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  • Cover; Title; About the Book; About the Authors; Copyright; Contents; 1. Introduction; Part I: The Company's Rise, Acid Tests, and Setbacks (1880-1932); 2. The Beginnings of Reinsurance: The Long Path to Equality; 3. Founding and Beginnings of Munich Re; Carl Thieme and the Founding of Munich Re; The Rise of a New Kind of Reinsurer; "The Founding of a Casualty Firm along with Our Reinsurance Company": How Allianz Versicherungs-AG Came into Being; 4. Conquering the World Market and the Earthquake of San Francisco; Business Dealings and Investments in Russia, Great Britain, and the U.S.
  • The Earthquake of San Francisco and Other Major Losses5. Munich Re before the First World War; Employees and Management; Business Development, Capital Investments, and New Insurance Segments; 6. The First World War and the Restructuring of the World Market; 7. Banned from the World Market: The Development of the Corporation in Central Europe during the Inflation Period; 8. "Insurance Has Its Own Economy": Munich Re in the Great Depression; Part II: Munich Re during the National Socialist Regime (1933-1945).
  • 9. The National Socialist Takeover and Munich Re: Business Development, Political Ties, and Management10. Munich Re in the Economy of the Third Reich: Business Policy, Foreign Currency Restrictions, and Participation in Financing Armaments; 11. Foreign Business, Foreign Investments, and the Expectation of War; Relations to Swiss Re under the Conditions of Foreign Exchange Control; The Phönix Scandal and Its Consequences; Disguises and Expectations of War; 12. Occupation Rule and the War Economy: Munich Re in the Europe of the Third Reich.
  • "Prudent Cooperation"? The Company's Involvement in Vienna, Prague, and Southeastern EuropeThe Group Companies in Occupied Poland; The Subsidiaries in the West and the Association for the Coverage of Major Risks; The Hub of Masked Business and Window to the World: Union Rück in Zurich; Part III: Back to the Top of the World Market (1945-1980); 13. Starting Anew under the American Occupation: The Consequences of War and Denazification; 14. Finding a Way Back into the International Reinsurance Market; 15. Rebuilding the Capital Basis: Munich Re and the Consequences of the Currency Reform.
  • 16. New Challenges in the International Reinsurance Business17. Continuity and Change in the "Alzheimer Era" (1950-1968); 18. The Progress of Globalization in the Reinsurance Business; 19. The Crises of the 1970s and the Challenges of Modern Risk Management; 20. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; List of Tables and Diagrams, Picture Credits; List of Abbreviations; List of Primary Sources and Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Companies.