Gunter Sachs

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Fritz Gunter Sachs (born November 14, 1932 in Mainberg near Schweinfurt ; † May 6, 2011 in Gstaad ), formerly also called Gunter Sachs von Opel , was a German - Swiss industrial heir , bobsledder , photographer , documentary filmmaker , art collector and astrologer . His extroverted lifestyle made him known in the 1960s and 1970s as the prototype of the gentleman playboy .

Life

Mainberg Castle, birthplace of Gunter Sachs
Former headquarters of Fichtel & Sachs AG in Schweinfurt, today part of ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Gunter Sachs was the younger son of the German industrialist Willy Sachs , who became the sole owner of Fichtel & Sachs AG in Schweinfurt in 1932 . His paternal grandfather was the privy councilor Ernst Sachs , inventor of the bicycle freewheel , the coaster brake and co-founder of the company. The maternal grandfather, Wilhelm von Opel , was the son of Opel founder Adam Opel .

Before Gunter's third birthday, his parents separated and, after some time at Mainberg Castle near Schweinfurt and in the orphanage, he grew up with his older brother with his mother, Elinor von Opel , in Switzerland. Sachs attended the St. Gallen boarding school "Auf dem Rosenberg" , studied mathematics and economics in Lausanne and completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and a banker. He also obtained a French interpreting diploma.

According to Gunter Sachs, Willy Sachs suffered from depression . After his father's suicide in November 1958, his older brother Ernst-Wilhelm became deputy chairman of the Sachs Group in Schweinfurt (until 1967). Gunter Sachs joined the supervisory board as deputy chairman, to which he was a member until the mid-1980s, after his brother died in an accident in 1977.

Brigitte Bardot 1968

Also in 1958, his first wife Anne-Marie Faure was killed by an anesthetic error. From this marriage comes his son Rolf Sachs , who made a name for himself as a furniture designer and most recently as a set designer. In the 1960s, Sachs became popular in the media as a playboy. In the first half of the decade he had more than five private companions with whom he was effective in the media. Sachs later became known as a photographer, art collector and documentary filmmaker. After his liaison with the Persian ex-empress Soraya hit the headlines in the summer of 1962, the photographers followed him at every turn. He made the small port of St. Tropez known and propagated free love . He married the French film actress Brigitte Bardot from 1966 to 1969. Shortly after the divorce, he married Mirja Larsson (* 1943), a Swedish model , in 1969 . The marriage, which lasted until his death, has two sons: Gunnar and Alexander.

After the construction of a museum for modern art in Munich, which Sachs helped initiate, failed due to bureaucratic hurdles, he relocated his activities as an art sponsor to Hamburg. In his “Gallery on the Milky Way”, the managing director of which he appointed photographer Angelika Platen , he dedicated the first exhibition on October 6, 1972 to Andy Warhol - who was also present at the vernissage - with whom he had a long friendship. Because it was uncomfortable for him that nobody wanted Warhol's work, he secretly bought a third of the exhibits himself so as not to disappoint the artist.

In 1974 Gunter Sachs was the photographer of the official poster of the Photokina , the most important international trade fair for photography, which honored him for his work with an obelisk. Numerous large national (Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig) and international exhibitions (Rome, Zurich, Stockholm, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow) of his works followed.

In 1995, Sachs founded the institute for the empirical and mathematical investigation of the possible truth content of astrology in relation to the behavior of people and their abilities (IMWA) and published the bestseller The Astrology Act .

His commitment to basic medical research, his support for the Salk Institute in San Diego and his membership in the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry , whose research he also financially supported, has become less well known . He donated a large part of the proceeds from his activities to the Mirja Sachs Foundation for Children in Need .

Sachs had been a Swiss citizen since 1976 . He was in Surcuolm , later Mundaun , Canton Grisons , heimatberechtigt . Sachs lived in different places in Switzerland, France, the USA, England, Carinthia, Tyrol and Upper Bavaria.

In the autobiography Mein Leben (2005), Sachs only briefly discussed his origins.

He died of suicide on the night of May 6th, 2011 at the age of 78 ; he shot himself in his house in Gstaad. In his suicide note, he justified his suicide by referring to the suspected disease of Alzheimer's : “In the last few months, reading relevant publications, I recognized that I was suffering from the hopeless disease A. [...] The loss of spiritual control over my life would be an undignified state, which I have decided to oppose resolutely. ”He noticed the corresponding symptoms in himself. In addition, his confidants stated that he suffered from depression.

The funeral ceremony for Gunter Sachs was celebrated on May 13, 2011 with family and friends, including his closest confidante Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn . It took place in the Evangelical Church of Saanen . The urn was later buried in the parish cemetery of the Reformed Church of Saanen in the canton of Bern .

The headstone is adorned with a quote with the following inscription:

“A good, noble person who lived with us cannot be taken from us. It leaves a shining trail like those extinguished stars, the image of which the inhabitants of the earth can still see centuries later. "

- Thomas Carlyle

Fields of activity

Companies

As an independent entrepreneur in the retail sector, Sachs attracted attention from the mid-1960s. With Micmac, he built up an international chain of fashion boutiques that, when it was sold to a Japanese group in 1981, had 400 of its own outlets. In 1970, Sachs first founded the “Dracula's Ghostriders Club” together with a few friends in St. Moritz . In 1972 he had the building of the DRACULA Club, which celebrated its fortieth birthday on February 14, 2013, with a party. The club is run by his son Rolf Sachs.

From 1976, the two brothers sold the Sachs Group in several blocks of shares. In 1987, Mannesmann AG took over the majority of shares in the company. It has been 100% owned by ZF Friedrichshafen AG since 2001 . According to Manager Magazin, Sachs' fortune was estimated at 500 million euros.

Sports

In 1959, Gunter Sachs won the European Junior Championship in the two-man bobsleigh as a member of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club . Ten years later, Sachs took over the presidency of the St. Moritz Bobsleigh Club, which he headed until his death. In February 2009 he was honored for his 40th anniversary with the company. In his honor, the place above the bobsleigh run was renamed Plazza Gunter Sachs .

Art collection

Point of view : Gunter Sachs' apartment in the Schlosshotel Velden

Sachs built up his collection of contemporary art at a young age, benefiting from personal contacts with painters and sculptors such as Jean Fautrier , Andy Warhol , César , Arman , Yves Klein , René Magritte , Salvador Dalí , Roy Lichtenstein , Tom Wesselmann and Allen Jones . Many of these artists were involved in the design of the legendary Pop Art apartment in the tower of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz in 1969 , which received lasting attention in the art world. From 1967 to 1975 Gunter Sachs was together with Konstantin von Bayern president of the Modern Art Museum Munich (MAM), which he co-founded , which campaigned for the construction of a comprehensive museum for contemporary art in Munich and showed numerous exhibitions in the Villa Stuck . Every month the MAM presented a new artist or several from the same school. Victor Vasarely , Georg Baselitz , Heinz Edelmann , Christo , Cy Twombly , Alexander Calder , Heinz Mack , Jean Tinguely , Roy Lichtenstein, Gotthard Graubner or Hermann Gloeckler found their way into the museum. From 1972 to 1975 Sachs had an art gallery in Hamburg-Pöseldorf . This was opened with an Andy Warhol exhibition. It was directed by the photographer Angelika Platen .

At auction in May 2012, some works in the collection fetched unexpectedly high prices, for example a self-portrait by Andy Warhol £ 5.4 million instead of the estimated £ 2 million.

Movie

Gunter Sachs was already involved in filming in the late 1950s. At that time, he looked after his very sick friend Brigitte Laaf for two years, who was diagnosed by US doctors as having an incurable cancer: “A terrible time. In order to get other thoughts in between, I took the advice of a friend about the film camera. I wanted to make a documentary - about the small fishing village on Lake Geneva where we lived at the time. So I was never too far from the house. ”For two weeks, Sachs had the cameraman Kurt Hasse show him what he needed, then he did everything himself - script, direction, camera, sound, commentary.

From 1963 to 1968 Gunter Sachs made five short films , each of which was rated “valuable” and was awarded at various festivals. In 1964 he won first prize at the San Sebastian Festival for Pacific Impressions , followed by first prize at the Hyères Festival in 1965 for The Giraffes of St. Tropez .

His documentary and sports film Happening in White, shot in Liechtenstein , was released in 1969 about skiing. Its actors were primarily early representatives of freestyle skiing (or trick skiing and ski acrobatics; Tom Leroy , Hermann Göllner , Roger Staub , Art Furrer - noted as Arthur Furrer; partly also known in other disciplines) and other winter sports stars of the time ( Ludwig "Luggi" Leitner - Alpine Combination , Nino Bibbia - among others Skeleton , Sonja Pfersdorf and Günther Matzdorf - couple in figure skating ). Peter Thomas created the music . For this, Sachs received the 1st prize of the International Olympic Committee in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1972 . This film with a length of 47 minutes shows the stylistic device of super slow motion that he used as a novelty . This stylistic device later established itself alongside dynamic sports, especially in western and action films. The lexicon of international films describes the content and criticizes it as follows:

“A sports film about skiing and tobogganing in St. Moritz and the fun of the jet set while surfing in Hawaii. Ambitious, but unimaginative, with a phrase-like dialogue. "

Photography and graphics

From 1972 Sachs worked professionally as a photographer, in 1973 he caused a sensation with the first nude photo in French Vogue . He achieved international recognition in 1974 with a special show at the Photokina trade fair , for which he also designed the official exhibition poster. In 1976 he was awarded the Leica Prize. At the 'German Photo Days' and the Photokina he received first prizes in 1994 for Die Farbe Weiss and 1995 for Die Farbe Red .

The focus of his photography are surreal nudes and landscapes , which have meanwhile been published in seven illustrated books. Gunter Sachs also dealt with digital photography at an early stage; he showed this novelty in several exhibitions as early as 1995. The proceeds from the sale of his photos and illustrated books go to the Mirja Sachs Foundation.

On behalf of SWR3 , Gunter Sachs designed the official poster for the New Pop Festival in Baden-Baden in 2009 . He was in line with James Rizzi , Thitz and Udo Lindenberg , who had designed motifs in previous years. It was the radio station's first collaboration with the photo artist.

Exhibitions

Sachs' works have been shown in over 40 international exhibitions. In 2003, the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts honored the photographer, art collector and documentary filmmaker Sachs with a retrospective, and in 2005 the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg showed an exhibition with around 100 photos of the artist from the last three decades. In 2007 the exhibition also stopped at the Kaliningrad State Art Gallery.

From March 1st to June 22nd, 2008, the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig presented a comprehensive exhibition on the life and work of Sachs under the title Gunter Sachs - Art is Female . On the poster above the museum entrance, Claudia Schiffer was named Isadora Duncan is shown strangling herself on her red silk scarf in a car accident in 1927. In addition to numerous photographic works, parts of his private art collection ( Pop Art , Nouveau Réalisme , Informel , Surrealism) were on display, as well as his documentaries and personal mementos from his life, such as his motorcycles and bobsled. In view of the great success with the public, the exhibition was extended until October 5, 2008. A total of 68,300 visitors came, making the retrospective the most successful exhibition in the museum's 150-year history.

Under the title of photographer and art collector that showed Tsaritsyno Museum in Moscow from 24 March to 7 June 2009 an exhibition of Gunter Sachs. Among the 200 photographs were numerous new works, also on display was a selection of documentary films by Sachs and 50 works from his private art collection.

Parallel to the New Pop Festival, in which Sachs participated with poster art, the Museum Frieder Burda also showed an exhibition of Sachs photographs in Baden-Baden from September 14 to November 8, 2009.

From November 2013 to March 2014, the Gunter Sachs collection was shown in the Kunsthalle Schweinfurt . In contrast to the premiere in the Villa Stuck in Munich, son Rolf Sachs and the family made 70 additional exhibits available for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle. The exhibition became a who's who of international art history and pop art, with works by Andy Warhol , Roy Lichtenstein , Salvador Dali , Max Ernst and others. 64,744 visitors came from all over Germany and beyond. 858 booked tours counted a total of 17,000 participants. Due to the unexpectedly large crowd, on some days with long queues at the entrance, the opening times have been extended. The exhibition saw itself as “a homage by the Sachs family to their roots”. However, Gunter Sachs himself had a distant relationship with his hometown.

astrology

In 1994, together with a team of mathematicians and statisticians, Sachs checked the statements of the sun sign astrology , which was introduced by RH Naylor in 1930. Although there had already been studies like Michel Gauquelin's Mars effect , what was new about Sachs' research was the large amount of data that he was able to use as a basis for analysis.

In 1995 he founded the Institute for the empirical and mathematical investigation of the possible truth content of astrology in relation to the behavior of people and their abilities (IMWA). In statistical studies with over 20 million Swiss, English, German and French data, which were published in 1997 in the volume The Astrology Act , the book found significant relationships between the so-called sun signs and various behaviors, such as marriage, career choices, and traffic behavior or tendency to commit suicide.

The book also contains an appendix with the results of a study commissioned by Sachs from the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy on the subject of signs of the zodiac with a foreword by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann . The book was on the Spiegel bestseller list for 21 weeks and was nominated for the Astrological Research Award in England . The book was published in English in 1998 and in French in 2000.

His family posthumously published his second book devoted to astrology, My Astrological Legacy: The Secret of Love, Happiness, and Death (Scorpio Verlag, 2014).

criticism

Accusation of "gammeln"

In 1973 Günter Wallraff and Bernt Engelmann Sachs criticized Sachs in their book Ihr da oben - we down there in the chapter "... bummed for Germany: Gunter Sachs".

astrology

The statistician Herbert Basler, academic director at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Würzburg in 1998, criticized Sachs' astrological research. Basler acknowledged, however, that Sachs deserved the credit of having "spread the insight to a broad public that astrological hypotheses, like other scientific statements, can be empirically verified - using the methods of mathematical statistics as an aid."

A statement published in March 2011 by the statisticians Katharina Schüller and Walter Krämer came to the conclusion that the technical and methodological errors that Basler claimed in Gunter Sachs' evaluations were not there.

An analysis of his data from 2003 comes to the conclusion that his analyzes and results are flawed and have no use as scientific material (“ Its analyzes and results are not useable as scientific material ”). In the dissertation of the psychologist Peter Niehenke, Sachs' work met with radical rejection: his inadmissible conclusions drawn from the statistical results are meaningless.

Review of suspected financial links

On April 4, 2013, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) published a report on Gunter Sachs' holdings and financial ties in offshore financial centers . In cooperation with the SonntagsZeitung and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk , the journalists researched the databases of the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published under the project name Offshore-Leaks . Numerous documents such as certificates and contracts, copied identity cards and billing statements, internal e-mails and faxes, but also handwritten letters from Gunter Sachs, his private secretary and participating companies, trusts and lawyers were viewed. They prove the establishment of an anonymous company network in the Cook Islands and investments in companies in other tax havens . Sachs was advised several times by the Swiss law firm Lenz & Staehelin .

The tax data from 2008 onwards from Gunter Sachs were checked after the report by the tax administration of the canton of Berne , which found no suspicious factors that would have warranted the initiation of tax proceedings.

Obituaries and posthumous reception

Zeit Online wrote:

“Sachs has always fascinated the media and thus the public, especially in Germany. He himself knew that he was one of the 'dying playboys'. He once said that he deliberately refrained from using status symbols when seeking female sympathy. 'You can draw attention to yourself with sports cars and expensive suits, but you can't really impress women with them.' "

In doing so, Sachs understood how to "always oppose a more serious side".

Welt Online published an obituary by Inga Griese. The first sent an obituary in ttt - title, theses, temperaments .

Awards

Sports:

  • Junior European Champion two-man bobsleigh (1959)

Film and Art:

General honors:

Publications

  • Girls in my eyes . Heyne, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-453-52008-4 .
  • Light 'images . Verlag Photographie, Schaffhausen 1981, ISBN 3-7231-1600-0 .
  • T '. Surreal stories & photographs . Mirja Sachs Foundation, Munich 1987.
  • The Astrology Acts. Scientific evidence of a connection between the zodiac signs and human behavior. Goldmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-442-30746-5 .
  • Gunter Sachs: Photographe passionne . Knesebeck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89660-197-0 . Edited on the occasion of the exhibition in the Hamburg Museum for Art and Industry
  • My life . Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-04486-7 .
  • My astrological legacy . Trinity, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-943416-85-5 .

literature

  • Wilfried Rott: Sachs - entrepreneurs, playboys, millionaires. A story of fathers and sons. Blessing, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89667-270-3 .
  • The Gunter Sachs Collection. Exhibition catalog. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-5451-1 .
  • Gunter Sachs - photographer. Catalog of the exhibition in Rome 1996 (text in German and English), Skira Editore, Milano 1996, ISBN 88-8118-066-9 .
  • Hans-Werner Schmidt: Gunter Sachs. Edited on the occasion of the exhibitions "Gunter Sachs - Art is Female ..." from March 2 to June 22, 2008 and "Best of: Gunter Sachs - Art is Female ..." from July 16 until October 5, 2008 in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-37-9 .
  • Gunter Sachs in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The grave of Gunter Sachs. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Gunter Sachs: The best game. In: Der Spiegel . September 26, 1962. online
  3. ↑ a b Gunter Sachs: Suicide in Switzerland. In: merkur-online. May 8, 2011.
  4. ↑ munzinger.de
  5. ↑ Gunter Sachs is dead. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 8, 2011.
  6. ↑ In the interview: Gunter Sachs “Even playboys are getting wiser”. sueddeutsche.de, March 1, 2008.
  7. ↑ geneall.net
  8. ↑ Gunter Sachs in the Munzinger archive , accessed on May 11, 2011 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  9. ↑ The Modern Art Museum in the Villa Stuck.
  10. ↑ Playboy with an understanding of art. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . May 10, 2011.
  11. ↑ Interview with Angelika Platen on artnet
  12. ↑ a b Review: The end of a playboy legend. ( Memento from May 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: daserste.de, May 8, 2011.
  13. ↑ If a rich man comes along ... In: Der Spiegel. 9/1977, February 21, 1977.
  14. ↑ The visit of the young playboy. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 10, 2011.
  15. ↑ The brown shadow. cicero.de, accessed on August 31, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Sven Kuschel, John Puthenpurackal, Stephan Kürthy, Nicole Richter, Mark Pittelkau; Dora Varro and Fabian Matzerath (photo): Gunter Sachs: In the hour of his death he was all alone. In: bild.de . May 10, 2011, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Gunter Sachs took his own life. weltonline, May 8, 2011.
  18. ↑ Gunter Sachs died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 8, 2011.
  19. ^ Gunter Sachs farewell letter: The "hopeless disease A." stern.de on May 8, 2011.
  20. ^ The farewell letter from Gunter Sachs. In: faz.net . May 8, 2011.
  21. ↑ Documentation: The farewell letter from Gunter Sachs. Focus.de, May 8, 2011.
  22. ↑ Farewell: "My friend Gunter Sachs" - Princess Manni Sayn-Wittgenstein was the last one who phoned the ex-Playboy. oe24.at, May 15, 2011.
  23. ↑ Buried in the closest family circle of Gunter Sachs. n-tv.de, May 13, 2011.
  24. ↑ Gunter Sachs is quietly buried. May 14, 2011. ( sueddeutsche.de ( Memento from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
  25. ↑ Sven Michaelsen: Gunter Sachs - "All the beautiful girls ..." ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stern . November 17, 2005.
  26. ↑ a b Gunter Sachs honored for 40 years as club president.
  27. ↑ Note Plazza, Romansh = place. https://de.glosbe.com/rm/de/plazza
  28. ^ Auction in London on Europe Online Magazine, published and accessed May 23, 2012.
  29. ↑ Playboy legend in an interview: Gunter Sachs on love with Brigitte Bardot. wiwo.de, September 27, 2008.
  30. ↑ 1969 Happening in White. ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) PeterThomas.tv.
  31. ↑ kino-db.de: "Happening in White" short film, CH 1969 - length: 00:10
  32. ^ Happening in White in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  33. ↑ Poster of the 'New Pop Festival'
  34. ↑ Overwhelming popular success in Leipzig. ( Memento from November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gunter Sachs aktuell. 2008.
  35. ^ Gunter Sachs - Art is feminine ... ( Memento from June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, exhibition from March 2 to June 22, 2008.
  36. ^ Exhibition at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve from March 24th – 7th. June 2009. ( Memento from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Gunter Sachs aktuell. 2009.
  37. ↑ Carsten Heidböhmer: Gunter Sachs - "Every summer was intoxication without wine". In: Stern . July 21, 2009.
  38. ^ Museum Frieder Burda ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  39. ↑ Original genome of the arts. In: Die Weltwoche . September 23, 2009.
  40. ↑ a b Schweinfurter. Citizen magazine of the city of Schweinfurt. 3rd edition, p. 16.
  41. ^ End of exhibition for the Gunter Sachs Collection. (No longer available online.) In: Schweinfurter Anzeiger. Archived from the original on April 17, 2016 ; Retrieved April 17, 2016 .
  42. ↑ Gunter Sachs explains the influence of the stars. welt.de, accessed on August 20, 2013.
  43. ↑ My Astrological Legacy: The Secret of Love, Happiness and Death. Scorpio Verlag, 2014.
  44. ↑ Herbert Basler: "The Astrology Files" by Gunter Sachs from the perspective of mathematical statistics.
  45. ↑ Katharina Schüller, Walter Krämer: Commentary on: "The" Astrology Files "by Gunter Sachs from the point of view of mathematical statistics" by Dr. Herbert Basler. ( Memento from January 4, 2013 on WebCite ) (PDF; 98 kB).
  46. ↑ Alexander von Eye, Friedrich Lösel, Roni Mayzer: Is it all written in the stars? A methodological commentary on Sachs' astrology monograph and re-analyzes of his data on crime statistics . (PDF; 112 kB). In: Psychology Science. Vol. 45, 2003, pp. 78-91.
  47. ↑ Kocku von Stuckrad: History of Astrology. Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich 2003, p. 363f.
  48. ↑ Bastian Obermayer, Frederik Obermaier, Titus Plattner: After Multi-Million Inheritance, Playboy Sachs Goes Offshore . In: icij.org , April 5, 2013, accessed April 8, 2013.
  49. ↑ icij.org
  50. ↑ Playboy in the Tax Paradise - The Sachs System. April 4, 2013. (sueddeutsche.de)
  51. ↑ Die Millionenspiele by playboy Gunter Sachs. April 4, 2013. ( ndr.de ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
  52. ↑ Media coverage of financial transactions
  53. ↑ Tax case Gunter Sachs. Offshore leak runs aground. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 26, 2013.
  54. ↑ Photographer Gunter Sachs is dead. In: Zeit online. May 8, 2011.
  55. ↑ Gunter Sachs - heir to millions, photographer and bon vivant. In: Welt Online . May 8, 2011.
  56. ↑ Markus Böhm: Schlosshotel Velden opened - LH Haider awards Carinthia ambassador Gunter Sachs with the Great Gold Medal. Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government. May 28, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Gunter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachs, Fritz Gunter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss entrepreneur, photographer, film director, art collector, astrologer, playboy
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainberg near Schweinfurt, Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2011
Place of death Gstaad , Switzerland