A touch of Germany at Downtown's Der Biergarten
17.05.12
SCAD INtown Takeover 2.0
As a member of the German Navy and a NATO employee, Wolfgang Hartert traveled the world, but no matter where he was living, he would say to his wife, Laura, “Now what we really need here is a German restaurant.” But it was a voyage to the North Pole that that led Hartert to enter the restaurant business in Atlanta.
During a stop in Oslo, Norway, Hartert encountered four Chinese men struggling to read the signs at the train station. He gave the men directions and realized they were traveling on the same ship. Over the course of a 30-day voyage, their friendship developed, and it was one of these men who would introduce Hartert to David Marvin of Legacy Restaurant Partners. Hartert remembers, “I told him, ‘I’m from Atlanta,’ and he said, ‘I know many good people in Atlanta’, like David Marvin.”
Source: Atlanta Intown
