German animal welfare office

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German animal welfare office
purpose Creation and maintenance of species-appropriate and basic living conditions for animals
Chair: Jan Peifer
Establishment date: 2013
Number of employees: 11 full-time and 15 volunteer employees
Seat : Saint Augustine
Website: www.tierschutzbuero.de

The German Animal Welfare Office e. V. is an animal rights organization with headquarters in Sankt Augustin . According to its own description, the purpose of the association is the creation and maintenance of species-appropriate and basic living conditions for animals . The chairman of the association is Jan Peifer.

Profile and goals

According to the association's statutes, the association is active in educating the public about the conditions in factory farming (especially in Germany),

The association is mainly financed through donations. It is one of the first seven associations to have received state recognition under the law on the right to bring legal action and participation rights for animal welfare organizations in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 2013 the association operated under the name “Arbeitskreis humaner Tierschutz e. V. "

Campaigns and Actions

The association repeatedly causes a stir with protest actions such as a naked demonstration in front of the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg , the storming of the International Green Week Berlin or the occupation of the Berlin bear pen .

Covert research by the association for keeping animals for fattening farms was published by Bild and SAT1 . Including those from rabbits fattened in cages . As a result, various supermarkets stopped selling rabbit meat from cage businesses.

The German Animal Welfare Office is particularly committed to the closure of the last nine mink farms in Germany. Repeatedly, members of the association made concealed recordings of the housing conditions and made them public through the media. The last mink farm in Germany was closed in 2019.

A campaign is to convince the fashion label Bogner to take real fur out of the range. For this purpose, particularly in Berlin , but also in front of almost all other Bogner branches throughout Germany, demonstrations were made with eye-catching billboards. In the meantime, the Bogner company has admitted to importing furs for its collection from China . Furs from Asia are particularly criticized by animal rights activists, as there are usually no or insufficient animal welfare laws. In addition, real fur is often subjected to questionable chemical treatments in order to achieve a long shelf life. In some cases, the furs or parts of fur are no longer declared as real fur. For example, skin irritation can be caused in the wearer. Bogner did not respond to inquiries about the origin and type of fur, not only from animal rights activists, but also from Stiftung Warentest .

Members of the association have been protesting regularly in front of the pig tower near Maasdorf since 2014 .

In 2014, activists of the association demonstrated against the keeping of wild animals in the circus in front of a tent belonging to the circus company Circus Krone, which is a guest in Berlin, and urged viewers not to attend the circus performance because the circus tortures animals. The circus operator then reported responsible representatives of the German Animal Welfare Office for defamation; however, the Berlin-Tiergarten district court acquitted the activists. The statement "Cirkus Krone torments animals" falls under the freedom of expression , the operator now has to put up with the accusation. Especially before the resolution of the Federal Council on the ban on wild animals in the circus, the animal rights activists recorded the outcome of the process as a great success.

Since March 2016, the German Animal Welfare Office has been increasingly mobilizing against inexpensive meat from factory farming and also denounces discount stores, where this meat is mainly offered. Under the motto “ Lidl does not spare” (based on the official advertising slogan “Lidl is worth it”), activists demonstrated in front of branches of the discounter Lidl in 2016.

On November 6, 2018, the organization published hidden cameras recorded video material from the Standard-Fleisch beef slaughterhouse in Oldenburg and filed criminal charges against the slaughterhouse for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, including killing live animals without professional stunning. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection also filed a complaint with the Oldenburg public prosecutor . The slaughterhouse then ceased operations. An expert opinion confirmed the allegations of the animal rights activists that criminal animal cruelty can be seen on the images. In an online petition, the German animal welfare office collected 134,789 signatures for closing the slaughterhouse, which was handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture. on April 17, 2019 it became known that the slaughterhouse, now under the management of Böseler Goldschmaus GmbH, is back in operation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Articles of Association
  2. ↑ a b Imprint
  3. ↑ a b c Committed to transparency. German Animal Welfare Office V., October 2018, accessed on November 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Self-Presentation - Deutsches Tierschutzbüro e. V. In: Deutsches Tierschutzbüro e. V. Accessed on November 16, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Press release Ministry of Consumer Protection publishes first recognized animal welfare associations ( Memento from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Press release working group human animal protection e. V.
  7. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost
  8. ↑ Berlin Online "Animal rights activists storm International Green Week" ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinonline.de
  9. ↑ The Tagesspiegel "Animal rights activists occupy Berlin bear kennels"
  10. ↑ PICTURE March 25, 2013 "How fattening rabbits suffer in Germany"
  11. ↑ Sat1 Act 14 of April 15, 2014
  12. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger
  13. ↑ WDR December 20, 2013 "Cages like orange boxes" ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Sat1 news
  15. ↑ Sat1 news
  16. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart Germany: Animal welfare: Last fur farm in Germany closed. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Have you seen a skinned animal today? (No longer available online.) In: www.rbb-online.de. Archived from the original on December 12, 2015 ; Retrieved February 20, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rbb-online.de
  18. ↑ Animal rights activists call for a boycott of Bogner. In: presseportal.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Bogner admits the use of furs with a dubious quality label - the German Animal Welfare Office calls for a boycott again. In: presseportal.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Stiftung Warentest: Fur fashion - How real animal skins are sold to us as artificial fur - Special - Stiftung Warentest. In: www.test.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Stiftung Warentest: Fur fashion - How real animal skins are sold to us as artificial fur - Special - Stiftung Warentest. In: www.test.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Known from the "Jenke experiment": shock video from the creepy "pig tower" | Berliner-Kurier.de. In: Berliner-Kurier.de. Retrieved on February 20, 2016 (German).
  23. ↑ Helmut Dawal,: Maasdorf pig tower : Piglets brutally driven into transporters? In: www.mz-web.de. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Animal rights activists protested on Sunday against the so-called pig tower in Maasdorf. In the six-storey building north of Halle, pigs are bred on several floors: Animal welfare demonstration against "pig high-rise" | MDR.DE. (No longer available online.) In: www.mdr.de. March 15, 2015, archived from the original on February 20, 2016 ; accessed on February 20, 2016 (German). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  25. ↑ Circus Krone has to accept accusation of "cruelty to animals" - Der Tagesspiegel. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved on May 31, 2016 (German).
  26. ↑ Circus Krone has to accept the claim "animal cruelty" - BZ. In: BZ. Retrieved on May 31, 2016 (German).
  27. ↑ Circus Krone has to accept the claim of "cruelty to animals" - MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK. (No longer available online.) In: MITTELDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on May 31, 2016 (German). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  28. ↑ Circus Krone has to accept the claim "animal cruelty" - FOCUS. In: FOCUS. Retrieved on May 31, 2016 (German).
  29. ↑ 943rd meeting of the Federal Council March 18, 2016 - Federal Council. In: Federal Council. Retrieved on May 31, 2016 (German).
  30. ^ Animal rights activists protest in front of Lidl branch in Berlin - Berliner Morgenpost. In: Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved on May 31, 2016 (German).
  31. ↑ Lidl does not spare! Nationwide campaign launched in Berlin - ptext.de. (No longer available online.) In: ptext.de. Archived from the original on August 22, 2016 ; accessed on May 31, 2016 (German). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ptext.de
  32. ^ Opinion on allegations of violations of the Animal Welfare Act | Nds. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Retrieved on November 7, 2018 (German).
  33. ^ NDR: Tierquälerei: Slaughterhouse confirms allegations . ( ndr.de [accessed November 7, 2018]).
  34. ↑ NDR: Scandal-Schlachthof lets operations rest for the time being. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
  35. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Tierschutz In Oldenburg Oldenburg / Berlin: Torment on. March 27, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .
  36. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: Petition handed over: 134,789 signatures against the Oldenburger Schlachthof. April 16, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .
  37. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: After suspicion of animal cruelty Garrel / Oldenburg: Scandal slaughterhouse in Oldenburg reopened. April 18, 2019, accessed April 17, 2019 .