Willibald Gerlach
Willibald Gerlach (born February 13, 1884 in Berlin ; † 1960 ) was a German insurance lawyer.
Career
Gerlach attended an evangelical humanistic grammar school. He studied law and political science in Geneva and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1908 from the law faculty of the University of Erlangen .
He then held a managerial position at motor vehicle insurance companies. During the First World War he was called up for military service and seriously injured on the Eastern Front near Dünaburg in October 1915 . Five years of imprisonment in Siberia followed .
After returning home, he became head of the motor vehicle insurance subgroup in both economic groups of the Reich Insurance Group. He was also chairman of the collective bargaining association for motor vehicle insurers.
He was a board member of Albingia-Versicherungs-AG in Hamburg from 1934 to 1955 and after the Second World War he was chairman of the association of liability, accident and motor vehicle insurers.
Honors
- 1955: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Cuno Horkenbach: The German Empire from 1918 to today. - Born 1931–1933. - Berlin: Verlag für Presse, Wirtschaft und Politik, 1931–1935
- Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who ?: the German Who's Who. - Berlin: Arani, 1955
- Peter Koch : History of the insurance industry in Germany, Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe, 2012, p. 343.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerlach, Willibald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German insurance lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1960 |