Franz Gerkrath

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Franz Eduard Albert Gerkrath (born January 31, 1835 in Erkelenz (Rhineland), † May 16, 1901 in Berlin ) was a German insurance specialist.

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After attending high school, he became an apprentice at the newly founded Concordia Lebensversicherungs-AG in 1854 and gained ten years of experience in all areas of insurance technology. After short-term employment at Germania in Stettin, he was in charge of the Basler Lebensversicherungs-Gesellschaft .

In 1871 he took over as general director of the life insurance company Nordstern in Berlin, which was founded in 1867 . In 1880 he founded the accident and old age insurance company Nordstern as its sister institution to operate workers insurance on a private basis and thus paved the way for later social insurance . He has made particular efforts to develop the technical principles of life insurance. The Association of German Insurance Companies was founded with his assistance.

In 1899 Gerkrath was elected chairman of the German Association for Insurance Science, which he initiated. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of Heimstätten AG and co-founder of their villa colony in Berlin-Nikolassee , where Gerkrathstrasse is named after him.

Franz Gerkrath died after a long illness in 1901 at the age of 66 in Berlin and was buried in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, his remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

After Gerkrath's death, his son Albrecht Gerkrath (1872–1909) succeeded him at “Nordstern”.

Fonts

  • Contribution to the assessment of the Winkelried Commission project regarding the establishment of Union Winkelried , Basel 1868.
  • On insurance legislation , 1875.
  • Geyer's life insurance in Germany and its statutory regulation, critically examined , 1878.
  • On the question of workers' insurance , 1880.
  • About the amount of contributions for workers' insurance , 1881.
  • Unfortunate situation of the death benefit funds and proposals for reconstruction , 1881.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung , May 17, 1901, evening edition.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 468.
personal data
SURNAME Gerkrath, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerkrath, Franz Eduard Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance specialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkelenz
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1901
Place of death Berlin