Eric Gottschalk was born in 1969 in Hanau. After completing a commercial apprenticeship of three years, followed by military service, he began his studies of economics at today's Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM) in Gießen, where he graduated in 1993 with a diploma in business management. His future father-in-law Wilhelm Blatz won Eric Gottschalk over to work for Ille. Today he is Ille's Managing Director for the areas logistics and our subsidiaries abroad. Eric Gottschalk has been married to Marion Gottschalk since 1994.