Rolf Gerling Net Worth

In 1991, following the death of his father, Rolf Gerling took over the company. Trained as an economist, he showed little interest in his legacy and in 2005 Gerling sold his 94% stake in the company to Talanx Group, Germany’s third largest insurance company, for an estimated $1.6 billion. Gerling, a passionate environmentalist who lives in Switzerland, helped establish the Gerling Academy for Risk Research, a think tank set up to study the industrial world’s impact on the environment. In the ’90s, he was instrumental in persuading 50 insurance companies to sign a United Nations pledge to consider the issues of climate change and other environmental problems in their business practices.