Arend Vollers

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Karl Wilhelm Arend Vollers (born May 8, 1931 in Bremen ) is a Bremen tea merchant and is considered one of the most experienced tea connoisseurs in Germany. Vollers lives in Syke . Vollers managed the Bremen tea trading company Paul Schrader & Co. for over 50 years .

On April 24, 1961, the partner of the company Theodor Tiemann, who had driven the expansion of the company until his death and put it on an economically sound basis, died. In January 1962, Karl Wilhelm Arend Vollers succeeded him. Even then, in Bremen society and also among tea connoisseurs, he was referred to as the German tea pope. Vollers introduced an initially 16-page brochure that was later referred to as the company's first catalog. From 1982 onwards, under Arendt, the company also increasingly offered jewelry, furniture and books. In contrast to universal mail order companies such as Quelle, Otto and neckermann.de, however, the focus was always on tea as a product group. Since then, on Voller's initiative, the catalogs have included not only the products but also cultural information about the countries of origin of the teas and instructions for use for tea preparation. In 2005, today's managing director Michael Rolf succeeded Arend Vollers.

According to Vollers, he drinks 10–12 cups of tea a day and often explains in public z. B. the subtleties of a Darjeeling tea.

engagement

Through numerous trips to the tea production countries in China and India, Arend Vollers developed into an expert on the countries of Southeast Asia. He published several books on tea and the countries of its production. For more than 20 years he was chairman of the Friends of the Überseemuseum Bremen , a former colonial museum. Vollers is chairman of the East Asian Association Bremen .

He was also involved in the Bremen working group for overseas research and development (Borda). He was deputy chairman there. “Borda” is active in technical development cooperation in Southeast Asia and China, among others, and helps there with infrastructure projects and the establishment of environmentally friendly water supplies.

Fonts

  • Indonesia. Travel to the tea regions on Java and Sumatra . Paul Schrader & Co., Bremen 1987.
  • with Hans G. Adrian and Rolf L. Temming: Das Teebuch. History and stories. Cultivation, production and recipes . VMA, 1990.
  • The art of enjoying tea properly. History, culture, production, varieties . 2002.

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Sebastian Vesper: Generation change  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: PR Report , September 2005, accessed on July 14, 2012, (PDF). "... the German tea pope".@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.prplus.de  
  2. ↑ Thomas Kuzaj: "Tea Pope" celebrates its 75th birthday . nwzonline of May 8, 2006, accessed on July 14, 2012. (HTML)
personal data
SURNAME Vollers, Arend
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tea merchant and tea connoisseur
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen