DEVK

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DEVK insurance

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legal form Mutual insurance association
founding 1886 and 1889
Seat Cologne , Germany
management Gottfried Rüßmann ( CEO )
Number of employees 6,000 (2016)
sales 3.214 billion EUR (premium income, 2016)
Branch Insurance
Website www.devk.de

The DEVK insurance include greater Germany's insurers. DEVK has around 4 million customers across Germany with over 14 million risks in all insurance lines. In terms of the number of contracts, DEVK is Germany's third largest household contents insurer, fifth largest passenger car and sixth largest liability insurer. The head office is in Cologne . There are around 1250 branches and 6000 employees in the office and in the field throughout Germany. Since it was founded over 130 years ago, the Group's parent companies have been mutual insurance companies .

Company history

The development of DEVK goes back on the one hand to the self-help organization " Death Fund of Civil Servants and Workers in the District of the Royal Railway Directorate in Wroclaw " founded by railroad workers on April 1, 1886 . On the other hand, the “Fire Insurance Association of Prussian State Railroad Officials” was founded in Berlin in 1889. In 1951 the “DEVK Deutsche Eisenbahnversicherung Lebensversicherungsverein a. G. ”and in 1953 the“ Deutsche Eisenbahn-Versicherungskasse ”. In the 1970s, the company opened up to private customers in order to create the basis for further growth. To this day, DEVK is a company social welfare facility of Deutsche Bahn and a recognized self-help facility of the federal railway assets .

Corporate structure

The two mother associations (DEVK Sach- and HUK-Versicherungsverein as well as DEVK Lebensversicherungsverein) are mutual insurance associations .

DEVK is divided into a number of sole proprietorships that have emerged from the two insurance associations. A holding company is also responsible for the coordination and strategic management of the individual companies . The individual companies include DEVK Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG, DEVK Allgemeine Lebensversicherungs-AG, DEVK Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs-AG, DEVK Krankenversicherungs-AG, DEVK Rückversicherungs- und Beteiligungs-AG, DEVK Vermögensvorsorge- und Beteiligungs-AG, DEVK Pensionsfonds-AG as well other subsidiaries and holdings.

DEVK offers insurance and pension products in the areas of vehicles, travel, legal protection, liability, house and living, health insurance, money and finance, life, old-age provision, occupational disability insurance and accident insurance.

Locations

DEVK has had its headquarters in Cologne since 1953 . More than 1,800 employees work in the building on Riehler Strasse, near the banks of the Rhine . There are also 19 regional offices in Germany, including a. in Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Regensburg and Frankfurt am Main.

Cooperation partner

Together with the Sparda banks and the Monega capital investment company, DEVK forms a financial association. In addition, the company has been working with the BAHN-BKK for years . DEVK traditionally maintains a close partnership with the Deutsche Bahn Group, the Railway and Transport Union , the Union of German Locomotive Drivers and the Association of German Railway Engineers .

In addition, DEVK has long been a cooperation partner of the ACV Automobil-Club Verkehr . As part of its membership in the European association Euresa , DEVK works internationally with a number of other insurance associations. In January 2009 DEVK took over the majority stake in German Assistance Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft , in France it is represented by the subsidiary Sada Assurances .

Web links

Commons : DEVK  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DEVK annual report for the 2016 financial year in DEVK magazine "Zeit für Menschen (2016)" (PDF 6.0 MB), accessed October 27, 2016
  2. ↑ About DEVK. DEVK, accessed March 23, 2013 .
  3. ^ The DEVK insurance in the mirror of the times. DEVK, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ DEVK Insurance: over 125 years of insurance protection as reflected in the times. DEVK, accessed November 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ https://www.devk.de/unternehmen/devkstandorte/index.jsp
  6. ↑ Benefit from a strong network. DEVK, accessed April 17, 2017 .
  7. ^ Automobile Club Verkehr (ACV). DEVK, accessed April 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ SADA ASSURANCES - une filiale du groupe DEVK. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 28, 2016 ; Retrieved April 17, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 28.7 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 33.3"  E