Reich Health Council
The Reich Health Council was a state body in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic . It ended in 1933 when the National Socialists began to take power.
Task and structure
The Reich Health Council was created on the basis of the Reich Epidemics Act of June 30, 1900 (§ 43) and was a commission attached to the Imperial Health Office . It consisted of excellent administrative and medical officials, professors, doctors, pharmacists, industrialists and technicians. The members were elected by the Federal Council (German Reich) for a period of 5 years. In 1903 the Reich Health Council consisted of 81 members.
It comprised nine committees:
- Healthcare in general
- Food industry
- Water supply and disposal of waste
- Industrial hygiene
- Disease control
- Healing beings in general
- Remedies
- Ship and tropical hygiene
- Veterinary
The Reich Health Council was authorized to advise the state authorities upon request, to obtain information from them and to send representatives to provide local clarifications.
The permanent commission for the processing of the German Pharmacopoeia was absorbed in the Reich Health Council .
Successor organizations
In the Weimar Republic, the Prussian State Health Council was perhaps of greater political importance. Later the tasks were carried out by the Federal Health Council .
literature
- Kurt Glaser: From the Reich Health Council to the Federal Health Council. A contribution to the history of the German health care system . Stuttgart 1960
- Thomas Saretzki: Reich Health Council and Prussian State Health Council in the Weimar Republic . Berlin 2000 (dissertation FU)