Kurt Jannott

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Painting by Kurt Jannott in the German Insurance Museum
The building of the former Gothaer Lebensversicherung in Gothaer Bahnhofstrasse, now the Museum of the German Insurance Industry and the seat of two Thuringian courts

Kurt Jannott (born November 1, 1887 in Stettin ; † January 30, 1968 ) in Göttingen was a German insurance manager. Jannott was co-founder and CEO of Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherungs AG, founded by Gothaer Lebensversicherungsbank in 1924, from 1923 to 1957 and a member of the supervisory board from 1962 to 1968. Jannott developed regulations for the protection of road traffic victims and was thus a pioneer in motor vehicle liability insurance .

Kurt Jannott was born in Stettin into a merchant family. After attending secondary school, he went into the insurance industry . From Stettin via Cologne he came to Berlin after a brief military service , where he managed the HUK divisions at Hohenzollern Insurance. In 1922 he became a deputy board member for the HUK divisions at Friedrich Wilhelm Versicherung .

On February 6, 1946, Gothaer Allgemeine received an order from the Red Army to vacate its administrative building in Gotha . On December 18, 1945, the general meeting decided to move the company's headquarters from Gotha to Göttingen; this was entered on March 29, 1946 in the Göttingen commercial register.

The insurance industry owes the ideas and suggestions of Kurt Jannott among others:

  • the introduction of an index clause in HUK insurance in 1922 with sliding sums insured;
  • ensuring the rights of the injured third party by introducing additional conditions for motor vehicle liability insurance;
  • the international (green) insurance card for trips abroad;
  • the reimbursement of contributions based on an obligation in accordance with the articles of association, which was not yet common in stock corporations;
  • the introduction of collective agreements / large-scale agreements for specific target groups and associations.

Jannott's second son Horst (1928–1993) was CEO of Munich Re , his third son Edgar (* 1934) became CEO of Victoria in 1983 , later of the ERGO insurance group .

The Gotha honorary citizen Edgar Jannott spoke in the "German Insurance Museum Ernst Wilhelm Arnoldi" at the opening of a new showcase dedicated to his father Kurt Jannott.

Awards

Works

  • Thoughts of reform from the insurance industry. Jena 1934.
  • Motor vehicle liability law and insurance at home and abroad. (On the question of compulsory insurance), issue 59 of the publications of the German Association for Insurance Science, 1937.
  • K. Jannott, K. Ossewski: The motor insurance. In: 50 years of material insurance supervision. Volume 2, 1952, p. 227.
  • Retrospect and Prospect. 50 years of Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG. ed. from Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG. Goettingen 1974.

literature

  • H. Gröner: Kurt Jannott, an almost forgotten pioneer in insurance history. In: Gotha Illustre. Yearbook 2018, ed. from the city administration of Gotha. Gotha 2017, pp. 110–124.
  • Peter Koch: Contributions to the history of the German insurance industry. Volume 2, Karlsruhe 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Gröner, Gotha, Förderverein Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum EW Arnoldi eV, 2017.
  2. ^ Horst Gröner, Gotha, Förderverein Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum EW Arnoldi eV, 2017.
  3. ^ Horst Gröner, Gotha, Förderverein Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum EW Arnoldi eV, 2017.
  4. ↑ Jannott honors his father. In: Thuringian General. November 25, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jannott, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German insurance manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1968