| Agency Name: | Central Association of Austrian Social Insurance Authorities |
| Jurisdiction: | Austria |
| Nativename: | German: Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger |
| Agency Type: | Public corporation |
| Parent Agency: | Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection and Federal Ministry of Finance (Austria) |
| Headquarters: | Vienna III., Kundmanngasse 21 |
| Formed: | 01/01/1948 as Hauptverband der Sozialversicherungsträger,[1] later renamed Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger |
| Dissolved: | 01/01/2020 |
The Central Association of Austrian Social Insurance Authorities[2] (German: Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger) was established in 1948 and later renamed Hauptverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger. It served as the umbrella organisation covering Austria’s health, accident and pension insurance. In a comprehensive reorganisation in 2019, by means of the Sozialversicherungs-Organisationsgesetz, the public corporation was renamed as Federation of Social Insurances (German: Dachverband der österreichischen Sozialversicherungsträger[3]) from 1 January 2020 onwards and thoroughly restructured. Its legal entity, however, remained the same, which means that all existing contracts remain valid and in force for the time being.
Austrian social insurance is based on the principle of independent self-administration. Independent administration means that the state transfers certain administrative tasks to those groups of persons that take a direct interest in them. Representatives of these groups then established administrative bodies whose tasks it is to manage the respective administrative areas without being subject to following directives from the state. The term of office of the administrative bodies of the Hauptverband was four years.
The self-administrating bodies of theHauptverband were the Conference of Insurance Institution (German: Trägerkonferenz) and the Board of the association (German: Verbandsvorstand):
The Conference of Insurance Institutions was the legislative body of the central association and consisted of the chairpersons and the first deputies of the insurance institutions as well as three pensioners’ representatives. Thus the individual social insurance institutions were included in the independent administration of the central association. Its tasks were approving the annual budget, the annual report (consisting of the financial statements and the statistical evidence), the statute, the model statute, the model regulations of rights and duties of insured persons, and the model bylaws, guidelines, the objectives management for coordinating the administrative activities of the social insurance institutions as well as its mission statement.
The Board of the association[4] consisted of twelve members appointed by the Conference of Insurance Institutions following suggestions of the employers’ and employees’ associations. Its tasks were to fulfill all tasks not explicitly assigned to the Conference of Insurance Institutions, and representing the central association externally.
The twelve members were assembled was follows:
1949–1959: Johann Böhm
1959–1968: Friedrich Hillegeist
1968–1976: Gerhard Weißenberg
1976–1984: Franz Millendorfer
1984–1988: Adolf Czettel
1989–1990: Rudolf Sametz
1991–1997: Richard Leutner
1997–2001: Hans Sallmutter
2001–2005: Herwig Frad and Martin Gleitsmann (alternating every year)
2005–2009: Erich Laminger
2009–2014: Hans Jörg Schelling
2014–2015: Peter McDonald
2015–2017: Ulrike Rabmer-Koller
2017–2019: Alexander Biach