Drag the slider through 37 years

Time travel moves through nine stops from 1989 to today: from a family firm between the Dahme, Spree and Havel rivers, via the first NAMMERT jet ski insurance in 2005 and the racing team's European title in Poland in 2016, to the offices in Salzburg and Palma de Mallorca.

How to read the time travel scene

The time travel on this page is a slider, not a calculator. It runs through nine stops between 1989 and today, and every stop is one moment in the history of NAMMERT. You can drag the range control, click one of the year buttons beneath it, or press Start the journey and let the scene move on its own. Each stop shows a year in the top left corner, a short chapter title with one sentence of context at the bottom, and a drawn scene on the canvas behind them. The picture is animated, so on the way from one stop to the next it changes gradually instead of jumping.

Three things change in the scene, and each of them stands for something. The number of boats grows from a single rowing boat at the first stop to a small fleet at the last, which mirrors the way the work moved from a family firm to a network. The water widens with every stop: at the beginning it is a river in Brandenburg, later it opens towards the Alps and the Mediterranean, where the offices in Salzburg and Palma de Mallorca lie. And the lines between the boats thicken over time; they stand for the partners, surveys and offices that now belong to that network. The early stops are drawn darker, because the story begins at night on a small river and brightens as it goes on.

The scene is a drawing, not a map and not a chart. Distances, boat sizes and the width of the water are stylised and carry no measurement. The year on the canvas is the date of the stop, not the exact date of a single event, and stops such as Electric or Underwriting agent stand for a phase rather than a single day. The stops are also not evenly spaced in time: the early stops lie many years apart, the later ones describe phases that overlap, yet the slider treats every step alike. So read the year on the canvas, not the position of the handle.

Visitors regularly stumble over the same points. The slider does not ask for boat data and returns no premium; anyone looking for a price should use the Get a quote button, which opens the calculator in English. The canvas carries a text description for screen readers, and the year buttons work with the keyboard, so the journey through the 37 years also works without a mouse. If scripts are blocked, the page shows only the first stop, and the short summary above this section sums up the rest of the journey in a single paragraph.