Forsikringsselskapet Norden was ageneral insurance company based inNorway.
It was founded asBrandforsikringsselskabet Norden on 4 April 1867, and began operating on 2 September the same year. Its first offices were located inKarl Johans gate 14. The main driving forces behind the foundation wereCarl Ferdinand Gjerdrum andJacob Thurmann Ihlen, who became the first chief executive and first chair respectively. Gjerdrum served until 1887 and Ihlen to 1904. The next chief executive wasL. S. Karlsen from 1887 to 1933; he was succeeded byHarald Sommerfeldt.[1] From 1958 to 1971Erik Ø. Poulsson was at the helm.[2]
In 1970 the company announced plans to form the holding companyNordengruppen together with the insurance companies Sigyn and Norske Alliance.[3] The cooperation finally materialized in September 1971. The three companies continued as semi-independent, but under a common board of directors. In Nordengruppen, the former shareholders in Norden got 64% of the shares while the former shareholders of Sigyn and Norske Alliance got 18% each. The headquarters were located together with Norden inAkersgata. The first chair and deputy chair of the board becameAmund Ringnes andChr. Ringnes, and the first chair and deputy chair of the supervisory council becameRein Henriksen andEinar Rasmussen.[4]
In 1982 Nordengruppen announced plans to merge withStorebrand.[5] The merger happened in 1983.[6]
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