Jan-Göran Barth

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Jan-Göran Barth (* 1978 ) is the head chef of the German Federal President's Office . He has been employed there since 2000. The official meals, for which he prepares the dishes, take place in Bellevue Palace.

Life

Barth trained as a chef in the Berlin Hilton Hotel with Thea Nothnagel and won several prizes, was a chef's youth champion and 2000 winner with the German youth chefs team. During his time with the Bundeswehr , he became a cook, then head chef of a Bundeswehr canteen in Potsdam . He then applied to the office of the Federal President. He cooked for the Federal Presidents Johannes Rau , Horst Köhler , Christian Wulff and Joachim Gauck . When the German head of state travels abroad, Barth has the duty to warn of food that is hazardous to health. When eating in Berlin, the kitchen is based on the information provided by the protocol department ; so beef is not served with Indian guests, pork not with Muslim guests.

Representative of German food culture

Similar to the Élysée Palace or the White House, the German head of state entertains his guests with dishes typical of the country. Barth buys German wines , meat from the organic butcher, potato and historical tomato varieties as well as rapeseed or grape seed oil to give the President's guests an impression of the variety and quality of German food. Bread is homemade, rice and pasta are not served as side dishes. Instead of champagne , hand-shaken sparkling wine from the Moselle is served, port wine from the Palatinate and whiskey from Bavaria . Instead of aceto balsamico , black vinegar from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is used.

literature

  • Gregor Weber : black red gold. German for foreigners or cooking for the state. in: Cooking is war! At the stove with German professional chefs. Piper-Taschenbuch, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-26409-9 , pp. 95-118.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian: Politics and the military in Germany: The Federal Presidents and Federal Chancellors and their relationship to the soldiery and the Bundeswehr. Miles, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937-88536-0 , p. 218.
  2. ↑ Nikolas Rechenberg: Horst Köhler, his cook and the German diet. In: welt.de , December 28, 2006, accessed July 30, 2014
  3. ↑ Anka Seyferth: Master chefs are "baked" in Thea's kitchen , berliner-kurier.de, September 27, 2001, accessed on August 5, 2014
  4. ↑ Ralf Ott: Jan-Göran Barth cooks at Bellevue Palace. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Alb Bote , February 27, 2010
  5. ↑ Martina Fietz: The White House of the Germans. From: focus .de , July 1, 2010, accessed on July 30, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Jan-Göran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cook
DATE OF BIRTH 1978