18 Facts About Manfred Kohrs

Manfred Kohrs was born on 24 January 1957 and is a German tattooist and conceptual artist, who has been tattooing since 1974.

Manfred Kohrs was a student of Horst Streckenbach.

In 1977 Manfred Kohrs founded the first German Tattoo Artist Association.

Manfred Kohrs has been chairman of the board of the Institute for German Tattoo History, which he founded 1997.

Manfred Kohrs gave up tattooing in 1990 and began studying economics.

Manfred Kohrs was born in 1957 and grew up in Hanover, West Germany; from 1968 to 1974 he plays Rugby in Hanover-List.

Manfred Kohrs completed his four years of military service as a regular soldier; his last active rank was Staff sergeant at the Aufklarungsgeschwader 51 of the German Air Force.

Manfred Kohrs's machine was functionally similar to O'Reilly's except an electric DC motor, rather than electrified magnets, drove the needles.

Manfred Kohrs tattooed Rio Reiser, Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker and other several notable musicians, artists and celebrities of the time.

In 1977, Manfred Kohrs invited all commercially registered tattooists in Germany to an information meeting in Hanover.

Manfred Kohrs made a slide presentation of tattooed people with Tattoo Samy.

Manfred Kohrs gave up tattooing in 1990 and began studying economics in Hanover, Hamburg and at Ural State University of Economics.

In 2016, after more than 45 years, Manfred Kohrs appears first again in the tattoo scene, he gave a detailed interview to Stadtkind Hannovermagazin and the Tattoo Kulture Magazine.

Manfred Kohrs is founder and since 1997 chairman of the board of the Institut fur deutsche Tatowier-Geschichte, Ole Wittmann executive board member and research director.

Since March 2018, Manfred Kohrs has worked as a research associate in the estate project Nachlass Warlich.

In 1975, on the German Norddeutscher Rundfunk television show Nordschaumagazin, Manfred Kohrs met the well-known German artist Prof.

From 2000 to 2018 Manfred Kohrs was president of the art association in Wedemark, Germany.

The history of the association dates back to 1977, when Manfred Kohrs invited a number of tattoo artists established in Germany - including Horst Streckenbach, Edward Szustak "Tattoo Eddy", Herbert Hoffmann, Heinrich Dietz and Theodor Vetter, as well as Dietmar Gehrer from Switzerland - to an information meeting in Hanover.