Reich Insurance Company for Salaried Employees
| Reich Insurance Company for Salaried Employees |
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|---|---|
| social insurance | Statutory pension insurance |
| legal form | Public corporation |
| founding | March 22, 1912 |
| resolution | 7th August 1953 |
| Jurisdiction | German Empire |
| Seat | Berlin-Wilmersdorf |
The Reich Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees ( RfA ) was a German corporation under public law . From 1912 to 1945 it was the insurance company for employee insurance .
history
With the Insurance Act for Salaried Employees of December 28, 1911, which came into force on January 1, 1913, all salaried employees with an annual salary of up to 5,000 marks were made subject to statutory pension obligations. The pension system, which was previously incumbent on the pension funds, was taken over by the Reichsversicherungsanstalt for salaried employees. The RfA was established on March 22, 1912 as the carrier of the state compulsory insurance for employees in Berlin. As a corporation under public law with authority status, it has belonged to the subordinate area of the Reich Labor Ministry since 1919 . In 1934 she was subordinated to the Reich Insurance Office and at the same time took over the supervision of the canceled replacement funds for the health insurance of employees. Until the end of the Second World War , it was the sole insurance carrier for employee insurance.
After the end of the war, the RfA was shut down and placed under trusteeship by the Berlin magistrate in July 1945 . In the following years, your employee insurance tasks were carried out by the disability insurance carriers , the state insurance institutions . The assets of the RfA were administered by a trusteeship, which was initially managed by an Allied custodian bank and later by German agencies. With the establishment of the Federal Insurance Agency for Salaried Employees (BfA) on August 7, 1953, the trusteeship was dissolved, the assets were liquidated, and most of them were transferred to the BfA. Since the BfA only took over part of the property, it did not become the legal successor to the now dissolved RfA.
tasks
The main task of the Reich Insurance Company for Salaried Employees was to insure private employees against occupational disability and to grant pensions to surviving dependents. The policyholders included, in particular, employees in management positions, company officials, office workers and clerks. From 1934 she was also responsible for the tasks of substitute funds.
Organization and administration
The Reichsversicherungsanstalt for salaried employees was based in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . Its organs were the board of directors, the administrative board, the pension committees and the shop stewards. The directorate, which stood at the top and represented the establishment in and out of court, consisted of a president, his deputy and other civil servants as well as three representatives of the insured and their employers. The board of directors consisted of the president of the board of directors and at least twelve representatives of the employees and their employers. The shop stewards supported the RfA on a voluntary basis in its tasks.
President
- 1912–1922: Wilhelm Koch
- 1922–1930: Theodor von Olshausen
- 1931–1937: Albert Grießmeyer
literature
- Friedrich Facius , Hans Booms , Heinz Boberach : The Federal Archives and its holdings. (= Publications of the Federal Archives. Vol. 10). 3rd, supplemented and revised edition, by Gerhard Granier, Josef Henke, Klaus Oldenhage. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1977, ISBN 3-7646-1688-1 . P. 134.
- Peter Koch : History of the insurance industry in Germany. Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-89952-371-3 . P. 266ff.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Reichsversicherungsanstalt for salaried employees in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 26 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 40.9 ″ E