Verena Bentele

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Verena Bentele
biathlon, cross-country skiing

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Personal information
Type of disability (class): Visual impairment (B1)
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Birthday: 28th February 1982 (age 38)
Place of birth: Lindau (Lake Constance)
Medals
 

Verena Monika Bentele (born February 28, 1982 in Lindau (Bodensee) ) is a former German biathlete and cross-country skier who was four times world champion and twelve times Paralympics winner from 1995 to 2011 . For five gold medals at the Winter Paralympics 2010 alone , the International Paralympic Committee honored her as “Best Female Athlete” at the Paralympic Sport Awards .

Even before the end of her sporting career, she began to get involved in social policy at a high level. From January 2014 to May 2018 she was the Federal Government's Commissioner for the Disabled . Since May 2018 she has been president of the largest German social association VdK .

Bentele has been a member of the SPD since 2012 .

origin

Verena Bentele, who was blind from birth, grew up in Wellmutsweiler in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg on the organic farm of her parents Peter and Monika. One of her two brothers, Michael Bentele , was also a winter sports enthusiast and Paralympic participant. Both are visually impaired due to an inherited genetic defect.

Verena Bentele attended the primary and secondary school for the blind in Heiligenbronn in the Black Forest from 1988 to 1994, the State School for the Blind in Munich from 1994 to 1998 and the Carl Strehl School , a special needs school for the blind and visually impaired in Marburg , from 1998 to 2001 , where she graduated from high school with a focus on economics. In 2011 she completed a master’s degree with a major in Modern German Literature and the minor subjects Linguistics and Education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with the grade “very good”. Your club is PSV Munich .

Athletic career

In 1995 Bentele got into the national biathlon junior squad and in 1996 she participated in her first World Cup.

She ran with the companion Franz Lankes until 2006 , after which she searched unsuccessfully for a long time, even through a newspaper advertisement for a successor. After a few attempts with various accompanying runners and a serious accident during the German championships in Isny / Nesselwang in 2009 , Bentele dared to make a fresh start with the experienced Scottish accompanying runner Thomas Friedrich. The team quickly came together and was able to achieve their first successes with the overall World Cup victory in cross-country skiing and biathlon in 2010.

In 2013 she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, and was the first blind person to climb Mount Meru in the same mountain range.

Social and political engagement

Bentele has been an ambassador for the Christoffel Blindenmission since 2008 . She is also a sports ambassador for the International Paralympic Committee IPC . Bentele is also a member of the White List Board of Trustees .

In 2010, the sportswoman was nominated by the SPD Baden-Württemberg as an electoral woman for the Federal Assembly, which elected the new Federal President on June 30, 2010 .

She was part of the Olympic election presentation team for Munich 2018 on July 6, 2011 in Durban , South Africa . For this service she was awarded the Munich Glow Medal. On November 7, 2011, she announced the end of her sports career. Professionally, she now gives lectures for companies on motivation and teamwork.

Bentele was also a member of the 15th Federal Assembly that elected the Federal President on March 18, 2012. In May 2012 Verena Bentele joined the SPD . She also took part as a delegate at the 16th Federal Assembly in 2017 and elected the new Federal President. She was named in October 2012 by Christian Ude (SPD) as an expert in the areas of sport and inclusion in his campaign team for the state election in Bavaria 2013 .

Bentele has been a member of the University Council of the German Sport University Cologne since 2017 .

Federal Government Commissioner for the Disabled 2014–2018

On January 15, 2014, at the suggestion of Federal Labor Minister Andrea Nahles , she was appointed the Federal Government's new commissioner for the disabled . She was the first Federal Government Commissioner for the Disabled to have a handicap herself.

In the Bavarian municipal elections on March 16, 2014, Bentele was elected to the city ​​council of the state capital Munich for the SPD . Due to the double burden of the office of the disability officer, she gave up her city council mandate in February 2015.

On May 9, 2018, she handed over the position of officer for the disabled to Jürgen Dusel , Brandenburg's previous officer for the disabled , because she was nominated as President of the Social Association VdK Germany and was to be followed by Ulrike Mascher .

VdK President from 2018

Verena Bentele has been the elected VdK President since May 16, 2018 .

The candidacy was not uncritical because Bentele - unlike her predecessor - receives financial compensation. The Baden-Württemberg state chief Roland Sing saw the entire voluntary structure of the association in question. Nevertheless, Bentele was elected with a majority of 90.1 percent.

Awards

Fonts

  • Control is good, Trust is better. Shift your own limits and gain security. Kailash-Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-424-63092-3 .

Web links

Commons : Verena Bentele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Verena Bentele Named Best Female Athlete by IPC. Video (2 min.). International Paralympic Committee , December 12, 2011, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Verena Bentele: "Always look ahead". In: Abendzeitung , March 19, 2010, accessed on August 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ LMU student wins five-fold gold in Vancouver. In: Münchner Uni-Magazin. No. 2 (2010), ISSN  0940-0141 , p. 35 ( uni-muenchen.de [accessed on July 22, 2010; PDF; 173 kB]).
  4. ↑ Verena Bentele: Biography. In: biathlon-bentele.de. Verena Bentele, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 ; accessed on May 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Uwe Marx: "Shut up, run!" In: FAZ . March 15, 2006.
  6. ↑ sid: Paralympics star Bentele climbs Kilimanjaro. In: biathlon-online.de. March 12, 2013, archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on May 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Committees. White List, accessed on October 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 14th Federal Assembly 2010 composition on wahlrecht.de , accessed on May 16, 2018.
  9. ^ Ingmar Kreienbrink: Strong presentation of Munich for the Olympic Games. In: derwesten.de. DerWesten , July 6, 2011, accessed May 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Voters should vote on the Olympics. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 27, 2011, accessed on September 28, 2011 (online article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung).
  11. ↑ Paralympics star Bentele ends his career. Report from Spiegel Online dated November 8, 2011.
  12. ↑ (mhs): Biathlete Bentele crowns her career. Winter athlete from Tettnang recognized as a world disabled athlete. In: Schwäbische Zeitung . December 12, 2011.
  13. ↑ Susanne Dohrn: "Totally exciting". Forward June 5, 2012, archived from the original on June 16, 2012 ; Retrieved June 28, 2012 .
  14. ↑ These celebrities vote for the Federal President for the SPD . In: Forward . February 10, 2017 ( vorwaerts.de [accessed February 11, 2017]).
  15. ^ Christian Ude opens the SPD's election campaign. In: Spiegel Online. October 21, 2012.
  16. ↑ Bentele becomes the Federal Government's Commissioner for the Disabled . Focus Online . January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  17. ↑ Verena Bentele is the new disability officer . In: bundesregierung.de . January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  18. ↑ Angelika Finkenwirth: Verena Bentele. Blind - so what ?! In: zeit.de . April 7, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  19. ↑ Julia Lenders, Timo Lokoschat: The new Munich city council. In: Münchner Abendzeitung . March 19, 2014.
  20. ↑ Andreas Glas: Bentele resigns from her mandate. In: Süddeutsche.de. February 10, 2015, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  21. ↑ The representative currently: handover to Jürgen Dusel. In: behindertenbeauftragter.de. May 9, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Jürgen Dusel becomes the new disability officer. In: tagesspiegel.de . April 27, 2018. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
  23. ↑ VdK Bayern nominates Verena Bentele for election as VdK President. Ulrike Mascher proposes the Federal Commissioner for the Disabled as her successor. In: vdk.de. Sozialverband VdK Deutschland, February 13, 2018, accessed on April 28, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Verena Bentele is the new president of the social association VdK Germany. New elections at the social association VdK Germany. Press release. In: vdk.de. May 16, 2018, accessed May 16, 2018.
  25. ^ VdK state chief against possible vdk federal president Bentele. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 14, 2018, accessed on August 7, 2020 . .
  26. ↑ New VdK President elected: Verena Bentele succeeds Ulrike Mascher - BBSB-Inform -. Press release of the Bavarian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired V. In: bbsb.org. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 20, 2018.
  27. ↑ Alexander Mayer (alx): City crowns “Gold-Verena” an honorary citizen ( Memento from February 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: Schwäbische Zeitung. March 25, 2010, accessed August 5, 2018.
  28. ↑ Bambi Prize Winner. From mom monkey to wallpecker. (No longer available online.) In: focus.de. Formerly in the original on November 11, 2010 ; accessed on May 16, 2018 (no mementos).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.focus.de .
  29. ↑ IPC reveals three Paralympic Hall of Fame inductees . In: paralympic.org . February 27, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  30. ↑ Award for Verena Bentele. In: süddeutsche.de. October 30, 2016, accessed May 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bentele, Verena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bentele, Verena Monika (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German winter athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindau (Lake Constance)