Alfred Inzinger

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Alfred Inzinger (2001)

Alfred Inzinger (* 1960 in Carinthia ) is an Austrian entrepreneur , manager, former soccer player and former motorsport team owner.

Life

Inzinger was a footballer at a young age. a. 1980 at FC Zurich 1981 at SAK (Salzburger Athletiksport-Klub 1914) and most recently in the Regionalliga West at USK Anif, where he ended his career in 1982.

Inzinger founded Pantitan Medical Special Products AG in 1989. With this he developed (together with the physician Peter Bösch) the first Austrian cementless hip joint and marketed it. Inzinger later sold this company to the Swiss company Stratec Medical GmbH for around 500 million schillings.

In 1991, together with the Inzinger footballer Franz Wohlfahrt WIP - Welfare Inzinger u. Partner sports agency. This initiated the snowboard event "New Year's Eve Big Air" in front of the Wiener Riesenrad. In the 1990s, the event was one of the largest one-day events with up to 130,000 visitors in Europe. WIP was also the organizer of the beach soccer tournaments in Austria and was responsible for player management and the like. a. by Franz Wohlfahrt.

Alfred Inzinger was the owner of several trading companies (Power Horse International Handels GmbH) with locations and branches in Austria, USA (Power Horse North America Llc) and in the Middle East (Power Horse Middle East), which sold the energy drink Power Horse from 1997 to 2003 . He had acquired the marketing and distribution rights from the Spitz company in 1997 and started the international distribution of Power Horse on a large scale. Inzinger, of whom hardly anyone took any notice in the shadow of the world market leader, made seventy million euros (almost a billion schillings) with the pick-me-up juice, ninety percent of it in Islamic countries. Its growth rate was 250% per year.

In 2001 Inzinger was general sponsor of the "World Awards" by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Vienna Hofburg. Guests were u. a. Ted Turner, Luciano Pavarotti, et al. Sir Richard Branson.

Today he is an international investor and M&A manager and lives in Switzerland. Inzinger was an investor in GameWorks, founded by Steven Spielberg , and a partner in the 2700 m² site in Vienna's Mariahilferstrasse, which opened in 2001.

Quote

“But before I leave here as a loser, I have to be carried out. "

- said Inzinger about his involvement in the Superbike World Championship circus

Motorsport

Inzinger founded several motorsport teams, including Promotor Racing , which won the Superbike World Championship with Troy Corser in 1996 . Inzinger founded the promoter team in 1993, acted as team boss himself and managed to become vice world champion in the second year and world champion in the third year. As a private team, Promotor beat the Ducati factory team. The promoter team had 25 to 30 employees.

In 2001, Achim Mörtl from Carinthia drove World Championship rallies (e.g. Rally Corsica ) for Alfred Inzinger's promotional team in the Subaru.

In 1995/96 Inzinger had a column in the magazine "Reitwagen" with the title "Inzinger Spricht".

He was also 1996 and 1997 with Power-Horse sponsor and co-owner of the Formula 1 team Arrows under team principal Tom Walkinshaw .

In 2010 Alfred Inzinger was managing director of the Reitwagen-BMW team in the Superbike World Championship .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FCZ FC Zurich. In: dbFCZ database. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Alfred Inzinger - player profile. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Gabriela Schnabel: A Carinthian Millionaire and Scientologist , Format , August 9, 2002
  4. ^ Power Horse USA. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .
  5. ↑ OTS_APA World Awards. November 2, 2001, accessed May 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ US entertainment chain GameWorks starts in Vienna. In: The Standard. August 3, 2001, accessed December 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Werth: God loves the fearless - Portrait Alfred Inzinger. Autorevue, 3/1996, pp. 112-116
  8. ↑ Pitt reignites WSB career with BMW , Motorcyclenews, December 16, 2009
  9. ↑ World Rally Championship: The greatest final of all time - Motorsport News - Motorsport - motorline.cc
  10. ↑ Livery Histories # 4: Arrows , F1 Colors, accessed December 5, 2018
  11. ↑ motorcyclenews.com
personal data
SURNAME Inzinger, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, motorsport team owner
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Carinthia