{"id":56868,"date":"2021-01-29T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/?p=56868"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:33:43","slug":"founder-of-edelweiss-bike-travel-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclemojo.com\/2021\/01\/founder-of-edelweiss-bike-travel-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Edelweiss Bike Travel, Werner Wachter, has passed away."},"content":{"rendered":"
Son and successor, Tobias Wachter wrote \u201cWe say goodbye to a visionary, a successful and far-sighted entrepreneur, and above all a great humanitarian who carried motorcycle travel deep in his heart.<\/span><\/p>\n With his enthusiasm, his occasionally crazy ideas – which often made it impossible to stop him, his humour, his openness and creativity, he has shaped the motorcycle travel world and the entire Edelweiss family like no other.<\/span><\/p>\n With his smile and his sayings, such as “if you work at Edelweiss, you have the most beautiful job in this world” Werner will always remain in our memory.<\/span><\/p>\n For all of us, Werner’s legacy is an obligation to work even harder and more intensively on his vision of a large, international, and multicultural Edelweiss family. Werner, we will miss you very much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Edelweiss Bike Travel was founded by Wachter in 1980 and through the years has grown to be one of the most reputable motorcycle tour companies, offering guided and self-guided tours around the world. Werner Wachter was 78 years old and had run Edelweiss for 38 years before passing the torch to his son in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1773,2013,2012,1033],"yoast_head":"\n