Public Insurance Braunschweig

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Public Insurance Braunschweig
legal form Institute of public right
founding 1754
Seat Braunschweig
management Knud Maywald (Chairman), Dirk Gronert, Dr. Alexander Tourneau
Number of employees 1,292 (end of December 2018)
Website www.oeffigte.de

Headquarters of the Braunschweig public insurance company
Business areas of the public insurers in Germany

The Public Insurance Braunschweig consists of two insurance companies in the legal form of an institution under public law , the Public Property Insurance Braunschweig and the Public Life Insurance Braunschweig. The former Braunschweigische Landesbrandversicherungsanstalt was taken over by the public property insurance company Braunschweig by way of the merger by transfer with effect from January 1, 2002. The bodies of both companies (board members and other owners' meeting) are in personal union occupied the same. Until December 2014, NORD / LB (75%) as well as the State of Lower Saxony and the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Association with 12.5% ​​each were responsible for both institutions . The state of Lower Saxony transferred half of the carrier rights it held to the Braunschweig public insurance company to the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation (SBK) on January 1, 2015 . Since 2015, SBK has thus held 6.25% of the carrier rights in the insurance companies.

history

The starting point for the establishment of an insurance company that insures the population against the risk of fire damage was the great fire in Schöppenstedt in 1743, in which a considerable part of the city's buildings and harvest supplies were destroyed.

Duke Carl I (1713–1780, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, from 1735 Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) founded the state fire insurance company in 1754. The insurance company began operations with four employees and in the second year after it was founded, it generated a turnover in the amount of money of around 6,300 thalers . The model for the state fire insurance institute in Braunschweig was the oldest fire fund in the world, the Hamburger Feuerkasse (founded in 1676). The school regulations of the old Braunschweig region (1753), the founding of the Collegium Carolinum, the forerunner of the TU Braunschweig (1745), the Ducal Leyhaus Braunschweig (1765) and the porcelain factory Fürstenberg (1747) all go back to the initiatives of Duke Karl I. In 1837, the Brandkasse received the monopoly on building insurance. This monopoly formed the basis for the continued dynamic business development. In 1850 the turnover of the insurance was almost 130,000 thalers.

In 1919, the state government of the then Free State of Braunschweig transferred the management of the fire insurance company to the board of directors of the Braunschweigische Staatsbank, one of the forerunners of today's Nord / LB. In 1924, the Public Movable Insurance Company and the Public Life Insurance Company were founded out of the State Bank . The public received the monopoly for these two insurance lines as well. With Erich Achterberg, Braunschweigische Staatsbank. Two centuries of contemporary history. it says:

“The Braunschweigische Staatsbank and the Braunschweigische Landes-Brandversicherungsanstalt became almost one unit, the name of the insurance company was carved on the entrance gate of the state bank. But banking and insurance are different things and so the separation had long been an obvious one. With the dissolution or extensive loosening of the bond between the bank and the insurance company, the relationship between the state bank and the public property insurance and public life insurance, which was initially looked after by the state fire insurance and later became independent, came to an end. "

In 1944, almost all of the company's documents were burned in a bomb attack.

Between 1954 and 1974 the number of employees rose from 86 to 522, the group's turnover was around 100 million DM in 1971, around 400 million DM in 1990, around 400 million euros in 2012 and around 467.3 million euros in 2014. At the end of the 1990s, the public contributed 580,000 DM to the compensation fund for victims of National Socialism “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” .

In 2007, a subsidiary was founded, the Public Facility Management GmbH, which takes care of property management and rental, office services, catering and events. Public Facility Management GmbH also provides its service for third-party customers.

In 2009, the public insurance company Braunschweig expanded its portfolio as part of a strategic cooperation with the Braunschweigische Landessparkasse to include all financial service products that are traditionally sold by banks and savings banks.

The company manages over 2.6 billion euros in capital investments and generates sales of over 400 million euros. It sells its products and services exclusively in the south-eastern part of Lower Saxony, the old Braunschweiger Land. Here the company, which offers all classic insurance and financial services products, achieves a market share of up to 50 percent, depending on the segment. The public insurance company Braunschweig looks after a total of around 1.3 million insurance contracts.

employer

The company trains the professional profile of insurance and finance clerks and offers further training opportunities. This also happens in part in the public facility management GmbH.

The insurance grants a company pension . The company allows you to work part-time or from home. The public insurance company Braunschweig participates in the financing of an inter-company kindergarten and offers an in-house health program with many sports activities.

Since 2016, the public has been awarded the berufauditundfamilie again for its strategically designed, family- conscious personnel policy . This means that the public is one of the 85 employers who have successfully passed the certification process sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs for the third time.

distribution

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the sales department has been gradually developed into a financial service provider with a holistic consulting approach, according to the company's presentation. Since 2010 the approximately 550 sales partners of the public insurance company Braunschweig have also been marketing all products and services of the Braunschweigische Landessparkasse .

Commitment to the region

QRpedia - QR code for the article Braunschweig Public Insurance on the "Time Path" at the Königspfalz Werla , which was co-financed by the public. 1754 as the founding date of the "Landesbrandversicherungsanstalt".

The company regularly promotes a. the football club Eintracht Braunschweig , the basketball team Basketball Löwen Braunschweig , the Braunschweigische Staatstheater , the fire brigades, schools as well as the universities and colleges in the region.

The environmental management system of the public insurance company Braunschweig was certified in 2015 not only according to the internationally recognized standard ISO 14001, but also according to EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, also known as EU-Eco-Audit). At the time of certification, the regional insurer was thus one of a total of three companies in Braunschweig and one of ten in the entire public sector to receive the EMAS registration known as the highest standard. In Germany, only five insurance companies have so far been able to successfully certify their environmental policy in accordance with the EMAS environmental management system (as of January 2020).

The official mascot of the public insurance company Braunschweig is the white and blue horse Öfi.

literature

  • Braunschweigische Landes-Brandversicherungsanstalt (Ed.): Festschrift 225 years LBVA 1754–1979. (With a foreword by the Lower Saxony Minister of Finance), 1979.
  • Werner Knopp : Duke - Citizen - Fire Distress. Birth and vitality of the Braunschweigische Landes-Brandversicherungsanstalt. Ed .: Braunschweigische Landesbrandversicherungsanstalt, without publisher information, 1979.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Erich Achterberg: Braunschweigische Staatsbank. Two centuries of contemporary history. P. 207.
  2. ↑ braunschweigheute.de ( Memento from May 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ "250 Years - History and Stories of an Insurance" Public Insurance Braunschweig, 2004 / Annual Reports of the Public Insurance Braunschweig