Anton Pohlmann (entrepreneur)

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Anton Pohlmann (* 1939 ) is a German entrepreneur who worked in Germany until he was banned from the profession in 1996 and was considered the largest egg supplier in Europe during his time as an entrepreneur . The trained baker lived in Neuenkirchen-Vörden in the Vechta district , where the headquarters of the company he founded in 1968 was also located.

Food scandal

He was repeatedly fined heavily for violating food law and unauthorized animal husbandry. Finally, he was also prosecuted after research by the TV magazine Panorama showed that nicotine was used to control pests in the battery cages . Millions of animals perished as a result, eggs contaminated and one employee was seriously injured.

On February 1, 1996, " Deutsche Frühstücksei GmbH" took over Pohlmann's company. In the same year, the Oldenburg Regional Court sentenced the "chicken baron" to two years' suspended prison sentence and a total fine of 3.1 million DM for animal cruelty and violation of food law. It also imposed a lifelong ban on commercial animal husbandry.

He has not produced in Germany since then. In 2003, Pohlmann also had to close his farms in the United States of America, which were combined in the Buckeye Egg Company . The reasons were false declarations of bad eggs, fish deaths from chicken manure in rivers, illegal disposal of chicken carcasses, groundwater hazard from vaccines and life-threatening working conditions for employees. With the accession of several East Central European countries to the European Union in 2004, Pohlmann's attempt to supply the German egg market from the Czech Republic or Hungary finally failed .

Pohlmann's practices were criticized as early as in the film And Eternal The Fields Stink, Observations in the ARD's South Oldenburg area from 1984. He was said to have close, personal relationships with the then CDU-led state policy, which protected him from more severe punishments. The Dutch judicial ombudsman lists the company "Anton Pohlmann GmbH" in a list of German companies that became suspicious of corruption in the period from 1986 to 1996 .

Further entrepreneurial action after the food scandal

The son Stefan Pohlmann was arrested in 2015 because of the Bayern egg scandal . Because of salmonella poisoning in 2014, at the European in five countries hundreds of sick people and two men died, determines the prosecutor's office in Regensburg . Stefan Pohlmann faced up to 15 years imprisonment. On March 16, 2020, he was sentenced to one year and nine months probation and a fine of around two million euros for negligent bodily harm and commercial fraud.

His name was also mentioned when the Panama Papers were published in April 2016. The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation reported investigations into tax evasion in this context.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.br.de/nachrichten/eier-salmonellen-pohlmann-100.html
  2. ↑ Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany: BUND presents study on the interdependence of egg manufacturers ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). December 3, 1998
  3. ↑ Netherlands Justice Ombudsman: Corruption German Companies ( Memento of June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Jan Grossarth: The return of the Salmonella godparents . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22, 2015, p. 24.
  5. ↑ Philipp Grüll and Ernst Eisenbichler: Salmonella outbreak in Europe The trail leads to Lower Bavaria . In: br.de . May 21, 2015. Accessed May 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Did eggs from Bavaria poison people all over Europe? . In: merkur.de . May 21, 2015. Accessed May 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Bayern-Ei-Scandal: Authorities apparently sloppy when investigating
  8. ^ Judgment in the Bayern-Ei case: In case of doubt, for the defendant. March 17, 2020, accessed March 18, 2020 .
  9. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bayern-Ei: ex-managing director condemned. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Uli Scherr, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Panama Papers: Egg producer Pohlmann also used offshore services - BR.de. (No longer available online.) In: br.de. April 5, 2016, archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 5, 2016 .

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SURNAME Pohlmann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1939