Expert commission for old-age pension systems
The Expert Commission for Old-Age Security Systems was formed by a decision of the Federal Government of June 10, 1981. It was given the task of comparing all state-financed and subsidized old-age insurance systems and developing proposals for any new regulations.
Commissioners
| subject area | member | comment |
|---|---|---|
| Economics | Helmut Meinhold Hans-Jürgen Krupp |
Chairman Deputy Chairman |
| Social law | Bernd Baron von Maydell | |
| Tax law | Hans-Peter Schneider | |
| Constitutional Rotation Science | Hans F. Zacher | |
| Finance | Konrad Littmann | |
| Social security practice | Rudolf Kolb | |
| Country representative | Kurt Mähler Heinz Ströer |
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| CDU / CSU parliamentary group |
Heinrich Franke Horst Günther |
until November 1982 since December 1982 |
| FDP parliamentary group |
Hansheinrich Schmidt |
until March 1983 |
| The Greens parliamentary group | Willi Hoss | since September 1983 |
| SPD parliamentary group | Eugene Glombig | |
| German Trade Union Confederation | Alfred Schmidt Gerhard Schmidt Gustav Fehrenbach |
until August 1982 since September 1982 |
| German employees' union | Hans-Heinrich Rubbert | |
| German Association of Officials | Karl Klein | |
| Federation of German Employers' Associations | Werner Dräger Fritz Schnabel |
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| German Women's Council | Irmgard Blättel | |
| Association of German Pension Insurance Institutions | Helmut Kaltenbach | |
| General Association of Agricultural Retirement Funds | Günther Janßen | |
| Working group of professional pension institutions | Hans Hermann Reusch | |
| Working group for company pension schemes | Gerhard Höhne | |
| Association of Life Insurance Companies | Gerhard Laskowski | |
| Pension Institution of the Federal and State Governments | Karl-Heinz Kiefer | |
| Association of municipal employers' associations | Jakob Berger |
Work of the commission
The expert commission met for the first time on June 30, 1981 in the Gustav Heinemann House in Bonn. The other 18 day sessions took place in the new high-rise building of the Bundestag in Bonn. Three multi-day closed conferences (Schwäbisch Hall, Bad Mergentheim and Würzburg) were also added. The report was passed on November 19, 1983. Then it was handed over to the federal government and to the public at a press conference.
The Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs was responsible for the business-related supervision of the commission. An empirical survey was carried out by Infratest Sozialforschung as commissioned.
Assessment
Report volume 1
Legal comparison of the pension system
- Comparison of pension systems for employees
- Comparison of pension systems for the self-employed
- Empirical comparison of the old-age security systems for employees
- Commission recommendations
Report volume 2
Presentation of pension systems and the taxation of retirement income
- Statutory pension insurance
- Care for officials, judges and soldiers
- Supplementary pension for employees in the public sector
- Company pension scheme
- Old age allowance for farmers
- Professional care
- Life insurance
- Taxation of retirement income
Attachment band A
Documents for the empirical and legal comparison of old-age pension systems
- Figures for the old-age security of dependent employees
- Special survey from access to pensions in 1981
- Special survey from the access to the civil service pension 1982
- Catalogs of questions on the necessities and possibilities of an approximation of the old-age insurance systems
Attachment band B
Possibilities and limits of an approximation of the civil service provision to the statutory pension insurance
- Legal opinion by Franz Ruland