Signal Iduna

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SIGNAL IDUNA Group

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legal form Group / VVaG
founding 1907
Seat Dortmund , Hamburg
management Ulrich Leitermann
Number of employees approx. 10,259
sales approx. 5.91 billion euros (2019) (premium income)
Branch Insurers , financial services
Website www.signal-iduna.de

The Signal Iduna Group is a group that offers insurance and financial services. The group was created through the merger of the Dortmund Signal Insurance and the Hamburg Iduna Nova Group on July 1, 1999. The companies in these two groups have been under one management ever since. Ulrich Leitermann has been the Chairman of the Management Board of the Signal Iduna Group since July 2013. Since April 1, 2009, the Deutscher Ring Krankenversicherungs-Verein a. G. the Signal Iduna Group. It merged with Signal Krankenversicherung a in August 2017. G., which has since been operating under the name Signal Iduna Krankenversicherung a. G. operates. Within these, Deutscher Ring Krankenversicherung will continue to exist as a brand.

Business area

Signal Iduna achieved premium income of 5.91 billion euros in 2019. The investments in 2019 amounted to 80.52 billion euros. Around 10,200 people work for the group. Distribution takes place primarily through around 2,800 independent , exclusive insurance brokers ( commercial agents ) (Section 84 of the German Commercial Code ) and through insurance brokers.

Headquarters Dortmund
Headquarters Hamburg at the Dammtorbahnhof
Administration in the City-Nord , Hamburg

Group structure

The legally independent parent companies of the group, Signal Iduna Krankenversicherung a. G., Dortmund, Signal Iduna Life Insurance a. G., Hamburg, and Signal Iduna Unfallversicherung a. G., Dortmund, are mutual insurance associations . The members, i.e. the insured, are at the same time responsible for the respective companies.

The Signal Iduna Group also includes insurance companies

four financial service providers, all based in Hamburg:

  • Donner & Reuschel Aktiengesellschaft,
  • the HANSAINVEST Hanseatische Investment-GmbH,
  • Signal Iduna Bauspar AG and
  • Signal Iduna Asset Management GmbH

Foreign subsidiaries are Signal Iduna Biztosító Zrt. (Signal Iduna Versicherung AG), Budapest , as well as Signal Iduna Polska, based in Warsaw, with Signal Iduna Poland Versicherung AG and Signal Iduna Poland Lebensversicherung AG and Signal Iduna Asigurări de Viaţă SA in Bucharest . Signal Iduna Rückversicherungs AG, based in Zug , Switzerland , also belongs to the group . Furthermore, the Signal Iduna Group is the largest shareholder in the Essen- based National Bank with around 26.4% of the shares .

history

The head office in Dortmund, near the Westfalenpark

The two groups of origin of the group have been closely associated with the economic middle class from the craft, trade and industry since their formation at the beginning of the 20th century. The Iduna Nova went back to an initiative of independent craftsmen and tradespeople who founded a health and death fund in Hamburg in 1906 . Dortmund master craftsmen followed this example a year later and also set up a health benefit fund. When it was founded, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (now Hamburg Chamber of Crafts ) played a special role and has had a say and supervisory right since it was founded. Particularly noteworthy are two Hamburg master craftsmen, the building contractor and master stonemason Johann Reimer (1847–1917) and the master wood turner and later Hamburg Senator Johannes Hirsch (1861–1935). The Imperial Supervisory Office in Berlin demanded 100,000 marks for the founding fund. 14 Hamburg banks brought half together and the other half was brought together by master craftsman Johann Reimer from Hamburg's Karolinenviertel. From 1914 to 1934, Johannes Hirsch was chairman of the supervisory board of “Mittelstandsversicherung”.

The different types of company as an insurance association or stock corporation have business and tax reasons. The stock corporations are not listed on the stock exchange.

The Signal Iduna Group is now open to all sections of the population. The traditionally close connections to the organizations from the craft, trade and industry continue to exist.

The Westfalenstadion (officially Signal Iduna Park since December 2005 ) in Dortmund

Signal Iduna acquired the naming rights to Dortmund's Westfalenstadion through a sponsorship agreement with Borussia Dortmund : Since December 1, 2005, the stadium has been called Signal Iduna Park . The contract runs until June 30, 2026.

Signal Iduna supported the Koblenz Literature Prize .

The name Iduna is derived from the Norse deity "Idun (a)", the goddess who was responsible for the apples that the gods had to eat to preserve their youth and thus their immortality.

The sculpture of "Iduna" by Jean Sprenger (artist) is in the old Rabenstrasse. 32 in front of the old administration building that was created under the direction of Bertold Beitz. Architect - Ferdinand Streb. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Plastik_Alte_Rabenstraße_32_von_Jean_Sprenger_(2).jpg

literature

  • Frank Kühne and Berthold Budde: 100 years hand in hand . 1907–2007: the history of the SIGNAL IDUNA Group. Ed .: Signal Iduna. Dortmund / Hamburg 2007.

Web links

Commons : Signal Iduna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b press release. June 3, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Frank Kühne and Berthold Budde: 100 years hand in hand . 1907–2007: the history of the SIGNAL IDUNA Group. Ed .: Signal Iduna. Dortmund / Hamburg 2007, p. 12 .
  3. ↑ Frank Kühne and Berthold Budde: 100 years hand in hand . 1907–2007: the history of the SIGNAL IDUNA Group. Ed .: Signal Iduna. Dortmund / Hamburg 2007, p. 14 .
  4. ↑ BVB resolves further capital increase - Signal Iduna extended. Borussia Dortmund, August 21, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2017 (Corporate News).

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 51.3 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 50.1 ″  E