Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck

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Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck, profile portrait on his tomb.

Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck (born March 25, 1787 in Demmin ; † December 30, 1855 in Berlin ) was a German businessman and insurance company . He founded the Berlin Life Insurance Company , the first life insurance company in Prussia on a commercial basis.

Life

Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck was the youngest son of the Demmin merchant Jürgen Peter Lobeck and his wife Salome Charlotte. He attended the trade school in Magdeburg and then gained his first professional experience as a trainee in his father's business and at a Stettin trading company. Despite the continental blockade , he went to England , where after some time he founded his own trading company. The well-developed system of life insurance in England, which he studied extensively, gave him the idea of founding his own life insurance in Prussia .

Lobecks grave in the Georgen-Parochial Cemetery V .

With this intention he returned to Germany in 1834, the year the German Customs Union came into force . He succeeded in winning over the relevant Prussian authorities and leading personalities in Berlin's economy for his project. This provided for the establishment of a stock corporation with a share capital of one million Prussian thalers . A founding committee met on January 19, 1835. On June 11, 1836, Friedrich Wilhelm III. the approval for the formation of the Berlin life insurance company . From September 1836 to the end of 1837, 460 agencies were established, mainly in the provinces of Brandenburg and Pomerania . Heinrich Ludwig Lobeck headed the insurance company as "Executive Director" or "General Agent".

In 1848 he introduced the savings bank insurance, a private pension insurance, which represented a decisive step to the death and survival insurance that is predominant today.

Due to a serious illness, he had to retire from management in 1855. He died a few days after his wife Marie on December 30th of the same year. The burial took place with great sympathy at the Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof V on Friedenstrasse in Berlin. His classical tomb made of white marble bears a relief-like profile portrait.

In 1962 a street in Kreuzberg was named after him.

literature

  • Jürgen Schröder: A far-sighted Demminer. In: Nordkurier . December 20, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lobeckstraße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Lobeck, Heinrich Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lobeck, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and insurer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Demmin
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1855
Place of death Berlin