electoral term stated that the framework conditions can only be worked out together with the other new federal states and the federal government.

The State Ministry for Science and Art of the Free State of Saxony stated in a letter to the Saxon State Parliament on February 21, 2019, in response to an application by the Die Linke parliamentary group, that the negative consequences associated with the transition for certain people can only be properly eliminated at the federal level.

In the final report on the petition pensions for non-civil university teachers under new law in the Free State of Thuringia dated April 11, 2019, the Petitions Committee asks the state government to follow the complaint and to bring about a state law regulation that is suitable for the professors and university lecturers concerned under new law to put an end to the disadvantages shown in the 30th year of German unification.

literature

  • Memorandum on pensions for university professors under the new law in the new federal states - VAV dated November 3, 2011
  • Recognition of the lifetime achievement of professors under the new law as well as of their special merits in building the scientific landscape of the new federal states - German University Association, in August 2012
  • Scandalous and shameful - Gunnar Berg in Research and Teaching 7/13, pp. 540–541
  • Landtag Brandenburg - printed matter 6/5768 - answer
  • How politicians and ministerial officials deal with university lecturers and scientists as key players in the democratic restructuring of the scientific landscape in the new federal states - appeal by the VAV of June 15, 2017
  • Pension gap among university teachers - building science without fair wages, in: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
  • Saxon State Parliament, administration, shorthand minutes of the hearing by the Committee for Science and University, Culture and Media on May 7, 2018, subject of the minutes; Elimination of ongoing injustices in pension provision for salaried professors and other university lecturers under new law in the Free State of Saxony

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Research & Teaching 06/14 (PDF; 65 kB), accessed on February 22, 2019
  2. ↑ Tankred Schipanski, Member of the Bundestag - Lücke-Professoren , accessed on February 22, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Federal Government - Press Conferences - 42nd Regional Conference of the Head of Government and the Heads of Government of the East German federal states , accessed on February 22, 2019
  4. ↑ Small question from the member of parliament, Klaus Bartl, DIE LINKE parliamentary group (PDF; 212 kB), accessed on February 22, 2019
  5. ↑ Pension scheme for salaried professors and university lecturers of the new law (6/5786) - Brandenburg, 6th electoral period - small inquiries , accessed on February 22, 2019
  6. ↑ DIP21 extract , accessed on February 22, 2019
  7. ↑ Pension schemes for salaried professors and university lecturers under new law , accessed on February 22, 2019
  8. ↑ Landtag Brandenburg - Drucksache 6/5768 - Answer from the State Ministry for Science and Art, Free State of Saxony, to the Saxon Landtag of February 21, 2018 on the request of the Die Linke parliamentary group, Drs.-No for employed professors and other university professors under the new law in the Free State of Saxony
  9. ↑ State Ministry for Science and Art, Free State of Saxony, to the Saxon State Parliament of February 21, 2018 on the motion of the Die Linke parliamentary group, Drs.-No University professor of the new law in the Free State of Saxony.
  10. ↑ Landtag Thuringia A final report was posted on the petition platform on the petition pensions for non-civil university teachers under new law in the Free State of Thuringia from April 11, 2019.
  11. ↑ Landtag Brandenburg - Drucksache 6/5768 - Answer (PDF; 2015 kB), accessed on February 22, 2019
  12. ↑ Pension gap: "Advanced professors" demand justice - mdr.de , accessed on February 22, 2019