In times when many companies are struggling to survive due to the months-long lockdown and the number of bankruptcies is increasing, Vitus Pirschlinger has taken a courageous path:
Indorf - At the beginning of the year, in the middle of the biggest economic crisis since the Second World War, the master landscaper founded his own company.
The 24-year-old has invested around half a million euros and plans to employ 20 people in the long term.
Why he does this to himself has to do with his unprecedented career.
According to the district office, between 100 and 200 businesses are registered in the district every month.
In the first Corona year there were even more registrations than cancellations.
Not all of them are as capital-intensive as Vitus Pirschlinger's.
Three excavators, two wheel loaders and lots of work equipment are in the yard in Indorf.
He would prefer to build a depot in the district in the southeast of the ducal city.
He brings up the company with four young, motivated employees, including two other foremen, one skilled worker and one part-time employee.
He wants to hire the first apprentice in the fall.
Pirschlinger was practically born with gardening and landscaping.
“My company sponsor is in landscaping, I always helped out as a boy,” says the native of Indorf.
"I didn't look at any other professions because I knew what I wanted to do."
After graduating from the Herzog-Tassilo-Realschule in Erding in 2013, Pirschlinger completed an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener at the traditional Freising company Gaissmaier.
From 2018 to last year he attended the state master and technical school in Veitshöchheim.
Pirschlinger is an exceptional talent.
In three years he won half a dozen professional competitions.
He is one of the best in his field in all of Germany.
The highlight was when he took part in the 2017 World Landscape Gardening Championships in Abu Dhabi, where he finished sixth out of 24 participants.
To ensure that his own existence really works, his father Felix founded the Pirschlinger Garten- und Landschaftsbau company for his son in 2015.
There, the son had been busy handling his own construction projects since his second year of apprenticeship.
“During this time I have completed around 150 projects with construction costs between 500 and 150,000 euros,” he says proudly.
Vitus has been the boss himself since January 1st, and Papa Felix calls himself “Austragler” with a smile.
He runs an insurance agency on Haager Strasse in Erding.
Maybe the start in lockdown wasn't all that bad.
For one thing, the construction industry is virtually unaffected by the slumps.
On the other hand, "a lot of people are at home and now want to create a beautiful garden," reports Pirschlinger junior.
However, he is smart and cautious enough to know: “Our industry could still be hit with a time lag.” And it is also clear to him: “Municipalities and counties will be reluctant to invest because of falling tax revenues.” Pirschlinger plans and designs gardens and green spaces , creates paths, squares, walls, stairs, lawns, plants and fences.
The young entrepreneur also takes care of maintenance and upkeep.
In his private life he is not that brisk.
He's been in a relationship with his girlfriend for so long, but not married, “that my spies have already put up a starvation tree for me in the garden,” he says with a laugh.
The young entrepreneur also finds balance in club life.
The 24-year-old sits on the board of the Altenerding young farmers' association.
Information at www.pirschlinger.de.
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