Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen / Wings of Help e.V. ...
…based in Cargo City Süd at Frankfurt Airport spreads its wings around the world to help people in need. The areas are the direct care of needy children and families after natural and humanitarian catastrophes as well as the transport of medical emergencies from all over the world to Germany for medical treatment.
In addition to numerous aid projects worldwide - including in Ukraine (war), Turkey, Haiti and Pakistan (earthquake), Myanmar/Indonesia/Japan (tsunami), Syria/Iraq/Greece (refugee aid) and Mozambique (cyclones) as well as in flood disasters (e.g. Ahr River Valley, Germany) -- Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen / Wings of Help e.V. (LOG/WoH) builds computer schools for young people in difficult places such as in needy schools, migrant accommodations or refugee camps. This is happening in Myanmar, Nepal, Puerto Rico, Greece, Romania and in Kurdistan/Northern Iraq. Our credo "Bildung ist Zukunft/Education is Future" forms the sustainable basis for young generations, who receive new perspectives and opportunities through modern media and thus find access to education systems in the rest of the world.
Our organization, founded in 2003, works with airlines, logistics companies and a large number of well-known German and globally active companies. In the 20 years since it was founded, we have quickly and un-bureaucratically brought relief goods, food and urgently needed pharmaceutical aid with a volume of more than 10,000 tons to people in need on all continents. This is done locally in cooperation with non-political, local and global aid organizations. Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen e.V. /Wings of Help e. V., as a non-profit and charitable aid organization, is happy to issue a donation receipt.
Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen/Wings of Help e.V. as a charitable recognized aid organization issues donation receipts to its supporters.
Our Team
Dr. Ulf Merbold
Honorary President
Astronaut & Cosmonaut | 1983 – 2nd German in space | first German with 3 space flights Mission STS 9 Space Lab 1, shuttle flight | Later as the only one 3 times in space: Missions STS 42 Shuttle Flight- Spacelab & Mir 94 – 32 days on the Mir Station | 1984: Federal Cross…
Ralf Bülter
President
Managing Director Founder of Top Alliance, business economist/focus on logistics, management consultant, international experience with global and regional aid project
Marie-Luise Thüne
Vice President
LOG/WoH board member for international and political contacts, Secretary General of Aviation Sans Frontières, Hotel professional, Foreign language correspondent, TV/Radio SWR Award “Matter of Honor”, Rhineland-Palatinate Medal of Merit, Stage performer
Professor Dr. Hauke Lang
Board Member Medical Consultation
Responsible for medical matters. He is director of the clinic for general, visceral and transplant surgery at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He has held several leadership positions in global committees, most recently as President of the German Society for Surgery.
Dr. Markus Schmitt
Coopted medical board member
Dr. Schmitt advices the organization in the medical field and healthcare for around two decades.
Bernhard Hau
Legal Affairs
Lawyer since 1980 and partner of a business consulting firm – aid missions in Kenya and Lesotho – Fundraising experience
Werner Claasen
Communication
With Werner Claasen, Wings of Help has more than four decades of intensive experience in corporate communications.
Guido Holz
TV and Film
TV producer | Owner of Timeline TV | German Human Rights Film Award 2014 | Robert Geisendörfer Film Award 2015
Peter C. Manz
IT & Security Board Member
Computer specialist since 1983. IT consulting, PC emergency service, PC emergency help, Internet, network planning and network solutions as well as telecommunications.
Jürgen Wingenfeld
Chief Financial Officer
He is responsible for the finance department. Wingenfeld works as a management consultant for small and medium-sized companies with a focus on financial accounting, financing and public funding. He comes from the banking and accounting business
Rolf Geyer
Coopted finance board member
The respected finance expert is also founding member of the organization in the year 2003.
Felix Groh
Chief Operations Officer
Graduated in business administration and logistics expert. Responsible in particular for the preparation, coordination and safe transport of all relief goods that are dispatched globally by LOG.
Leonora Plaschek
Head of Process Coordination and Design
Social work course. At LOG/WoH, assistant to management and board members, responsible for office administration activities, graphic designs, coordination and organization.
Sylvia Plaschek
Head of Fundraising
Commercial education. Decades of experience as an editorial assistant for well-known programs on radio hr1 broadcast. Responsible participation in public events in the relevant departments of Hessischer Rundfunk (HR).
Martin Brandenbusch
Industry Relations
Martin Brandenbusch strengthens LOG/WoH through his long-term engagement in positions at Lufthansa and Deutsche Bahn/German Rail. Today retired, he supports humanitarian LOG/WoH projects with all his deep knowledge.
Heike Ulrich
Documentation/Video Podcast
TV / Theater Actress, Novelist / Screenplay Dramaturge, Member of the Authors’ Association Syndikat, Award of the Hessian State Foundation.
Council of trustees
Jürgen Harrer (Chairman)
Wings of Help Award
Award for humanitarian commitment worldwide: The Wings of Help Award is presented at irregular intervals to personalities who have distinguished themselves in an outstanding way for their humanitarian commitment. In recent years, these wings of help, among others, have been awarded to the Hamburg entrepreneurs Claus and Gunnar Heinemann, the journalist Stefan Aust, the chairman of the board of Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG, Andreas Pohl and the Frankfurt music and event entrepreneur Bernd Breiter.
The prize was first awarded to LOG-WoH President Frank Franke as part of the Living Legends of Aviation, which has been a major American event for decades and is also known as the Oscars of aerospace. At this event, an independent consortium delegated the task of presenting the award to a jury from Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen/Wings of Help. e.V. in Frankfurt/Main.
Celeste Warner-Heymann has passed away
For years, she was considered a “rock in the storm" for Luftfahrt ohne Grenzen/Wings of Help e.V., a brilliant organizer and supervisor of the office team at Frankfurt Airport. Celeste Warner-Heymann’s commitment was highly respected; without her and her meticulous work, many aid projects would not have run as smoothly as they would have hoped. She prepared every trip and every mission with great detail – from hotel bookings and flight details to important information about partners from other organizations that the LOG/WoH team met around the world. Celeste Heymann came to LOG/WoH through the Frankfurt-Berlin Airlift Association 1948-1949 e.V., where she served as honorary president. The Airlift Association – still visible today through the memorial to the two American “candy bombers" at the Frankfurt Kreuz and Frankfurt Airport – supported LOG/WoH in its early years through the efforts of Mrs. Heymann, who, incidentally, worked as a volunteer for the USO after the war. With more than 15,000 volunteer hours, she had, over many years, kindly provided around 400,000 US soldiers with home-baked cakes and coffee at Rhein-Main Airport. In her role for the Airlift, of which LOG/WoH is still a member today, Celeste Heymann eventually joined our humanitarian organization. Celeste Heymann has now passed away after a long and serious illness. With great gratitude, we will pay her a tribute of honour.
Wings of Help Award
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