Wau Holland Foundation
The Wau Holland Foundation ( WHS ) is a foundation established in 2003 and recognized as a charitable foundation in Hamburg in 2004 , which aims to manage the estate of the hacker and journalist Wau Holland , who died in 2001, and make it accessible to the public. Plans for this began as early as the end of 2001. One of the founders and a member of the foundation's board is Bernd Fix . The foundation is close to the Chaos Computer Club , which was co-founded by Holland, and aims to continue his life's work in the areas of technology assessment , technology history and freedom of information, among other things . Specifically, it promotes the use of electronic media for educational purposes as well as events on the social aspects of new technologies.
Projects of the foundation, each in cooperation with the Chaos Computer Club, are an "Archive for New Technology History (Hacker Archive)", which is supposed to document the history of the scene, as well as the campaign against voting computers . The foundation also accepts donations in Europe to support the WikiLeaks website . As of December 3, 2010, the PayPal account of the Wau Holland Foundation - like the Wikileaks account itself - was blocked by PayPal due to “illegal activities”. The foundation temporarily had no access to the remaining 10,000 euros and announced legal action against PayPal on December 7th. Shortly afterwards, PayPal again granted access to the remaining donations and was later offered again as a donation option on the foundation's website. For 2010 donations of 1.33 million euros were forwarded to Wikileaks, in 2011 it was 660,523 euros.
The Kassel tax office retroactively revoked the charitable status of the foundation for 2010, as it was unable to provide "proper records" to prove that Wikileaks monitored the "use of funds as instructed". An objection to the decision was rejected as unfounded by the Hamburg-Nord tax office . From 2011, the charitable status of the foundation was recognized again by the Hamburg authority.
The interest-bearing invested foundation capital is currently around 62,000 euros (as of November 2012); Another asset is a smaller agricultural area that is leased.
The foundation also has an office in Berlin.
Web links
- Wau Holland Foundation
- Hacker archive: selection of documentary press reports
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Wau Holland Foundation: Via the Wau Holland Foundation. Accessed on May 2, 2012.
- ↑ Wau Holland Foundation: Foundation Constitution (PDF; 20 kB) Status: September 2011, accessed on May 2, 2012.
- ↑ golem.de: Wau Holland Foundation established - call for "data donations"
- ↑ SPON : Hacker Foundation: Welcome to Wauland by Thomas Barth
- ↑ heise.de: Wau-Holland-Stiftung and CCC plan "Archive of the Hacker Movement"
- ↑ golem.de: CCC and Wau-Holland-Stiftung set up a hacker archive
- ↑ gulli.com: CCC against voting computer: Appeal for donations for the Wau Holland Foundation ( Memento from January 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Welt.de: German foundation secures Wikileaks funding
- ↑ golem.de: Wau-Holland-Stiftung defends itself against PayPal
- ↑ netzpolitik.org: Wau Holland Foundation takes action against PayPal
- ↑ Wau Holland Foundation: appeal decision of the Hamburg-North tax office (PDF; 216 kB)
- ↑ https://www.dasoertliche.de/Themen/Wau-Holland-Stifung-Berlin-Mitte-Marienstr