!!!Högelmüller, Georg Ritter von

b. Vienna, Feb. 6, 1770, 
d. Vienna, April 14, 1826, officer. From 1803 in the army, badly 
wounded in the battle of Wagram, 1810 promotion to major. His greatest 
merit was the founding of a mutual fire insurance company. Despite 
great effort, this private insurance company was registered only 19 
years later in 1824. In honour of his initiatives in founding the fire 
insurance company, he was granted honorary citizenship of the towns of 
Krems, Stein and Tulln.

!Literature
W. Rohrbach, Versicherungsgeschichte Oe., 4 vols., 1988; 
OeBL.



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