To Peter Arens there are so many anecdotes, that you can actually fit even in a life: He dined with the marriage to Gracia Patricia Princess of Monaco become Oscar-winner Grace Kelly, the world today coach Jürgen Klopp, he paved the way to Mainz 05, and in countries in the Balkans, he committed players with money, which he had bound himself to safety in Bundles around the belly. In addition, Arens has shaped his home town like few others, and also as a businessman: As a Barber, he took over the family business and established him as one of the most elegant shops in the centre of Mainz.

Daniel Meuren

editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

F. A. Z. Twitter

The hairdressing salon to the Large bleaching is conducted for almost two decades by his son, Christian, the office of the “senior chief”, but retained to the last. For many years he from there as the Executive Board of the international Association of barbers, the lobbying of European hairdressers. In this function, he had the honor of four decades ago, at a conference in Monte Carlo at a Gala-Diner in addition to the later fatal Gracia Patricia.

In the Public,it became known Arens, as an avowed Mainz rose Monday, always in the Uniform of the Prince’s guard on the road, because he was the longest-serving Board member to the leadership team of Mainz 05, which developed the club from a grey mouse to an established Bundesliga club. 1980 was a member of Arens on the Board for 37 years, three decades as Vice President. He is the founding sponsors of the basis of the VIP-Club, in order to generate revenue for the club. In these economically bleak times for the club in the eighties he also drew, with a Piccolo in the jacket pocket of a business-to-business and collected money to get the ailing club in the top League of the life. Who was Not on the man who helped the good soul of the club as the stadium announcer or spokesman.

Klopp after Mainz

for Several years it was the inaugural even before the service of Christian Heidel, sporting his task for the Executive Board, player to commit for the club. And so it was just Arens, 1990 Jürgen Klopp as a second division professional of Red-and-White-Frankfurt-Mainz steered and thus a connection is established, the should be for both sides a stroke of luck.

“He was the Only one of us who was drawn with Mainz 05 is already in the eighties in the top League on the village sports facilities, before the club grew in the second League slowly,” says his longtime colleague on the Board, Jürgen Doetz. “The more Mainz 05 for Peter Arens is a matter of the heart later, as the football more like a business and everything has been rough.”

F. A. Z.-Newsletter “Hauptwache”

So the day begins in Frankfurt and Rhine-Main: the most Important points in brief, with References to mobile speed cameras, road closures, and restaurants.

Please take notice of our privacy.

On Monday evening, was Arens in the circle of the “Grislies”, as the group of 05-Altvorstände in allusion to their gray (French: gris) called hair, since then, she has completed three years ago, the leadership of the club. Once a week, reveled Arens and his companions in the stadium restaurant “hare caste” in ancient stories and looked with joy, with concern to the Association. The meeting was Arens, although for years the health beat which, only in case of emergency.