All the headlines from our Germany Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2001 // The Western world is haunted by the specter of the German government killing millions upon millions of Jews (and others) in concentration camps. I couldn’t sleep when I first saw the pictures in the 1950s. My...
Mar 1 2001 // According to a report in the Associated Press fugitive financier Martin Frankel attempted to escape from the German prison where he is awaiting extradition to the U.S. by sawing through the bars of his cell. Alerted by a...
Feb 5 2001 // Last summer’s tragic Concorde crash continues to produce heartache as the lawsuits multiply and negotiations break down. Settlement talks between the lawyers for the victims’ families and Air France and its...
Jan 29 2001 // Last summer’s tragic Concorde crash continues to produce heartache as the lawsuits multiply and negotiations break down. Settlement talks between the lawyers for the victims’ families and Air France and its...
Dec 12 2000 // U.S. Judge Michael Mukasey ordered a conditional dismissal of lawsuits brought by Holocaust survivors and their families against several German insurers, who have failed to pay claims from Nazi-era insurance policies.The...
Dec 4 2000 // A report in London’s Financial Times highlights the plans of Germany’s Allianz to increase its fund management business in Europe, as a “third pillar” to go with its life and general insurance...
Dec 4 2000 // Fugitive financier Martin Frankel’s days in Germany may be numbered. Ten days after a German court denied his appeal of his convictions for possessing false passports and diamond smuggling, German authorities have...
Nov 23 2000 // A German Federal court denied fugitive financier Martin Frankel’s appeal of a three year sentence from his conviction on charges of smuggling diamonds and possessing false documents. Frankel, who is accused of...
Nov 17 2000 // Several important developments were reported following a recently concluded two-day meeting in Rome of the International Commission for Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC).Commission Chairman Lawrence Eagleburger, a...
Sep 26 2000 // A German court cleared the way for Commerzbank to strengthen its cross holdings with Italy’s largest insurer, Assicurazioni Generali, by issuing additional shares, which will double its stake in Germany’s 4th...
Sep 4 2000 // Italian insurance giant Generali announced that it plans to practically double its current stake in Germany’s Commerzbank, from 5.2 percent to 10 percent. The move was seen by analysts as a way of protecting the...
Aug 16 2000 // The German cabinet unveiled on Wednesday a draft bill to develop a standard for electronic signatures in Internet commerce. The move is in step with a European Union initiative and follows the EU’s approval of a...
Aug 2 2000 // Hevesi has given two German reinsurers an Aug. 21 deadline to explain how they will ensure the fair handling of Holocaust claims if they refuse to join an international restitution panel, according to a Reuters news...
Jul 25 2000 // German insurers might now become members of an international Holocaust claims panel through their industry association, a Jewish advocacy group was reported as saying by Reuters news service Monday. The move could help...
Jul 25 2000 // CGNU, the largest British insurance group, has agreed to sell General Accident Versicherungs AG, its German general insurance business, to Gerling-Konzern Lebensversicherungs AG. The terms were not disclosed. The British...
Jul 10 2000 // Fugitive financier Martin Frankel, whose extradition from Germany to face charges of multiple insurance fraud is being sought by the U.S., has appealed his three year prison sentence handed down by a German Court on...
Jun 26 2000 // Martin Frankel, the financier that bilked several U.S. insurance companies of millions of dollars before disappearing and launching an international manhunt, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges in a German court....
Jun 26 2000 // Martin Frankel, the financier that bilked several U.S. insurance companies of millions of dollars before disappearing and launching an international manhunt, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges in a German court....
Jun 21 2000 // Martin Frankel was sentenced to three years Wednesday by a German judge for evading taxes on diamond imports.“This was an exceptional case,” Judge Marc Tully was reported as saying in his sentencing of Frankel....
Jun 19 2000 // Despite numerous rumors and reports, company spokesmen for both Germany’s Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank denied they were to hold discussions over the weekend aimed at a possible merger. Nevertheless, the banks...