Johannes Woods

Johannes Wälder (born December 31, 1933 in Flamersheim ) is a German insurance scientist and university professor.

Life

Johannes Wälder grew up in Flamersheim and attended elementary school there. He then attended grammar school in Euskirchen , where he also passed the school leaving examination. From 1954 to 1956, Wälder completed an apprenticeship at Gothaer Insurance in Cologne . This was followed by positions as a claims handler and at an insurance company in Switzerland. From 1958 to 1961, Wälder studied economics at the University of Cologne . He then worked as an assistant to the board of Roland legal protection insurance. In 1964, Wälder returned to Cologne University as a research assistant, where he also received his doctorate on the nature of insurance in 1969 . As early as 1967, Wälder had switched to the German Insurance Academy as a full-time lecturer, which was transferred to the Cologne University of Applied Sciences in 1971 . To this day, Wälder represents the field of "property and business interruption insurance" at the Institute for Insurance. He also acts as an arbitrator in arbitration proceedings .

Forests “fascinates”, according to his colleague Peter Schimikowski , the regulation of damage. He worked as an expert on a large number of major losses. For his 75th birthday, Wälder, who is considered the pope of fire insurance because of his “outstanding technical competence” , was honored with a commemorative publication .

Magazine "right and harm"

Since it was founded - albeit with an interruption of several years - Johannes Wälder has been involved in the editorial management of the insurance and claims law specialist journal “ rechts und schaden” , which was founded in 1974 . From 1986 he was spokesman for the editorial board. In August 2014, Wälder left the editorial team. In the magazine published by the CH Beck publishing house since 2005 , Wälder has published a large number of comments on court decisions and numerous articles.

Private

Wälder was married to his wife Ingrid from 1962 until her death. He has three children.

Publications (selection)

Books

• About the nature of insurance. A methodological contribution to the discussion about the term insurance. (Series of publications by the Institute for Insurance Science at the University of Cologne, New Series Issue 27). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1971. (Dissertation)
• Technical terms in the insurance industry. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1974 (together with Manfred Lipperheide and Werner Theda).
• Household items and personal valuables. Weissbuchverlag, Berlin 1981.
• Gerling manual on fire insurance. Determination and updating of the sums insured for industry and commerce. Gerling Insurance , Cologne 1981 (together with Harald Brachmann and Horst Schmidt).

Articles and contributions

• The questionable feature of fire in the fire insurance concept. In: Journal for the entire insurance science 1971, pp. 657–686.
• Responsibility for the sum insured in 1914 of the sliding new value insurance. In: Zeitschrift für Versicherungswesen 1978, pp. 383–391.
• The added value insurance in industrial fire insurance. In: Zeitschrift für Versicherungswesen 1979, pp. 23–32 and 50–52.
• On the concept of fire in fire insurance. In: New ways of insurance management, commemorative publication for Günter Schmidt's 60th birthday, Karlsruhe 1997, pp. 109–142.
• Additional costs due to price increases in classic property insurance. Statically fixed or dynamically oriented compensation? In: A life with insurance science , Festschrift for Helmut Schirmer, Karlsruhe 2005, pp. 591–618.
• Additional costs due to technological progress in classic property insurance. Statically fixed or dynamically oriented compensation? In: Liber Amicorum for Gerrit Winter, Karlsruhe 2007, pp. 441–481.
• To exclude damage in or on buildings or parts of buildings that are not ready for occupancy in tap water and storm and hail insurance. In : recht und schaden 2012, pp. 5–9.
• The insured risks of property and business interruption insurance. In: Wolfgang E. Halm, Andreas Engelbrecht, Frank Krahe: Handbook of the specialist lawyer insurance law. 5th edition. Luchterhand, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-472-08904-9 , pp. 587–902.

literature

• Monika Linden: Curriculum Vitae Johannes Wälder. In: Peter Schimikowski: Insurance, Law and Damage. Festschrift for Johannes Wälder on his 75th birthday. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58282-0 , pp. XV – XVII

Web links

• Homepage of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Schimikowski: Foreword . In: Insurance, Law and Damage. Festschrift for Johannes Wälder on his 75th birthday. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58282-0 , S. V.