Remzi Kaplan

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Remzi Kaplan (born August 3, 1960 in Yozgat , Turkey ) is a German-Turkish kebab producer in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen . He is partner and managing director of Kaplan Dönerproduktion GmbH and since June 2007 chairman of the Turkish-German business association Berlin Brandenburg. From 2006 to 2007 he was the first chairman of the Türkiyemspor Berlin football club .

Life

Kaplan grew up in the Anatolian village of Bahadın near Yozgat . His parents were caretakers, and Kaplan worked as a messenger and seller of vegetables as a schoolchild. His parents went to Germany as guest workers and had their son, who was now living with his grandparents, join them in the early 1970s.

Kaplan married in 1977. His son and two daughters work for his company.

Companies

Initially, Kaplan ran snack bars in West Berlin . After the reunification , Kaplan expanded with his kebab shops in the eastern part of the city . In 1991 he and his brother opened their first own meat factory. This was followed by production in the Netherlands Zevenaar (1994), Hamburg (1996), Schönwalde (1999) and Berlin (2001). In July 2004, Kaplan and a Polish partner opened a kebab shop for Poland in Stettin . Since 2007 he has been the largest kebab producer in the EU . In Berlin alone it supplies around 1000 snack bars. His company is represented on the board of the Association of Turkish Doner Kebab Manufacturers in Europe ATDID.

The Berlin press describes Kaplan as the "King of Döner" or "Kebab King".

Rotten meat scandal

Following a complaint from a customer who complained of nausea after eating, around four tons of unsuitable meat were seized from Kaplan's facility in September 2006. In 2007, Kaplan announced a charge of defamation against the prosecutor's spokesman who had mentioned his name in connection with disgusting meat. He referred to his efforts for a "transparent production" and his efforts to introduce a kebab quality seal. Kaplan contradicted the presumption of an official veterinarian that a rotisserie manufacturer involved in the rotten meat scandal might not have recognized the poor quality of the meat: "You can see and smell something like that".

In September 2007, Kaplan campaigned in the Hürriyet to publish the names of the kebab manufacturers supplied with rotten meat in 2007 and defended himself against rotten meat allegations.

In 2008 the public prosecutor's office brought charges of “placing on the market of unsuitable food”. On May 15, 2008 the Berlin-Tiergarten District Court sentenced Kaplan to a fine of 40,000 euros (400 daily rates of 100 euros each). A second charge of mislabeling the composition and origin of the meat has been dropped.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TDU Berlin - Board of Directors ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Turkish-German Entrepreneurs Association Berlin Brandenburg eV @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tdu2.rescue-it.de
  2. ↑ Monday interview with Remzi Kaplan: “Now I have tons of meat” Taz , July 18, 2011
  3. ↑ Der Dönerkönig Mindener Tageblatt , October 31, 2011
  4. ^ "In the kebab acceding country" , Berliner Zeitung , July 5, 2004
  5. ↑ “Remzi Kaplan donated the jerseys to the sports club” , Berliner Zeitung, August 20, 1999
  6. ↑ "Kaplan goes to Poland" , FAZ , June 8, 2004
  7. ↑ ATDID eV - Board of Directors ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Association of Turkish Doner Kebab Manufacturers in Europe @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.atdid.de
  8. ↑ a b "Rotten meat": Döner scandal is expanding , Die Welt , May 16, 2008
  9. ↑ a b c Hilmar Poganatz: “The Imbissmillionär” , Tagesspiegel , March 11, 2007
  10. ↑ Stefan Jacobs, Christoph Stollowsky: Rotten meat: Döner scandal expands Tagesspiegel , August 29, 2007
  11. ↑ Suzan Gülfirat: Kebab dealers go to the barricades , tagesspiegel.de, September 2, 2007
  12. ↑ Suzan Gülfirat: A blow against the kebab industry , tagesspiegel.de, December 27, 2006
  13. ↑ "Döner producer should pay a fine of 40,000 euros" ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tagesspiegel, May 16, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tagesspiegel.de

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personal data
SURNAME Kaplan, Remzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish doner kebab producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Yozgat , Turkey