Otto Guard
Otto Garde (born January 10, 1905 in Elberfeld , † May 3, 1990 in Bergisch Gladbach ) was a German insurance salesman and was CEO of Concordia-Lebensversicherungs-AG for 22 years .
Garde, one of seven children of the insurance inspector Otto Garde (1872–1925) and Hulda Adele Diekamp (1873–1962), married Anneliese Sachser (1905–1971) in 1928. He returned from World War II seriously wounded . From 1947 he was a member of the board and from 1950 to 1972 director general and chairman of the board of Concordia-Lebensversicherungs-AG in Cologne . He was the founder of the Hufeland Foundation, which has awarded the Hufeland Prize since 1960 . In 1965 he was awarded the "Golden Decoration of Honor of the German Medical Association". In 1969 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . Garde died in 1990 and was buried in the Cologne-Melaten cemetery.
From 1969 to 1973 he was a member of the advisory board of the liberal Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .
literature
- Insurance industry , vol. 45, June 1, 1990, p. 678.
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? , Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 1989, p. 387.
Web links
- Deutsches Ärzteblatt , No. 8 of February 20, 1975, p. 532.
- Photo by Garde in the Walter Dick Archive Cologne
- Entry at the Association for Computer Genealogy
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry at the Association for Computer Genealogy .
- ^ Peter Koch: History of the insurance industry in Germany , Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe 2012, p. 400 .
- ^ Deutscher Ärzteverlag GmbH, editorial office of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt: Otto Garde 70 years. February 20, 1975, accessed June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Based on documents in the archive of liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guard, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German insurance salesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1990 |
| Place of death | Bergisch Gladbach |