Dirk Kollmar
Dirk Kollmar (* 6. September 1963 in Oettingen in Bayern , † 3. May 2014 in Gotha ) was a German business leaders and basketball - functionary and children's book illustrator .
Life
Kollmar attended a sports boarding school in Munich and graduated from high school with a focus on basketball . He was active as a player in Nördlingen, among others . After completing his military service as a parachutist , he studied brewery and beverage technology from 1988 to 1991 in Weihenstephan at the Technical University of Munich . At the beginning of his studies he became a member of the Corps Donaria zu Freising-Weihenstephan .
In 1991 Kollmar was commissioned by his father Günther Kollmar to look for production and storage facilities for the Oettinger brewery in the New Lander area . He found what he was looking for in Gotha with the VEB Gothaer Brewery . He built and expanded this location. He turned down an offer to work for the US brewery group Anheuser-Busch Companies and in 1994 joined the management team of the Oettinger Brewery alongside his father.
In 1998 he founded the with like-minded club basketball in Gotha e. V. (BiG), which he shaped as president and whose first men's team Oettinger Rockets Gotha made it to the 2nd Bundesliga ProA in 2012 . From 2009 he was President of the Thuringian Basketball Association. In his adopted home, Luisenthal , he ran an inn and a brewery museum.
After the death of his father in 2013, Kollmar owned 80% of the company and voting shares. In 2014 he died of heart failure .
Awards
- 2011 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for social commitment
- 2011 Myconius Medal from the City of Gotha
- 2016 Renaming of a section of Leina-Straße in Gotha to Dirk-Kollmar-Straße
Publications
- Paul Piranha and the blue part , Gotha 2012.
- Paul Piranha and the Blubbersee , Gotha 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032539-7 .
Web links
- Entry "Kollmar, Dirk" in Munzinger Personen - International Biographisches Archiv, (main source, accessed on May 6, 2014)
- Brewery museum in Luisenthal
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Kollmar, Dirk |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German business manager and basketball official as well as children's book illustrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oettingen in Bavaria |
DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2014 |
Place of death | Gotha |