HDI liability association of German industry

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HDI Liability Association of the German Industry Insurance Association

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legal form Mutual insurance association
founding 1903
Seat Hanover , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Torsten Leue , CEO
Number of employees 22,537 (Talanx Group)
Branch Insurance
Website www.hdi.de
As of April 27, 2020

HDI / Talanx new building in Hanover

The HDI Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie VVaG, with the legal form of a mutual insurance association (VVaG), is the majority owner and parent company of Talanx AG, Germany's third largest insurance group.

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The brands in the Talanx Group include HDI. Life and property / casualty insurance companies, which focus on private and corporate customer business, and, since 2016, industrial insurance as well, operate under this brand in Germany and abroad. The HDI insurance companies include the following companies:

  • HDI Customer Service AG (formerly: HDI-Gerling Sach Serviceholding AG & HDI-Gerling Leben Serviceholding AG)
  • HDI Lebensversicherung AG (formerly: HDI-Gerling Lebensversicherung AG)
  • HDI Pensionskasse AG
  • HDI Versicherung AG (formerly: HDI-Gerling Firmen und Privatversicherung AG & HDI Direkt Versicherung AG)
  • HDI Global SE (formerly: HDI-Gerling Industrie Versicherung )
  • HDI International AG
  • HDI Global Specialty SE

activity

HDI companies operate property / casualty and life insurance business for private individuals and small and medium-sized companies in Germany , with HDI Versicherung AG in Austria.

In the private customer area, motor vehicle insurance, health, legal protection and property insurance products as well as life insurance are offered. Fund products are sold through the investment company Ampega Investment GmbH , which is also part of Talanx .

The cooperation partner for health insurance products is DKV Deutsche Krankenversicherung , and the partner for legal protection insurance is Roland Rechtsschutz Versicherung.

In the area of ​​corporate insurance, the product range covers all lines of business. From simple professional liability to technical and transport insurance to electronics and loss of earnings insurance.

In the area of ​​company pension schemes, processing is carried out by HDI Leben.

history

HDI building in Hanover

In 1903 the parent company of today's HDI-Versicherungen was founded in Frankfurt am Main as the "liability association of the German iron and steel industry" . From 1907 he also accepted professional associations and their companies from outside the field as members. In 1936 he renamed himself "Liability Association of German Industry". In 1970 he merged with the “Fire Damage Association Rhenish-Westphalian Collieries”, their liability and property insurance complement each other. As early as 1919, the association's headquarters were relocated from Frankfurt to Hanover . The company's headquarters are still located here today.

HDI Beteiligungs AG was founded in 1996 to separate the strategic group management and the operative insurance business. The insurance business was spun off into independent companies. To avoid confusion with the HDI brand, HDI Beteiligungs AG is renamed Talanx AG in 1998. Since then, the group management function has been taken over by Talanx. The word Talanx is made up of the terms talent (ancient currency unit) and phalanx (flexible battle setup). In 2011, HDI's new headquarters were completed in Hanover.

In 2005 the Talanx Group announced its intention to take over the operating companies of the Gerling Group for € 1.4 billion. In April 2006, the Gerling companies were integrated into Talanx AG, divided into a life and a property service holding company.

HDI-Gerling has been active as a brand on the insurance market since 2006.

In September 2012, the brands HDI and HDI-Gerling were combined under the "new old brand" HDI in private and corporate insurance. The companies HDI Direkt Versicherung AG and HDI-Gerling Firmen und Privat Versicherung AG now operate under the name HDI Versicherung AG.

Group structure

Talanx is a multi-brand group. At the top is Talanx AG, which takes on the tasks of a management and financial holding company in the Group, but is not itself active in the insurance business. The largest majority owner of Talanx AG is HDI V. a. G., a mutual insurance company. Talanx AG has been listed on the stock exchange since October 2, 2012.

art

United Buddy Bears exhibition in Warsaw 2008, sponsored by HDI
Remote-controlled blimp with HDI advertising at AERO Friedrichshafen

As an international insurance group, HDI supports art projects nationally and internationally. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of HDI-Gerling Industrie in Central Germany, the group's art collection was sent on an exhibition tour for the first time. These include paintings, graphics and object art by Joseph Beuys , Marc Chagall , Max Ernst , Lyonel Feininger , Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol . The first exhibition was presented from June 2nd to July 17th, 2015 in the cCe Kulturhaus Leuna . Internationally, the United Buddy Bears' world tour has been supported at the respective exhibition locations since 2008 . Since May 2014, the installation "You" has been hanging in the courtyard of the corporate headquarters, consisting of two large LED neon strips with texts by Jenny Holzer running over them.

Web links

Commons : HDI Haftpflichtverband der Deutschen Industrie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Torsten Leue: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  2. {{{title}}}. In: talanx.com. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  3. HDI Insurance - 100 years of continuity in the insurance business . URL: http://www.hdi-gerling.de/de/ueber_uns/die_marke/geschichte/geschichte_hdi.jsp (accessed on May 6, 2009)
  4. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of June 9, 2015: "Just look, don't touch"
  5. ^ Buddy Bear Berlin , Berlin 2012, pages 47 and 55, ISBN 978-3-00-038736-4 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 36.2 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 45.6"  E