Grünhelme e. V.
The Grünhelme e. V. is a German aid organization based in Cologne . The association is committed to building or rebuilding community infrastructures as well as social, ecological, cultural and religious institutions in former war and crisis areas and was founded in April 2003 by Rupert Neudeck and Aiman Mazyek . The association is currently run by Martin Mikat, Max Werlein and Thomas Just. Simon Bethlehem and Teresa Hohenegg work as project coordinators for the association.
The association describes the original conception of the US “ Peace Corps ” as its role model and sees itself as politically neutral as well as cross-national and cross-religious. The encounter, the Christian-Islamic dialogue and the cooperation between Christians and Muslims are emphasized . Aiman Mazyek is also chairman of the Central Council of Muslims . The organization repeatedly criticized Israel in connection with the Middle East conflict .
The board of trustees of the association includes a. Gerhart Baum , Mohammed Aman Hobohm , Navid Kermani , Philipp Rösler , Ruprecht Polenz and Wolfgang Thierse . Even Peter Scholl-Latour and Gunter Grass counted until her death this. Rupert Neudeck was also a member of the Advisory Board of the PATRIZIA KinderHaus Foundation , which together with Grünhelme e. V. Projects carries out various aid projects.
In 2007 a German Grünhelm employee was kidnapped in Afghanistan . The German, who had several previous convictions for property crimes and had converted to Islam, had previously embezzled around EUR 87,000 of the association's assets.
On the night of May 15, 2013, three men from Germany who had been helping the organization during the civil war in Syria were kidnapped in Idlib Governorate and taken hostage. Two of the abductees escaped on July 5, 2013, and the third on September 3, 2013.
Web links
- Association website
- Never give up - With Rupert Neudeck in the Congo ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in the program Gott und die Welt on ARD
- Deployment in Rwanda - "Grünhelme" build a vocational training center , focus on the ZDF broadcast on Sundays
Individual evidence
- ^ Afghanistan: Displaced German is wanted by arrest warrant , Spiegel Online, December 17, 2007
- ^ Three German helpers kidnapped in Syria , FAZ.NET, June 29, 2013
- ^ Two employees kidnapped in Syria are back in Germany , Focus Online, July 5, 2013
- ↑ Christoph Reuter : Gekidnappte Grünhelme: German freed himself from being held hostage in Syria , Spiegel Online, September 3, 2013