Executive Board

As a dynamic thinking person, I am in love with grapes and have been able to do a lot with and around PIWI grapes. I see my task as President of PIWI International (November 2020) as internationalization and establishing PIWI as a brand together with local associations and winemakers.

I worked as a specialist teacher and in the breeding of PIWI grape varieties, also in the association for ecological viticulture ALTERVIN, for twenty years I was active in the Czech Viticulture Association, AREV and COPA-COGECA. Now I am a freelance consultant and editor for the specialist journal Vinarsky obzor. At PIWI International I want to promote the internationalization of the association.

I have been supporting the PIWI International association for over 20 years and was involved in the founding of PIWI Germany in 2020. In recent years I have actively contributed to the further development of the office by looking after it. I look forward to many new members who support the idea of sustainable wine production.

As Dipl.-Ing. (FH) I worked in sales and marketing for many years, with many contacts in other European countries. Sustainable nutrition, especially with wine, is my special topic. That's why I'm involved with PIWI International and Slow Food and I want to convince as many wine drinkers as possible of PIWI's.

Ecological winery in Freiburg with 100% PIWIs, lateral entrant and self-taught, sustainable viticulture with the concept of organic wine and as a solidarity vineyard

I have been working with PIWI vines all my life since 1985. I was a member of a team that imported prospective new varieties from European research institutes and also dealt with the new varieties of PIWI grape varieties. Since 1996 I have been cultivating 2.3 hectares of PIWI varieties organically and offer NATURVIN wine. My task and also the goal is to establish "PIWI - Czech Republic" in 2021!

I have been chairman of PIWI Austria since 2016 and have worked in wine research for over 25 years, with a focus on PIWI.
PIWI International is to be the umbrella organization and central hub for the international PIWI network.

I have been involved in the winery for more than 10 years and manage a 2-hectare PIWI organic young wine garden in Klagenfurt, southern Austria, and as a cultural manager I organize various festivals that are primarily concerned with wine or beer and art education.