Oral history interview with Reinhard Hohaus, 1965.

Biographical Note

Actuary.

Scope and Contents

Apprentice actuary, Metropolitan Life Insurance, 1921; Committee on Economic Security; chairman, Advisory Council on Social Security, 1953; social adequacy concept; actuarial science, experience rating, other concepts of social insurance legislation; impressions of Vincent Miles, Abraham Epstein, John Winant.

Subjects

• Actuaries--Interviews.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hohaus, Reinhard Arthur, 1896-1987--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Life insurance--Mathematics.
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• Social security.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Social Security Administration.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1982