Günter Kalbaum

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Günter Kalbaum (born October 5, 1920 in Berlin ; † June 27, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German manager and from 1975 to 1985 chairman of the board of Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherungs AG (today ERGO ).

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Kalbaum grew up in Hamburg and was drafted into the Wehrmacht after graduating from the Johanneum School of Academics . After military service in World War II and subsequent imprisonment , he studied in Hamburg Business Administration , graduating with a degree in business administration in 1952. 1955 he passed the exam for tax advisors and 1956 for auditors from. From the beginning of the 1950s he worked for Deutsche Revision und Treuhand AG , since 1966 Kalbaum was a deputy member of the board. From January 1971 he was a member of the board of the Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherungs-AG (HM): Asset position and from 1975 until his retirement in 1985 he was chairman of the board of this company. Until 1981 he was also chairman of the board of the Hamburg-Mannheimer Sachversicherungs-AG, after which he was on the board of directors. He was chairman of the supervisory board of Bausparkasse Heimbau AG (sold to Wüstenrot from 1985 ) from 1975 to 1985 (previously as a member of the supervisory board), and also chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Krankenversicherung (DKV) from 1975 to 1985. He was then a member of the supervisory board of Hamburg-Mannheimer Insurance until 1993.

In 1979 Kalbaum was elected to the board of the employers' association of insurance companies in Germany. HM, which he managed and in which Munich Reinsurance and Allianz Versicherung , both in Munich , played a major role , was the second largest life insurance company in Germany.

From 1985 to 1993 he was honorary chairman of the newly founded association for the promotion of insurance science.

Publications

  • Eight decades of investment policy in the German life insurance industry , in Rudolf Henn and Walter F. Schickinger (eds.): State, Economy, Insurance and Science, Festschrift for Robert Schwebler , Karlsruhe 1986, pp. 653–685
  • with Jürgen Mees: Capital investments in: Dieter Farny et al. (Ed.): Handwortbuch der Versicherungen (HdV), Karlsruhe 1988, pp. 331–343
  • The voluntary social benefits of the private insurance industry in 1936 . A documentation, in Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, supplement 62, Stuttgart 1990, Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Profit sharing and asset accumulation by employees in the private insurance industry (1820–1948), in Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, Stuttgart 1993, Franz Steiner Verlag; ISBN 978-3515061667

literature

  • From a human perspective: Song of praise to Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt from July 1st, 1975
  • Portrait of a Hamburg economist: Always one step ahead ", Lüneburger Landeszeitung from June 29, 1979
  • General director Günter Kalbaum 60 years, ZfV 19/1980, S, 502, Hamburger Abendblatt and FAZ, Handelsblatt of October 3, 1980
  • In a word, in Die Welt on May 31, 1983
  • 75th birthday, ZFV 19/1995 p. 522, picture Hamburg October 5th, 1995, Hamburger Abendblatt October 5th, 1995, Welt am Sonntag on October 8th, 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ People: Günther Kalbaum deceased | Insurance industry. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Magazine of the Association of Former Students of the School of Academics of the Johanneum eV, 01/2011 | 482nd year, obituary for Günter Kalbaum p. 14
  3. ^ Journal of Insurance (ZfV) 13/1985, p. 349f.
  4. ↑ Deutsche Bank annual reports from 1974 and 1979, pp. 116 and 122 respectively
  5. ↑ Die Welt, July 13, 1981
  6. ↑ Ruth Whiteside: Major Financial Institutions of Europe 1994, Grahan & Trotman, London 1994, p. 95
  7. ↑ FAZ of April 8, 1995, p. 17
  8. ^ Forum - HM employee newspaper 3/1977, p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Kalbaum, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager and chairman of the board
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2010
Place of death Hamburg