Adolf Harbers

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Adolf Harbers (born March 25, 1860 , † September 17, 1918 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German insurance manager .

In August 1889, as a young lawyer, Harbers was initially appointed deputy director of the Oldenburg insurance company, whose director he was appointed on April 1, 1894. He stayed that way until April 1, 1902, when he became a member of the board of the Providentia insurance company in Frankfurt. On October 1, 1914, he succeeded the late Fritz Schröder as General Director of the Aachener und Münchener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft , which he - although already seriously ill in 1917 - remained until his death in 1918. Harbers died during a spa stay in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

In 1903 Harbers became a contributing member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . Later he donated a capital stock to the company, from whose interest income his annual membership fee was paid.

After the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906, Harbers participated as director of Providentia in the creation of new conditions for fire insurance in a commission of the large German fire insurance companies.

Harbers were awarded the honorary title of Counselor and later Privy Councilor .

He was also a Knight of the Red Eagle Order and was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: Wallmann's insurance magazine of October 5, 1918, p. 2/3.
  2. ↑ Business success in the insurance industry, p. 159 "Adolf + Harbers" & hl = de & sa = X & ei = Uj5AVLrtMcXiO-fOgfAF & ved = 0CCsQ6AEwAA # v = onepa
  3. ↑ 125 years of Aachen and Munich fire insurance company. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1950, p. 52. [1]
  4. ↑ Business success in the insurance industry, p. 157 [2]
  5. ↑ a b Die Versicherung, Volume 8, 1933, p. 202 [3]
  6. ^ Obituary in: Wallmann's insurance magazine of October 5, 1918, p. 2/3.
  7. ^ Report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main, 1904.
  8. ^ Tilmann J. Röder: Legal education in economic "world traffic" - The San Francisco earthquake, Frankfurt 2006, p. 215.
  9. ^ Obituary in: Wallmann's insurance magazine of October 5, 1918, p. 2/3.
personal data
SURNAME Harbers, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1860
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1918
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe