European Board
President Peter "Tailgunner" Abbring
Born in Oostzaan on June 12Th 1966.
Member of the Oostzaan Volunteer Fire Department since 2008, retired since April 1, 2022
Positions: Commander, Instructor, Post Commander from 2013 to 2019
I strongly believe that the European Council should reflect its members and that there should therefore be more diverse nationalities in the Council. For me this is a pillar for the future.
I am also convinced that, with the help of the European Board, we as European chapters and MAL’scan build better cooperation and form an even stronger and closer European Red Knights family.
We can achieve this through greater transparency and a clear vision for the future. One of the challenges is that each country and region has its own identity, rules and customs. Each chapter must be able to maintain this identity.
Secretary Martin Kroll
I was born in 1964 and have been a volunteer firefighter in my hometown Emmerich am Rhein since 1980, earning my living as an engineer for fire and explosion protection.
I joined the Red Knights MC in 2015, first as a member of Chapter Germany 6, since 2021 I have been President of Chapter Germany 30 "The thirsty Thirty".
The aim of my work as Secretary is to bring together the members from all over Europe on several levels and thereby help to give the club a strong cohesion.
Treasurer Olaf Böse
Born 1969, member of the Red Knights for 4 years first as MAL and since October 2019 President Germany 23.
I have been self-employed for 25 years now, so I am no stranger to numbers and account management, which must be correct and transparent.
Voluntary I am active in the volunteer fire department as a group leader before that I was in another volunteer fire department local fire chief, now more than half my life.
I ride still longer a Honda CBR 1000.
These two hobbies, passions to combine are the Red Knights.
Road Captain Florian "Flolo" Lohmann
I live in Bad Harzburg and have been working for 17 years as a paramedic, dispatcher, diver and driver at the professional fire department Wolfsburg.
I have been a member of the Red Knights MC for five years, 2017 - 2020 Road Captain at Germany 2 and since 2020 founding president of the chapter Germany 28.
My goal for the Europe Association is to actively support the work of the board, to work together and quickly to find a solution to problems, to represent the philosophy of the RKMC and the interests of the European clubs, to continue to promote transparent communication across national borders and to continue to grow our Red Knights family.
Quartermaster Henning Thies
I live in Wedemark, near Hannover, and work as firefighter at Hannover Airport.I ride a BMW 1200RT. I started as MAL in 2013 and was a founding member of Germany XI (Quartermaster). In November 2016 I changed to my home chapter Germany 11 as Activ member and since 2022 as Quartermaster.
As European QM I want to be the link between Europe and USA to get the ordered goods to the chapters in Europe as fast and reliable as possible.
Member at Large Representative Sven Coopman
I was born in 1980. In 2005 I started my career at Voluntary firefighter at Tielt, West-Flanders, Belgium and since 2016 I am member of the Belgian Fire Stress Team. Today I work as an instructor at WOBRA school for firefighters.
Since 2015 I am member of the Red Knights International Firefighter Motorcycle Club as MAL.