Juergen Stollin was born in 1941 in the Krkonose/ Riesengebirge (Giant Mountains) today Tscheche Republik. The expulsion from the homeland came about in 1945 (As the family has be German)
He spant the difficult post-war period with an older brother and his mother in poor living conditions as a refugee in a small village in the state of Hesse. Here he went to school for eight years.
The father returned to the family only very late from Russian captivity (Prisoner of War).
A graduate-degree as a pastry baker in Marburg and an apprenticeship as a chef in Bremen fulfilrd young Juergen’s life-long dream: seafaring. He became acquainted with the „wide world“ on freighters and passenger ships.Later back again on land and in Germany, he became a gastronomer and innkeeper. He became also very successful a chef de cuisine in five-star hotels in deferent parts of the world….