Berlin Life Insurance Company
The Berlinische Lebens-Versicherungs Gesellschaft was a German insurance company that operates today as Athora Lebensversicherung AG .
history
With the approval of the Prussian King, the Berlinische Lebens-Versicherungs Gesellschaft was founded as a stock corporation in Berlin in 1836 with a significant participation by Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck , making it the first life insurance company in Prussia and the second company of its kind in Germany. Lobeck oriented himself on English models. With his advance he met the goodwill of the government. The Berlinische Renten- und Kapitals-Versicherungs-Bank was associated with the insurance company since 1844. This was dissolved in 1889. The insurance merged with the Preussische Lebensversicherungs AG in 1922.
The new company headquarters at the corner of Lietzenburger Strasse 51 and Rankestrasse, built in 1951/1952 by Curt Hans Fritzsche in the style of the office building architecture of the 1920s, is now a listed building . It is used for other commercial purposes.
In 1994 Hamburger Lebensversicherung AG was acquired and in 1998 it was taken over by Delta Lloyd NV in Amsterdam. In 2006 the name was changed to Delta Lloyd Lebensversicherung AG.
In October 2015, Athene Holding announced the acquisition of the company, and in November 2015 it was renamed "Athene Lebensversicherung".
In July 2018, the company was spun off from Athene Holding and renamed Athora Lebensversicherung and integrated into the European Athora Group.
literature
- Peter Koch: History of the insurance industry in Germany . Karlsruhe 2012, p. 74 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Official website of the Athora Germany Group
- Share of the Berlin Life Insurance Company
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Braun: Historic stocks Europe. Reflections of the economy. Volume 1, pp. 166f, ISBN 3-87439-396-8
- ^ Certificate of incorporation on europeana.eu
- ^ Peter Koch: History of the insurance industry in Germany. Karlsruhe, 2012. pp. 74f.
- ^ Entry in lexicon: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf from A to Z
- ^ Athene Holding LTD. acquires Delta Lloyd Germany. (No longer available online.) October 1, 2015, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on December 2, 2015 (press release). 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.
- ↑ Delta Lloyd Deutschland now operates under the Athene brand. (No longer available online.) November 18, 2015, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on December 2, 2015 (press release). 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.
