Old Oldenburg health insurance

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Old Oldenburger Krankenversicherung AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1927
Seat Vechta
management
  • Manfred Schnieders (Chairman)
  • Dietrich Vieregge
Number of employees 240
sales EUR 222 million
Branch Private health insurance
Website www.alte-oldenburger.de
As of December 31, 2016

The old Oldenburg Insurance Ltd is a private health insurance based in Vechta . The company offers private health insurance, compulsory long-term care insurance and private supplementary insurance .

Corporate structure

The Alte Oldenburger Krankenversicherung AG (like the Provinzial Krankenversicherung Hannover AG , which belongs to the VGH insurance) works under the umbrella of the Alte Oldenburger Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG . 60% of the shareholders of Alte Oldenburger Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG are the Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover, which belongs to the VGH insurance, and the Alte Oldenburger Krankenversicherung von 1927 VVaG with 40%

The Alte Oldenburger acts nationwide as a broker insurer, the Provinzial Krankenversicherung Hannover as a regional insurer with its own field service and the distribution through the savings banks in Lower Saxony and Bremen .

In addition, there is also the old Oldenburg health insurance from 1927 VVaG , whose portfolio, with the exception of the foreign travel health insurance , was transferred to the stock corporation in 2007 .

history

Alte Oldenburger was founded in Vechta in 1927 under the name "Rural Sick Aid". The aim was to offer protection to those who work in the small farms in the Oldenburger Münsterland with low incomes. The “Peasant Health Insurance” started work on November 1st, 1927. In those founding years, the health insurance was part of the Association of Small Farms. From 1927 to 1930 you could insure a family of ten for a quarterly amount of 13.50 Reichsmarks .

1930 the separation from the association of small agricultural enterprises and the registration with the district court Vechta as "Bäuerliche Krankenkasse eV " took place. The first steps towards administrative independence were initiated. Since it was no longer just members of the association who could take out insurance from the health fund, the number of those insured rose significantly from 1930 to 1933. When a ban on admission as an e. V. took place, the registration as a mutual insurance association was arranged. During the time of National Socialism , there were serious effects on the membership. A large number of the members of the NSDAP joined or at least were close to the new regime. Due to the central course of the board, a large number of members left the fund.

After the Second World War , the health insurance company had to contend with problems, including a. as a result of the more difficult calculation due to the currency uncertainties. In order to differentiate itself more clearly from the statutory health insurance, the name was changed to "Farmers sickness aid VaG". However, with the currency reform in 1948 and the introduction of the Deutsche Mark , the economic problems of health care had not yet been eliminated. Because the customer base dwindled: More and more smaller farmers gave up their farms or became part-time farmers. The number of hirings fell. In 1961, the then managing director Anton Themann saw the only solution in a merger with the "Deutsche Landvolkkrankenkasse" in Frankfurt am Main . In the second round of voting, which was necessary for such a far-reaching decision, however, the majority was not reached to approve this merger. This resulted in a restructuring of the general assembly, the management and the board. In addition, in 1962 the “Farm Health Aid VaG” was renamed “Landvolk-Krankenkasse Oldenburg” with the addition “Farm Health Aid”. In 1963 it was registered as a “large insurance association”. In 1965, the employees moved into a new administration building on the moor gardens in Vechta.

The upward development of the health insurance in the 1960s and at the beginning of the 1970s was stopped abruptly with the law on health insurance for farmers in 1972. The law made over 40% of the insurance portfolio compulsory and thus withdrew it from the insurance company. It took a few years before the health insurance company was able to make up for the loss of insured persons caused by this law.

In the 1980s, the number of people with full insurance increased increasingly. In 1987 there was another generation change on the board. After Willi Büssing went into retirement, Friedrich Schmücker took over the position of CEO . Georg Hake was also appointed a full member of the Board of Management. The new board advocated extending the business area to the entire Federal Republic of Germany. A corresponding resolution was passed by the Annual General Meeting in 1989. In the run-up to this, the company was renamed “Alte Oldenburger Landvolk-Krankenversicherung VVaG”. Another renaming to “Alte Oldenburger Krankenversicherung VVaG” was carried out in the 1990s.

In 1996, a distribution agreement was concluded with the German branch of the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Fund (SRA, today " Swiss Life "). In 2004 a cooperation was agreed with the AOK Lower Saxony ; The approximately 2.4 million AOK insured persons in Lower Saxony have since been offered a supplement to the scope of services provided by statutory health insurance under the “AOK-privat” brand . 2007 followed by the establishment of a health insurance group with the VGH Versicherungen belonging Provincial Health Insurance Hannover AG . As part of this transaction, Alte Oldenburger changed its legal form from a mutual insurance association to a stock corporation . After the employees had been housed in various office buildings at the Vechta site for many years, a new administration building was completed in mid-2010 on Theodor-Heuss- Strasse in Vechta, in which all employees can be accommodated. On January 1, 2015, another cooperation agreement was concluded with the AOK Bremen / Bremerhaven .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Company history: In the beginning it was the rural one

Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 31.1 ″  E