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• EARLY ADVENTURES IN PUBLISHING
• STARTING OUT WITH ALLIANZ
• RISE TO CEO
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Chairman and chief executive officer, Allianz

Nationality: German.

Born: December 23, 1954, in Bielefeld, Germany.

Education: Göttingen University, 1982.

Family: Married; children: three.

Career: Diekmann/Thieme, 1983–1988, CEO; Allianz, 1988–1989, executive assistant to the head of the Hamburg regional office; 1990, head of sales at the Hamburg Harburg office; 1991–1992, head of the Hannover office; 1993, head of customer relationship management for private customers; 1994–1995, head of sales for the North Rhine–Westphalia region; 1996–1997, director of insurance management for the Asia-Pacific...