Aon Germany
| Aon Holding Deutschland GmbH (formerly Aon Jauch & Hübener)
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | July 22, 1919 |
| Seat | Hamburg |
| Number of employees | 1,700 ( 2017 ) |
| Branch | Insurance broker |
| Website | www.aon.de |
Aon is Germany's largest insurance broker . The company, founded in Hamburg in 1919 by Walter Jauch and Otto Hübener as Jauch & Hübener, employs around 1700 people in Germany. The company has been a subsidiary of the Anglo-American, listed company Aon since 1997 .
founding
Before the First World War, Walter Jauch met the businessman Otto Hübener in London and founded the insurance broker and reinsurance brokerage company Jauch & Hübener in Hamburg with him in 1919 . Thanks to Hübener's outstanding entrepreneurial personality, the company worked its way up to a top position within a short time. Jauch promoted the company through his family contacts to the Hamburg economy. Jauch & Hübener were initially not considered much on the Hamburg stock exchange because of their unusual insurance ideas. Jauch & Hübener initiated a seizure insurance to compensate recipients of illegal deliveries of goods from the Rhineland, which was occupied by the Allies after the First World War . For the first time, Jauch & Hübener achieved a leading position with the self-developed mine insurance for seagoing vessels against the risks posed by sea mines floating on the world's oceans after the First World War .
meaning
In the mid-1920s, Jauch & Hübener were already the most important reinsurance brokers on the continent. In 1925 they received the general policy of IG Farben for all exports to the USSR , in 1928 the reinsurance for the German air pool and the general policy for the transport of all goods to the world exhibition in Barcelona . At times, more than half of all insurance policies in the German film pool ran through Jauch & Hübener. In the 1930s, Jauch & Hübener developed public liability for auditors.
Further innovations from Jauch & Hübener were the scrap policy, the Russian policy, the grain policy, the fish policy, the fire block policy, a wastewater tax model and an electricity reserve cost model. There are also special covers for supertankers, space satellites and oil platforms.
In 1935 there were branches in Hamburg, Düsseldorf , Munich , Vienna and New York as well as holdings in brokerage companies in Milan , Genoa and Paris .
The company grew through numerous mergers to become the largest independent insurance broker on the continent. The companies Georg Wildegans (1972) and Joost & Preuss (1991), also founded in 1919, were taken over. In 1992, Jauch & Hübener Privates Vorsorgemanagement GmbH (PVM) was founded for private customer business. In 1986 Jauch & Hübener took over the Hamburg brokerage company Agte Gebrüder.
In 1991, Jauch & Hübener OHG was converted into a partnership limited by shares with a capital of DM 17 million to broaden the capital base . Jauch & Hübener have been affiliated with the Anglo-American brokerage company Aon since 1997 and continue to maintain their leading position in continental Europe.
Connections to resistance
Jauch & Hübener had already been assigned a representative of the Security Service ( SD ) at the beginning of the Nazi era , because Nazi circles had doubts about their political reliability. Walter Jauch's cousin by marriage was Hans Oster , major general and chief of staff of the military defense under Admiral Canaris . Through this, Jauch & Hübener had contact with his immediate employee Hans von Dohnanyi , who was accused of financial transactions with Jauch & Hübener.
Otto Hübener was arrested in Hamburg in 1945. On April 7, 1945, Hans von Dohnanyi was executed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Canaris, Oster and the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer were executed on April 9, 1945 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp . Hübener was executed in Berlin on April 21 or 23, 1945 without a trial.
literature
- Elisabeth Chowaniec, The "Dohnanyi Case" 1943-1945 , 1991
- von Gaertner, Jauch & Hübener 1919-1949 - A report on the first three decades of a remarkable company, combined with a contemporary presentation
- von Gaertner, J & H on the threshold of the 75th anniversary - review of the founding year 1919 , Jauch & Hübener Journal 1993, p. 3
- Jauch & Hübener 1919–1939 , oOuoJ (illustrated book)
- Surminski, Arno : Jauch & Hübener 75 years 1919-1994 , Hamburg 1994
- Romedio Galeazzo Count of Thun-Hohenstein: The conspirator. General Oster and the military opposition. Berlin 1982, Munich 1984