Hannover Re

Hannover Rück SE
Company typePublic (Societas Europaea)
FWB: HNR1
FWB: HNRB (ADR)
OTC Pink Current: HVRRF
OTC Pink Current: HVRRY (ADR)
DAX component (HNR1)
ISINDE0008402215
US4106931052
IndustryInsurance services
Founded1966 (1966)
HeadquartersHannover, Germany
Key people
  • Clemens Jungsthöfel (CEO)
  • Sven Althoff
  • Claude Chèvre
  • Christian Hermelingmeier
  • Brona Magee
  • Sharon Ooi
  • Silke Sehm
  • Thorsten Steinmann
  • Torsten Leue (Chairman of the supervisory board)
ProductsReinsurance
Revenue 24.5 billion (Reinsurance revenue, 2023)
Number of employees
3,756
Websitewww.hannover-re.com

Hannover Re (in German Hannover Rück) is a reinsurance company based in Hannover, Germany. It is the third-largest reinsurance group in the world, with a gross premium of around 33 billion. Founded in 1966, Hannover Re transacts all lines of property & casualty and life & health reinsurance and has a network of over 170 subsidiaries, branches and representative offices on all five continents with a total staff of more than 3,000. The Group's German business is written by the subsidiary E+S Rück.