Miracle of Braunschweig

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As a miracle of Brunswick , a series of many is anonymous cash - donations in Braunschweig on social and charitable institutions and through no fault of distressed individuals designated, which began in November 2011th

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It is believed that the trigger for the donations, which amounted to over 260,000 euros in January 2014, were various articles in the Braunschweiger Zeitung , since most of the amounts of money, which were each in a white envelope, were accompanied by current newspaper clippings in which the situation was the recipient of the donation was shown. The donations, usually 10,000 euros each in 500-euro bills, went to the victims' aid foundation, the Braunschweiger Verkehrswacht , the Natural History Museum , several day-care centers, various parishes, a soup kitchen , the Braunschweiger carol singers , the Braunschweiger Tafel and the hospice . Individuals were also considered, such as an old woman who was a victim of trick thieves and a boy who has been severely disabled since a swimming accident. On May 17th, 2012 it was announced that primary school students from the British twin city Bath were to be given a donation of 5,000 euros to visit Braunschweig. For Christmas 2012, the Braunschweig city administration received an envelope with 50,000 euros and a list of suggestions as to which institutions should benefit from the amount. On January 2, 2013, 4,000 euros were donated to the German church school in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa , and on January 30, the violence prevention project at the Sophienstrasse elementary and secondary school received 2,600 euros. In March and May 2013, an elderly lady donated a total of 30,000 euros for the hospice in Braunschweig. The lady gave the money in person, but did not want to give her name when asked. In the middle of 2013, the Braunschweig community foundation received an anonymous donation, as its community brunch could not be organized to cover costs due to bad weather, and the Natural History Museum was helped over funding bottlenecks with 1000 euros. In Wolfenbüttel , only a few kilometers away, donations were made anonymously for the preservation of a church organ . Shortly before Christmas 2013, another elderly lady donated 10,000 euros to a Braunschweig hospice, but she wanted to remain anonymous.

It is questionable whether it was always about a person or whether a special donation culture had been established. This series of anonymous donations continued in November 2015 when the St. Marien Catholic day-care center received a donation of 4,000 euros.

Excitement about an undeserved donation

On February 14, 2013, a 27-year-old received 5,000 euros who, according to his own statements , had shown moral courage and was himself a victim. A corresponding article in the Braunschweiger Zeitung was enclosed with the envelope with the money. The donor had written “Thank you” on the envelope. In the further proceedings, however, it turned out that the recipient of the donation was in reality very likely the actual perpetrator who sustained his injuries in a self-inflicted fall while he was chasing his victims. The investigations against the young people he had initially accused of were discontinued. Rather, the 27-year-old now received a penalty order from the Braunschweig District Court, which he also accepted, so that the incident was not processed again in the context of a court hearing.

Media attention

In addition to the continuous reporting of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, other, also supra-regional media such as the Hamburger Abendblatt , Spiegel Online, the taz or the Stern and international media took up the topic. Radio and television stations also reported on it, such as RTL , Das Erste and ZDF . After 11-year-old Pablo had seen a report about the Braunschweiger donations on Argentine television , he turned to the Braunschweiger Zeitung online to draw attention to the existential need of his family and the impending loss of his apartment. It was reported in the newspaper, whereupon an unknown person submitted a donation of 2000 euros for Pablo's family. The donation miracle was processed by the Austrian bestselling author Daniel Glattauer in his novel Gift (2014). Based staged on Glattauer narrative Daniel Prochaska 2018, the ORF - City comedy gift .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nora Gantenbrink: The miracle of Braunschweig. In: Spiegel Online , February 17, 2012.
  2. ^ Maëlle Boudet: "Un donateur anonyme a distribué 190,000 euros en Allemagne". In: Planet.fr , February 27, 2012: ... Ce que l'on appelle désormais le "miracle de Brunswick" a débuté en novembre dernier ... ( ... What has been called the "miracle of Braunschweig" since then began last November ... ), dated February 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c Katrin Bölstler: Found another anonymous donation. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , February 2, 2012.
  4. ↑ Anonymous benefactor. The miracle of Braunschweig. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 14, 2013.
  5. ^ A b Henning Noske, Katrin Bölstler: The anonymous donor is back. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , May 17, 2012.
  6. ^ Bettina Thoenes: Envelope with 10,000 euros - anonymous donation for victim support. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , December 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ Beate Hornack: € 10,000 donation for the soup kitchen in Heidberg. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , February 7, 2012.
  8. ↑ Andre Dolle: Strangers donate 20,000 euros. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , February 1, 2012.
  9. ↑ Bettina Habermann, Henning Noske: New donations appear - the fairy tale goes on. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , February 10, 2012.
  10. ↑ a b Bettina Habermann: 10,000 euros were under the doormat at the hospice. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , February 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ The anonymous donor - There is a new Robin Hood in Braunschweig. In: Parkbank-Zeitung.de , February 16, 2012.
  12. ↑ Henning Noske: New anonymous donation - "The year starts really well!" In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , January 2, 2013
  13. ↑ Bettina Habermann: The miracle of Braunschweig - the next donation is here. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , January 30, 2013.
  14. ↑ Pensioner donated a second time. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , May 2, 2013.
  15. ↑ Old lady donated 20,000 euros for the hospice. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , March 21, 2013.
  16. ↑ Birgit People: The donation came in the mail. Anonymous benefactors helped the community foundation with 1000 euros. (PDF; 14.0 MB) In: Neue Braunschweiger (Online), June 9, 2013, p. 7.
  17. ↑ Bettina Habermann: Anonymous donor gives 1000 euros. There is joy in the Natural History Museum. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , July 1, 2013.
  18. ^ Karl-Ernst Hueske: Anonymous donor gave 1000 euros for organ cleaning. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , May 21, 2013.
  19. ↑ Bettina Jordan: Retiree donated hospice 10,000 euros. In the Braunschweiger Zeitung , December 17, 2013.
  20. ↑ 1000 euros for the Natural History Museum. An anonymous donor strikes again in Braunschweig. In: District newspaper Syke , July 2, 2013.
  21. ↑ http://regionalbraunschweig.de/barmherziger-geldsegen-unbekannter-hinterlaesst-briefumschlag/
  22. ↑ Bettina Thoenes: Unknown donates 5000 euros for Florian Dressel. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , February 14, 2013
  23. ↑ Jörg Fiene: "Helfer vom Bohlweg" but not in court. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , August 18, 2013
  24. ↑ Hanna-Lotte Mikuteit: Guter Geist von Braunschweig already donated 180,000 euros. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 18, 2012.
  25. ↑ Lina Sulzbacher: Anonymous Samaritan. In: the daily newspaper , March 1, 2012.
  26. ↑ A city of happiness. In: Stern , April 4, 2013, pp. 60–66.
  27. ↑ Anonymous benefactor donates and donates ( Memento of February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kleine Zeitung ( Austria ) of February 27, 2012, “Allemagne: 190,000 euros distribués anonymement dans des enveloppes”. In: Le Point ( France ) of February 26, 2012, Miracle de Brunswick. 190'000 euros distributes anonymously. In: 20 minutes ( Switzerland ) of February 26, 2012, Cash Left under Doormat at German Hospice Part of Anonymous Spree. In: Herald Sun ( Australia ) of February 27, 2012, The German Who Does a Lot of Good Work for Charity (But Doesn't Like to Talk about it). In: The Independent ( United Kingdom ) of March 1, 2012, Tony Paterson: Mystery Envelopes Bring Cash Bonanza to Needy. In: The New Zealand Herald ( New Zealand ) of March 2, 2012, Tajemný dobrodinec v Německu rozdává obálky nadité penězi. In: Týden.cz ( Czech Republic ) of March 2, 2012, Matthew Day: Generous but Mysterious German Baffles Town with € 190k in Donations on Doormats. In: Irish Independent ( Ireland ) of March 2, 2012, German 'Robin Hood': Town Has Mystery Benefactor. In: The Huffington Post ( USA ) March 3, 2012.
  28. ↑ Frank Ihben: Anonymous donor makes Braunschweig happy. ( Memento from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: NDR 1 Lower Saxony , February 2, 2012.
  29. ↑ Braunschweig: Unknown donor gives away money packages. In: rtl.de. February 26, 2012, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  30. ↑ The benefactor of Braunschweig. In: ardmediathek.de. December 22, 2015, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Search for mona lisa: The miracle of Braunschweig (May 18, 2013, 6:00 p.m., 5:57 min.) ML mona lisa: The miracle of Braunschweig (May 18, 2013, 6:00 p.m., 5:57 min.) .)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on February 11, 2014.
  32. ↑ Katrin Bölstler, Bettina Thoenes: Braunschweig donation makes Pablo happy. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung , March 23, 2012.
  33. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/kultur/literatur/daniel-glattauers-kauziger-medien-roman-geschickt-id9736996.html