Social Advisory Board
The Social Advisory Board is a socio-political advisory body in Germany . It was established in 1958 and the management is based at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs .
task
The main task of the Social Advisory Board is to annually by the federal government to engrossing pension insurance report to give an expert opinion and on this occasion the latest developments in the field of retirement to express. If necessary, he also prepares special reports on pension policy issues. The legal basis is § 155 and § 156 SGB VI .
The advisory board is part of the legislative process, particularly in the area of pension law. Its deliberations are secret and are therefore not subject to any parliamentary control, since the minutes of the deliberations may not be read by members of the Bundestag either. Its resolutions are usually passed unanimously, whereby the members are not bound by the instructions of the organizations sending them.
composition
The social advisory council consists of a total of twelve people. Eight of these are sent by the statutory pension insurance providers: six from the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund , two more from Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See , half as representatives of the employer and half of the insured. Three other members come from the field of economics and social sciences ; the University Rectors ' Conference can be heard before their appointment . The committee is completed by a representative of the Deutsche Bundesbank . The members are appointed by the federal government and their regular term of office is four years.
As of November 2016, the members are (AG = employer representative, VN = insured person's representative):
- German Federal Pension Insurance:
- Gert G. Wagner , since March 2014; Chairman
- Alexander Gunkel (AG), since January 2004; Deputy Chairman
- Annelie Buntenbach (VN), since April 2007; vice-chairman
- Christian Amsinck (AG), since September 2016
- Cord Peter Lubinski (VN) since August 2012
- Karoline Bauer (AG), since August 2013
- Christoph Ehlscheid, since September 2016
- Ute Klammer, since October 2016
- Pension insurance Knappschaft-Bahn-See:
- Eckehard Linnemann (VN), since February 2003
- Michael Weberink (AG), since 2017
- Social and economic sciences:
- Astrid Wallrabenstein , since October 2012
- German Bundesbank:
- Johannes Clemens, since May 2005
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susanne Heim , Götz Aly : An Adviser to Power - Helmut Meinhold or the Connection between Social Policy and the Destruction of the Jews , Hamburg, self-published, 1986, (work from the project "Perpetrator Biographies in National Socialism" of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research), p. 3
- ↑ http://www.sozialbeirat.de/verbindungen/ , accessed on September 7, 2017.
