Carl von Thieme

Carl Thieme , from 1914 Carl Ritter von Thieme , (born April 30, 1844 in Erfurt , † October 10, 1924 in Munich ) was a German manager in the insurance industry , he was the co-founder of two large German insurance companies, the Munich Reinsurance Company and of Allianz AG . Thieme was also the first general director of Allianz from 1890 to 1904 .

Live and act

Thiemes father was director of Thuringia Versicherungs-AG in Erfurt. After school, Carl Thieme completed an apprenticeship in his father's company, and then worked there too. In 1871 he became head of the Munich general agency, in 1873 head of the Bavarian general agency.

In 1880 he founded the Munich Reinsurance Company together with Theodor von Cramer-Klett and was its general director until 1922; He remained a member of the supervisory board until his death. In 1888 the company was converted into a stock corporation, and already in Thiemes' time it was expanding worldwide and early on made a name for itself as the largest reinsurance company in the world.

In addition, Thieme and Wilhelm von Finck were involved in founding the Allianz insurance company in Berlin in 1890 .

Honors

With the award of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown by King Ludwig III. Thieme was raised to the personal nobility in 1914 . The eastern section of Martiusstrasse at the main administration building of Munich Reinsurance Company was renamed Thiemestrasse after him.

family

Carl Thieme married Marie von der Nahmer on May 10, 1870. The marriage had seven children. Her first-born son Friedrich, called Fitz, became an authorized signatory in the father's insurance company. The son Walter , born in 1878, studied theology and worked for decades as a pastor and inspector and for several years as chairman of the Berlin city mission .

Carl Thieme married Else von Witzleben, seventeen years his junior, in 1885 after the death of his first wife, who died with her in 1883 giving birth to her seventh child . This second marriage had four more children, three girls and a boy.

In addition, there was his son Oskar Thieme, born out of wedlock in 1863, who bore his father's family name. In 1921, Carl and Else von Thieme acquired Weißenstein Castle near Matrei in East Tyrol  as their family home.

Oskar Thieme (1863–1946) also worked for insurance companies, most recently in Berlin at Heinrich Fraenkel AG (Hafag) . One of Carl Thieme's sons-in-law was the painter, graphic artist and illustrator Walter Schnackenberg (1880–1961).

literature

• Philip Waltermann: Company success in the insurance industry. Berlin 2008, ( limited preview on Google Books )

Web links

• Information from the Munich Reinsurance Company on setting up a company
• Short biography. In: whoswho.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Johannes Bähr, Christopher Kopper: Munich Re. The history of Munich Re 1880–1980. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68361-9 , p. 85 ff.