Sahabeddin Buz

Sahabeddin Buz

Sahabeddin Buz (* 1951 in Antakya , Turkey ) is a German mechanical engineer and social worker . The Arab Alevit is particularly committed to education and integration and was honored in 2014 with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for “outstanding commitment by people with a migration background ”.

Life

Born in the Turkish city of Antakya , where people of different faiths have lived together for centuries, Sahabeddin Buz's way to school led past a church , a mosque and a synagogue . About his youth, Buz later said: "We did not discuss whose religion is true."

In 1982, Sahabeddin Buz worked as a social pedagogue at the Posthornstrasse youth center in Linden in order to “get young people with a migration background into a job”.

From 1968 Buz studied mechanical engineering at the University of Konstanz and ten years later he went to Hanover in 1978, where he initially accepted a position as an engineer. Just two years later, Buz, who had learned six languages, started working in 1980 as a Turkish-speaking social pedagogue at the Posthornstrasse youth center in the Linden-Mitte district of Hanover . In the team there, for example, he helped immigrant parents with the translation of applications, worked many times with local schools and tried to “get young people with a migration background into a job”.

After Sahabeddin Buz lost his Turkish citizenship and refused military service there, the educator was arrested in 1982 while visiting his parents in Turkey. He was imprisoned in a Turkish prison for several months - and was then banned from traveling. Then the former youth office manager hired Heidi Alm-Merk a sailboat, with the Sahabeddin Buz from Turkey funneled could be.

Back in Germany, Sahabeddin Buz, who took on German citizenship in 1984 , and like-minded people founded the Can Arcadas association in 1988 , whose aim is the integration of migrants through sport and education. According to his own statement, Buz wanted to help “people who have a different cultural background feel comfortable in Germany and become part of society” and “become visible in all areas of society, in parties , trade unions and at cultural events . "

Also in 1988 Sahabeddin Buz was a co-founder of Spokusa , the association for sport, culture and social work in Hanover. In 2008, Buz was one of the co-founders of the House of Religions and has represented the faith of Arab Alevis there ever since.

Sahabeddin Buz, who lives in the Hanover district of Südstadt , has been involved in the Südstadt-Bult Integration Advisory Board since 2012 . In the opinion of Buz, who with his wife, two daughters, "the company takes care of this [...] reason, people with an immigrant background that feel that learning language and social life participate ," which most naturally in Hannover, in the Südstadt-Bult district would be even more natural.

From left: Erol Akbulut (Can Arcadas), Jasmin Arbabian-Vogel ( VdU ), Asghar Eslami (Kargah eV) and Sahabeddin Buz at the end of November 2013;
at the award of the city ​​culture prize , special prize for civic engagement by the Friends of Hanover

The association Can Arcadas, association for intercultural upbringing, education, culture and sport eV , co-founded in 1988 by Sahabeddin Buz, was awarded the city ​​culture prize - a special prize for outstanding citizenship - by the Friends of Hanover in 2013, as was Kargah eV, association for intercultural communication, migration and refugee work Commitment honored.

In July 2014, Sahabeddin Buz, who retired at the beginning of the year, is a member of the SPD and the ver.di trade union , and became an advisory board member of Dr. Buhmann Foundation was appointed, the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon was presented by Federal President Joachim Gauck for “outstanding commitment by people with a migration background”.

Media coverage (selection)

• Konrad Boidol: A life for integration , in: Hallo Döhren , publishing supplement to hello weekend from September 13, 2014, p. 8

literature

• Michael Krische : Ready for a movie: the Sahabeddin Buz case , in: Michael Krische: Herbert Schmalstieg . A life for Hanover , 1st edition, Hanover: Madsack Medienagentur, 2012, ISBN 978-3-940308-70-2 ; Table of contents online via the German National Library

Web links

Commons : Sahabeddin Buz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Konrad Boidol: A life for integration (see under the section media coverage )
2. ↑ ^{a b} cloud: 25 years of Spokusa , in: Stadtkind hannovermagazin from May 31, 2013; online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. last accessed on September 16, 2014  
3. ↑ Wolfgang Reinbold (responsible): House of Religions Hannover eV on the page haus-der-Religionen.de , last accessed on September 16, 2014
4. ↑ Gil Maria Koebberling: Press release from November 26, 2013 on the Freundeskreis-hannover.de page , downloadable ( memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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. as a PDF document 
5. ↑ Jasmin Arbabian-Vogel: Laudation for the special prize for civic engagement 2013 from November 26, 2013 on the page freundeskreis-hannover.de , downloadable ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document