Agrippina insurance
Agrippina insurance was the name of the first Cologne insurance company founded in 1844. Today it is part of the Zurich Group Germany .
Legal predecessor
In 1818 the Cologne banker Peter Heinrich Merkens co-founded the first Cologne insurance company “Rheinschifffahrts-Assekuranz-Gesellschaft” (licensed only in 1822), which was called “Agrippina Sea, River and Land Transport Insurance Company” since its restructuring by Gustav Mevissen in 1844. It was not until January 24, 1845, that King Friedrich Wilhelm IV approved “the establishment of a stock corporation in Cologne under the name Agrippina, Sea, River and Land Transport Insurance Company”, which was entered in the commercial register on April 1, 1845 . In 1877, the expanding insurance company moved into a building designed by Alfred Müller-Grah at Rheingasse 6, next to the Overstolzenhaus .
Further development
The company name can be traced back to Agrippina the Younger , who was born in Cologne , the mother of Emperor Nero . In 1901 Agrippina-Versicherung was the first company in Germany to bring "vehicle accident insurance" onto the market, the scope of which already corresponded to today's comprehensive insurance . Agrippina expanded its business to include other types of insurance. In 1838/39 a fire insurance was established , which in 1841 was renamed "Colonia Fire Insurance". In 1872 she founded the Agrippina reinsurance association , which was renamed Kölner Lloyd in 1906 and took over Düsseldorf Lloyd in 1921. In 1914 she moved into a neoclassical building planned by Schreiterer & Below at Riehler Strasse 90, which was expanded in 1930. In 1921 she founded the department store insurance Patria Versicherungs-AG for trade and industry . Agrippina continued to grow through company acquisitions. Bavaria Versicherungs-AG was taken over in 1940 , Central Krankenversicherung in 1941 and Mitteleuropean Versicherungs-AG in 1960 . The Cologne-based bank Delbrück & Co owned (through its personally liable partners Ludwig-Theodor von Rautenstrauch and Axel Momm) the majority of the shares in the Agrippina Group, consisting of six companies, with around 75% .
Zurich Group
The expanding Zurich Group acquired almost 99% of the shares in the Agrippina Group through Zurich Insurance in August 1969. In January 2000 took place fusion of Agrippina insurance to the insurance AG Zurich Agrippina . In 2001, the Zurich Group Germany was created through a further merger , so that the Agrippina-Versicherung sales brand was lost.
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Agrippina insurance in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartwig Lödige: Tesa, Tuc and Teddybär: The large lexicon of enigmatic words , 2001, p. 19 f.
- ↑ Peter Koch: History of the Insurance Industry in Germany , 2012, p. 261 ( online ).
- ↑ Sabine Simon, Schreiterer & Below. An architecture office in Cologne between historicism and modernity , 1999, pp. 101–109.
- ↑ Peter Koch: History of the Insurance Industry in Germany , 2012, p. 277.