St. Barbara Foundation Germany
The Sankt Barbara Germany Foundation is a foundation with legal capacity under civil law with its headquarters in Munster .
The purpose of the foundation is to promote the welfare of war victims, survivors and injured persons as a result of landmines, associated with prevention by clearing landmines and disposing of ordnance as well as development aid. So far, it has been financed through donations and orders from international organizations, the Federal Foreign Office and Italy . The foundation worked in Angola , Somaliland , Sudan and Ethiopia . Until 2009 she ran a mine clearance project in central Angola.
After the Federal Foreign Office stopped funding the projects in Angola, the foundation withdrew from there. From 2011 to 2013 the foundation was active in Libya , where it cleared the remains of the civil war in 2011. To this end, it maintained an office in a suburb of Tripoli and employed two foreign experts as well as numerous local staff.
The chairman of the Sankt Barbara Foundation is Klaus Koehler, owner of the ordnance disposal company of the same name. Further board members are Hans Peter Thul and Peter Würtz , Vice President of the German Atlantic Society . Members of the Board of Trustees include HRH Ernst August Prince of Hanover and Thomas Kossendey . Even Peter Scholl-Latour and Karlheinz Böhm (both 2014 deceased) were members of the board of trustees.