Otto Gaebel

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Otto Gaebel

Otto Gaebel (born November 13, 1837 in Meseritz ; † July 2, 1906 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Silhouette of Otto Gaebel as a Neupreuße from Halle

Gaebel studied law at the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1856 he became a member of the Corps Neoborussia Halle . After the exams he was with the government in Poznan for 12 years . In 1887 he joined the Prussian civil service as a government councilor and member of the Reich Insurance Office. Since 1890 director of the disability and old age insurance department, in 1897 he became president of the Reich Insurance Office. Compared to his predecessor Tonio Bödiker , he was "more measured, carefully weighed, more concerned with the internal development of the traditional, the model of an old Prussian official" . Gaebel operated the amendment of the Accident Insurance Act (1900) and the Invalidity and Old Age Insurance Act (1899). He promoted the cooperation between professional associations and the German Red Cross in the rescue sector . In the end he became the real Go Upper government council raised.

Otto Gaebel died in Berlin in 1906 at the age of 68 and was buried in the old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling carried out by the National Socialists on the cemetery in 1938/1939, Gaebel's remains were reburied in a collective grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

literature

  • Wolfgang Ayaß : Ways to social justice. Arbitration courts and Reich Insurance Office until 1945. In: Peter Masuch , Wolfgang Spellbrink, Ulrich Becker , Stephan Leibfried (eds.): Fundamentals and challenges of the welfare state. Memorandum 60 years of the Federal Social Court. Volume 1. Peculiarities and future of social policy and social law. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-503-15669-6 , pp. 271–288.
  • Biographical yearbook. Volume XI (1906), Berlin 1908, Col. 22.
  • Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 56 ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  • Paul Kaufmann: In memory of Gaebel. In: Monthly for workers and employees insurance. 1917, p. 285.
  • Florian Tennstedt: The Reich Insurance Office and its members - some biographical information. In: Development of Social Law, Task of Jurisprudence. Cologne 1984, pp. 47-82 (spec. Pp. 54/55). ( Full text , PDF; 2.8 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 100/83
  2. ↑ See collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 . III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904). Volume 6: Wolfgang Ayaß , Florian Tennstedt (edit.): The practice of pension insurance and the Invalidenversicherungsgesetz of 1899. Darmstadt 2014, pp. 51, 53, 104, 164, 202, 361, 366, 511, 538-540.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 301, 468.
personal data
SURNAME Gaebel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Meseritz
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1906
Place of death Berlin