Willi Schwank

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Willi Schwank (* around 1920 ) was a German cook.

Career

In 1953, Schwank opened the specialty restaurant Stahlbad in Baden-Baden on the corner of Eichstrasse and Lichtentaler Strasse. The name of the restaurant goes back to a bath located here from 1831, which used iron-rich water from a spring.

In 1966 his restaurant was one of the first 66 hotels in Germany to be awarded a Michelin star . In 1973 the restaurant moved 200 meters further to Augustaplatz 2, where it still exists today (as of 2018), under different management and without a Michelin star.

In 1974 the restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars . Two stars were awarded to seven restaurants in Germany for the first time in 1974, including the Tantris under Eckart Witzigmann , the Schweizer Stuben under Jörg and Dieter Müller and the Hotel-Restaurant Erbprinz under Günther Wanka . The restaurant kept two stars until 1976.

Schwank's students included Harald Wohlfahrt , who cooked for him from 1974 to 1976, and Rainer Wolter from 1977 to 1979, as well as Pavel Pospíšil and Willi Tetz, who was chef at the starred restaurant Humperdinck in Frankfurt am Main in the 1980s .

Private

Willi Schwank was married to Elisabeth Schwank (* 1921), who also worked in the Stahlbad restaurant , where she still worked in 2011. The Stahlbad restaurant has had new owners since 2012 .

Awards

  • 1966: A Michelin star for the Stahlbad restaurant in Baden-Baden
  • 1974: Two Michelin stars for the Stahlbad restaurant in Baden-Baden

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b stahlbadrestaurant.blogspot.com: The history of the steel bath in Baden-Baden
  2. ↑ a b c restaurant-ranglisten.de: The history of the Michelin Guide in Germany
  3. ↑ stahlbad.com: The Stahlbad restaurant
  4. ↑ living-fine.de: A beautiful piece of Baden-Baden
  5. ↑ zeit.de: The new Michelin Germany: What does "pleasant" mean?
  6. ↑ harald-wohlfahrt.com: Vita
  7. ↑ a b cosmopolis.ch: Restaurant Wolters
  8. ↑ pospisilskrone.de: About us
  9. ↑ FAZ: He has already looked into his mother's pots. An Austrian at the stove: Alfred Friedrich cooks on his own in the "Humperdinck"
  10. ↑ effilee.de: A plate from Sven Elverfeld, the conversation
  11. ↑ issuu.com: baden-journal: May issue, p. 4, Four generations in the "steel bath"
  12. ↑ hoga-pr.de: Reopening of the Stahlbad restaurant in Baden Baden
personal data
SURNAME Schwank, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cook
DATE OF BIRTH before 1953