Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff

Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff on Courage at the 1988 Olympic Games

Linsenhoff, 2017

"Schafhof" stud

Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff (* 1. August 1960 in Dusseldorf ) is a German donor, sports functionary and former dressage rider . She is the deputy chairwoman of UNICEF Germany.

She celebrated the greatest success of her sporting career in 1988 at the Olympic Games in Seoul , when she became Olympic champion together with the German dressage team .

Athletic career

Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff is the daughter of the two-time Olympic champion Liselott Linsenhoff born. Schindling and by Fritz Linsenhoff. She showed her talent as a young rider: in 1981 she won the silver medal at the German Young Rider Championship. At the European Young Rider Championships in Rotterdam that same year , she won the title with the team of the German Equestrian Association and took third place in the individual competition.

After that, Linsenhoff first had to assert itself against the strong national competition. It was not until 1987 that she established herself at the top of German dressage riders. Between 1987 and 1990 she was German runner-up four times in a row.

Her greatest international successes also fall during this period. In 1987 she was European team champion and European runner-up in the individual competition in Goodwood, England . At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , she won the gold medal in the team competition on her horse Courage 10 together with Nicole Uphoff , Monica Theodorescu and Reiner Klimke . The following year, she defended her title as European team champion in Mondorf-les-Bains and won the bronze medal in the individual competition behind Nicole Uphoff and Frenchwoman Margit Otto-Crépin . Finally, in 1990 at the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm , the team won the world championship.

Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff celebrated a sporting comeback in 2002 at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera with her second title as team world champion. At the beginning of April 2007 she announced her resignation from active equestrian sport for health reasons ( Lyme disease ).

Private and professional

Her grandfather Adolf Schindling (* 1887, † 1963) was the founder of the “Schwarz-Gelb” tournament stable in Kronberg im Taunus .

Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff is the mother of two children; she has a son (* 1991) and a daughter (* 2001). In 1989 she married Michael Kroth, the marriage ended shortly after the death of her mother in 1999. She has been with the riding instructor Klaus Martin Rath (* 1959) since 2000, they married in 2004. He is also the father of Matthias Alexander Rath (* 1984).

Linsenhoff is a licensed veterinarian and owns the “Schafhof” stud in Kronberg im Taunus, which she took over in 2000 after the death of her mother Lieselott Linsenhoff († 1999). In 2001 she received the renowned Otto Lörke Prize for her horse Renoir as the best “young horse of the year”.

In the summer of 2002 she founded her own foundation under the UNICEF umbrella , the Ann-Kathrin-Linsenhoff-UNICEF-Foundation. Since then, three of her top horses have been nicknamed UNICEF . All prize money and sponsorship money for these horses goes directly to the children's aid organization.

After she had already given her horse Renoir to her stepson Matthias Alexander Rath at the beginning of 2006 , she also passed on her successful horse Sterntaler to him at the beginning of 2008.

In 2007 Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff donated a total of 65,000 euros to the CDU , one of the largest donations made in 2007 by a private person.

On January 1, 2008, Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff was the first woman to take over the chairmanship of the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation , which she resigned in September 2008 after disagreements with the Supervisory Board. Since April 2008 she has been the deputy chairwoman of UNICEF Germany.

In October 2010 Paul Schockemöhle bought the dressage stallion Totilas, which was traded for 10 million euros . He then formed a community of owners with Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff . A covering station was set up at Linsenhoff's “Schafhof” because the stallion is used in breeding as well as sport. Her stepson Matthias Alexander Rath is the rider of the beast.

On April 14, 2011 Linsenhoff was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . She was also awarded the Silver Bay Leaf in 1988.

See also

Steinsee (Hohenstein)

Web links

Commons : Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ann-Kathrin-Linsenhoff-UNICEF-Foundation
• Schafhof Festival
• Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FAZ.NET with material from sid: Dressage rider Linsenhoff ends her career. In: FAZ.net . April 2, 2007, accessed December 20, 2014 . 
2. ↑ linsenhoff.de: Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff
3. ↑ escon-marketing.de: Portrait Klaus-Martin Rath
4. ↑ ludwigs-pferdewelten.de on August 1, 2010: Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff turned 50
5. ↑ linsenhoff.de: The Schafhof ( Memento from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Ann-Kathrin-Linsenhoff-UNICEF-Foundation
7. ↑ international success overview of the FEI by Renoir-UNICEF: FEI: Dressage: Results
8. ↑ international success overview of the FEI by Sterntaler-UNICEF FEI: Dressage: Results
9. ↑ In the spider web of the million donors. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. June 9, 2011, accessed June 9, 2011 . 
10. ↑ Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff becomes head of Sporthilfe. In: FAZ.NET. October 18, 2007, accessed October 20, 2007 . 
11. ↑ The stallion of the century Totilas is sold , Dieter Ludwig, October 14, 2010 at 7:44 p.m.
12. ↑ Stallion Totilas: Wonder Horse in the Taunus. In: fr-online.de . May 9, 2011, accessed December 20, 2014 . 
13. ^ Great distinction for Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff , St. Georg , April 16, 2011