Barmenia

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Barmenia

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legal form VVaG , AG
founding 1904
Seat Wuppertal , Germany
management Andreas Eurich (Chairman)
Number of employees around 3700 (2019)
sales 2.2 billion euros (contributions 2019)
Branch Insurance
Website www.barmenia.de
As of December 31, 2019

The Barmenia Insurance (abbreviated Barmenia ) are an independent insurance group based in Wuppertal , whose district Barmen , the name of the insurance is derived.

history

Administration building in Wuppertal

Today's Barmenia health insurance a. G. was originally founded in 1904 as a commercial health insurance fund in Leipzig . The business area was initially limited to the Leipzig district headquarters . In 1905 the fund was renamed Friedrich August Bürgerliche Versicherungsbank a. G. to Leipzig . In 1909 the fund expanded its business area to the entire Kingdom of Saxony and called itself Friedrich August Sächsische Versicherungsbank a. G. to Leipzig . It was merged with the trade and craft health insurance fund for the Kingdom of Saxony - mutual insurance association (VaG) in Leipzig in 1923. From then on, the insurance association was called the Insurance Institution for Civil Servants and Independent Professions VaG . Finally, in 1930 the name was changed to the Leipzig Association for Health Insurance for Civil Servants and Independent Professions a. G. instead. Life insurance was given the name Leipzig Society for Mutual Life Insurance .

1922 emerged as a further branch of the largest German health insurance company based in Barmen (today in Wuppertal ) , the Barmer Ersatzkasse , the Barmenia insurance bank for medium-sized companies and civil servants VaG zu Barmen as later namesake. In 1926, Barmenia Lebensversicherung-AG zu Barmen was founded and in 1928 Leipziger Fürsorge Lebensversicherung a. G. In 1931 the two health and life insurance companies merged. The companies Leipziger Verein-Barmenia health insurance for civil servants, professions and medium-sized businesses a. G. and Leipziger Verein-Barmenia Lebensversicherung a. G. had their seat in Leipzig .

The business policy of the Leipziger Verein-Barmenia Krankenversicherung was marked by strong anti-Semitism . In 1931, for example, board member Max Teichmann described Jews as the “worst conceivable risk” because they allegedly deliberately exaggerated symptoms of the disease. From 1932 onwards, health insurance was one of the sponsors of the National Health Insurance Association , which mainly insured members of the Nazi movement . As of December 1933, the Hamburg District Office no longer employed any Jews and did not take out any new insurance policies with Jews. In the following years, Jewish insured persons were withheld from profit sharing and at the beginning of 1939 the Leipziger Verein-Barmenia Krankenversicherung , the largest private insurer in Germany with 800,000 insured persons, began to be excluded through refusal of benefits. The Reichsaufsichtsamt issued the relevant instruction in April 1940. The "National Socialist model company" received permits for the new Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , Luxembourg and Belgium and opened offices in Katowice and Prague .

The consequences of the Second World War were severe for both companies. Private insurance companies were banned and their assets were confiscated.

The administration building in Wuppertal, in the foreground the new building under construction at the time (May 2008)

It was impossible for the companies to continue operating in the Soviet zone . In 1951, life insurance moved its headquarters to Hamburg and health insurance moved to Wuppertal. Barmenia Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG was founded in Wuppertal in 1958 . In 1966, Barmenia Krankenversicherung and Barmenia Allgemeine moved to their current location on Kronprinzenallee . In 1971 Barmenia Lebensversicherung a. G. their headquarters from Hamburg to Wuppertal. After reunification , Barmenia was able to return to its headquarters in Leipzig, where it opened a district headquarters in 1990. In 2010, the new head office building was opened at its traditional location in Kronprinzenallee in Wuppertal, which has been called Barmenia-Allee since May 2012 . Barmenia has been the main and jersey sponsor of Bundesliga soccer club Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2016 .

Business areas

Barmenia Insurance is an all-line insurer. The area with the highest turnover is health insurance, followed by life insurance. The range also includes accident and motor vehicle insurance as well as liability and property insurance. In total, the group achieved premium income of around EUR 2.18 billion in 2018 with a portfolio of over 2.32 million insurance contracts. Around 3,800 employees work for Barmenia in the office and in the field, as well as over 11,700 brokers. More than 1,700 employees and 66 trainees work at the headquarters of Barmenia in Wuppertal. (As of December 31, 2018) With its head offices, 44 district directorates, six broker directorates, 18 district management offices and a large number of agencies, Barmenia Insurance operates throughout Germany.

Today, Barmenia Krankenversicherung no longer sees itself only as a reimburser of costs, but as a healthcare provider. The offer includes many digital services that are intended to make everyday life easier for customers. Among other things, there is the possibility to use telemedical services and a personal health assistant as an app. In addition, Barmenia offers disease management programs that support people with psychological problems, diabetes or back problems.

Corporate structure

  • The Barmenia health and life insurance are managed in the legal form of the mutual insurance association . The customers of the insurance associations are also members. The board of directors of the two mutual insurance associations consists of Andreas Eurich (CEO) as well as Ulrich Lamy, Frank Lamsfuß, Carola Schroeder and Kai Völker.
  • The Barmenia health insurance a. G. , founded in 1904, is the largest company in the group and is managed in the legal form of a mutual insurance association. It operates health insurance and primarily offers full health insurance as well as supplementary health insurance and long-term care insurance.
  • The Barmenia life insurance a. G. , founded in 1928, forms, together with the health insurance, a group of equal order, which is characterized by uniform management without capital participation.
  • The Barmenia Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG , founded in 1957, operates all other classes of insurance, in particular property, liability, accident and motor vehicle insurance. The shares are 100 percent owned by Barmenia Krankenversicherung a. G.
  • The ADCURI GmbH , founded in 2009, is a 100 percent subsidiary of Barmenia Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG. The object of the company is to sell insurance products and to take over the contract management of insurance contracts on behalf of the insurer.
  • The Barmenia Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH , established in 1994, holds shares in non-Group companies and land.
  • The DASG German Insurance Service GmbH is a 100 percent subsidiary of Barmenia health insurance a. G.
  • The Forum financial asset advisory and placement AG is a 100 percent subsidiary of Barmenia health insurance a. G.
  • The service company for consulting services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barmenia Krankenversicherung a. G.
  • The LM + -Leistungsmanagement GmbH is 25 percent owned by the Barmenia health insurance a. G.
  • The Barmenia IT + GmbH is 76 percent owned by the Barmenia health insurance a. G.

2018, the contributions of the three companies totaled about 2.18 billion euros on a total of 2,320,000 contracts managed, much of which approximately 1 million contracts and a total of about 1.25 million insured persons to the area of private health insurance accounted for .

criticism

On September 4, 2012, Panorama magazine showed a documentary in which it was criticized that Barmenia Accident Insurance prevented or delayed the payment of insurance benefits.

Web links

Commons : Barmenia Insurance  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Business results and non-financial information . Barmenia website, accessed on August 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ Max Teichmann, The Risk in Private Health Insurance, in: Assekuranz-Jahrbuch 50 (1931), p. 126. Quoted from Ingo Böhle: Jews cannot be members of the insurance company - the insurance industry and the Jewish insured under National Socialism using the example of Hamburg , p 24
  3. ↑ Ingo Böhle: Jews cannot be members of the insurance company and the Jewish insured persons under National Socialism using the example of Hamburg , p. 24 (PDF; 710 kB)
  4. ↑ Tobias Romberg: When the Barmenia was brown. In: The time . November 13, 2008, p. 37
  5. ↑ Barmenia health insurance a. G .: The history of Barmenia. Wuppertal 2004.
  6. ↑ aib: Project management for the expansion, reconstruction and renovation of the headquarters of Barmenia Insurance Wuppertal ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: aib-online , accessed on February 3, 2014
  7. ↑ Henrik Günther: The Barmenia has its own avenue. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , May 4, 2012, accessed on September 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ Barmenia becomes main and shirt sponsor at Bayer 04 ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on bayer04.de from June 3, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayer04.de
  9. ↑ Overview of offers
  10. ↑ Business results in detail ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmenia.de
  11. ↑ a b Brief profile of the company
  12. ↑ Overview of the Wuppertal location on the company website
  13. ↑ Addresses of the head offices, district and broker offices  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.barmenia.de  
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  15. ↑ Overview of the company's board members
  16. ↑ a b c d Annual Report 2013
  17. ↑ Christian Deker, Christoph Lütgert, Sabine Puls, Kristopher Sell: Die Nein-Sager . Panorama on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk website, September 4, 2012, accessed on April 14, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 33 ″  E