{"id":252,"date":"2019-06-03T15:59:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T14:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/?p=252"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T14:59:27","slug":"karl-wiedenmann-retires-after-24-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/karl-wiedenmann-retires-after-24-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Wiedenmann retires after 24 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BTME and Saltex regular for the last 24\nyears, Karl Wiedenmann has retired.&nbsp; Even though his remit was heading up\nworldwide sales for Wiedenmann Gmbh, Karl made it his business to make as many\nUK trade shows as possible. For the last two and a half decades Karl has helped\nexpand the Wiedenmann fleet beyond Terra Spike aerators into other areas such\nas&nbsp; collecting,&nbsp; sweeping, seeding&nbsp; and artificial turf\nmaintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a special farewell at Wiedenmann UK\u2019s HQ,\nDavid Rae, Wiedenmann UK\u2019s managing director said that Karl\u2019s influence was\neverywhere in the Wiedenmann brand.&nbsp; \u201cNot only is he expert in logistic\nand technical matters, Karl\u2019s dependability to \u2018do the right thing\u2019 shines through.\nDealers and customers up and down the UK got to know him and valued his\nopinion. Every business needs a Karl.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Karl\u2019s legendary reliability at client\nfunctions came in for special praise.&nbsp; David Rae quipped \u201cKarl could be last\nto leave the bar and put the lights off at 04.00 am yet be first up, fresh and\nready for breakfast at&nbsp; 06.00am.&nbsp; We, his&nbsp;colleagues, loved him\nfor that alone. He was great to have on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After accepting a&nbsp;presentation of an\nengraved quaich and Scotch whisky, Karl acknowledged the UK has become like a\nsecond home.&nbsp; However he reserved his warmest tribute to Wiedenmann UK\nchairman, Alistair Rae, crediting him for generously passing on the education\nthat&nbsp;enabled Karl\u2019s smooth transition from agriculture to sports turf in\nthe 1990s, saying it was on Alistair\u2019s solid foundation he built his Wiedenmann\ncareer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Karl-Wiedenmann.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Karl-Wiedenmann.jpg 511w, https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Karl-Wiedenmann-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTME and Saltex regular for the last 24 years, Karl Wiedenmann has retired.&nbsp; Even though his remit was heading up worldwide sales for Wiedenmann Gmbh, Karl made it his business to make as many UK trade shows as possible. For the last two and a half decades Karl has helped expand the Wiedenmann fleet beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiedenmann.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}