Lothar Lammers

Lothar Lammers (born April 24, 1926 in Höxter ; † July 10, 2012 in Münster ) developed the lottery game 6 out of 49 in 1955 together with entrepreneur and sports official Peter Weiand .

Life

Lammers studied law and economics at the Universities of Göttingen and Cologne . After settling after the Second World War in American captivity had operated in France as a translator, he began at the West German Football Toto his postwar career. The West German Football Toto was founded at that time to finance the reconstruction of sports facilities destroyed by the war. During this time he met Peter Weiand. Together with this, he developed the idea of reforming the conventional lottery system based on the model of the football pool. Lammers was instrumental in ensuring that the “6 out of 49” lottery system was legally recognized.

From 1955 to 1986 Lammers headed the West German Lottery within the German Toto and Lotto block . He was considered a pioneer of modern lotteries around the world. According to the principles developed by him and Weiand, lotteries were set up worldwide and existing state systems of sports betting were supplemented by lotteries.

Lammers was also managing director of casinos from the 1970s and of a building management company in Münster from 1979 .

Most recently he lived in Münster and St. Tropez .

Awards

1978: Decoration of honor of the German Red Cross
1978: Order of the Lion of Finland
1984: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
1987: Ordre national du Mérite
1989: Honorary member of Intertoto
1997: Hall of Fame, Las Vegas
2000: Honorary member of the World Lottery Association
2004: WLA Guy Simonis Lifetime Achievement Award

Web links

Spiegel Online : From Lotto-Lothar and happier millionaires , October 9, 2005
world-lotteries.org: Recognizing a lifetime of lottery achievement ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English, PDF, 242 KiB)
Sueddeutsche.de : The discoverer of the happiness formula , December 5, 2007

Individual evidence

↑ Inventors of 6 out of 49 died , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , accessed on July 13, 2012
^ Münstersche Zeitung : Lothar Lammers: Lottery inventor and West Lotto boss died in Münster , Münster, July 13, 2012
↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Lammers, Lothar, p. 259 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lammers, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lottery player inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Höxter
DATE OF DEATH	July 10, 2012
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Inventors of 6 out of 49 died , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , accessed on July 13, 2012

[2] Münstersche Zeitung : Lothar Lammers: Lottery inventor and West Lotto boss died in Münster , Münster, July 13, 2012

[3] Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Lammers, Lothar, p. 259 .