After attending the
Polytechnic Secondary School, Blumentritt completed an apprenticeship as a chef from 1963 to 1966 and then did his military service until 1969. Afterwards he worked from 1974 at
Mitropa. From 1990 to 2003 he was chairman of the
works council of Mitropa AG at the
Gera site and a member of the
central works council (). Volker Blumentritt is married, lives separated and has two children. ==References==