SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Thompson David Lawrence Jr (Last) (First) (Middle) 301 EAST FOURTH STREET (Street) CINCINNATI OH 45202 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 02/01/2022	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC [ AFG ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) President of Subsidiary	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	3,797.497	D
Common Stock	379,737.089	I	By Trusts(1)
Common Stock	357,044	I	By Trusts(2)
Common Stock	29,037.258	I	As Custodian for minor children

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. Held in trusts for the benefit of members of the reporting person's family where reporting person or his spouse serve as trustee.

2. Held in trusts for which reporting person has voting and dispositive power. Reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of shares held by such trusts except to the extent of the pecuniary interest held by his family.

Remarks:

	David L. Thompson, Jr. BY Karl J. Grafe, as Attorney-in-Fact	02/10/2022
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 5 (b)(v).
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

	KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Karl J. Grafe and Mark A. Weiss
as the true and lawful attorney or attorneys-in-fact, with the full power of
substitution and revocation, for the undersigned and in
the name, place and stead of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, to
execute, on behalf of the undersigned, any and all
statements or reports under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, with respect to the beneficial ownership
of shares of Common Stock, no par value, of American Financial Group, Inc.,
including, without limitation, all initial statements of
beneficial ownership on Form 3, all statements of changes in beneficial
ownership on Form 4 and all annual statements of changes in
beneficial ownership of securities on Form 5, all successor or similar forms and
any and all other documents that may be required,
from time to time, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to
execute any and all amendments or supplements to any
such statements, reports or forms, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and
authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
and to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorney or attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

      The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, and
each of them, in serving in such capacity at the request
of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the responsibilities of the
undersigned to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or any other legal requirement.  This Power of Attorney
shall remain in effect until revoked by the undersigned
in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

/s/David L. Thompson, Jr.

Date:  January 26, 2022


Sworn to before me this 26th day of January 2022.


/s/ Karl J. Grafe
Karl J. Grafe