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Timeline of German Social Insurance

This timeline interleaves key developments in German social insurance with key life events of several principals in that development: Otto von Bismarck, Theodor Lohmann, Robert Bosse and Baron Hans Hermann von Berlepsch. Much of that history involves the interplay between concerns for the rights and welfare of workers and obligations of workers to the state.

1815

• Otto von Bismarck born on April 1 in Schönhausen

1831

• Theodor Lohmann born on October 18 (in Celle?)

1832

• Robert Bosse born on July 12 in Quedlinburg

1835

• In May, at the age of 20, Bismarck entered the Prussian civil service.

1838

• Prussian Railway Law laid down the legal principal that railway owners were liable for injury or death of workers unless it could be proved that it was the victim's own fault or due to an act of God. <ref.> Hennock, 2007, p. 86. </ref>

1842

• Prussian Poor Law adopted.

1843

• Hans Hermann von Berlepsch was born on March 30 in Dresden.

1845

• The Prussian Industrial Code (Gewerbeordinung) gave local authorities discretionary authority to reimpose the requirement that all journeymen in a trade be required to belong to the journeyman provident funds (Gesellenladen).

1849

• The Prussian Ministry of Trade published model rules for the guidance of local authorities implementing required participation in journeyman provident funds (Gesellenladen).

1861

• Bosse appointed Chamberlin to the count of Stolberg-Rossla in Rossla, a position he held until 1868.

1868

• Robert Bosse named office manager of the Provinzialverwaltung in Uchte

1872

• Robert Bosse named Upper President of the Provinzialverwaltung in Hannover.

1876

• Robert Bosse appointed to the Prussian ministry for education and cultural affairs
• German Law on Provident Funds enacted.

1891

• Robert Bosse appointed Undersecretary of State in the Office for the Law of the Realm.

1892

• From March, 1892 until September, 1899 Bosse was Prussian Secretary of Cultural Affairs, where he had a substantial role in the introduction of wage laws for ministers and public school teachers.

1892

• Otto von Bismarck died on July 30.

1900

• Robert Bosse's Eine Reise nach dem Orient, published in Leipzig.

1901

• Bosse died July 31 in Berlin.

1905

• Lohmann died on August 31.

1926

• Berlepsche died on June 2, 1926 in Seebach, Thüringen.

1935

• U.S. Social Security Act adopted by Congress.