Reich Supply Act
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law on the provision of military personnel and their survivors in the event of service damage |
| Short title: | Reich Supply Act |
| Abbreviation: | RVG |
| Type: | Imperial Law |
| Scope: | German Empire |
| Legal matter: | Social law |
| Original version from: | May 12, 1920 ( RGBl. P. 989) |
| Entry into force on: | April 1, 1920 |
| Last revision from: | April 1, 1939 ( RGBl. P. 663) |
| Entry into force of the new version on: |
July 1, 1939 |
| Expiry: | October 1, 1950 ( Federal Law Gazette p. 791 ) |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The law on the care of military personnel and their surviving dependents in the event of service injury (Reichsversorgungsgesetz - RVG) regulates the care of members of the German armed forces and their surviving dependents because of damage to their health suffered in the First World War .
The War Personal Injury Act applied to civilians and to damage caused by civil unrest in the early Weimar Republic .
Historical meaning
The first uniform legal regulation for the German Reich on the welfare of war victims was the law on the retirement and care of the military personnel of the Reichsheer and the imperial navy as well as the permit for the surviving dependents of such persons of June 27, 1871, reformed by the crew supply and officer's pension law 1906 After the First World War, in addition to professional soldiers and their families, conscripts were also included in the provision, and because of the lack of manpower for reconstruction and the reparations owed , benefits were also created for reintegration into working life.
The ordinance on social welfare for war disabled and war survivors of February 8, 1919 and the establishment of the Reich Committee for War Disabled Welfare based on this, as well as the Reich Supply Act passed in 1920, created the legal basis for medical treatment and pension provision for war disabled persons during the First World War.
Authorized
The law defines service damage as "a health-damaging effect caused by performing military service or by an accident suffered while performing military service or by circumstances peculiar to military service." Work to which members of the German Wehrmacht in involuntary captivity were used and the captivity of these peculiar conditions were military service and this service peculiar conditions equivalent (§§ 1, 2 RVG).
The medical report on the German Army 1934 puts the number of those discharged from the army as "unfit for service" between August 2, 1914 and July 31, 1918 (503,713 with, 199,065 without care) at over 703,000, of which around 90,000 were "mutilated" with entitlements to a severely disabled allowance. Other projections assume about 2.7 million soldiers permanently damaged by the war, which would correspond to about 11% of the total of 24.3 million injured and seriously injured soldiers. There were also around 533,000 war widows and around 1.2 million war orphans.
Services
In addition to medical treatment, sick pay and pension benefits, social welfare in the form of free vocational training to regain or increase the ability to work was provided if the applicant was significantly impaired in the exercise of his profession or in the continuation of a started training.
The Reich Labor Ministry issued so-called clues for assessing the reduction in earning capacity .
According to Section 25 (3) RVG, the "severe impairment of physical integrity" was, under more detailed conditions, equivalent to a reduction in earning capacity (MdE). In order to give the "basic implementing provisions necessary for a smooth and uniform implementation" of these regulations a binding validity also for the judging authorities, "the Reich government was authorized, with the consent of the Reichsrat and a committee of the Reichstag consisting of 28 members, to implement binding regulations for the implementation of § 25 para. 3 RVG to be issued.
The ordinance of September 1, 1920 based on this stipulated MdE grades for specifically named severe physical impairments and additionally stipulated that "other physical injuries, which are to be considered equal to those listed here, must be taken into account accordingly". For the rest of the law enforcement, the Reich Labor Minister issued his own implementing provisions. According to this, the RVG differentiated between regulations, which are binding on the judging authorities and to be issued by ordinance, and implementation provisions directed at the administration.
In addition, an adjustment to the inflation by means of an inflation allowance (§ 87 RVG) was planned.
The law was replaced in 1950 by the Federal Pension Act.
Web links
- Law on the provision of military personnel and their survivors in the event of service damage (Reichsversorgungsgesetz), published on December 22, 1927, RGBl. 1927 1 p. 515
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archives of the main welfare office for war invalids and survivors of the Rhine Province 1914-1963 in the archives of the Rhineland Regional Association edited by Michaela Schmitz, Rhineland Regional Association 2011
- ^ Carola Jüllig: War returnees and war invalids LeMO , September 14, 2014
- ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart: War cripples. The First World War and its traumatic consequences SWR , August 17, 2014
- ↑ Reference points for the assessment of reduced earning capacity (EM) according to the Reichsversorgungsgesetz of May 12, 1920. Reichsarbeitsministerium, Berlin 1920
- ↑ cf. German National Assembly, print 2663, p. 62
- ↑ RGBl. I 1633
- ↑ RGBl. I 1920, p. 989
- ↑ Federal Social Court, judgment of September 18, 2003 - Az. B 9 SB 3/02 R ( Memento of the original of May 12, 2013 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. P. 4
