Jürgen Gosch (entrepreneur)

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Jürgen Gosch in front of his bar in List in 2010
Shop in Frankfurt Central Station

Jürgen Gosch (born May 15, 1941 in Tönning ) is a German innkeeper , fishmonger and entrepreneur . He is the founder and managing director of the Gosch group of companies , some of which operate fish restaurants on the island of Sylt and in numerous other cities in Germany , some of which operate in a franchise system.

Life

According to his own account, Jürgen Gosch grew up without a father. He earned his first money at the age of four or five by pounding crabs; in his youth he collected copper and scrap at a landfill. Gosch completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer because he comes from a bricklayer family. In 1966 he came to Sylt for the first time on behalf of a construction company, where, in addition to working as a bricklayer, he sold fish from a vendor's tray after work . He was a traveling trader until 1972, then he opened a snack bar at the harbor in List on Sylt with a sales van, which claims to be the “northernmost fish stall in Germany”, which is credible as List is the northernmost town in Germany is. This snack is mentioned in literature in Christian Kracht's novel Faserland .

From the 1980s, Gosch first expanded on the island and founded branches in Westerland , List and Wenningstedt . A little later, the first branches were added in Hamburg , Berlin and Düsseldorf . Today he has eleven businesses on Sylt and 20 franchisees throughout Germany, as well as online shipping for fish and seafood. The cruise ships Mein Schiff 3–6 also each have a restaurant Gosch Sylt .

In January 2013, Gosch leased the Keese café on Hamburg's Reeperbahn . At Easter 2013 “The most sinful fish stall in the world” was opened in the rooms. Gosch leased the property from the controversial entrepreneur and economic criminal Burim Osmani .

family

In the 1970s, Jürgen Gosch met his future wife Anna, who looked after the finances of his company. Gosch's daughter Anja is a hotel manager and runs two Gosch bars with her husband in Westerland. Gosch's son Björn is a marine biologist.

Media interest

In 2000 the Felsenkeller brewery from Herford named Gosch as “Landlord of the Year”. On the occasion of the award ceremony, the daily newspaper Die Welt called him the “fish pope”. On the occasion of his 70th birthday on May 15, 2011, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recognized him as “Germany's most famous fishmonger”. In May 2011, Gosch began building a new restaurant on the cliff in Wenningstedt on Sylt, which was opened in September 2012, accompanied by regional media interest.

literature

  • Jürgen Gosch 70 years . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 14, 2011.
  • “I watch the circus” - The Sylt fish king Jürgen Gosch on the rich on the island, the fight against fast food, naked people on the beach and the question of why he lived in a garage , interview with Malte Conradi. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 29, 2012, page 28.
  • Johannes Ritter: Jürgen Gosch - fishmonger with autograph session . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 21, 2013, page 24.
  • Nathalie Klüver: Gosch - The Fish King of Sylt . Wachholtz Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-529-07502-5 .

Web links

Commons : Gosch (company)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “I watch the circus”. The Sylt fish king Jürgen Gosch on the rich on the island, the fight against fast food, naked people on the beach and the question of why he lived in a garage . Interview by Malte Conradi. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 29, 2012, p. 28 . Quote: "At sixteen I was called the Schietbark King" (Schietbarg: coarse Low German expression for landfill)
  2. ↑ TUI Cruises: My ship 1-3
  3. ^ Goschmani in Café Keese: Sylt aufm Kiez in: BILD-Zeitung, November 9, 2012
  4. ↑ Gosch to the Kiez: The legendary "Café Keese" is becoming a fish stall! in: Hamburger Morgenpost January 9, 2013
  5. ↑ Johannes Ritter: Jürgen Gosch - fishmonger with autograph session , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 21, 2013, page 24
  6. ↑ Die Welt : From bricklayer to "Landlord of the Year" - "Bar Oscar" awarded in Düsseldorf
  7. ↑ Jürgen Gosch 70 years . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 14, 2011 ( faz.net [accessed August 5, 2014]).
  8. ↑ Opening ceremony in Wenningstedt from Jünnes Düne on sylt-tv.com, accessed on December 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gosch, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and fishmonger
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Toenning