Bund of thalidomide victims and Grünenthal victims
The Association of Thalidomide victims and Grünenthalopfer e. V. (BCG) is an association founded on December 4, 2005 by thalidomide victims as a nationwide self-help organization for thalidomide victims in Cologne, which is organized by the Bundesverband Conterganeschädigte e. V. has split off. Its founder, Andreas Meyer, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Contergan Foundation .
The founders' motivation was to create a federal organization that can act freely and independently of the influence of the Contergan manufacturer Grünenthal GmbH in the interests of those affected.
tasks and activities
As part of its self-help activities, the BCG supports and advises those affected by it on all educational, psychological, medical, age-related, care-related, social and professional problems. Another goal is the comprehensive and ongoing documentation of the Contergan scandal .
The association is the only nationwide representation of interests for thalidomide victims in the Federal Republic of Germany, which is still committed today to the fact that the cause of the thalidomide scandal, the company Grünenthal GmbH, compensates for all damage suffered by the victims.
Actions and media coverage
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the market launch of Contergan, the association organized a vigil in front of the Grünenthal GmbH company in Stolberg ( Aachen region , North Rhine-Westphalia) in 2007 . The drug Contergan and other preparations with the active ingredient thalidomide were brought onto the market by Grünenthal GmbH on October 1, 1957.
For the first time in the entire history of the Contergan scandal in Germany, the BCG called for a boycott of the products of the Wirtz family in Stolberg as part of this vigil , which, in addition to Grünenthal GmbH, also owns Dalli-Werke and Mäurer & Wirtz .
Vigil and boycott have found wide coverage in the media and in addition to the then carried out in November 2007 broadcast of thalidomide film A single tablet the public again made on the background of the thalidomide scandal and the fate of the victims carefully.
Cooperation with other associations
On January 6, 2008, the association founded the International Contergan Thalidomid Alliance (ICTA) with other thalidomide associations in Germany as well as associations from Canada, Great Britain, Spain and Sweden .
On March 3, 2008, the association resigned from the International Contergan Thalidomide Alliance (ICTA) because it was only later found that the ICTA wanted to address its claims for damages mainly to the Federal Republic of Germany and only a fraction to Grünenthal GmbH.
Web links
- Website BCG Bund Thalidomide Damage and Grünenthalopfer e. V.
- Website Contergannetzwerk Deutschland eV (CND)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article Kobinet-Nachrichten of October 3, 2007
- ↑ Article Netzeitung October 1, 2007 ( Memento from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Article Aachener Nachrichten of September 25, 2007 ( Memento of the original of July 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Report on Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 31, 2007
- ↑ People at Maischberger, broadcast of November 6, 2007 "Contergan the permanent trauma"
- ^ WDR archive
- ↑ Article Spiegel-Online from January 6, 2008
- ↑ Article Focus-Online from January 6, 2008
- ↑ Article Kölner Stadt Anzeiger Online from January 7, 2008 ( Memento from March 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Article Aachener Nachrichten Online from January 6, 2008
- ↑ Wissen.de/Geschichte - Current Issues 2008 - the calendar ( Memento from May 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ICTA press release of January 6, 2008 on the BCG website ( Memento of January 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Notice of exit from BCG on its website from March 3, 2008 ( Memento from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
