Association of German Veterans
| Bund Deutscher EinsatzVeteranen e. V. (BDV) |
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| purpose | Veterans care |
| Chair: | Bernhard Drescher |
| Establishment date: | August 21, 2010 |
| Seat : | Berlin |
| Website: | veteranenverband.de |
The Bund Deutscher EinsatzVeteranen e. V. (BDV) is an organization for the care and support of veterans of the Bundeswehr .
Emergence
Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Andreas Timmermann-Levanas founded the non-profit association in 2010. As a former ISAF press spokesman, he has been involved since 2009 with the German War Victims Welfare Organization (DKOF), founded by himself and the former staff sergeant Engelbert Diegmann, for the concerns of military service disabled and former soldiers. Due to the increasing number of Bundeswehr soldiers deployed abroad, they form a noteworthy group of new veterans for the first time since the Second World War . The work of the association is aimed at veterans with and without physical or mental injuries.
Since the general assembly on August 24, 2013, his previous deputy Christian Bernhardt has chaired the association. On June 2, 2018, he handed over the chairmanship to Bernhard Drescher, who had previously acted as Deputy Chairman. With the general assembly in June 2018, the board of the BDV became more professional: David Hallbauer was elected as the new deputy federal chairman, the previous head of the capital city office Jan Philipp Krüger as general secretary. Björn Schreiber joined the board as director of politics and media , Dunja Neukam took over the projects department . The previous regional division heads (responsible for case management) were also included in the board.
Due to a foreseeable official German definition of veterans, the association was renamed Bund Deutscher EinsatzVeteranen eV in November 2016 , whereby the original abbreviation was retained.
Well-known members of the association are Christian Bernhard, Bernhard Drescher, Walter Spindler , Marcel Bohnert , Johannes Clair , Björn Schreiber and Thomas Krafft.
aims
The association supports active and former soldiers of the Bundeswehr after deployment and war, their relatives, as well as families of fallen and killed comrades in their general, ideal, social and professional interests. As an association, it focuses on several aspects. He advocates the perception of veterans in politics and the general public and helps wounded veterans to enforce compensation claims or to provide psychological, medical and legal help. The Eisblume counseling center for relatives of traumatized soldiers belongs to the Association of German Veterans . The association works with other organizations such as the You are not alone for bereaved dependents initiative and the Colonel Schöttler Disabled Foundation .
In September 2011 a cooperation with the German Armed Forces Association was agreed.
The association regularly organizes the "Bundeswehr Veterans Day" in the Forest of Remembrance near Potsdam.
Former competitive association of the German Veterans Association
From 2010 to 2012, in addition to the Association of German Veterans, there was also the German Veterans Association under the leadership of Daniela Matijevic for veterans of the Bundeswehr on foreign deployments.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried von Bredow: Through the bureaucratic hell: This is how the Bundeswehr is not allowed to deal with its veterans. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 20, 2010, archived from the original on September 27, 2010 ; accessed on March 31, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Bund Deutscher Veteranen eV - honest & direct! Association of German Veterans V., accessed on May 29, 2013 .
- ↑ General assembly and election of the board. (No longer available online.) Bund Deutscher Veteranen e. V., September 7, 2013, archived from the original on December 28, 2013 ; Retrieved December 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Marcel Bohnert & Björn Schreiber (eds.): The invisible veterans. War returnees in German society. Hartmann Miles-Verlag : Berlin, p. 35, footnote 1
- ^ Association statutes, as amended on August 30, 2014. (PDF; 24 kB) (No longer available online.) Bund Deutscher Veteranen e. V., archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 30, 2015 .
- ^ Official website of "Eisblume". Retrieved May 29, 2013 .
- ^ Association partner in the Association of German Veterans. (No longer available online.) Bund Deutscher Veteranen e. V., archived from the original on December 5, 2014 ; accessed on March 31, 2015 .
- ↑ DBwV: Together for better emergency care. Soldiersglück.de, September 13, 2011, archived from the original on August 12, 2012 ; accessed on March 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten , [1] , December 27, 2010
- ^ The Bundeswehr veterans are organizing on August 25, 2010
- ^ Tweed by chairman Daniela Matijevic. Retrieved December 27, 2012 .