| in EUR thousand | Common shares | Additional paid-in capital | Other reserves (cumulative other comprehensive income) | Retained earnings | Equity attributable
to shareholders of Hannover Rück SE | Non-controlling interests | Total shareholders’ equity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrealised gains / losses | Currency translation | Hedging instruments | Other | |||||||
| Balance as at 1.1.2014 | 120.597 | 724,562 | 533,745 | (246,279) | (9,455) | (16,452) | 4,781,718 | 5,888,436 | 641,591 | 6,530,027 |
| Changes in ownership interest with no change of control status | – | – | 959 | – | – | – | (1,707) | (748) | 738 | (10) |
| Changes in the consolidated group | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | (1,387) | (1,387) |
| Capital increase / additions | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| Capital repayments | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | (64) | (64) |
| Acquisition / disposal of treasury shares | – | – | – | – | – | – | (13) | (13) | - | (13) |
| Total income and expense recognised directly in equity | – | – | 450,331 | 344,121 | 409 | (20,562) | – | 774,299 | 37,771 | 812,070 |
| Net income | – | – | – | – | – | – | 695,444 | 695,444 | 64,687 | 760,131 |
| Dividends paid | – | – | – | – | – | – | (361,791) | (361,791) | (40,937) | (402,728) |
| Balance as at 30.9.2014 | 120.597 | 724,562 | 985,035 | 97,842 | (9,046) | (37,014) | 5,113,651 | 6,995,627 | 702,402 | 7,698,029 |
| Balance as at 1.1.2015 | 120.597 | 724,562 | 1,169,255 | 190,454 | (8,748) | (48,288) | 5,402,926 | 7,550,758 | 702,202 | 8,252,960 |
| Changes in ownership interest with no change of control status | – | – | – | – | – | – | (1,364) | (1,364) | (1,178) | (2,542) |
| Changes in the consolidated group | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 798 | 798 |
| Capital increase / additions | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 127 | 127 |
| Acquisition / disposal of treasury shares | – | – | – | – | – | – | (10) | (10) | – | (10) |
| Total income and expense recognised directly in equity | – | – | (302,128) | 192,816 | 5,572 | 16,816 | – | (86,924) | (6,411) | (93,335) |
| Net income | – | – | – | – | – | – | 785,998 | 785,998 | 40,095 | 826,093 |
| Dividends paid | – | – | – | – | – | – | (512,538) | (512,538) | (43,433) | (555,971) |
| Balance as at 30.9.2015 | 120.597 | 724,562 | 867,127 | 383,270 | (3,176) | (31,472) | 5,675,012 | 7,735,920 | 692,200 | 8,428,120 |
