Munich Re is a German reinsurance company headquartered in Munich, founded in 1880 as Munchener Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft to provide reinsurance, insurance that insurance companies themselves buy to spread the risk of large claims. It grew into one of the world's largest reinsurers, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was for a period one of its largest outside shareholders.
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Company TypeGerman multinational reinsurance company 1 Founded Year Headquarters Connections
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A major insurance company; classified in the atlas insurance-industry.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Munich Re
Wikipedialead section, paragraph 1
is a German multinational insurance company based in Munich, Germany
History section, founding sentence
In 1880 Carl von Thieme, a native of Erfurt who was the representative in Bavaria of his father's Thuringia insurance company, founded in Munich Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft
infobox, Headquarters field
Munich, Germany
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