The tasks of statutory accident insurance consist of safeguarding against industrial accidents \"by all appropriate methods”, compensating, or maintaining at as low a level as possible, the medical, vocational and social consequences of industrial accidents through comprehensive rehabilitation, as well as financially compensating, usually through a pension, for lasting consequences which restrict the earning capacity of the people affected in the long term. Qualified vocational training measures(career adjustment/on-the-job skill, re-skiling, training, re-training, advanced training) place great demands on the time and the finances not only of the insurance institution but also of the insured persons themselves. The major purpose of this study is to present a detailed description of rehabilitation in statutory accident insurance on the basis of the understand for rehabilitation measures. Only then can one say whether or not the aim of the vocational training measures, permanent re-integration into the working world, has actually been achieved. keyword: industrial accidents, rehabilitation measures, vocational rehabilitation, vocational training, re-integration