List of the 100 Largest Insurance Companies in Germany [2023]

Our exclusive database of the most important insurance companies in Germany for direct download as Excel list

With our list of the largest insurance companies in Germany, we offer the unique opportunity to get an overview of the entire real estate industry with just one click. Our database can be purchased directly through our online store and is immediately available for download as an Excel file. In addition to current contact details of the insurance companies, the list contains valuable key figures such as total assets and gross premiums written for the years 2015 to 2019. The list can be sorted, filtered and edited according to your requirements.

Contact data and key figures at a glance

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This information is included in our database

• Name of the insurance company
• General contact information (address, e-mail address, phone number, URL)
• Names of the executives
• Total assets and gross premiums written for the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020
• Highlighting of direct insurance policies

Map with the headquarters of the largest German insurance corporations from our database

Lead generation for consultants, asset managers and co-investors: German insurance companies as relevant real estate investors

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Balance sums and gross premiums written in our list of the largest German insurance companies

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Statistics based on the ResearchGermany database of the largest insurance companies in Germany

The ResearchGermany database of the German insurance industry covers all segments of the industry in the entire Federal Republic (property insurance, life insurance, health insurance, direct insurers, etc.) Thanks to the extensive data set, we are able to publish interesting statistics. In the following, we present the distribution of the insurance companies from our list by state and city in clearly arranged graphs. On request we are also able to prepare individual evaluations.

Distribution of the headquarters of the largest German insurance companies from our list by federal state

North Rhine-Westphalia leads the German insurance industry in terms of the number of insurance companies headquartered in the federal state. Bavaria and Lower Saxony are in the following places, with this being mainly determined by the respective state capitals (see following graph).

Distribution of the headquarters of the largest German insurance companies on our list by city

The absolute number of insurance companies per city shows that the insurance industry is relatively evenly distributed across Germany. Only Munich is home to more than ten insurance companies and can therefore claim a leading role for itself. The detailed data in our list provides further interesting information regarding the geographical distribution.

The German insurance industry: Statistics and facts

The German insurance industry is an important branch of the service sector. According to the central association GdV, in 2019 German insurance companies employed a total of 209,200 people. In addition, there are 201,600 self-employed insurance agents and brokers. On average, each German citizen spends 2,450 euros on insurance per year.

The larger insurance companies are supervised by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). These are 85 life insurers, 46 health insurers, 199 property and accident insurers and 29 reinsurers. They share about 90 percent of the German insurance market. On a regional level, there are also a few hundred smaller insurance companies. The insurance industry also includes institutions for company pension schemes (136 pension funds and 33 pension funds) and 33 death funds. In addition, various foreign providers are active in the German market.

This picture of great diversity and number is put into perspective when one considers that many insurers are subsidiaries of larger insurance groups. The major players in the market operate as universal insurers. This means that they cover the entire range of insurance business through subsidiaries. By far the German market leader is the Allianz Group, one of the world’s largest insurers, followed by the Munich Re Group, which also stands for the world’s largest reinsurance business. In third to fifth place are Talanx, R+V Versicherung and Generali Deutschland. The largest private health insurer is Debeka.