Mission Lifeline

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Mission Lifeline
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legal form Non-profit registered association
founding May 1, 2016
founder Axel Steier , Sascha Pietsch
Seat Rudolfstraße 7 Dresden ( coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 8.3 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 25 ″  E )
motto Search and Rescue
purpose Sea rescue
method Search and rescue by ship
Action space Mediterranean Sea
Chair Axel Steier
Website mission-lifeline.de
Claus-Peter Reisch , former lifeline captain, 2018

Mission Lifeline is an association from Dresden , founded in 2016 , whose purpose is the sea ​​rescue of people in the Mediterranean. The rescue ship Lifeline was initially used for this, and the Elonore since the end of August 2019 .

founding

The association was founded in May 2016 by Axel Steier and other colleagues. According to its own information, it emerged from the Dresden-Balkan convoy, which in October 2015 collected donations in kind for the people on the Balkan route , brought them to Preševo (Serbia) in mid-November with small vans and distributed them with the help of volunteers. Further aid convoys to Idomeni and the registration camp on the island of Chios followed. Not only donations in kind were collected for the aid measures in Greece, but a donation account was set up.

With the closure of the Balkan route, the escape route across the Mediterranean was increasingly used. "This is how MISSION LIFELINE eV emerged from the Dresden-Balkan convoy, which has been planning and preparing the deployment of a rescue ship in the central Mediterranean since April 2016."

For the purchase of the ship Sea-Watch 2 , 200,000 euros in donations were raised in 2017 and the ship was put into operation as a lifeline .

After the lifeline was confiscated , the activists collected 475,000 euros in donations to buy a new ship by mid-October 2018, including funds from the Catholic Church (initiated by Archbishops Reinhard Marx and Hans-Josef Becker ) and the music group Die Fantastischen Vier .

Calls

Rescue ship Lifeline in June 2018.

The mission in the Mediterranean began in September 2017. A rescue operation in June 2018 caused a sensation, in which the Lifeline ship with 230 refugees on board had to wait six days before it was allowed to dock in Malta after it had previously been turned away in Italy.

At the end of October 2018, the group sent a sailing boat with a crew of seven activists flying the German flag into the waters off the Libyan coast.

Benjamin Hartmann, owner of the statement fashion label HUMAN BLOOD , officially acted as the buyer for the purchase of the fishing boat Eleonore in May 2019 . The subsequent conversion to a rescue ship was financed by the donor and Mission Lifeline. According to the association's founder, Axel Steier, it was necessary to use a straw man, because the authorities hardly let him or his captain register a rescue ship. The Eleonore is a pleasure boat. Under the command of Claus-Peter Reisch, she set off again at the end of August 2019 for the sea area off the Libyan coast. The crew was informed by the Alarm Phone Initiative about the position of a migrant rubber dinghy and finally relieved a total of 101 people from a dinghy. Both Italy and Malta refused to enter the port, so the overcrowded rescue ship had to be supplied with food and water on the high seas. At the beginning of September, after violent thunderstorms, he declared Eleanor an emergency due to a life-threatening situation on board and ran into the Sicilian port of Pozzallo accompanied by the Italian coast guard, but contrary to the instructions of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini , whereupon the Eleanor was confiscated by the Italian police.

Because of the confiscation of the two lifeboats after rescue missions, the association acquired the former TF6 torpedo catch boat of the German Navy from a private owner. After the renovation, it should operate under the name Rise Above sea ​​rescue in the Mediterranean from May 2020 at the earliest and be able to accommodate up to 150 people.

In January 2020, Captain Reisch distanced himself from Mission Lifeline and announced that he would no longer drive any more missions. “Political agitation and radical statements” would not get the rescue at sea any further.

In mid-March 2020, the activists collected money to rent an airplane and want to bring 100 underage migrants from the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos to Berlin.

criticism

“You are not married yet? Perhaps you happen to fall in love with someone who does not yet have the right to stay here. Could happen right? Stays open! ? "

- Mission Lifeline

Due to this tweet of January 23, 2019 , a text with the title “Sea rescuers advertise marriages with refugees” appeared in the picture on January 28, in which the claims are made that the association advertises “ fictitious marriages ”, and Captain Claus-Peter Reisch is on trial in Malta on charges of " smuggling ". Even the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior Stephan Mayer ( CSU ) saw the tweet calling for entering into sham marriages. The association stated that the tweet should be understood as an appeal for donations. Reisch is not on trial in Malta for “smuggling”, but because he is said to have not properly registered the ship. Mission Lifeline took legal action against the image because of false claims against their better judgment . On February 12, 2019, Bild published a reply to this effect.

Awards

See also

Web links

Commons : Mission Lifeline  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. About us. In: mission-lifeline.de. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  2. Dresden-Balkan convoy starts for the second time. In: Dresdner Latest News. November 27, 2015, accessed June 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ History. How it all started In: Mission Lifeline Seach and Rescue. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  4. Markus Weinberg: "Help for boat refugees in the Mediterranean" ( Memento from June 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mdr.de September 2017
  5. "Thanks to Fanta 4 -" Mission Lifeline "gets a new rescue ship" Welt from October 17, 2018
  6. Marie Naaß and Rebecca Kupfner: "A glimmer of hope: rescue in one of the deadliest regions in the world" fairquer.net from November 15, 2017
  7. ^ German rescue ship "Lifeline" docks in Malta. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  8. "rescue" mission Lifeline "again in the Mediterranean way" MDR.de from October 26, 2018
  9. Upper Palatinate buys ship for sea rescue services from "Mission Lifeline". Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  10. ^ A b Christian Knuth: "Gay fashion entrepreneur buys ship for sea rescue in the Mediterranean" blu.fm from August 26, 2019
  11. "Upper Palatinate fashion entrepreneur sponsors ship for sea rescue" br.de from August 26, 2019
  12. "" Lifeline "Kapitän with new ship back in the Mediterranean way" Welt.de from August 24, 2019
  13. Julia Anton: -: "" The world draws the curtain on a drama "" FAZ.de of August 29, 2019
  14. ^ Italy confiscates German rescue ship. In: www.t-online.de. September 2, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .
  15. ^ Mathias Pöls: "Mission Lifeline" buys an old Bundeswehr ship . MDR January 3, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019.
  16. Simone Gaul: "A lot is too radical left for me" . Time online . January 10, 2020. Accessed January 10, 2020.
  17. Lisa Kuhn in an interview with Axel Steier "" People have to get out of there "" TAZ from March 16, 2020
  18. Tweet. January 23, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  19. https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/mission-lifeline-seenotretter-werben-fuer-ehen-mit-fluechtlingen-59795932.bild.html
  20. ^ WORLD: Ministry of the Interior criticizes "Mission Lifeline": Call for fictitious marriage - sea rescuers reject allegation . January 28, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed February 12, 2019]).
  21. Tweet. January 25, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  22. Tweet. January 27, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
  23. Advertising for fictitious marriages with refugees? Quarrel about lifeline rescue services. In: focus.de . Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  24. Call for fake marriage - sea rescuers reject allegation. In: welt.de . Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  25. »Lifeline« takes legal action against »Bild«. In: neue-deutschland.de. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  26. Reply ( memento of February 12, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) on Bild.de, accessed on February 12, 2019 (archived version)
  27. Dresden Sea Rescue Mission Lifeline receives Peace Prize. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  28. Three Saxon initiatives receive peace plaque "Swords to Plowshares"