Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund

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Headquarters of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund on Wienerbergstrasse in the 10th district

The Vienna Health Insurance (WGKK) was the Regional Health Insurance Fund of Vienna and part of the Austrian social security system . Its historical roots go back to 1868, in the true sense of the word it has existed for workers since 1926/27 and including employees since 1938/1939. On January 1, 2020, the WGKK was merged with the other eight Austrian regional health insurance funds and the four company health insurance funds Kapfenberg, Mondi Business Paper, Voestalpine Bahnsysteme and Zeltweg to form the Austrian Health Insurance Fund.

history

On December 8, 1867 and December 15, 1867, the workers' education association Gumpendorf was founded in Vienna- Mariahilf , after a liberal association law was passed in the same year under Emperor Franz Josef . This association also carried out practical social policy and in January 1868 founded the “General Workers' Sickness and Disability Benefit Fund”. Because the invalids department of the self-administered fund was not successful enough, it was renamed “General Workers' Sickness and Benefit Fund” in the 1870s.

On March 30th, 1888 the law concerning the health insurance of workers was passed, whereby the association funds and self-administration became part of the state system. The statutes of the general workers' health and support fund served as the basis for the compulsory insurance that had been won. The law stipulated that a separate district health fund was to be set up for each court district, but that the political authority could also set up a joint fund for several judicial districts of a country, and the Vienna and Floridsdorfer district health funds were created . On November 30, 1890, the Vienna Kassenverband was constituted. In 1892 it had 96,361 members and twenty years later 175,697 members. Around 1900 there were around 100 cooperative health insurance funds. The Fund Concentration Act of February 6, 1919 aimed, among other things, at the dissolution of smaller, less powerful funds and a standardization of the cash system. In 1926 there were 42 cash registers in Vienna. In December 1926 a health insurance organization law was passed for salaried employees and on April 1, 1927 for workers, which provided for the standardization of the cash system and a new regulation of self-administration with the aim of a single fund. Subsequently, the Vienna and Floridsdorfer District Health Insurance Fund, the General Workers 'Health and Support Fund and the roughly two dozen cooperative health insurance funds that still existed, and in 1928 the name was changed to “Workers' Health Insurance Fund Vienna”.

After the annexation of Austria in 1939 the name was changed to "AOK-Wien" (Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Wien) and German social security law was introduced. In the course of this, for the first time there was also a uniform fund that covered both workers and employees subject to compulsory insurance. After the end of the Second World War, the name was changed to the “Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund for Workers and Salaried Employees” and in 1947 self-government was reintroduced on the basis of the Social Insurance Transition Act of June 12, 1947, after it was repealed by the corporate state in 1934.

On September 9, 1955, the General Social Insurance Act (ASVG) was passed, which came into force on January 1, 1956, which also fundamentally changed the regional health insurance system .

Franz Bittner was chairman of the WGKK from 1997 to 2009 , and Ingrid Reischl succeeded him as chairman of the WGKK in 2009. In July 2019 Alois Bachmeier was elected chairman of the WGKK.

Administrative centers

On May 4, 1927, the general transport bank , which was privileged by the kk, was purchased according to plans by Friedrich Schachner and Josef Pokorny at Wipplingerstraße 28, adapted and on June 4, 1928, it was used as the administrative center. After the architectural duo Thomas Reinthaller and Franz Requat built the South Outpatient Clinic in Wienerbergstrasse from 1974 to 1975 , they built a new administrative center for the WGKK directly to the west from 1977 to 1981, which was opened on October 15, 1981.

Online services

Information such as address changes and data protection contact forms can also be accessed without logging in on the WGKK website. The online forms are provided by the Austrian IT company aforms2web .

See also

literature

  • Stefan Wedrac: The General Workers' Sickness and Invalid Fund in Vienna 1868-1880. The roots of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund. Origin, environment and successes. Vienna: ÖGB-Verlag 2013
  • JP: How the Vienna Workers' Health Insurance Fund came about. In: Soziale Sicherheit 9 (1956), pp. 148 ff
  • Report of the Viennese regional health insurance for workers and employees for the year…. Vienna: Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund for Workers and Salaried Employees 1945/47 (1948) -1971 (1972)
  • Annual report ... of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund. Vienna: Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund 2010 (2011) - ongoing.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arbeiterbildungsverein Gumpendorf in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ a b c d Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund : 145 years of WGKK (2): an overview of the historical roots ( memento of the original from August 20, 2016 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. ; accessed on July 23, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wgkk.at
  3. ↑ a b Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund . In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  4. ^ General workers sickness and support fund in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ↑ a b c d Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund : figures / data / facts ; Retrieved July 22, 2016
  6. ↑ a b c d Arbeiter-Krankenversicherungskasse Wien in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  7. ↑ a b c d e Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  8. ^ A b c Erwin Eckhart: Health insurance in Austria - structure, financing problems and reform approaches ; Dissertation, Vienna, April 2009
  9. ^ A b City School Council for Vienna: The building of the City School Council for Vienna ; Building folder, Agensketterl Druckerei, Vienna 2005 ( Online ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtschulrat.at
  10. ↑ Entry on 100 years of social insurance in Austria in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration); accessed on July 23, 2016
  11. ↑ derStandard.at: Ingrid Reischl first woman to head the WGKK . Article dated September 16, 2009, accessed March 12, 2019.
  12. ^ Ingrid Reischl in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  13. ↑ New head of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund . Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  14. ^ Ambulatorium Süd in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  15. ↑ Online services. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Our customers. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .