Hermann Amelung

Hermann Amelung (born October 10, 1829 in Eisenach , † May 21, 1899 in Stettin ) was a German insurance lawyer.

Life

Amelung studied law at the University of Jena . In 1846 he became a member of the (later) fraternity Arminia on the Burgkeller and in 1847 a member of the Corps Guestphalia Jena . In 1848 he was a member of the democratic district committee in Jena .

Later he was a lawyer and director of Germania-Versicherung (Germania Unfall- und Haftpflicht-Versicherungs AG Stettin ). In the 1930s it merged with Iduna-Berlin (Iduna, fire, accident, liability and reinsurance stock company) to form Iduna-Germania Allgemeine Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft Berlin (from 1946 Iduna Allgemeine Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft, based in Hamburg). and ultimately merged with the Signal Iduna group of companies . Under his leadership, the company developed well and soon surpassed the well-known Gothaer Versicherung in new business . The actuary August Zillmer was one of his close associates .

Among other things, Amelung was elected in January 1887 in the elections for the fifteen-member electoral board at the election and general assembly of the Szczecin Liberal Electoral Association, at which Max Broemel was nominated as a Szczecin candidate for the Reichstag (German Empire) after the death of Carl Theodor Schmidt .

Marriage and offspring

Hermann Amelung married Antonie Lebrun († 1904), an actress at the Dresden Court Theater . She was the daughter of the Hamburg actor Karl August Lebrun ; her first marriage was to the English actor Sir William Henry Don, 7th Baronet (1825-1862).

The marriage had four children. The youngest son Walter Amelung became an archaeologist.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 18.

Web links

• Entry in the history of the insurance industry in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amelung, Dr. Hermann In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Vol. 4, Reimer, Berlin 1900.
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 125 , 134
3. ↑ Directory of persons ( memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MEW 6 November 1848 – July 1849.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Emerging competition ; In: Peter Koch : History of the Insurance Industry in Germany , Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft , 2012, p. 90.
5. ^ Iduna-Germania Versicherungs-AG , Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, as of October 7, 2009.
6. ^ Iduna-Germania Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG , share archive of the Benecke & Rehse Wertpapierantiquariats.
7. ↑ Lot No. 75: Iduna Transport- und Rückversicherungs-Aktien-Gesellschaft ( Memento of the original dated August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ August Zillmer - professional career , in: Peter Albrecht (Ed.), Risk Research and Insurance: Festschrift für Elmar Helten (inside title: for his 65th birthday) , Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, 2004, p. 320.
9. ↑ Dirk Mellies: Modernization in the Prussian Province? The administrative district of Szczecin in the 19th century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012, p. 335.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 33 (in the article about the son Walter Amelung).
11. ↑ George Clement Boase: Don, William Henry . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography. Volume 15. Smith, Elder & Co., London 1888, pp. 206-207.