Kurt Jannott
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
- 1952 honorary doctorate from the law and political science faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 1959 Honorary Senator of the Technical University of Braunschweig
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
- ^ Horst Gröner, Gotha, Förderverein Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum EW Arnoldi eV, 2017.
- ^ Horst Gröner, Gotha, Förderverein Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum EW Arnoldi eV, 2017.
- ^ Horst Gröner, Gotha, Förderverein Deutsches Versicherungsmuseum EW Arnoldi eV, 2017.
- ↑ Jannott honors his father. In: Thuringian General. November 25, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jannott, Kurt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German insurance manager |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1968 |