Rolf Anschütz

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Rolf Anschütz (1984)

Rolf Anschütz (born April 27, 1932 in Hirschbach ; † April 24, 2008 in Suhl ) was a German restaurateur and founder of the first Japanese restaurant in the GDR .

Life

Rolf Anschütz was the son of the head waiter Berthold Anschütz (1909–1969) and his wife Erna geb. Leipoldt (1910–1973). His parents took over their first own restaurant in Suhl in 1949. From 1947 to 1949, Anschütz trained as a waiter and also trained as a cook . He then worked as a waiter in Suhl and Oberhof . In 1951 he attended the state administration school in Weimar. From 1952 to 1955 he volunteered for the barracked people's police . Then he was chief speaker restaurants in consumption -Kreisverband Borna . In 1957 he took over a restaurant in Bad Lausick . From 1959 he ran three restaurants in Neuruppin .

In 1960, Anschütz passed his master's examination to become a serving master in Potsdam. Together with his brother, he studied from 1960 to 1963 at the Technical School for Catering and Hotel Management in Leipzig and graduated as an engineering economist specializing in gastronomy. In 1962 he went back to Suhl as director of the HO district operations restaurant. After his exclusion from the SED , in 1964 he became the property manager of the HO-Restaurant Waffenschmied in Gothaer Straße 8 in Suhl, a eatery that offered Thuringian cuisine .

During his studies in Leipzig he came into contact with Japanese cuisine for the first time as part of the subject “Kitchens of the World” . As the head of the armourer , he developed his love for Japanese eating traditions out of initial curiosity and learned self-taught the customs of Japanese table and bathing manners, diets, eating habits and preparation methods and put them into practice in his restaurant. In 1966 he prepared a first Japanese meal for a journalistic regulars' table, which was also reported in the press, which made the Japanese Mutsumi Hayashi, lecturer at the Osaka University of Economics , who was studying in the GDR, aware of it and dined at Anschütz. Quoting his entry in the restaurant's guest book, the news agency ADN reported that the armory “has been offering a real Japanese meal with Szuki Yaki since the beginning of February [1966 ...] ,” prepared “in a stylishly furnished adjoining room for eight to ten people”. As a result, a restaurant with 40 seats was set up with a similar atmosphere and food offer to a Japanese ryotei . In February 1977 an extension was opened with a dining bar, banquet hall and a small Sento bathroom . The restaurant, in which Anschütz only held traditional Japanese meals, was officially called the “Japan department of the Armory Weaponsmith” and was the only Japanese restaurant in the GDR until the opening of the Leipzig Interhotel Merkur in 1981.

13 years after the opening of the Japan restaurant, Anschütz received an invitation from Japanese experts to Japan in 1979. After an initial refusal, he was allowed the four-week trip. After planning a new - but never opened - Japanese restaurant in Berlin , Anschütz left the armourer in the summer of 1986 . In 1988 he took over a sports restaurant in Suhl.

After 1989, Anschütz became President of the Thuringia Hotel and Restaurant Association . V. as well as President of the German-Japanese Society Thuringia e. V. Together with his wife, he took over a former FDGB holiday home on the Oberhofer Schloßberg and opened it in 1991 as the Japanese hotel “Sakura” (cherry blossom) with a pool, restaurant and rooms in Japanese style. Due to a lack of guests, the hotel had to file for bankruptcy in 2002, and he continued to run the restaurant until the end of 2003.

When Anschütz went to Berlin at the end of 1986, he made his apartment in Suhl available to the Ministry for State Security as a conspiratorial meeting point . According to a report by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , he is said to have handed over the keys to the apartment for the prefabricated high-rise building to the secret service without having received any financial compensation.

motion pictures

Anschütz 'Life served as a template for the feature film Sushi in Suhl with Uwe Steimle in the role of Rolf Anschütz. The film producer Carl Schmitt did not want to tell a biography with his film, which was based on interviews conducted with Anschütz.

Honors

At the suggestion of the then Japanese Foreign Minister Keizō Obuchi , Anschütz was awarded the Imperial Order of the Holy Treasure on a ribbon with golden rays for his commitment in 1998 .

On October 14, 2012, on the occasion of the Thuringian premiere of the film Sushi in Suhl, Suhl's Lord Mayor Jens Triebel and Rolf Anschütz's widow unveiled a memorial plaque to the former Japanese restaurant and its founder Rolf Anschütz at Haus Gothaer Straße 8.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uske: Rolf Anschütz and the Japanese restaurant Suhl. P. 21.
  2. ^ "Waffenschmied (with Japanese restaurant, day restaurant, lounges), Gothaer Straße 8" ; quoted from: Horst H. Müller (Ed.): Thüringer Wald und Randgebiet. Travel guide. Tourist-Verlag, Berlin u. Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-350-00263-3 , p. 675.
  3. ↑ Free Word , organ of the Suhl district leadership of the SED , February 9, 1966.
  4. ↑ Suhler circle Echo , February 9, 1966th
  5. ↑ Free Word, organ of the Suhl district leadership of the SED , February 10, 1966.
  6. ^ ADN notification 203 , February 20, 1966, year 1966, No. 51.
  7. ↑ Uske: Rolf Anschütz and the Japanese restaurant Suhl. P.56.
  8. ^ MDR television: New beginning in Oberhof. Rolf Anschütz in his Japanese hotel. Broadcast Unter Uns on August 20, 1999 (accessed on August 14, 2014).
  9. ↑ Japanhotel is for sale. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , August 8, 2002.
  10. ↑ Uske: Rolf Anschütz and the Japanese restaurant Suhl. P. 66.
  11. ↑ Rainer Erices : The "armorer" and the Stasi. ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), MDR Thuringia, March 18, 2016.
  12. ↑ Claudia Götze: Imperial order for German gourmet temples. In: Sächsische Zeitung , April 14, 2000, p. 6.
  13. ↑ Suhltrifft.de: guides and plaque. ( Memento from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).

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personal data
SURNAME Anschütz, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German restaurateur
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschbach near Schleusingen
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2008
Place of death Suhl