Sächsische Ärzteversorgung is an institution of the Saxon State Medical Association, a body governed by public law. Since 1992, it has provided its medical and veterinary members with reliable pension, disability and survivors’ benefits.
In doing so, we are continuing a tradition of professional pension provision dating back over 100 years. However, it was not until Adenauer’s pension reform in 1957 that the scheme was established on a broad scale; this reform effectively excluded the chamber-registered liberal professions from the option of cover under the statutory pension insurance scheme.
Consequently, the liberal professions successively established pension schemes for the members of their respective professions. These are financed without state subsidies and are administered by the members of the profession themselves. The role of the pension schemes is to provide basic protection for their members and their dependants.
On their own initiative
In April 1991, the delegates of the 1st Saxon Medical Assembly resolved to establish a separate Saxon pension scheme. On 2 November 1991, the General Assembly of the Saxon Medical Association approved the inclusion of ten veterinarians, thereby formalising the merger with the Saxon Veterinary Association. As a legal framework, the now expanded General Assembly adopted the Articles of Association of the Sächsische Ärzteversorgung.
Following the political transition, Saxon veterinarians and doctors were thus given the opportunity to take control of their own pension provision.
