Upper Austrian insurance
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| legal form | Aktiengesellschaft (Austria) |
| founding | 1811 |
| Seat | Linz , Austria |
| management | Josef Stockinger CEO |
| Number of employees | 757.28 FTE (2019) |
| sales | 453.0 million euros (premiums charged, 2019) |
| Branch | Insurance |
| Website | www.keinesorgen.at |
The Upper Austrian Versicherung AG is an Austrian insurance company based in Linz ( Upper Austria ).
The insurer was founded in 1811 by King Maximilian I of Bavaria as a general fire insurance company. The Upper Austrian is a member of the Association of Insurance Companies in Austria (VVO) and the General Association of the German Insurance Industry (GDV), the Association of Austrian State Insurers and the Association of Insurers operating in Upper Austria. The company has its own sales force in Upper Austria and Styria as well as through broker partners in Salzburg, Vienna and the rest of Austria. The Upper Austrian maintains 30 service offices, including seven in Styria, 59 vehicle registration and a branch in the German Hanau . A total of around 1,000 full-time and part-time employees are employed.
history
On January 23, 1811, King Maximilian I of Bavaria ordered the establishment of a “general fire insurance company” for the Kingdom of Bavaria. In addition to Salzburg (federal state) and parts of the Hausruckviertel, this also included the Innviertel , which fell into Upper Austria with the Treaty of Teschen in 1779 , but was again incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria by Napoleon Bonaparte . On April 1, 1811, the house’s first known policy was issued.
In 1877, the then "Upper Austrian Mutual State Fire Damage Insurance Company" introduced the so-called movable insurance, the forerunner of today's household insurance . In the same year reinsurance was introduced as a separate line of business.
In 1932, as a consequence of the so-called “fire epidemic” of the 1930s, the “State Fire Damage” founded the “State Commission for Fire Prevention” as a forerunner of today's fire prevention agency.
In 1952, the Upper Austrian developed the first product for storm damage insurance on the Austrian insurance market.
In 1962, the fire damage decided to introduce the motor vehicle lines and all other essential damage insurance lines due to the increasing mobilization in the population.
In 1974, today's General Directorate was established in Gruberstrasse in Linz and subsequently expanded in 1990 and most recently in 2015.
In 1977 life insurance was introduced , which today represents the company's second major economic pillar alongside property / casualty insurance.
In 1984 the Upper Austrian founded its regional offices in Leoben for Styria and in 1991 the one in Salzburg .
In 1994, what was then OÖ Landes-Brandschaden as a mutual insurance association outsourced its insurance operations to a stock corporation .
In 2007, what was then HV Hanauer Versicherungsservice AG in Hanau , Germany, has been taken over since 2014 as "Broker Service Germany", primarily in the property insurance sector.
Key figures
The Group's premium volume in 2019 was EUR 453 million after EUR 444.4 million in the previous year. The result from ordinary business activities amounted to EUR 26.6 million. More than 1.7 million insurance contracts with around 455,000 customers are managed.
people
The company is headed by a two-man board: General director Josef Stockinger as chairman of the board and general director deputy Othmar Nagl, member of the board. In March 2020, the company announced that Stockinger would be withdrawing at the end of the year. Nagl becomes the new CEO, and the former mayor of Hagenberg and previous head of sales, Kathrin Kühtreiber-Leitner, is the first woman in the company's history to be promoted to the board.
The former General Director of Energie AG Oberösterreich , Leo Windtner, was President of the Supervisory Board until June 2019 . In June 2019, Reinhold Mitterlehner was appointed President of the Supervisory Board and Herwig Mahr as Vice President.
Others
The Upper Austrian Insurance Company is actively involved in the fields of art, culture, science, society, sport and social affairs.
literature
- Wolfgang Rohrbach (Ed.): Paradigm shift in stormy times. 200 years of Upper Austrian Insurance . Insurance history of Austria Volume X. Vienna 2011
- Wolfgang Rohrbach (Ed.): Ethics - Sustainability - Insurance. Anniversary ribbon 25 years . Insurance history of Austria Volume XI. Beograd - Vienna 2013
- 200 years no worries. Anniversary supplement to the 2010 annual report
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Rohrbach: Paradigm Shift in Stormy Times. Chapter 2.8. 2011. page 296
- ↑ see Rohrbach: Paradigm Shift in Stormy Times. Chapter 5. 2011. Page 327 ff
- ↑ see Rohrbach: Paradigm Shift in Stormy Times. Chapter 3.3. 2011. page 300 ff
- ↑ see Rohrbach: Paradigm Shift in Stormy Times. Chapter 8. 2011. Page 341 f
- ↑ see Rohrbach: Paradigm Shift in Stormy Times. Chapter 10.1. 2011. page 350 ff
- ↑ see Rohrbach: Paradigm Shift in Stormy Times. Chapter 13. 2011. Page 361 ff
- ↑ Ugly Duckling - Architecture of the 60s and 70s in Linz Lorenz Potocnik in: spotZ 04/07. Monthly magazine for "Art, Culture, Scene and Linz". Retrieved July 3, 2015
- ^ [1] Website of the Upper Austrian Insurance Company. accessed on May 26, 2020
- ↑ Upper Austria prepares succession. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
- ^ In Upper Austria: Supervisory board job for ex-Vice Chancellor Mitterlehner. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .