VGH insurance
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| legal form | Institute of public right |
| founding | 1750 |
| Seat |
Ship ditch 4 30159 Hanover |
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| Number of employees | 4,657 |
| sales | 2.205 billion euros |
| Branch | Insurance |
| Website | www.vgh.de |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The VGH insurance is a merger of the Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover, the Provinzial Lebensversicherung Hannover, the Provinzial Krankenversicherung Hannover AG and the Provinzial Pensionskasse Hannover AG. They form an insurance group organized under public law and the largest regional insurer in Lower Saxony .
In parallel to this association, there are the Bremen Public Insurance Companies , which appear on the market as a legally independent institution under public law , but handle the actual insurance business primarily through the four named insurers.
Insurance portfolio and area
The number of insurance contracts in the VGH portfolio is more than 5 million. VGH's approximately 1.9 million customers include both private and corporate customers. The geographic catchment area of the VGH includes the former state of Hanover except East Friesland and the former state of Schaumburg-Lippe . It is thus active in most of Lower Saxony. In the other areas of Lower Saxony, the public insurance Oldenburg , the Public insurance Braunschweig and the East Frisian Scenic Brandkasse active, but some belong to the VGH.
This makes VGH the largest public insurance company in Lower Saxony and the third largest insurance company in Lower Saxony after the Talanx Group and the VHV Group .
history
On March 27, 1750, on the initiative of Georg Wilhelm Ebell , who in turn took up a suggestion from Leibniz from 1678, a "Brand Assecurations-Societät" was founded by King Georg II , which is the nucleus of the later landscape fire fund.
Under the brand name Versicherungsgruppe Hannover , the Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover from 1750 and the Provinzial Lebensversicherung Hannover, founded in 1918, merged in 1957. The Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover as well as the Provinzial Lebensversicherung Hannover and the Provinzial Krankenversicherung Hannover AG are legally independent insurance companies. The fire fund is supported by the six historical landscapes of the former Kingdom of Hanover . The Provincial Life Insurance is run by the Brandkasse and the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Association .
Holdings
With the Provinzial Krankenversicherung Hannover AG and the Provinzial Pensionskasse Hannover AG under one roof they now form the largest public insurance group in Lower Saxony.
In the course of the 1990s, VGH and savings banks participated in several public insurance companies in Lower Saxony and in the ÖSA in Saxony-Anhalt . The so-called Bremen model was the inspiration for this. It is characteristic that after the incorporation of the fire insurance company of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen into this association, the independence of the company as the Bremen regional insurer Public Insurance Bremen was retained. The independence and identity of the insurance companies was also preserved in the participations in the public insurers in East Frisia , Oldenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, but their sales were expanded to include the advantages of the association.
Since 2007, VGH has also held a majority stake in Alte Oldenburger Beteiligungsgesellschaft AG, under whose roof both Provinzial Krankenversicherung Hannover AG and Alte Oldenburger Krankenversicherung AG operate.
Companies
A total of around 4,600 people work for the company directly or indirectly in Lower Saxony.
The individual companies are only active as public insurance companies in their business area in Lower Saxony and Bremen. Eleven regional directorates control sales. VGH Insurance has around 500 agencies. Around 1,100 branches of the savings banks will be added as a further sales channel.
Donations, sponsorship and foundation
Through donations and sponsoring by the VGH and its VGH Foundation, which was founded on the 250th anniversary, various projects and programs in Lower Saxony are supported in the cultural, sporting and social sectors. In addition, the VGH supports projects and institutions that are in the public interest, such as B. the fire brigades.
The VGH supports popular sports in Lower Saxony, especially equestrian sports and football. To this end, the VGH has launched projects such as the VGH Cup, a tournament series for young riders, and the VGH Fairness Cup in football. In addition, the company is a co- sponsor of the Hanover racing club and in professional football sponsor of Hanover 96, VFL Wolfsburg and VFL Osnabrück. The equestrian activities include the annual organization of the VGH race day on the Neue Bult in Langenhagen.
Together with the Savings Banks Association and the state government, the VGH has been honoring eleven civic projects every year since 2003 as part of the competition "Priceless and Voluntary - the Lower Saxony Prize for Civic Engagement". This award recognizes civic engagement in Lower Saxony and promotes people's motivation. The spectrum ranges from social issues through culture, sport, community and the environment to church and religion.
Another annual sponsorship focus is the VGH photo award.
See also
literature
- Conrad von Meding: Building in the City. VGH Work Worlds 1970 - 2010 , ed. from the VGH insurance, Tübingen / Berlin: Wasmuth, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8030-0739-1
- Eike Christian Hirsch : 250 years of the Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover , revised new edition of the brochure from March 2000, Hannover: Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover, November 2013
- Eike Christian Hirsch: Personalities who have shaped our history , brochure, ed. from the VGH insurance, [o. O., OD]
- Eike Christian Hirsch: Insurer in the Führer state. Hanover's Brandkasse and Provinzial 1933 - 1945 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1044-5
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hannover Insurance Group, VGH. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 642.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ - Provider identification - VGH Insurance as of July 01, 2020 (accessed July 10, 2020 8:42 am)
- ↑ a b Figures at a glance from December 7, 2018
- ↑ ÖVB annual report for 2008 ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b overview
- ↑ https://www.nordlb.de/fileadmin/redaktion/analysen_prognosen/regionalanalysen/die_100_groessten_unternehmen/Niedersachsen_2018_groesste_Unternehmen.pdf
- ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein and Alheidis von Rohr: Hanover in the splendor and shadow of the British world empire. The effects of the personal union on Hanover from 1714-1837. Contributions to the exhibition, Hanover 1977, p. 64f; quoted from: Mijndert Bertram: Georg II., King and Elector. Göttingen 2004, p. 159f.
- ↑ Annual Report 2014 - page 44
- ↑ https://www.vgh.de/web/html/privat/unternehmen/engagement/sport/
- ↑ http://www.unbezahlbarundfreiwillig.de
- ↑ VGH photo price
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 12.7 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 41.5" E