Hellwege From Guild Welfare to Bismarck Care.

Professional guilds and the origins of modern social security law and insurance law in Germany.
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-428-58155-9
Verlag: Duncker & Humblot
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 348 Seiten

Reihe: Comparative Studies in the History of Insurance Law / Studien zur vergleichenden Geschichte des Versicherungsrechts

German literature on the history of insurance stresses the importance of professional guilds for the shaping of insurance and insurance law. Similarly, scholars researching the genesis of Germany’s social security claim the importance of guilds as predecessor of social security. However, there is a problem with both narratives: the impact of guilds is commonly asserted but has never been analytically established. Against this background, the present contribution offers an analysis of the support offered by professional guilds from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Its overall conclusion is that modern literature is correct in holding that Germany’s social security is rooted in guild welfare. However, medieval guild support had to go through two phases of transformation in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century before it was apt as a model for Bismarck’s social security legislation. By contrast, professional guilds had no direct impact on modern insurance and insurance law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellwege, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Sozialrecht SGB-I und SGB-IV, Allgemeines zur Sozialversicherung
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Bank- und Versicherungsrecht Versicherungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A. Introduction
Professional guilds and the origins of modern insurance and social security? – The state of research – Defining the research object – Overview – Eight final preliminary remarks
B. Guild support from the Middle Ages to the 17th century: loans and capacity building
Supporting master craftsmen and their families – Supporting journeymen and apprentices – Supporting miners and their families – Supporting seafarers and their families – Conclusion
C. Guild support and insurance in the 17th and 18th centuries: a first phase of transformation
Supporting craftsmen and their families – Supporting miners and their families – Supporting seafarers and their families – Contextualizing the process of transformation – Conclusion
D. The evolution of Germany’s modern social security schemes in the 19th century
19th-century developments until Bismarck’s legislation – Bismarck’s social security legislation – Guild welfare and modern life insurance?
E. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Dr. Phillip Hellwege M.Jur. (Oxford) ist seit 2010 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Bürgerliches Recht, Wirtschaftsrecht und Rechtsgeschichte an der Universität Augsburg. Zuvor war er von 2003 bis 2010 wissenschaftlicher Referent am Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg. 2015 erhielt er einen Consolidator Grant des European Research Council (ERC) für ein auf fünf Jahre angelegtes Projekt zur vergleichenden Geschichte des Versicherungsrechts in Europa. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bürgerlichen Recht, im Europäischen Privatrecht, in der Historischen Rechtsvergleichung sowie in der Geschichte des Wirtschaftsrechts und des Versicherungsrechts.

Phillip Hellwege is Professor of Private Law, Commercial Law, and Legal History at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Before taking up his position in Augsburg he was from 2003 to 2010 a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2015 he has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for a five-year project on a comparative history of insurance law in Europe. His research interests are (European) private law, comparative legal history and the history of commercial and insurance law.