William Röttger

Wilhelm Christian "William" Röttger (1948 – 28 February 2015) was a German label owner, music manager and gallery owner. Röttger co-founded the influential German techno label Low Spirit and managed the music festival Mayday.

Life William Röttger grew up in the Westphalian village Lippborg. Since the late 1960s he was political active. In the 1970s he was scientific assistant of art teacher Otto Lenz at the Pädagogische Hochschule Westfalen-Lippe. Lenz was the father of Maximilian (WestBam) and Fabian Lenz (DJ Dick). Besides he worked as an anti-authoritarian kindergarten teacher.

Röttger moved to Berlin in the early 1980s, where he worked as photographer and retailer. After he unsuccessfully had offered WestBams tracks to different labels, Röttger together with WestBam, DJ Dick, Klaus Jankuhn and Sandra Molzahn founded their own label Low Spirit in 1985, which became the most successful German techno label of the 1990s.

Discography 1990: Mr. President, Sir! – Alligators Have Fun (Low Spirit)