Gabriela Grillo

Gabriela Dagmar Grillo (born August 19, 1952 in Duisburg ) is a former German journalist, entrepreneur and former dressage rider and Olympic participant.

Career

Grillo is the daughter of the businessman Herbert Grillo and his wife Marita, née Withofer. Gabriela Grillo trained as a dressage rider from 1960 to 1966 with Otto Fuhrmann, from 1967 to 1973 with Walter Günther and from 1974 with the retired major general. D. Albert Stecken . After graduating from the Frau-Rath-Goethe-Gymnasium in Duisburg in 1971, Grillo enrolled in musicology , German studies and theater studies at the University of Cologne in the same year . From 1979 to 1983 Grillo was youth warden at the riding and driving club at Uhlenhorst in Mülheim. From 1980 she was a permanent employee of the trade magazine riding and driving . In 1981 she became the board member of the dressage group in the German Rider and Driver Association (DRFV). From 1976 to 1982 she was a member of the German national dressage team. During this time, her greatest sporting success fell, winning the team gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in dressage riding; in the individual competition she took 4th place. She achieved both successes on her Trakehner Ultimo . Since 1985 she has been a member of the German Equestrian Olympics Committee (DOKR). Grillo has written specialist articles and several books on riding, including 60 words equestrian German in 1979 .

For winning the gold medal in 1976, she received the silver bay leaf .

Gabriela Grillo, a great-great-granddaughter of Wilhelm Grillo and great-great-great-grandniece of Friedrich Grillo , has been managing partner of Wilhelm Grillo Handelsgesellschaft mbH since 1993 , she trades in zinc , lead , copper and rare metals such as bismuth , antimony and cobalt .

In March 1995 she became a member of the supervisory board of Grillo-Werke AG in Duisburg and then in May 1995 she was delegated to the board of directors as a deputy member of the board of directors of Grillo-Werke AG. In May 1996 she was appointed a full board member of Grillo-Werke AG. Since August 2001 she has been the spokesperson for the board; since October 2004 she has been chairwoman of the supervisory board of Grillo-Werke AG. Her successor on the board was her cousin Ulrich Grillo . The Grillo Group is divided into the four business areas Metal, Chemicals, Zinc Oxide and Rheinzink with subsidiaries and branches all over Europe and bridgeheads in the USA, China and South Africa. The Grillo Group is considered to be the largest zinc processor in the world and has been completely family-owned again since 1994; The 150 family shareholders may only pass on their registered shares with restricted transferability with the approval of the Management Board and the Supervisory Board. Grillo sits on the executive floor of the London Metal Exchange (LME).

Gabriela Grillo was a member of the board of trustees of the University of Duisburg-Essen .

In November 2010, Grillo received the Luther Rose for social responsibility and entrepreneurial courage from the International Martin Luther Foundation in Gladbeck .

Sporting successes

• Golden German Rider Badge Class I, 1971
• Olympic victory dressage team: 1976 (at the end of the day )
• German dressage derby
  • 1st place: 1977 (with last day), 1980 (with last day)
  • 2nd place: 1978 (with Wilhelm Tell)
• Olympic substitute competitions of the boycotting states
  • Singles: 5th place at the Goodwood International Dressage Festival 1980 (on Ultimo )
• European Dressage Championships
  • Team: European Champion 1977 (on the last day ), 1979 (on the last day ), 1981 (on the Galapagos )
  • Individual: bronze medal 1981 (in Galapagos )
• German Dressage Championships (women)
  • 1st place: 1977 and 1979 (with Ultimo), 1980, 1981 and 1982 (with Galapagos), 1983 (with Grandison)
  • 2nd place: 1978, 1985
  • 3rd place: 1978 (with Ultimo), 1984 (with Grandison), 1986
• Winner of the Rhineland Dressage Championships (women): 1972, 1974, 1982

Honors

• 1976: Sports honor plaque from the cities of Mülheim and Duisburg
• 1976: Silver bay leaf
• 1976: FN medal of honor in gold with Olympic rings
• 1976: Golden badge of honor from the Trakehner Association
• 1976: Golden achievement pin of the association of riding and driving clubs Rhineland
• 1976: Golden needle of the St. Georg Salzburg Riding Club
• 1980: FN badge of honor special. Gold (Festival of Dressage Riders)
• 1980: Sports badge state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1981: Baron von Schrötter-Wohnsdorf commemorative plaque (Trakehner Association)
• 1983: Cup of Honor of the West German Sports Press

Fonts

• together with Erich Oese : Quadrille riding: idea, design, presentation. FN-Verlag, Warendorf 1992 ISBN 978-3-88542-249-5 .

literature

• Who is who? The German who's who. Founded by Walter Habel. Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. 24th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1985, ISBN 3-7950-2005-0 , p. 407 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gabriela Grillo in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Record of Gabriela Grillo in the catalog of the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gabriela Grillo on databaseolympics.com , accessed June 16, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of Gabriela Grillo on mediendatenbank.nrw.de , accessed on May 31, 2007
4. ↑ [1] , munzinger.de, accessed on May 27, 2014
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Portrait of Gabriela Grillo on the website of the 7th Congress for Family Businesses , accessed on May 31, 2007
6. ↑ Google cache version of pferdezeitung.com ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. , accessed May 31, 2007  
7. ↑ Trakehner on pferdenetz.at ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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. , accessed May 31, 2007  
8. ↑ Trakehner on horsevenue.com (English) ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2007 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. , accessed May 31, 2007 
9. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchrnik 1974-76: ... 1976 Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf. ...
10. ↑ NRZ interview with Gabriela Grillo  ( 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. , accessed May 31, 2007  
11. ↑ Company history of Wilhelm Grillo Handelsgesellschaft ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2007 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. , accessed June 16, 2011  
12. ^ Corporate management of Grillo-Werke AG , accessed on June 16, 2011
13. ↑ Man with energy. In: FAZ November 26, 2012, accessed on May 27, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Firmly on the reins. In: Manager Magazin. January 15, 2013, accessed May 27, 2014 . 
15. ↑ LME Holdings Gabriela Grillo  ( 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. , www.lme.com, accessed May 27, 2014.  
16. ↑ Board of Trustees of the University of Duisburg-Essen ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2007 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. , accessed May 31, 2007  
17. ↑ Press release awarding of the Luther Rose (PDF; 114 kB), accessed on June 16, 2011
18. ↑ European Championship successes of Rhenish equestrians on pferdesport-rheinland.de , accessed on May 31, 2007
19. ↑ Tab results on sportquick.com ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. , accessed May 31, 2007 
20. ^ Dressage riding on sport-komplett.de , accessed on June 16, 2011
21. ↑ Chronicle of the Rhenish Championships , accessed on May 31, 2007