Bert Wollersheim

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Bert Wollersheim in 2007

Bert Wollersheim (born March 24, 1951 in Bonn ) became known for his work in the red light district in Düsseldorf from the 1970s. A broader public took notice of him through TV appearances through to his own docu-soap under the name "The Wollersheims - A terribly weird family!" On RTL II .

Life

Wollersheim grew up in Heimerzheim , where he learned to be a hairdresser in his father's salon . In 1969 he moved to Düsseldorf at the age of 18 . There he worked as a “celebrity hairdresser”, among others, show stars such as Dieter Thomas Heck and Rex Gildo , but also came into contact with local greats in the red light district , such as Heinrich Schäfer from Cologne .

His first club "Darlings" opened Wollersheim 1976. From the 1980s he ran the brothel "The Red Mile" ( Red Mile ) in three adjacent houses on the Rethelstraße in Düsseldorf's Duesseltal . From the mid-1990s, Wollersheim also rented stretch limousines . Also in the mid-1990s, he had to serve a prison sentence for extortionate kidnapping. He had a prostitute kidnapped after she no longer wanted to work for him and her new friend, who did not belong to the red light district, refused to pay a transfer fee demanded by Wollersheim .

In the early 2000s, WDR television broadcast a documentary about Wollersheim, followed by a report in 2008 as part of the Men TV program on DSF . In 2009, Wollersheim took part in the program The Perfect Celebrity Dinner with Susen Tiedtke , Mark 'Oh and Ricky . From February 2011 on RTL II eight-part docu-soap The Woller home - Married inclined family! on "Germany's most iconic brothel boss and his new love" Sophia Vegas broadcast.

As part of a large-scale raid, Wollersheim and a dozen alleged accomplices were arrested on July 3, 2012; a total of 80 suspects were investigated. According to investigations by the Düsseldorf public prosecutor, at least 130 suitors were first drugged in three Düsseldorf brothels and then large sums were debited with their credit cards. Complaints are said to have been threatened with compromising videos. Wollersheim, portrayed as a party animal in television reports, was probably Germany's best-known brothel boss until his arrest in 2012. In reality, he was only a partner in a limited liability company that owned the brothels, and is said to have only played a minor role in the business. The criminal police rate Wollersheim and his wife more as the figurehead of the brothels. After seven weeks, the dismissed Landgericht Dusseldorf Wollersheim after an appeal against detention from detention because it "of sufficient indications that Wollersheim been personally involved in planning and execution" was, lacking. The public prosecutor lodged a complaint with the Higher Regional Court against the lifting of pre-trial detention, but was withdrawn shortly afterwards.

After the brothels were closed by the public order office from July to November 2012, they became the property of the newly founded RGD Gastronomiebetriebe Düsseldorf GmbH . Wollersheim and his former co-partner at PRD Pensionsbetriebe Rethelstrasse Düsseldorf GmbH appeared as advisors for this new GmbH. In November 2013, was due to tax liabilities in the amount of 7.5 million euros for bankruptcy the PRD pension companies Rethelstraße Dusseldorf GmbH , operating several brothels and was involved in the Wollersheim half. Wollersheim stated that as managing director he had "nothing to do with the operational business"; he relied on his "management staff". In February 2014, he left as a consultant for RGD Gastronomiebetriebe Düsseldorf GmbH , which operated Wollersheim's former brothels.

In autumn 2014 Wollersheim opened the nudist club “Oceans” in Düsseldorf-Rath , a large brothel with planned up to 300 employees. In 2015, Wollersheim acted as a consultant for the redesign of the Laufhäuser in Flaßhofstrasse , the red light district in Oberhausen . In June 2016, Wollersheim's insolvency became known.

While a partner of Wollersheim's and another accomplice, both of whom were active in the Düsseldorf brothels, had been sentenced to long imprisonment for fraud and bodily harm in mid-2017, the Düsseldorf Regional Court ruled in March 2018 that Wollersheim had “wrongly carried out criminal prosecution measures” to be compensated from the state treasury ”.

He is the father of a daughter and a son from his first and second marriage. Wollersheim was married to Sophia Wollersheim (née Hildebrand , stage name Sophia Vegas ) for the third time from 2010 to 2017 . The couple split in 2016. In 2018 he went with his girlfriend Bobby Anne Baker, a naturopath, to the television show The Summer House of the Stars - Fight of the Celebrity Couples , after which their relationship broke up. Shortly afterwards he moved to the webcam girl Yvonne Schaufler (artist name Ginger Costello ) in Mallorca, whom he married in October 2018. At the beginning of 2019, Wollersheim filed for bankruptcy.

Wollersheim's first film roles were in the short film Agent Wu 2 and the action film Valley of the Scorpions .

documentation

In September 2012 the documentary The Last Pimp - Bert Wollersheim - The true story was published. The documentary The Last Pimp (translated The Last Pimp ) was shot between 2004 and 2007.

Television shows

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c red light size Bert Wollersheim - from hairdresser to brothel operator , DerWesten , Düsseldorf edition, July 4, 2012
  2. ↑ This is Bert Wollersheim , rp-online.de
  3. ↑ http://nachrichten.rp-online.de/panorama/koeln-chicago-am-rhein-1.2611696
  4. ↑ Bert Wollersheim , vox.de, November 21, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.express.de
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / auto-presse.de
  7. ↑ http://www.focus.de/focustv/maenner-tv/13-02-08-22-15-uhr-auf-dsf_aid_237321.html
  8. ↑ http://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv/wie-tickt-tic-tac-toe-heute-article616534.html
  9. ↑ http://www.mainpost.de/ueberregional/kulturwelt/kultur/Der-Zapper-Philipp-Bordell-Berti-und-andere-Zuhaelter;art3809,6009779
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  12. ↑ http://www.tvtoday.de/tv_aktuell/tv-news/zuschauerzahlen-puff-doku-soap-floppt-auf-rtl2,4489827,ApplicationArticle.html
  13. ^ Smashed red light gang in Düsseldorf , Welt Online , July 3, 2012
  14. ↑ a b Focus 30/2012 / J. Hufelschulte, A. Spilcker: Take it off like a Christmas goose ! (Pp. 48-50; online ).
  15. ↑ Focus: No urgent suspicion - “Brothel King” Wollersheim released from custody , August 20, 2012
  16. ↑ Tim Röhn: The Wollersheim files . In: welt.de . October 21, 2012.
  17. ↑ Wollersheim brothels are allowed to reopen Die Welt from November 2, 2012, accessed on January 22, 2016
  18. ↑ Bert Wollersheim's Düsseldorf brothel company is bankrupt WAZ.de from December 12, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2016.
  19. ↑ Insolvency application of the brothels on Rethelstraße , RP Online from December 12, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2016.
  20. ↑ Bert Wollersheim gives a consultant job on RP ONLINE from February 18, 2014, accessed on January 23, 2016
  21. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/duesseldorf/duesseldorfer-protestieren-gegen-riesen-bordell-vom-rotlichtkoenig-wollersheim-aimp-id9515685.html
  22. ↑ Marc Schröder: Germany's last red light prince . Penthouse 10/11 2015, pp. 62–65.
  23. ↑ Andrea Micke: Wollersheim is supposed to beautify Oberhausen's red light district . Article from May 21, 2015 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on May 23, 2015
  24. ↑ Bert Wollersheim describes himself as broke Spiegel Online from June 20, 2016, accessed on November 20, 2016
  25. ^ Red light trial: Long imprisonment for Wollersheim partners . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . July 21, 2017 ( wz.de [accessed April 18, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Court acquits Wollersheim - now he could get millions in compensation . In: FOCUS Online . March 27, 2018 ( focus.de ).
  27. ↑ Wollersheim-Hammer ... on Express.de; accessed: April 21, 2018
  28. ↑ http://tonight.rp-online.de/szenenews/Aus-dem-Leben-des-Bert-Wollersheim_aid_967912.html
  29. ↑ Brothel owner and Barbie visit at Wollerheims. Welt am Sonntag, November 21, 2011, accessed August 8, 2013 .
  30. ^ Sophia Wollersheim. prosieben.de, accessed on August 8, 2013 .
  31. ↑ Martin Benninghoff: Red light size: Brothel owners and Barbie - Visiting Wollersheims - DIE WELT . In: THE WORLD . November 18, 2011.
  32. ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/panorama/aus-aller-welt/wollersheim-trillen-break-ist-jetzt-das-richtige/14666446.html
  33. ↑ From puff king to pensioner: Bert Wollersheim only gets € 753 promiflash.de from May 9, 2017
  34. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.ginger-costello-bert-wollersheims-neue-freundin-gibt-ihren-erotik-job-auf.42a85cc6-2e15-4ed6-b611-55fd3a0fc443.html
  35. ↑ https://www.rtl.de/cms/bert-wollersheim-und-ginger-costello-im-ersten-liebes-interview-4198539.html
  36. ^ Trash wedding in Denmark bild.de of October 7, 2018
  37. ↑ Red light size Bert Wollersheim is insolvent - now his lawyer merkur.de speaks from February 18, 2019
  38. ↑ One week about the martial arts RP online, May 30th 2018
  39. ↑ Cinema.de , accessed August 5, 2019
  40. ↑ The Last Pimp - Bert Wollersheim - The true story at IMDb
  41. ↑ Die Welt from March 1, 2011: With brothel boss Wollersheim the trash returns. Retrieved August 9, 2013 .
  42. ^ BZ of February 27, 2011: brothel boss Wollersheim becomes soap star. Retrieved August 9, 2013 .
  43. ↑ rtl.de. Retrieved August 18, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Wollersheim, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brothel operator and reality TV participant
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn