Rainer Maelzer

Rainer Maelzer started in the theme park industry in 1997 before co-founding the German company wiegand.maelzer in 2006. Rainer and his co-founder grew wiegand.maelzer to become one of the top 10 water slide companies in the world. Under Rainer’s leadership, wiegand.maelzer went from developing stainless steel water slides for other local German companies to a major global player in the industry. Rainer contributed significantly to the development and expansion of some well-known European water parks, including one of the largest indoor parks in the world, Therme Erding.

After 12 years with wiegand.maelzer, Rainer made the transition to WhiteWater to lead our Europe, Russia, and Africa team. Seeing an opportunity to forward WhiteWater’s position in the market, Rainer led the creation of a new office in Munich, Germany in May of 2020. The WhiteWater European team was formerly in Barcelona, Spain but Rainer saw a need for the company to be closer to the center of Europe and moved us over to Germany. Expanding the team from only Sales, Rainer has brought over project managers, after sales personnel, tech support, and slide path designers to our Euro team to better serve our local clients.