Rainer Schlegel

Rainer Schlegel (born February 4, 1958 in Balingen ) is a German lawyer and has been President of the Federal Social Court (BSG) since October 2016 .

Life

Rainer Schlegel completed a law degree at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , which he completed in June 1983 with the first state examination. He passed the second state examination in law in July 1986 in Stuttgart . He then worked as part of a scientific activity in the law department of the University of Tübingen, where he also received his doctorate in 1989 .

In April 1987 he started working as a judge at the Stuttgart Social Court . From January 1991 to December of the following year he was seconded to the Federal Social Court as a research assistant. Further secondments in this capacity followed from January 1993 to July 1994 and from July 1994 to June 1996. The aim was the State Social Court of Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Constitutional Court . This was followed by his appointment as judge at the Baden-Württemberg State Social Court in 1994 and that of Judge at the Federal Social Court on January 1, 1997.

He initially developed his judicial work there in the 4th Senate, where he dealt with the subject of pension insurance . Further positions were from September 1999 onwards in the 12th Senate, which is responsible for the law on contributions , and from November 2004 in the position of deputy chairman of the 1st Senate. Also in November of that year he took over the function of presidential judge of the BSG. From July 2002 to June 2006 he was a member of the Presidential Council. In 2007 party arithmetic opposed his advancement at the Federal Social Court, it was the SPD's turn to propose the office of president, Schlegel is a member of the CDU . On August 1, 2008, he was appointed chairman of the 4th Senate, which deals with basic income support for job seekers . From 2010 he was head of department in the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs . Since July 2014 he has been Vice President of the Federal Social Court. He has been President of the Federal Social Court since October 2016.

Schlegel was also appointed honorary professor at the University of Kassel and the Justus Liebig University of Gießen in 2002 and 2005, respectively . He is also the co-editor of several commentaries on social law .

From 2009 to 2017 he was chairman of the German Social Rights Association, since 2016 he has been a member of the permanent deputation of the German Lawyers' Association .

Rainer Schlegel's academic interest is in the fundamentals of social law, in particular the economic and social basic and framework conditions of social insurance.

Rainer Schlegel is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

• Acting sustainably , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung August 16, 2018 p. 6
• Compensation for damages and social security contributions , dissertation 1989
• Who should social law protect? On the future of the employee and employee concept in social law , Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialrecht 2000, p. 421 ff.
• Which labor and social law measures are recommended for adapting the legal status and improving employment opportunities for older workers? , Lecture at the 67th German Lawyers' Conference in September 2008 in Erfurt
• Transitional law - aspects of retroactive effect and protection of legitimate expectations , quarterly journal for social law 2004, p. 313 ff.
• Solidarity . In Festschrift for Renate Jaeger , 2010, p. 331 ff.
• Employees vs. Self-employed - German Social Law , 13th Annual Meeting of the Working Group on European and International Labor and Social Law (EIAS), New Journal for Labor Law Supplement 2016, No. 1, p. 13 f

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• Judge at the BSG Schlegel appointed presiding judge , juris from July 18, 2008
• Rainer Schlegel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Schlegel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Rainer Schlegel in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Works by and about Rainer Schlegel  in the German Digital Library
• Reinhard Müller: Refugee crisis and the judiciary: "Every state service is subject to change" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 25, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed on January 29, 2019] Interview on taking office as President of the Federal Social Court).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Change in the office of President of the Federal Social Court: Rainer Schlegel succeeds Peter Masuch as President of the Federal Social Court. In: Media Information No. 18/16. Federal Social Court, August 31, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Hendrik Wieduwilt: A CDU man for the Federal Social Court , in: FAZ , August 3, 2016, p. 20
3. ^ Website of the Federal Social Court ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 7, 2015