In the s and s he was one of the godparents of the Reeperbahn from Hamburg-St. Pauli and especially around Hans-Albers-Platz. Klemm came to Hamburg at the end of the s and worked there first as a seaman and fisherman in the port. He was considered the head of the Chicago gang , which got its name from the club of the same name on Hans-Albers-Platz, which was operated by Ringo Klemm.
In , Klemm got involved in the investigation into contract killer Werner Pinzner. He was charged with inciting murder by the prosecutor. On December 11, , a hundred stormed Chicago. Klemm fled over the roofs and settled in Costa Rica. The Central American country had become a haven for German pimps for some time. In Costa Rica, Klemm made several investments in banana plantations, expanded his drug business and, with his partners, ran a brothel chain that BKA investigators called a pig farm.
During this time, Klemm was assigned contacts to the Colombian drug baron Carlos Lehder , which the police could not prove. In the end, Klemm was extradited and tried in Hamburg. In the period that followed, Klemm repeatedly fell victim to criminal offenses and, after his last prison sentence, emigrated to the Spanish island of Ibiza , where he also opened and operated a club.
The jazz singer and composer Hendrik Schwolow devoted Ringo clamping the song Wicked 'Wicked', Ringo terminal , which he in the Hamburg jazz club Cotton Club presented.
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