VI. THE UNIVERSITIES OF BADEN. A.-Pensioning the widows and orphans of teachers and officials_ Page. 209 216 VII. UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN. A. Provisions for the widows and orphans of teachers and officials_ 219 219 The Institute Neubauer_. The university widows' fund. B.-Pension conditions of professors and officials. VIII. UNIVERSITY OF JENA. Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute___ IX. UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK. Pensioning of the widows and orphans of teachers and officials. The widows' fund. The university orphans' fund Administration and use of the orphans' fund. 227 241 244 246 I. THE UNIVERSITIES OF PRUSSIA. A-PROVISION FOR THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF PROFESSORS. 1. ROYAL FREDERICK-WILLIAM UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN. In the year 1816 a number of professors of the University of Berlin had organized in order to establish a special institution making provision for the widows and orphans of professors. After approval of this purpose by the royal decree of March 6, 1816, statutes were drawn up on September 11, 1816, and approved by the royal ministry of the interior. In the year 1847, because of a number of changes in these statutes, a revision of them was made, to which an appendix was added in the year 1848. Essential changes of the statutes resulted from the adoption of the resolutions in the general meeting of July 10, 1876, and their approval by the royal ministry of religious, educational, and medical affairs under date of August 27, 1877, and a new revision became necessary, which, however-irrespective of the reckoning in marks which had been introduced in the meanwhile-was limited to the entry of these changes. The law of May 20, 1882, concerning survivors deprived the judge and the secretary of the university of the right of membership in the institution. This necessitated further modification of the respective paragraphs and a further revision of the statutes, which resulted, on March 15, 1884, in the Revised Statutes of the Professors' Widows' Pensioning Institute (Revidirte Statuten der Professoren-Wittwen-Versorgungsanstalt), approved in a ministerial decree on July 8, 1884. By these revised statutes all ordinary and extraordinary professors of the university were obliged to become members of the institution. If they had joined before December 10, 1877, they had to pay annual premiums of 96, 108, and 120 marks, respectively; and if they joined after said date they were to pay annual premiums of 120, 144, and 192 marks, respectively. The annual pension of widows was 1,200 marks. Orphans were granted annual assistance as follows: One half orphan, 300 marks; two half orphans, 500 marks; three half orphans, 600 marks; one orphan deprived of both parents, 600 marks; two such orphans 1,000 marks, and three such orphans 1,200 marks. In the year 1889 state provision for the relicts of teachers in Prussian universities was regulated anew. Accordingly the following statutes were adopted in the special general meeting of July 24, 1889, and approved by the minister of religious, educational, and medical affairs under date of July 26, 1889: In this compilation the term "relicts" is understood to include widows and children, and in some cases other near dependent relatives. Statutes of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute of the Royal Frederick-William University of Berlin. I. MEMBERSHIP. §1. The rules and regulations in force for membership in the Widows' Pensioning Institute, established since January 1, 1816, for the professors of the University of Berlin, are as follows: 1. All professors (including the emeritus professors) that occupy a professor's chair with salary from the exchequer of the university are officially members of the institution and remain such during the continuance of said occupancy. 2. Professors who do not occupy a chair salaried from the exchequer of the university, but who were members at the time of the adoption of these statutes, retain their rights as members during the continuance of their connection with the university. 3. No other persons except those designated under section 1 can become members of the institution. II. ALLOWANCES OF THE RELICTS OF MEMBERS. $2. The widow and the surviving legitimate children, or children legitimized after marriage, of members who may have secured membership after the adoption of these statutes shall be paid widows and orphans' claims in accordance with the regulations of §§ 3 to 8. §3. The amounts paid to widows shall be as follows: For the widow of an ordinary professor_ For the widow of an extraordinary professor Marks. 1,400 1,000 The amounts paid to orphans shall be as follows: For an orphan who has lost both parents (Ganzwaise). For each additional such orphan For a half orphan. For each additional half orphan_.. 600 400 400 250 1 $4. If the widow was more than fifteen years the junior of the deceased the widow's claim shall be reduced 5 per cent for each year of the difference in age over fifteen until and including the twenty-fifth year. §5. The widow shall have no claim upon pension if her marriage with the deceased was concluded within three months of his death and if the minister of religious, etc., affairs, on the ground of proved facts, shall have found that the marriage had been concluded only for the purpose of procuring for the widow the pension claim. $6. Payment of the widows and orphans' claims shall begin on the expiration of the period of grace and shall be made monthly. $7. The right to claim the widows and orphans' pension expires— 1. For each claimant with the end of the month in which he or she is married or dies. 2. For each orphan, besides, with the end of the month in which he or she completes the twenty-first year of life. $8. The right to claim the widows and orphans' pension shall be suspended1. When the claimant loses or forfeits German citizenship, until it shall be restored. 2. When, and as long as the claimant is entitled to a widows and orphans' pension on the basis of the imperial law of April 20, 1881 (R. G. B. 1, p. 85), or of the Prussian law of May 20, 1882 (G. S., p. 298), to the amount of this widows and orphans' pension. III. DISCONTINUANCE OF FEES. $9. Members that shall obtain membership after the adoption of these statutes shall not pay any fees. IV. TRANSITION REGULATIONS. $10. The regulations of §§ 2, 3, and 5 to 8, subparagraph 1, shall apply also to the relicts of those who may be members at the time of the adoption of these statutes, if these members in a written declaration, to be handed to the executive committee of the institute on or before December 1, 1889, renounce for their prospective relicts all claims that might accrue to them in accordance with the statutes of March 15 and August 30, 1884, heretofore in force. Otherwise the regulations of the statutes heretofore in force shall apply to these relicts. $11. The payment of fees on the part of those who were members at the time when these statutes took effect is hereby discontinued. The regulation of clause 1 shall not apply to members whose possible future relicts may have claims upon widows and orphans' pension in accordance with the imperial law of April 20, 1881 (R. G. B. 1, p. 85), or of the Prussian law of May 20, 1882 (G. S., p. 298). $12. The claims of the relicts of members deceased before the adoption of these statutes shall be adjudged according to the statutes heretofore in force. V. RIGHTS OF THE INSTITUTION. $13. The institution shall have the rights of a corporation. Particularly, it shall be competent to receive gifts from living persons and by legacy in accordance with statutory requirements. VI. PROPERTY OF THE INSTITUTION. $14. The property of the institution heretofore in its possession shall remain under its control. The income from its property, in so far as the donors of gifts and legacies have not made other dispositions, shall be applied exclusively in defraying the statutory expenses of the institution. Allowances assigned to the institution by the State in accordance with provisions for securing the solvency of university institutions for the pensioning of widows and orphans shall be added to the income of the institution from its property. $15. The capital of the institution shall be invested, with the consent of the minister of religious, etc., affairs, on security or mortgages, or eventually, in so far as this can not be done safely, in the purchase of interest-bearing bonds, in which the money of wards can be legally invested. VII. ADMINISTRATION OF THE INSTITUTE. $16. The administration of the institute is directed by an executive committee, consisting of the rector and two directors, in accordance with further detailed rules to be fixed by the minister of religious, etc., affairs and the minister of finance, and with instructions of the minister of religious, etc., affairs. In judiciary matters the executive committee shall procure the advice of the judge of the university. $17. The care of the funds and the conduct of financial affairs lies with the treasury of the university, under the direction and supervision of the executive committee.. An annual report shall be submitted by the treasurer of the university within six weeks after the close of the year. §18. This annual report shall be received by two auditors, under the direction of the rector and in connection with the two directors, and then forwarded, with the report of the executive committee, to the minister of religious, etc., affairs for inspection and ultimate discharge. $19. In case of the death of a director or temporary inability to attend to his duties on the part of such director, one of the auditors shall in his place attend to the duties of the director until a new director shall have been elected or the temporary inability removed. $20. The two directors and the two auditors shall be elected for one year by absolute majority of those present at the regular annual meeting of all the members. The elected officers shall serve without compensation. Should anyone who has served in one of these offices for one year be elected, he may refuse acceptance whenever there are other members who have not served in that respective office. VIII. MEETINGS. $21. A regular meeting of all the members shall be called annually by the executive committee. At this meeting the executive committee shall submit the report concerning the administration of the past year. Then the meeting shall elect the two directors and the two auditors. $22. Special meetings of all members shall be called by the rector— 1. On motion of the executive committee. 2. On motion of ten members. In these motions and in the call the subject of deliberation shall be announced. Special meetings shall not be called during the Easter and fall vacations. $23. Special meetings shall be competent to pass resolutions if more than half of all the members are present. If a called meeting fails of a quorum a second meeting shall be called, and this second meeting shall be competent to pass resolutions without reference to the number present. In these called meetings resolutions shall be adopted by the absolute majority of the members present. IX. AMENDMENTS OF STATUTES. $24. Amendments of statutes can be made only at special meetings. The passage of such amendments shall require three-fourths of the votes of those present. Adopted amendments shall require the approval of the minister of religious, etc., affairs. X. CONCLUSION. $25. These statutes shall take effect on the 1st of April, 1889. On this day the revised statutes of March 15 (August 30), 1884, cease to have effect, in so far as they are not kept in force by sections 10 to 12. Closely connected with the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute is the Fischer-Hayne Institute for the benefit of needy daughters of deceased professors of the University of Berlin. Prof. Dr. Frederick Gottlob Hayne and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, née Fischer, ef Berlin, ordered in their conjoint will of the 8th of August, 1831, that their property left after their decease be applied to the establishment of an institution from whose revenue needy daughters of deceased professors of the Berlin University, both ordinary and extraordinary, should receive during their lifetime as long as they may remain unmarried an annual stipend of 100 thalers, the more needy to have precedence of the less needy. This institution received governmental approval in a ministerial decree of February 27, 1833. Under the date of October 10, 1878, the authorized ministry decreed for the conduct of the institution, on the basis of the will, the following: Statutes of the Fischer-Hayne Institute. $1. The institution shall be known as the Fischer-Hayne Institute. §2. It shall be connected with the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute of the Berlin University, and administered by the latter under the following stipulations applying to it: §3. The institute shall be considered as a responsible, judicial person. The papers and books concerning its property and administration are to be kept separately. $4. The object of the institute is to assist needy unmarried daughters of deceased ordinary and extraordinary professors of the University of Berlin. For this purpose annual stipends of 300 marks shall be paid during the life of the stipendiary from the revenues of the property of the institute. $5. Stipends shall be granted only to legitimate daughters of professors, and to these only: 1. If they are unmarried, and 2. If they are of irreproachable character. §6. Among several claimants entitled to annual stipends the greater need shall decide. In cases of equal need the services of the father to science and to the University of Berlin shall be specially considered. $7. Assignments of stipends shall be made by the academic senate on motion of the directors of the Professors' Widows and Orphans' Pension Institute. Voting shall be by ballot, and the absolute majority of votes shall decide. In case of a tie vote the rector shall decide. If a motion is not approved by the senate the matter shall be referred to the directors. §8. Payment of the annual stipends shall be made quarterly in advance and in full for the quarter in which it shall have been assigned. $9. The annual stipends shall be paid even when the stipendiaries live outside of the Prussian State. $10. Should the stipendiary die her heirs shall have no claim on the remaining quarterly payments of the year of decease. $11. The annual stipend shall cease 1. If the stipendiary is married. 2. If she should become unworthy of the stipend. Cessation of the stipend in such cases shall be ordered by the academic senate on motion of the report of the directors, and shall require approval of the authorized royal ministry. Finally, since 1890 there exists in connection with the Royal Frederick-William University of Berlin a relief fund, with the object of furnishing assistance to the relicts of all teachers and officials of the university, as well as to the officials of the treasury of the university, in case of need. The statutes of this relief fund and the decree of the 10th of March, 1890, expressing approval of the same by the minister of religious, etc., affairs and the minister of the interior are as follows: I. OBJECT OF THE RELIEF FUND. $1. The "relief fund" established in connection with the Royal FrederickWilliam University has for its object the furnishing of assistance to the relicts, to the instructors (professors, private instructors, and teachers), and officials of the university and of the treasurer of the university in case of need. Among the relicts are included 1. Widows. 2. Sons and daughters. 3. Other near relatives that were included in the immediate family of the deceased and that have lost in him their provider. $2. The granting of assistance is not confined to the relicts of members of the relief fund, yet in case of equal need these shall have precedence over the relicts of nonmembers. II. MEMBERSHIP. $3. All professors, private instructors, and teachers of the university are entitled to membership of the relief fund. §4. Membership is acquired 1. By the pledge to pay an annual fee of at least 5 marks, to be paid quarterly in advance. 2. By the payment of a single fee of at least 100 marks for the establishment of an endowment fund. 85. Membership ceases 1. Upon written notice of voluntary withdrawal at any time. 2. Upon separation from the university in any other way than by retirement as emeritus. 3. Upon nonpayment of the fees after a third request by the executive committee. III. PRIVILEGES OF THE INSTITUTION. §6. The “relief fund" shall have the privileges of a corporation. Particularly it is competent to acquire gifts from living persons and by legacy in accordance with legal regulations. IV. THE GRANTING OF ASSISTANCE. §7. Assistance shall be granted by the executive committee (sec. 10) in accordance with the provisions of sections 1 and 2. Every member shall have the right to request grants of assistance. |
