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 9,000 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
Frank Franke
President
Journalist and author | Legends Wings of Help Award 2018 | Former editor-in-chief on Hessischer Rundfunk | Vice-President ASF International | Awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany | WACS Humanitarian Award 2012
Ralf Bülter
Vice President, Executive Board Member
Founder of Top Alliance, business economist/focus on logistics, management consultant, international experience with global and regional aid projects
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…
Marie-Luise Thüne
International and Political Relations Secretary General Aviation Sans Frontières
actress | playwright | Medal of Merit Rhineland-Palatinate 2015 | Ehrensache SWR 2010
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.
Guido Holz
TV and Film
TV producer | Owner of Timeline TV | German Human Rights Film Award 2014 | Robert Geisendörfer Film Award 2015
Werner Claasen
Media & PR
With Werner Claasen, Wings of Help has more than four decades of intensive experience in corporate communications.
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.
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.
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.
Maximilian Baumann
Graphic design
With his agency “Nashorn Design” at LOG responsible for the graphic appearance combined with marketing including social media.
Council of trustees
Jürgen Harrer (Chairman)
Eckhard Zanger (Co-Chairman)
Bruno Gantenbrink
Silke Kadach
Ulf Köper
Marina Noble
Michael Roll
Johannes Winter
Anton Wüstefeld
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.
Wings of Help Award
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