Walter Rohrbeck

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Walter Rohrbeck (born August 20, 1885 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † April 6, 1956 in Cologne ) was Professor of Insurance Science at the University of Cologne .

Life

Walter Rohrbeck's father Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Rohrbeck zu Sandhagen, who came from an old Mecklenburg-Strelitz peasant family, was the general director of the hail insurance company Ceres in Berlin. Walter Rohrbeck spent school days and years of study in Berlin, where he passed his Abitur in 1904 and then studied law and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . One of his teachers, Heinrich Dade , engaged the student Rohrbeck in 1905 as an assistant at the German Agricultural Council . Rohrbeck received his doctorate in 1908 in Heidelberg (Dr. jur .: The hail insurance contract under the Reich Law on Insurance Contracts and an associated introductory law ) and in Berlin in 1909 (Dr. phil .: The organization of hail insurance, primarily in Germany ). In 1912 he published his first essay on insurance science. Since then he has published many articles on hail insurance . From 1919 he took over the expansion of the "Central Association of Private Insurance" into the "Reich Association of Private Insurance". Between 1923 and 1936 he was a commercial judge in Berlin, in 1933/34 he acted as an insurance policy representative in the NSDAP economic office and on behalf of the Secret State Police Office had "brought into line" the free-thinking “New German Funeral Fund”. In 1934 he was given a teaching position at the Berlin School of Economics .

Paul Moldenhauer from Cologne held the first insurance science chair in Cologne since it was founded in October 1903. He was followed in 1930 by Franz Helpenstein (1889–1937), who died early, and Rohrbeck did not succeed him until 1939. On November 6, 1940, Rohrbeck founded what is now the Institute for Insurance Science at Cologne University on the initiative of the Gerling Group . In 1939, Rohrbeck defined insurance as "the mutual, technically feasible coverage, in the interests of the national community, of incidental, monetary value of numerous, similarly threatened, but not simultaneously affected businesses".

Due to Rohrbeck's party affiliation with the NSDAP, he was initially put into temporary retirement in 1945 , but was then allowed to take over the Cologne seminar for insurance science again as director in 1949. In 1950, Rohrbeck founded the "Working Group of Insurance Scientists at German Universities", in 1955 he retired and died in 1956. His successor at the University of Cologne in 1957 was Paul Braess .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Möller, Contributions to Insurance Science , 1955, p. XI
  2. ^ Walter Rohrbeck, Insurance Technology or Insurance Science? , in: WuR, 1912, 218
  3. ↑ The basis of estimates for hail damage , 1912; Hagel, hail damage assessment and hail insurance , 1913; The German Hail Insurance: Review and Outlook , 1917
  4. ↑ Peter Koch, History of the Insurance Industry in Germany , 2012, p. 247
  5. ^ Franz Steiner Verlag (ed.), Journal for Corporate History, Volumes 48–49, 2003, p. 178
  6. ↑ Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.), Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Volume 1, 1980, p. 355
  7. ↑ Achim Seffen / Johannes Wälder , Insurance science as a subject at the University of Cologne , in: DVZ, 1966, p. 314
  8. ↑ Peter Koch, History of Insurance Science in Germany , 1998, p. 144
  9. ^ Walter Rohrbeck, Werden und Wesen des Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft , 1941, p. 13
  10. ^ Walter Rohbeck, Economic Research Tasks of Insurance, in: Publications of the Berlin University Institute for Insurance Science , Issue 2, 1939, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Rohrbeck, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1956
Place of death Cologne