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General => News => Topic started by: PlayMoto on June 08, 2015, 09:39:02

Title: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: PlayMoto on June 08, 2015, 09:39:02: :'(
Horst Brandstätter passed away on June 3rd. Statement (http://pcc.pm/group/pcc/forum/topics/obituary-for-playmobil-head-horst-brandstatter) just made by the PCC.

Rest in piece dear Horst, and all the best to the Brandstätter family, in blood and in figure.
Thank you for all you have done for this world! :wave:
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: cachalote on June 08, 2015, 10:15:22: :'( 5 days ago.
http://www.dw.de/playmobil-toy-magnate-horst-brandst%C3%A4tter-dies-aged-81/a-18502265
thank you for everything, for a lot.
for being the best godfather a toy could wish for.
r.i.p.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: tahra on June 08, 2015, 10:38:39: :(
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: bogol on June 08, 2015, 10:52:10: I just read the sad news and felt the urge to come here. Rest in peace, Mr. Brandstätter. If one's aim in life should be to leave the earth a better place than you found it, Horst Brandstätter was certainly a human to succeed with this challenge.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: tonguello on June 08, 2015, 12:05:49: I've just heard too. So weird it just came out but it was 5 days ago.
I'm so sorry. :'(
May he rest in peace.

:sorrow: :sorrow: :sorrow: :sorrow: :sorrow: :sorrow:
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: bonniebeth on June 08, 2015, 12:30:03: Just saw this too. So terribly sad. :'( :'( :'(
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Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2015, 12:31:36: A great loss to the world, but he leaves a great legacy.
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Post by: skypurr on June 08, 2015, 12:50:17: Very sad news :(
It is good to know though that he made arrangements for the company to continue as he would have wished.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Rhalius on June 08, 2015, 12:52:35: Very sorry to hear it, I hope he got to do in life all the things he had wished to do.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Richard on June 08, 2015, 12:56:53: HOB will certainly be missed.
However, because he was a man of vision, he has left a great team behind to keep his Playmobil ship afloat.
Let us all wish Judith Weingart and Steffen Hoepfner our very best.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Tiermann on June 08, 2015, 14:52:48: :(
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Rasputin on June 08, 2015, 14:53:27: RIP HOB

Thanks for all you business knowledge in making playmobil such a success.

Perhaps the management team could make a commemorative set of HOB and Hans.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Bolingbroke on June 08, 2015, 15:33:30: Rip herr horst, and condolences to the brandstatter family.

I wonder what this means for PM in the longterm, and whether his successors will stick to his somewhat antiquated way of running the company in recent years.

Still, thanks for everything you've ever done for children worldwide.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: cheng on June 08, 2015, 15:58:57: Thank you Mr.Horst B :'(
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: DizneeGirl on June 08, 2015, 17:34:00: Quote from: Bolingbroke on June 08, 2015, 15:33:30

Still, thanks for everything you've ever done for children worldwide.

...and for those "grown up" children that still like to play :)
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: tonguello on June 08, 2015, 18:26:35: The news of his passing made it to the press here.
I don't know about TV but it's on the newspapers... :'(
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: tonguello on June 08, 2015, 18:29:39: Geobra's spokesperson said he died of a terrible but very short disease.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: cachalote on June 08, 2015, 22:04:48: do you think a joint message from all of us playmofriends to hb's family would be doable?
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: tonguello on June 08, 2015, 23:35:31: how would we contact the family?
through the pcc maybe?
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Ismene on June 09, 2015, 00:14:42: RIP Horst :sadklicky:

I admire his insistence (mentioned in the PCC article) that the company manage without him while he went to Florida, rather than micromanaging. It was wise to prepare them to ''keep the ship sailing'' when he was no longer able to do so.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: leefert on June 09, 2015, 02:08:39: May He Rest In Peace

He has left behind a great legacy, that so many of us got to share a part of.
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Post by: Sylvia on June 09, 2015, 07:43:25: Very sad news!
RIP Mr Brandstätter. :(
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Post by: tahra on June 09, 2015, 08:01:44: News made it to newspapers here as well... And all over, I think.
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Post by: Giorginetto on June 09, 2015, 20:18:41: R.I.P .....
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Birdie on June 09, 2015, 20:19:37: So sad :(
It's in the newspapers here too.

Quote from: cachalote on June 08, 2015, 22:04:48
do you think a joint message from all of us playmofriends to hb's family would be doable?

If it is at all possible, through the PCC maybe like Tonguello suggests, I think it's an excellent idea.
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: Basie10 on June 10, 2015, 06:40:20: Sad news - amazing legacy he leaves behind
Title: Re: Horst Brandstätter passed away
Post by: cachalote on June 12, 2015, 13:35:26: in playmobil.de there is a book of condolences - http://download.playmobil.com/HORST_BRANDSTAETTER/
i signed with may name and added may playmofriends' alias.