International Social Insurance Conference

International Social Insurance Conference, Internationale Zentralstelle der Sozialversicherungsträger, Conférence Internationale de la Mutualité et des Assurances Sociales
Founded: 5/10/1927
Sources: HB 1938

Officers

General Meeting (held, in principle, annually), International Committee, Bureau of the same, and International Secretariat.

• Walter Gisiger Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Dr. Zeljko Hahn Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Léon Heller Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• R. Henderson Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Arthur Jauniaux Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Jens Kr. Möller Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Vaclav Nemecek Chairman (President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Franz Spalowsky Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee
• Jean Uhler Auditor : Bureau of the International Committee
• Michel Zajac Vice Chairman (Vice President) : Bureau of the International Committee

Seats

• Palais Wilson: Geneva : Switzerland
  Address for correspondence: P.O. Box 220, Mont-Blanc, Geneva.

Relationships with other Organisations

• this organisation (International Social Insurance Conference) previously: International Conference of National Unions of Mutual Benefit Societies and Sickness Insurance Funds

Members in these countries

Forty national unions and institutions of thirteen countries covering over twenty million insured persons.
Austria , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Denmark , France , Greece , Irish Free State , Norway , Palestine , Poland , Spain , Switzerland , Yugoslavia ,

Congresses

• 1927-1927 Brussels: Belgium
• 1928-1928 Vienna: Austria
• 1929-1929 Zurich: Switzerland
• 1930-1930 Dresden: Germany
• 1931-1931 Prague: Czechoslovakia
• 1933-1933 Paris: France
• 1936-1936 Prague: Czechoslovakia

Object

To co-ordinate internationally and reinforce efforts for the defence, development and improvement of social insurance, especially sickness insurance and invalidity-old age-life insurance, by means of (a) continuous action in favour of the principle of the autonomous administration of mutual benefit societies and insurance funds, (b) the organisation of periodical international meetings of representatives of mutual benefit societies and insurance funds, and (c) the exchange of information and the comparison of experience, particularly in regard to the practical operation of such societies and funds.

Finances

Annual budget covered by members' subscriptions (totalling in 1936 the sum of 9,000 Swiss francs).

General facts

The International Conference has held meetings as follows : Constitutive Meeting at Brussels, 1927, General Meetings at Vienna, 1928, Zurich 1929, Dresden 1930, Prague 1931, Paris 1933, and Prague 1936.

Publications

Reports (in six volumes) of the discussions and proceedings of the General Meetings.

Activities

At its various meetings, the Conference has had to deal, amongst other things, with big problems in connection with the practical organisation of social insurance, such as the independent management of sickness insurance funds, the control of the doctors* panels, participation in the campaign against social diseases, the position of panel doctors, the economic organisation of pharmaceutical supplies and the economic and social aspects of social insurance funds.

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