Uwe Haasen

Uwe Haasen (born October 9, 1929 in Gotha ) is a former German insurance manager . For many years he was the chairman of Allianz Lebensversicherung and Allianz Versicherung , and he also sat on the supervisory boards of various companies within the Allianz Group as well as various German financial services and industrial companies .

Career

Haasen studied law at the Georg August University of Göttingen , where he also received his doctorate . He then joined Allianz in 1958, where he headed the Berlin branch from 1970 and was promoted to the board of Allianz Insurance in 1973 with responsibility for property insurance. Initially deputy board member, he was promoted to full member in 1976. In 1981 he took over responsibility for the US business as a board member before the confidante of CEO Wolfgang Schieren in the course of a restructuring of the Allianz group in June 1985, Arno Paul Bäumer as CEO of Allianz Lebensversicherung and was accepted as a member of the board of Allianz-Holding in the same year.

While Allianz Lebensversicherung maintained its market leadership under his leadership, he was the negotiator for the takeover of the private insurance business of the GDR State Insurance Company in 1989/90 . In mid-March 1990, before the free Volkskammer election in 1990 , a corresponding preliminary contract was signed with the GDR leadership. After the gradual takeover, he also became the chairman of the board of the company, which was renamed Deutsche Versicherung .

In the course of the age-related retirement of Schieren from the top of the group in October 1991, various new appointments to board positions occurred at the beginning of the year. Haasen moved to the top of Allianz Versicherung, and Henning Schulte-Noelle became his successor at the life insurance subsidiary . In October he also took over the newly created post of deputy chairman of the holding company. Under his leadership, Allianz Versicherung went through a restructuring course that was characterized by cost reductions, improved claims management and premium adjustments, particularly in motor vehicle and industrial insurance. At the end of 1994 he retired and handed over the management of the company to Reiner Hagemann , who was previously responsible for sales .

After his retirement, Haasen moved to the supervisory board of Allianz Versicherung. In 1995 he also temporarily took on a corresponding mandate at Vereinte Versicherung, which was acquired by Swiss Re . Prior to that, he held various supervisory mandates at companies in the Allianz Group. In addition, he also took on corresponding mandates outside of the Allianz Group, especially in strategic investments. He was represented on the supervisory boards of DLW , Heidelberger Druckmaschinen , Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz , Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank and IKB Deutsche Industriebank, among others . In addition, between 1983 and 1991 he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Stuttgart competitor Württembergische Lebensversicherung .

Haasen was also involved in various organizations. Between 1985 and 1993 he was Georg Büchner's deputy on the executive committee of the German Insurance Association .

family

Haasen has been married since 1962 and has two children. His father Herbert Haasen also worked as a lawyer at Gothaer in the insurance sector, while his two years older brother Peter was a physicist specializing in metallurgy . Through their mother, born Ingeborg Samwer , the two are also related to Karl August Friedrich Samwer and Hans Samwer as well as the Samwer brothers .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ boersen-zeitung.de: "Uwe Haasen 80" (October 9, 2009)
2. ↑ Börsen-Zeitung : "Uwe Haasen 70" (October 8, 1999, page 14)
3. ^ Wirtschaftswoche : "ALLIANZ INSURANCE - Streamlining Abroad" (May 24, 1985)
4. ↑ spiegel.de: "The treasure in the paternoster" (October 2, 2015)