[Legal claim of integration (author's transl)]

For more than 100 years in different sectors the attempt has been made to define rehabilitation and to make it significant in the practice of rehabilitation. If you watch especially the past 70 years in Germany, then the legislature concerning the protection of health, the provident measures, the case of invalidity is so progressive and from year to year becoming more extensive, that there is actually always an area, in which there is a legal way to help the disabled. Nevertheless there are always gaps within a measure of rehabilitation which are necessary to be filled in common efforts. In the Federal Republic of Germany there is a legal clain of rehabilitative measures in a comprehensive way indeed, in which we think of the necessity of a federal rehabilitation law, since certain methods in the arrangement and exhausting of previous legislature for the disabled is often too difficult. In spite of best legal conditions, however, it has to be considered, and the dynamics in the accomplishment not only of the particular functions, but also of the special aims always will be significant for the understanding of a society. Legal claim of integration should therefore never be in doubt.