Emil Lederer · 1910
Lederer’s brief review introduces a new insurance journal edited by Wilhelm Berliner, Alfred Tauber, and Richard Engländer. Its central rationale is topical: Austrian insurance reform has made a specialist forum for informed discussion especially relevant. Lederer begins with the anticipated revision of private employees’ pension insurance, introduced on 1 January 1909, and a government social-insurance bill raising questions of unification and the contested extension of compulsory insurance to self-employed groups.
Auch gesetzgeberische Reformen auf dem Gebiete des privaten Versicherungswesens sind in Vorbereitung.
English translation: Legislative reforms in the field of private insurance are likewise in preparation.
This sentence broadens the legislative setting beyond social insurance, explaining the journal’s combined public and private remit. Lederer presents its intended objective discussion of Austrian problems alongside foreign developments, particularly German ones. The promised collaboration of insurance scholars and economists supplies its intellectual credentials; he reports this programme without testing its impartiality.
The review then turns to the first double issue. Contributions by Stier-Somlo, Franz Jesser, Heinz Potthoff, and Stefan Licht address German social-law codification, agricultural organization, private employees’ insurance, and Austrian district offices. Their juxtaposition connects legislative reform with occupational differences and administrative design.
Jedem Hefte werden übersichtliche Mitteilungen über das Ausland beigegeben.
English translation: Each issue is accompanied by clearly arranged reports on foreign countries.
The concluding account of reports covering Austria, Germany, France, Greece, Great Britain, and Sweden reinforces the journal’s comparative reach. Lederer’s contribution is a concise assessment of its timeliness and scope, rather than a substantive verdict on the disputed reforms.
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