Reinhard Erös

Reinhard Erös in Tübingen

Reinhard Alois Erös (born January 4, 1948 in Tirschenreuth ) is a German activist , development worker and senior doctor a. D. the Bundeswehr . Together with his wife Annette and his five children, he has been running Kinderhilfe Afghanistan since 1998 , which provides humanitarian aid and reconstruction aid in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan with the construction of village and high schools, orphanages, hospital wards, computer training centers and vocational schools. He lives in Mintraching in the Regensburg district .

Life

From 1967 to 1972 Erös served as a regular soldier in the German Armed Forces and was an officer in the televsion troops . As part of his training, Erös completed the lone fighter course and the parachutist course for automatic parachute jumps and free fall.

After the end of his service, he studied medicine and political science in Freiburg and Tübingen. During his studies, he was involved in the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS). To become an assistant to a member of the Bundestag, he briefly interrupted his studies. In 1980 he rejoined the Bundeswehr . He was u. a. Troop doctor in the mountain division and in Munich commander of the medical training battalion 851 and commander of teaching group A of the medical academy of the Bundeswehr .

Since 1981, Erös has been on several occasions during his vacation with international aid organizations in crisis and disaster areas (e.g. in India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Rwanda , East Timor ). In 1986 Erös took a four-year leave of absence from the Bundeswehr without pay to work as a doctor for an aid organization in the war zone of Afghanistan ; in doing so he had to take great personal risks.

Erös was involved in the first “blue helmet mission” of the Bundeswehr in Cambodia in 1992/93 as the commander of a medical battalion. From 1996 to 1998 he taught as a lecturer in the security policy department at the command academy of the Bundeswehr . In his last employment Erös was from 1999 to 2001 command doctor of the special operations division . In 2002, at the age of 54, he retired early. Since then he has devoted himself fully to his work in Afghanistan.

Erös is considered to have a profound knowledge of the country and therefore regularly trains German police officers for their missions abroad in Afghanistan.

Erös is independent, but has been on the list of the ÖDP district council member of the Regensburg district since 2002 . He is married and has five children, and one of the couple's other sons died in the late 1980s.

Since 2002, Erös has reported on the humanitarian and political situation in Afghanistan in more than 3,000 lectures worldwide. Since then, more than 1,000 press reports have been published about his work in Afghanistan. Since 2007 Erös can be booked as a speaker at Speakers Academy GmbH.

Reinhard Erös repeatedly breaks off lectures at events where he has been invited as a guest and insults the audience and the organizers.

Awards

• 2003: European Social Prize (because of his services to international understanding and reconciliation)
• 2006: Marion-Dönhoff-Förderpreis
• 2006: Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Note: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his wife Annette Erös, teacher (for her humanitarian commitment).

• 2010: Thomas Dehler Prize
• 2011: Theodor Heuss Prize (?)
• 2012: Bavarian Order of Merit Reinhard and Annette Erös

Publications

• Tea with the devil - As a German military doctor in Afghanistan . Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-01801-7
• Under the Taliban, warlords and drug barons - a German family is fighting for Afghanistan . Hoffmann & Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-50074-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Erös in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reinhard Erös in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Reinhard Erös in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Kinderhilfe-Afghanistan.de , website of the Kinderhilfe Afghanistan charity, which is run by Dr. Reinhard Erös and his family
• Erös: Three quarters of Afghans are calling for NATO to withdraw immediately , Reinhard Erös on the situation in Afghanistan in an interview with Deutschlandfunk (November 2011)
• "Afghanistan has never been as unsafe as it is now" , about troop withdrawal from the crisis area, Deutschlandfunk , November 2012
• Dr. Reinhard Erös (ÖDP) on parliament watch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Jaumann: Changing conditions with education , Mittelbayerische Zeitung, 23 August 2013.
2. ↑ Clemens Range : The tolerated army. 50 years of the Bundeswehr. Translimes Media, 2005, p. 130. ISBN 978-3-000-15382-2
3. ↑ Reinhard Erös. In: Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift , Volume 160, Ed. 1–12, 1994, p. 16.
4. ↑ Simone Bartsch: Police training: "What do they want there?" In zoomer.de, September 2, 2008 ( Memento from September 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Municipal ödp mandates in Bavaria from May 1, 2008 in oedp-bayern.de, 2008
6. ^ ^{A b} Anne Will: Laudation for the award winner Kinderhilfe Afghanistan . In: time . December 6, 2006 ( online [accessed July 8, 2008]).
7. ↑ Scandal: Speaker Reinhard Erös leaves the room angry , Neckarstudent.de, November 22, 2012.
8. ↑ Scandal at the donation handover. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
9. ↑ 15 September 2017 2:35 pm: Afghanistan lecture ends with a scandal. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Afghanistan expert Reinhard Erös: The lecture ends with a scandal. October 24, 2016, accessed December 1, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Eva Büchele: The screen is too small - the speaker drops the lecture. Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
12. ↑ "Captivating Lecture". Accessed December 1, 2019 . 
13. ↑ By Ute Kahmann: Reinhard Erös reports on Afghanistan. November 16, 2017, accessed on December 1, 2019 (German). 
14. ↑ Federal Merit Cross for Annette and Dr. Reinhard Erös , press release from the government of the Upper Palatinate, September 20, 2006.