Sybille Schnehage

Sybille Schnehage (2003)

Sybille Schnehage (born August 24, 1950 in Magdeburg ) is a German development aid worker in Afghanistan and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit .

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Sybille Schnehage was born in 1950 with the name Sybille Elisabeth Bosse as the daughter of the married couple Arnold and Dorothea Bosse. In 1955, her parents went with her to West Germany and moved to Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance.

From 1971 Schnehage studied at the Pedagogical University Weingarten and at the Pedagogical University Hildesheim . In 1974 the final exam for the first examination for the teaching post at secondary schools and secondary schools and a physics diploma course at the University of Hanover took place . In 1980 she passed her diploma examination at the Institute for Plasma Physics. From 1980 to 1983 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Plasma Physics. After the birth of her son (1983) and daughter (1985), she was a member of the council of Bergfeld and the Brome community from 1986-1996 and since 1987 member of the Brome Partnership Committee .

From 1990 to 2003 she was president of the partnership committee with the French community of La Guerche de Bretagne . In 1992 she became a member of the executive committee of VfL Wolfsburg and was a member of the supervisory board of VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH from 2001 to January 2008 .

As early as 1987 she started her work for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. Since 1994 she has been the founder and chairwoman of the organization for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan Katachel e. V. The association, which was named after the village of Katachel near Kunduz , wants to focus its work on helping people to help themselves on site in Afghanistan.

By 2016, Schnehage and the Katachel eV association had 27 schools built in the Kunduz region, and by 2017 there were 31 schools. The association runs a sewing project on site and supports over 400 widows and orphans. From 2004 to the beginning of 2010, Christian Wulff was the project's patron. The Afghan project manager had embezzled money and real estate, which caused the association to receive negative headlines in 2010.

In 2013 the novel Drachenkinder , written by Hera Lind and describing her experiences in Kunduz, was published by Diana Verlag, an imprint of the Random House publishing house .

Publications

In mid-July 2017, the novel Kunduztampoo , which she wrote herself, was published by Books on Demand (BoD) under ISBN 978-3-7448-3450-6 .

In summer 2018 her novel Kunduzsohn was published by Cargoverlag ISBN 978-3-938693-31-5

Honors

1996 Awarded the Lower Saxony Medal of Merit
2001

Awarding of the certificate of honor of the Kunduz Province / Emirate of Afghanistan
Awarded the medal of the Department d'Ille et Vilaine / France

2002 Awarded the Elisabeth Norgall Prize from the International Women's Club of Frankfurt
2003

Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit

Awarding of the honorary certificate from Governor Latif of the Afghan province of Kunduz

2004 Mission Medal Kunduz of the German Armed Forces ISAF
2006

2nd place Wolfsburg of the year
Decision of the Afghan parliament - award of the Malalai Medal of Honor of Afghanistan
Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Kabul

2008 Shining Word Heroine Award
2009 nomination in the final of the Kyoto World Water Prize on the occasion of the 5th WorldWaterForum in Istanbul
2015 Award as Human 2015 from Isenhagener Kreisblatt in Wittingen