Gert Pollmann

Outokumpu Nirosta GmbH

After completing his A-levels, Gert Pollmann, born in 1952 in Stuttgart, studied Industrial Design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. While finalising his diploma thesis, he worked at bb auto in Frankfurt. This was a highly renowned concept agency for the
automotive industry at the time. In November 1981, he founded his design studio in Böhmfeld near Ingolstadt under the name “G.Pollmann Design”. In 1990, this was incorporated as “G.Pollmann GmbH”.

From the outset, G.Pollmann GmbH was almost exclusively engaged in automotive design. The company collaborated with many major automotive suppliers and various car manufacturers. A significant influence on the studio was a series of around 10 “collaborative studies of the supplier industry”. These studies included complete show cars, which sometime were even drivable. Until 1997, the cars were presented on a dedicated stand at the IAA, the “International Motor Show” in Frankfurt am Main. The studio’s team of five full-time designers and model makers handled these presentations. From 1998, these striking concept vehicles were displayed at various events, such as the “Historic Meeting Hohwacht”.

In 2007, G.Pollmann GmbH expanded into a new area. The ProtoChampSeries was introduced as a competition for historic racing and sports cars, as well as prototypes. Vehicles developed by G.Pollmann GmbH have been participating in this series ever since.

In 2012, the design studio was sold to Indus Holding AG. However, Gert Pollmann continued to work as a designer on special projects. These projects were often developed in collaboration with the design studio. During this period, projects such as the SuperSports Roadster ’12, Sportsfish ’16, and more recently FormulaVoltage and the Environmentally Upper Class (Umweltoberklasse) have been created.

For about 15 years, until 2017, Gert Pollmann led a design seminar at the Technical University of Munich in the Vehicle Engineering department. In 2017, G.Pollmann GmbH relocated from Böhmfeld in Bavaria to Oldenburg in Holstein, near the Baltic Sea.