Georg Wannagat


Georg Paul Wannagat was a German jurist and President of the Bundessozialgericht.

Biography

Wannagat was born in Brzeziny to the Protestant Pastor Albert Ludwig Wannagat and Lucie Adeline née Jahn. He studied law at the Universities of Warsaw and Erlangen and passed his juridical exams in 1938 and 1942.
After World War II he started to work at the Württemberg higher insurance office and became a judge at the State Court of Social law of Baden-Württemberg in 1954. In 1962 he became the President of the State Court of Social law of Hesse and in 1969 President of the Federal Social Court in Kassel. He retired in 1984.
Wannagat was an honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
Wannagat died in Kassel.

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