Alfred Walterspiel

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Alfred Walterspiel (born May 11, 1881 in Steinbach near Baden-Baden , † May 8, 1960 in Munich ) was a German cook , restaurateur and hotelier .

Live and act

After training as a pastry chef and cook in Baden, he worked in responsible positions in the Hotel-Restaurant Erbprinz in Ettlingen and in leading restaurants in Cannes , Stockholm , St. Petersburg and London around 1900 . Then he was head chef at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin, which also includes the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg. There he opened the Pfordte restaurant in 1909. In 1910 he also ran the German restaurant at the World Exhibition in Brussels. At the end of 1910 he bought the Hiller restaurant in Berlin from Louis Adlon , which made him famous in a short time. At the same time began his decades-long partnership with his younger brother Otto (1884–1974). The Hiller restaurant had to be closed in 1917 due to the outdated luxury business due to the war .

In 1922 both brothers moved to Munich and ran their well-known restaurant Walterspiel there on Fürstenstrasse . In 1926 they acquired the Hotel Hotel “Vier Jahreszeiten” in Munich. Both the Restaurant Walterspiel and the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten were regarded as the “first address” in Europe under their management, thanks in particular to the culinary art of Alfred Walterspiel.

Even during the time of the National Socialist rule, the hotel remained “an open house” without any restrictions for its international guests. The building was badly damaged in the Second World War, and in 1944 all but the wing of the building directly on Maximilianstrasse burned down completely. At the end of 1947, the Walterspiel brothers received permission from the crew to rebuild the hotel. The Walterspiel restaurant was reopened in 1950.

When Alfred Walterspiel died in 1960, his sons Georg (* 1921) and Klaus Walterspiel became managing directors.

Even after his death, the Walterspiel restaurant remained in existence and in 1966 was one of the 66 hotels that were awarded a star in the first German Michelin Guide .

Fonts

  • My art in kitchen and restaurant , self-published in 1952, Süddeutscher Verlag 1963, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-423-01713-9 .
  • Otto Walterspiel: An open house: My childhood in the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten , ISBN 978-3431038606 . Memories of Alfred Walterspiel's nephew Otto Walterspiel (* 1927).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ faz.net: The "Hereditary Prince" continues the old greatness
  2. ↑ gastrogeschichte.de: Alfred Walterspiel ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ uni-muenchen.de: Press release of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich 1991
  4. ↑ cosmopolis.ch: Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich
  5. ^ History of the Michelin Guide in Germany. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ luebbe.de: Otto Walterspiel
personal data
SURNAME Walterspiel, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chef, restaurateur, hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach near Baden-Baden
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1960
Place of death Munich