Hannover Re's long-serving Executive Board Member Jürgen Gräber passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 9 November 2018 at the age of 62. Jürgen Gräber began his professional career in 1981 as an underwriter at Hannover Re. He was appointed to the executive board in 1997, where he was most recently responsible for Worldwide Treaty Reinsurance, Catastrophe XL, Structured Reinsurance and Insurance-Linked Securities as well as Coordination of the Property and Casualty business group. He was also responsible for quotation and retrocession.