Dirk Kollmar

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on death on thueringer-allgemeine.de from May 5, 2014 .
personal data
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