Hotelier of the Week: Stephan Kaminski

Nov 10, 09 | 1:58 am

By Stanley Slaughter

Stephan Kaminski has returned as general manager to the grand hotel in Munich where he started his career more than 30 years ago. He tells ABTN about his life as a hotelier.

When Stephan Kaminski stepped over the threshold of the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich as g its new general manager in 2006, it must have seemed like a homecoming. It was in this 150-year-old hotel that Mr Kaminski started his career in the hospitality industry as a humble bellboy in 1975.

If his career has come full circle, it has also taken him to some of Europe's most beautiful cities and  enabled him to meet figures like Bill Clinton, the former US president and Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister.

"I did an apprenticeship here as a bellboy and I grew up with the Kempinski family," he said. After a short spell away working for E Ramada and Sheraton Hotels, he returned to the luxury German hotelier.

In the past 23 years, he has worked as the resident manager at the Hotel Baltschug Moscow, as general manager at the Grand Hotel Europe St. Petersburg and then  at the Hotel Atlantic Hamburg before moving to the Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi and then back to the Munich property.

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Source: ABTN