Ernst Meyer (Insurance Manager)

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Ernst Rudolf Meyer (born February 9, 1908 in Allenstein , † March 7, 1972 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German insurance lawyer.

Life

As the son of a general director of the East Prussian fire law firm and his wife Helene, born Burow attended Meyer the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Königsberg i. Pr. After graduating from high school in 1926, he worked in a Königsberg railway workshop and toured Denmark and Sweden. From the winter semester of 1926/27 he studied law , philosophy , history and art at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he became a member of the Corps Franconia . In 1928, the Franks sent him to Cologne in his 4th active semester to support the Tigurinia , who had just been reconstituted there . Meyer finished his studies at the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he passed his legal traineeship in 1930 . He took the assessor examination in January 1935 in Berlin .

Since his mother was " half-Jewish " according to the National Socialist definition , he was refused admission to civil service . He resigned in March 1935 as a volunteer in the Allianz insurance company , where he remained throughout life. In January 1940 he became director of the Königsberg branch for East and West Prussia .

Third Reich

Immediately after the election victory and the seizure of power by the National Socialists , he came into contact with Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and his brother Fritz Goerdeler . After the Röhm Putsch in 1934, the Königsberg resistance group was formed around them , in which Meyer was actively involved until the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 .

Even before the Second World War , Meyer had served in the 1st East Prussian Grenadier Regiment No. 1 "Crown Prince" . He fought with him from 1942 in the German-Soviet War , most recently as first lieutenant and company commander in the battle for East Prussia . He was awarded with both iron crosses , the assault badge , the melee clasp and the wound badge . Due to several wounds no longer suitable for infantry , he last served with a staff on the Oder front (1945) . He became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released in August 1945.

New beginning

With “nothing but torn pants” he started over. In 1945 the Alliance appointed him plenipotentiary for the British zone of occupation . In October 1946 he became a deputy, a year later a full board member in Berlin-Charlottenburg , and later in Hanover and Stuttgart . On June 1, 1952, he was appointed a full board member of Allianz-Versicherungs-AG. Initially responsible for motor vehicle insurance , he became head of organization and one of the two deputies to the CEO .

In 1966 "Kraft-Meyer" donated the bust of his great-grandfather Karl Heinrich Burow , which he had found in the Hamburg bell cemetery , to the Göttingen student residence Collegium Albertinum . It is the only Königsberg monument that was saved in the West.

In 1971 Meyer helped found the Geneva Association , a private international research organization specializing in risk management and insurance.

When he died after a short illness “in the Sielen” and was buried, Franz Josef Strauss gave the funeral oration . Meyer was married three times and left behind a daughter from his first marriage.

Corps student

Meyer was a committed corps student all his life . The Franconians owe the Corphaus in Bogenhausen, which was inaugurated in 1962, to his efforts . In the mensur he saw one of the last facilities that gave corps students their color and character.

“It remains for us living to work to ensure that such abuse (such as the abuse of the sacrifices made by Hitler to fulfill his duties to the fatherland) is never possible again. May men grow up at Franconia who are given the strength to fulfill this mandate, who are ready to do anything if the dearly bought freedom should be threatened. "

- Ernst Meyer

Honorary positions

Advisory Board

Federal Ministry of Economics
Federal Supervisory Office for Insurance and Building Societies
Bayerische Vereinsbank
General credit insurance AG

Supervisory board

Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
Good Hope Hut
Hermes Kreditversicherungs-AG

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 38/975.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 144/263.
  3. ↑ a b c Archive Corps Franconia Munich
  4. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Ernst Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance lawyer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1972
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen