Association of the German Insurance Industry

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The General Association of the German Insurance Industry ( GDV ) is the umbrella organization for private insurance companies in Germany . President of the GDV is Wolfgang Weiler (took office on September 26, 2017). The GDV was founded in Cologne in 1948 and is currently based in Berlin. The association has around 460 member companies with around 214,000 employees and trainees who, with almost 438 million insurance contracts, offer private households, industry, trade and public institutions risk protection and provision options.

tasks and activities

The association's task is to represent insurance companies in relation to political and social institutions ( lobbying ). He develops positions on political and social issues; to do this, it bundles the interests of its members. Due to his professional competence, which he has by pooling the expertise of the companies in specialist committees, he can advise politics ( neo-corporatism ).

The association also acts as a service provider for its members. It develops and updates sample terms and conditions for various insurance lines and recommends these to its member companies without obligation. Until 2011, the GDV operated HIS , the insurance industry's “notification and information system” that is intended to help insurers prevent insurance fraud and make risk assessment more efficient. The association also provides standards for data communication between insurance companies and intermediaries.

Through GDV Dienstleistungs-GmbH (GDV DL) as the central IT service provider for the insurance industry, branch services are designed, developed and operated in Hamburg, as well as the technical processing of the electronic insurance confirmation (eVB) between the Federal Motor Transport Authority and the German insurance industry, the Zentralruf the car insurer and the emergency call of the car insurer (operation of the emergency telephones on federal motorways ). The association also has a subsidiary for active loss prevention, VdS Schadenverhütung GmbH, and has been running the consumer portal dieversicherer.de since 2017.

GDV conducts accident research for insurers .

history

Development of the GDV

The association was founded in 1948 as an industry representative for cross-sectoral issues. In addition, there were initially several professional associations. Georg Büchner served from 1979 to 1993 . In 1995, the Association of Transport Insurers, the Association of Insurers and the HUK-Verband joined initially to Association of insurance companies together. In 1996 the Association of Non- Life Insurers merged with the Association of Life Insurers and the GDV to form the new General Association of the German Insurance Industry. In 1998 the association moved its headquarters to Berlin.

From the in Cologne based technical departments, as Sprinklerüberwachungsstelle had been founded by VdS to departments for fire protection and burglary had been set up anti-theft systems, was carried out the foundation of the VdS GmbH .

Previous presidents

Current presidium

On September 26, 2017, the Presidium elected Wolfgang Weiler as its new President. Weiler took office as the successor to Alexander Erdland .

The Presidium is currently composed as follows:

criticism

In October 2006, the GDV was awarded the negative Big Brother Award in the “Consumer Protection” category for the information and information system of the insurance industry (HIS) “with which insurance companies exchange extensive data on millions of citizens - according to confidential criteria, without sufficient legal basis and without the knowledge of those affected ”. As of April 1, 2011, the HIS was fundamentally revised in cooperation with the data protection authorities and has since been operated as a credit agency by Informa HIS GmbH (initially informa Insurance Risk and Fraud Prevention GmbH).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Association of the German Insurance Industry: Weiler follows Erdland as GDV President , accessed on September 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ Imprint . Website of the German Insurance Association; Retrieved February 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Number of employees since 1950 . Employers' Association of Insurance Companies in Germany ; accessed on February 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ Who we are - The GDV - General Association of the German Insurance Industry . gdv.de. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ About us . Association of the German Insurance Industry; accessed on August 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Insurance conditions . General Association of the German Insurance Industry; Retrieved January 13, 2012.
  7. ^ The information system (HIS) of the insurance industry . Association of the German Insurance Industry; accessed on February 1, 2016.
  8. ↑ https://www.gdv-dl.de/dienstleistungen/evb/
  9. ↑ https://www.gdv-dl.de/dienstleistungen/zentralruf-der-autoversicherer/
  10. ↑ https://www.gdv-dl.de/dienstleistungen/notruf-der-autoversicherer
  11. ↑ Weiler follows Erdland as GDV President . Media information from GDV.
  12. ^ Presidium of the GDV . Association of the German Insurance Industry; accessed on February 19, 2020.
  13. ↑ Consumer protection: GDV | BigBrotherAwards. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ New information portal of the insurance industry bills data protection requirements-data.pdf. March 31, 2011, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  15. ↑ informa HIS GmbH - home page. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
  16. ^ The information system (HIS) of the insurance industry . Association of the German Insurance Industry; Retrieved August 3, 2012