Georg Paul Wannagat was a German

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 jurist and President of the Bundessozialgericht.

Biography

Wannagat was born in Brzeziny

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 (Poland

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) to the Protestant Pastor Albert Ludwig Wannagat and Lucie Adeline née Jahn. He studied law at the Universities of Warsaw

University of Warsaw

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 and Erlangen and passed his juridicial exams in 1938 and 1942.

After World War II

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 he started to work at the Württemberg

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 higher insurance office (Württembergisches Oberversicherungsamt) and became a judge at the State Court of Social law of Baden-Württemberg

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 in 1954. In 1962 he became the President of the State Court of Social law of Hesse

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 and in 1969 President of the Federal Social Court (Bundessozialgericht) in Kassel

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. He retired in 1984.

Wannagat was an honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen (1965) and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (1967).

Wannagat died in Kassel.

Publications

• Lehrbuch des Sozialversicherungsrechts. Bd. 1, 1965
• Entwicklung des Sozialrechts. Aufgabe der Rechtsprechung: Festgabe aus Anlass des 100jährigen Bestehens der sozialgerichtlichen Rechtsprechung, Kassel 1984
• Kassel als Stadt der Juristen (Juristinnen) und der Gerichte in ihrer tausendjährigen Geschichte, Kassel 1990