100 years of social security - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1981 - 60 Pfennig

On November 17, 1881, Chancellor Bismarck read an imperial embassy in the White Hall of the Palace in Berlin at the opening of the first session of the Reichstag in the Fifth Legislative Session, in which the need for a statutory social insurance was expressed. This "imperial message" is considered the birth certificate of the German Social Security. This was followed in the next few years by the individual laws on health, accident and disability insurance, later also u. a. the unemployment insurance. The German Social Security has served in many countries of the world as a model for their own social security. Today, social security for over 95% of the population of the Federal Republic of Germany means a high degree of protection against the vicissitudes of life such as illness, accident at work or unemployment, as well as old age. On 17 November 1981, the Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs organizes a ceremony (100 years of social security) in the plenary hall of the Reichstag building in Berlin. (Text: Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Bonn)