On 29 September 2019 the memorial service for Volker Grellmann, the “grand old man of NAPHA“, founding member and long standing president of the Professional Hunting Association, who had recently passed away, was held in the Christus Church in Windhoek. Everybody who somehow could arrange it, even if it meant tackling a long stretch of road, took the occasion to honour and pay final tribute to a widely respected personality.
When a day later the publisher of Huntinamibia asked me to contribute an obituary on Volker Grellmann for this edition of the magazine, I requested a day to think it over, as I was not sure whether I am the right man for this task. Because, in spite of our long acquaintance, we were not always on the best of…