Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-05-21
RESIGNATION OF
DIR. VIM. A. FRICKE
For Nine Years General Manager of
the Great Northern Life Insur-
ance Company of This City

DR.. VIM. e. Fricke, vice-president
and general manager of the Great
Northern Life Insurance company,
which was started in this city, nine
years ago, has resigned the position,
which he has so ably filled during
that time. DR.. F'ricke, has the dis
tinction of being one of the ablest
life insurance men of this country.
He was elected Commissioner of In
surance of Wisconsin in 1894, which
position he held for four years, being
reelected in 1896. He was the first
Commissioner to adopt the Gain and
Loss Exhibit in 1895, and published
such exhibit for that year and for
each year while in office in the Wis
consin reports of companies trans
acting business in the state. He was
appointed by the legislature of Wis
consin, in 1895, chairman of the COM
mission to revise the insurance laws of
the state. In this revision appeared
the first demand for an annual ap-
portionment and accounting Of de-
ferred dividend accumulations. In
October, 1898, few months before
the conclusion of his term of office
as Insurance Commissioner, he re-
signed to accept the New York Metro
politan agency of the Union Central
Life Insurance company of Cincinnati
AS a result of the National Convention
of insurance Commissioners held in
Milwaukee in Sept. 1898, which was ar
ranged by, and of which he was vice
president, Dr. Fricke, early in 1899
issued "Insurance-A Text Book" be-
ing a compilation of the essays de-
livered at the convention. He also
prepared and delivered many address
es on life insurance and supervision
all of these are of signal value, cover
ing special points, and particular men
ton might be made of, "The Limita-
tions of Assessment Life Insurance
''The Discretionary Powers of an In
surance Commissioner" and Success
in the Life Insurance Field" In 1902
he wrote an extensive treatise on
"The Law of Distribution of Surplus
Life Insurance Companies" which was
widely discussed. At the National
Convention of Insurance Commission
ers, in 1899 he was elected an hon.
orary member. DR.. Fricke was pres
ident of the Wisconsin Society of New
York, 1902-1903. In 1905 he resigned
the New York general agency of the
Union Central Life and was engaged
as counsel before the Wisconsin Legis-
lative Insurance committee in 1906
1907, and in 1909 was elected to the
office of general manager of the Great
Northern Life of this city. For sew
eral years, until he resigned, DR.
Fricke was vice-president and general
manager of the Employers Mutual
Liability Insurance company of Wis
consin, which has its headquarters in
Wausau.
During his life in Wausau, DR.
Fricke, although very busy in direct
ing the affairs of the extensive insur-
ance company, found time for every
worthy cause, and with his oratory
and his pen he was force, not only
in city, but in state and national af-
fairs. His resignation came as a great
surprise to his hosts of warm friends
all of whom deeply regret the depart
ure of himself and wife from our city
DR.. Fricke departed Wednesday fol
the East, and Mrs. Fricke, to Roches-
ter, Mimi, to visit her daughter, Mrs
Davis.
John A. Sullivan, who has long
been assistant secretary of the Great
Northern Life, will assume the duties
of general manager.