CNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation
The ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation is a merger of various predecessor organizations.
Under the name KURATORIUM ZNS , Hannelore Kohl founded the aid organization for accident victims with injuries to the central nervous system in 1983. Ten years later, she set up the Hannelore Kohl Foundation . In 2005, both organizations were merged under the name ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation for Injured People with Damage to the Central Nervous System as a legally independent foundation . From December 2011 to November 2017 Kristina Schröder was President of the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation. Her successor is Adel Tawil . The chairman of the board is Joachim Breuer.
So far, more than 29 million euros from donations have been passed on to clinics, institutions and rehabilitation facilities in Germany for around 600 projects. The foundation bears the donation seal of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative (ITZ). It was mentioned positively in a study by Stiftung Warentest on donation organizations from November 2014 because of its high level of transparency and strict requirements for quality assurance of the projects.
The main tasks and goals of the foundation are:
- individual and independent advice to cranial brain injured people and their families through information, social law information and the placement of rehabilitation places,
- the promotion of non-profit rehabilitation facilities, for example by equipping therapy places, providing medical devices, aids, etc.,
- the funding of research projects in the field of neuroscience and the award of the Hannelore Kohl Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, for young scientists,
- the targeted educational work on the causes and risks of accidents.
The ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation sees itself as the mouthpiece of the 270,000 people in Germany who suffer a cranial brain injury every year. Half of them are younger than 25 years and 35,000 of them are younger than five years.
The ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation finances its activities exclusively from donations and voluntary contributions. It does not receive any public funding.
On July 1, 2009, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced that he would resign from all offices in the foundation and initially demanded that the foundation name of his deceased wife be discontinued. He justified his withdrawal with an "unfriendly takeover" of the foundation by people who were unrelated to his deceased wife. According to media reports, this was aimed at the then President Ute-Henriette Ohoven .
After Helmut Kohl's departure, the sons of the foundation's founder, Hannelore Kohl and Helmut Kohl, support the further development of the foundation. You are thereby continuing the close ties between the Kohl family and the foundation. Peter Kohl and Walter Kohl are looking forward to the opportunity “to shape the future of our mother's life's work together with those responsible at the foundation. Our mother had found an important task for herself in building up her foundation and in her very specific work for people with damage to the central nervous system. We know how important this work was to you. That is why it is a pleasure for us as members of the Board of Trustees to continue accompanying our mother's work in the next generation "
Bureau
| Since foundation until July 2001 | Hannelore Kohl |
| 2002 - November 2011 | Ute-Henriette Ohoven |
| December 2011 - November 2017 | Kristina Schröder |
| since December 2017 | Adel Tawil |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation: About the work of the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Donation organizations from celebrities: With heart and mind , Stiftung Warentest, accessed online on October 29, 2014
- ↑ Rickels, E. et al. (Ed.): Traumatic brain injury, epidemiology and care - results of a prospective study, Munich, Zuckschwerdt Verlag, 2006.
- ↑ Spiegel Online: Helmut Kohl leaves his late wife's foundation
- ↑ SWR.de: Former Chancellor leaves the Hannelore Kohl Foundation
- ↑ Schlammschlacht - Hannelore Kohl Foundation defends itself against Kohl in Spiegel Online from July 1, 2009
- ↑ Former Chancellor vs. Ute Ohoven: Kohl without Kohl - dispute over a foundation in Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 1, 2009
- ↑ Kohl leaves the Hannelore Kohl Foundation and donates to the Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 1, 2009
- ↑ Press release of the CNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation: Sons of Hannelore and Dr. Helmut Kohl elected to the Board of Trustees of the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
