Inken from Platen-Hallermund

Inken Countess von Platen-Hallermund (born June 13, 1975 in Elmshorn ) is a German eventing rider and equestrian sports official and, under her maiden name Johannsen, became European Young Rider Champion in 1995 and 1996, German Champion in 1998 and Vice-European Champion in 2001.

Life and work

Inken Johannsen grew up as the child of the farmer and horse breeder Manfred Johannsen and his wife Anke (née Plüschau) with four brothers on their parents' farm in Tornesch- Ahrenlohe, which has been home to the Esingen riding and driving club since 1925. The family is the fourth generation to breed Holstein horses.

As a 6-year-old she received riding lessons and practiced as a student in training young horses and in riding. In 1994 she graduated from high school, passed her riding exam and then went to the Nordakademie in Elmshorn for a dual degree in business administration . She completed the professional part at the company H. Wilhelm Schaumann GmbH in Pinneberg and was taken over there in 1997 as Marketing Assistant . In 2006 she moved to ReGe Hamburg Projekt-Realisierungsgesellschaft mbH in Hamburg as assistant press and relations , but in the same year she received an offer from the Association of Breeders of the Holstein Horse eV from Elmshorn to take over the position of young and new breeders. She held this position until 2009, completing an intensive course in sports economics at the EBS University of Economics and Law in Oestrich-Winkel . Then she moved to the Friederikenhof in Wangels / Ostholstein district , where she started her own Holstein breed.

Sporting successes

In 1987 the Holstein mare Brilliante (father: Ricardo, mother's father : Follywise) was born from her parents' breeding and was broken into in 1990 by the then 15-year-old Johannsen. It wasn't until 1994 that she came into contact with eventing on a course. In the same year Johannsen took 4th place with Brilliante at the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf . In 1995 and 1996 they were each European Champion of Young Riders . In 1998 she achieved her breakthrough among riders with the German championship in Luhmühlen . Despite high offers to buy, the amateur Johannsen decided to keep her horse. At the World Equestrian Games in Rome in the same year , however, she fell and only finished 29th. Since the horse suffered from tendon problems, it had to take a break for almost a year, but in 1999 returned to the world class with a 4th place in the CIC *** in Blenheim. Nevertheless, Johannsen decided to forego a sighting for the 2000 Olympic Games in order to protect the horse and was awarded the "Fair Play Trophy" of the German Riding at the 2001 Equitana in Essen .

In 2001 she achieved her best result: At the European Championships in Pau , France , she was runner-up in the European Championship and was only barely beaten by Pippa Funnell . In 2004 Brilliante left the sport. With her other competition horses, Lamina and Beloved , Johannsen was able to achieve victories at various CIC ** and CIC *** tournaments, but not to build on her success with Brilliante .

Sports official

Even after she left the Holsteiner Verband as a full-time employee in 2009, she continues to act as the Holsteiner Verband's representative for young and new breeders. Under her leadership, the young breeders of the Holsteiner Verband became world champions at the WBFSH World Championships for International Young Breeders in France in 2011, in Sweden in 2013 and in England in 2015. Until 2009 she was chairwoman of the Club Deutscher Versatigkeitsreiter eV and since then she has been a member of the National Youth Direction for Versatility of the German Olympic Committee for Equestrian and chair of the AG Youngsters Versatility. Also in 2009 she became President of the International Young Breeders (IYB).

Personal

Inken Johannsen was a guest on the Harald Schmidt Show three times , on December 9, 1998 (507th episode), on November 21, 2001 (1002nd episode) and on September 18, 2002 (1136th episode).

On June 19, 2010 she married Sebastian (Erb-) Graf von Platen-Hallermund (* 1976), the youngest son of Erik Graf and noble Herr von Platen-Hallermund, Hereditary Postmaster General of Hanover (* 1939) and his wife Henriette, born von Gellhorn (* 1939). As hereditary postmaster general, the firstborn of the family of Count Platen-Hallermund had a seat in the 1st Chamber of the Estates' Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover until 1866 and were able to claim permission until 1918 . The father passed these historical titles on to his youngest son.

Web links

• Website of Inken Countess von Platen-Hallermund

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about Brilliante at holsteiner-johannsen.de
2. ↑ The dream of the beautiful gigolo , Hamburger Abendblatt, October 5, 1998
3. ↑ Portrait: Inken Johannsen / Part 1: Triumph and Low Point ( Memento from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), buschreiter.de
4. ↑ EM Pau / final result: Inken Johannsen and Brilliante win silver ( memento from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Wolf-Dietrich Nahr / buschreiter.de
5. ↑ Third World Championship victory for young Holstein breeders , Uta Helkenberg / German Equestrian Association , August 19, 2015
6. ↑ Gen.HdB des Adels, Princely Houses, Vol. XVIII (2007), p. 232
7. ↑ Article 109 WRV ( Weimar Constitution of August 11, 1919) stipulates that the public law privileges or disadvantages of birth or status are to be abolished. Denominations of nobility are only [no longer] part of the name and may no longer be awarded. In the case of the descendants of the former Hereditary Counts Platen-Hallermund , all family members have since then carried the surname Graf or Countess von Platen-Hallermund . The name Erbgraf von Platen-Hallermund, which goes back to the no longer existing and inheritable nobility of primogeniture , as an indication of the future claim to the first-born title "General Hereditary Postmaster of Hanover" as part of the name (only for the heads of the family) is in such cases according to a judgment of the Federal Administrative Court dated March 11, 1966 (Az. VII C 85.63 and StAZ 1966, p. 344) is irrelevant in terms of personal status , but is similar to the provisions of the pseudonym as a form of courtesy in non-official contexts based on the tradition of the family in both literature and society mostly used.