Key figures

Hannover Re employed a Group-wide workforce of 2,568 in the year under review. The number of employees was thus 1.3% higher than in the previous year. This increase derived primarily from new staff taken on in Germany. The relocation of the registered office of International Insurance Company of Hannover SE from the United Kingdom to Germany also contributed to the rise in the number of employees at the Hannover location (3.7%). In addition, our workforce in Asia continued to grow in 2015 by a further 10.1%.


Breakdown of the workforce by region, gender, employment type and employment contract in 2014 and 2015
  2015 2014
Group-wide    
Total workforce 2,568 2,534
Thereof men 1,313 1,303
Thereof women 1,255 1,231
Full-time positions 2,161 2,167
Thereof women 1,027 1,033
Thereof men 1,134 1,134
Part-time positions 316 301
Thereof women 286 269
Thereof men 30 32
Permanent positions 2,420 2,385
Thereof women 1,229 1,214
Thereof men 1,191 1,171
Temporary positions 148 149
Thereof women 84 89
Thereof men 64 60
Hannover Home Office    
Workforce 1,337 1,289
Thereof women 706 687
Thereof men 631 602
Trainees 18 20

Number of employees by region and gender in 2014 and 2015
2015 2014
Region Number of employees Thereof men Thereof women Number of employees Thereof men Thereof women
Germany 1,337 631 706 1,289 602 687
Europe excl. Germany 371 180 191 407 207 200
USA 283 149 134 285 146 139
South Africa 156 68 88 164 71 93
Asia 219 126 93 199 114 85
Americas excl. USA 99 52 47 90 46 44
Australia 103 49 54 100 45 55
Total 2,568 1,255 1,313 2,534 1,231 1,303

Percentage breakdown of the workforce by region in 2014 and 2015

The steady growth of Hannover Re in recent years has necessitated a continuous enlargement of the workforce. This sustainable expansion is constantly adjusted to the company's strategic parameters and future economic prospects so as to enable long-term decisions to be made when it comes to approving positions and recruiting new staff. In the year under review, therefore, as in the previous year, there were no significant job losses.

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