Reinhard Klemm

Reinhard "Ringo" Klemm (* 1946 in Saxony ) was a German pimp. In the 1970s and 1980s he was one of the godparents of the Reeperbahn from Hamburg-St. Pauli and especially around Hans-Albers-Platz .

Career

Klemm came to Hamburg at the end of the 1960s and worked there first as a seaman and fisherman in the port. He was considered the head of the Chicago gang , which got its name from the club of the same name on Hans-Albers-Platz, which was operated by Ringo Klemm.

In 1986, Klemm got involved in the investigation into contract killer Werner Pinzner . He was charged with inciting murder by the prosecutor. On December 11, 1986, a hundred stormed Chicago . Klemm fled over the roofs and settled in Costa Rica . The Central American country had become a haven for German pimps for some time. One of them was Günter mutes, the owner of the Sudfass - brothels in Hamburg and Lubeck , who later belonged to the inner circle "Ringo" terminal. In Costa Rica, Klemm made several investments in banana plantations, expanded his drug business and, with his partners, ran a brothel chain that BKA investigators called a pig farm . During this time, Klemm was assigned contacts to the Colombian drug baron Carlos Lehder , which the police could not prove.

In the end, Klemm was extradited and tried in Hamburg. After a short prison sentence, he reopened Chicago and met celebrities like Nina Hagen , Udo Lindenberg and Jörg Immendorff , who opened La Paloma right across the street , in the trendy bar .

In the period that followed, Klemm repeatedly fell victim to criminal offenses and, after his last prison sentence, emigrated to the Spanish island of Ibiza , where he also opened and operated a club. The jazz singer and composer Hendrik Schwolow devoted Ringo clamping the song Wicked 'Wicked', Ringo terminal , which he in the Hamburg jazz club Cotton Club presented.

Reinhard Klemm lives on the Baltic Sea as a pensioner.

Individual evidence

↑ St. Pauli legends. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
↑ Thomas Hirschbiegel: "Godfather of St. Pauli": How the last German Kiez godfather escaped the police. April 27, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 .
↑ Ute Scheub: The long arm of a St. Pauli boss . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 27, 1987, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 9 ( taz.de [accessed on May 10, 2020]).
↑ Thomas Hirschbiegel: Police reporter: 42 years of gangster hunt for the MOPO. September 19, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 (German).
↑ Kiez institution tight - owner Jörg Immendorff supposedly found the rent too expensive: La Paloma -oh, dear! January 20, 1997, accessed May 10, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Klemm, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ringo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pimp
DATE OF BIRTH	1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saxony

[1] St. Pauli legends. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .

[2] Thomas Hirschbiegel: "Godfather of St. Pauli": How the last German Kiez godfather escaped the police. April 27, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 .

[3] Ute Scheub: The long arm of a St. Pauli boss . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 27, 1987, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 9 ( taz.de [accessed on May 10, 2020]).

[4] Thomas Hirschbiegel: Police reporter: 42 years of gangster hunt for the MOPO. September 19, 2019, accessed on May 10, 2020 (German).

[5] Kiez institution tight - owner Jörg Immendorff supposedly found the rent too expensive: La Paloma -oh, dear! January 20, 1997, accessed May 10, 2020 .