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Germany
Tvind assets: Humana shops, clothes collection boxes, sorting centre, volunteer recruitment.
Latest news:
Oct 2003: Complaint to German Youth Service. 'Hellen Adler' <hellenadler@web.de> has posted a complaint about Tvind schools on a German web site, and the complaint has been widely circulated among the German youth service. Read it here in English.
April 2002: German Tvind TG member Jochen Schaffer has been killed in a robbery near the Tvind plantation in Brazil. See reports in Guest book.
Humana has a huge presence in Germany, collecting and selling old clothes and recruiting volunteers for its colleges. It also advertises its schools for children in Denmark widely in German on the Internet. Despite being listed as a cult by several cult watchdog groups, its activity is unchallenged by local authorities, police or government.
Berlin journalist Frank Nordhausen has written a detailed account of Tvind in his book, Psycho- Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfänger, and has also chronicled the growth of Tvind in a series of newspaper articles.
Books
Psycho-
Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfänger
(Psycho-cults - how the soul-catchers work)
Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck (Fischer-TB.-Vlg.
Ffm. 1999. ISBN 3596142407) (in German)
Berlin journalists Nordhausen and Billerbeck include a chapter about
Tvind in their book on "psycho-cults", outlining in detail
Tvind's worldwide network and complex financial structure
Click here to read part of the book in
English.
"Auf
dem Weg des Sieges" (On the road to
victory)
På sejrens vej historien om skolesamvirket Tvind og dets skaber
Mogens Amdi Petersen (On the road to victory - the story
of the School Co-operation Tvind and its creator Mogens Amdi Petersen)
by Jes Fabricius Møller (Forlaget DIKE, 256pp) (in Danish)
Click here for partial German
translation
Companies
See: Tvind companies
Humana collects clothes in Stuttgart, Ulm, Cologne, Berlin and many other parts of Germany. There are three Humana companies in Germany.
Humana
Kleidung für Entwicklung Gemeinnützige GmbH
("Humana Clothes for Development")
A charity.
("Humana Clothes Collection", a private limited company (plc)?)
Humana Second-Hand-Kleidung
GmbH
("Humana Second-Hand-Clothing", plc)
A correspondent writes: "Each area of Collection (i.e. Stuttgart, Ulm, Cologne, Berlin...) has an area manager ('Gebietsleiter'), who is responsible for organising the collection, hiring drivers and people for the repair shops, packing, someone for managing the drivers and someone to find new places for the collection bins and maintaining contact with the owners of these places. These area managers have a 5-year contract, and as far as I've heard, not everyone stays with Humana after that. All job offerings in the areas are published in Newspapers, so I've come to believe that everyone below the area-management is coming from the outside, i.e. has no previous contacts to Tvind.
"But here is something for you to look up: a part of the collected clothes is being sold to Romania and, I think, Belorussia. The Sales Agent is Janice Jane of Garson & Shaw Ltd., London."
Further separate companies?
Berlin Humana, Koepenickerstrasse 45, Mrs Monika Muesson
Cologne Humana, Herman Segerstrasse 33 mr. Moin Rizvi/mr. Neil
Berlin Humana and Cologne Humana were suppliers of Textile Transformation EC Trading b.v of Holland (went bankrupt 2000)
Newspaper articles
See: news archive
In German:
<http://griess.st1.at/tvind>
Link to extensive database of German-language news articles about Humana and Tvind
Grossrazzia in
Daenemark gegen Tvind-Humana Sektenartiger Konzern des Steuerbetrugs
verdaechtigt Berliner Zeitung, Auf
Frank Nordhausen
KOPENHAGEN, 26. April. Eine der groessten Operationen in der
Nachkriegsgeschichte Daenemarks fuehren Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft
derzeit gegen den so genannten Tvind-Humana-Konzern durch.......(in
German)
Der
falsche Glaube, etwas Gutes zu tun Alte Kleider, freie Schulen und
Plantagen in der Karibik: Seltsame Geschafte des Tvind-Konzerns
Berliner
Zeitung, 19th June 1996. by Frank Nordhausen (in
German)
"Hier ist alles vergiftet"
Der irische Bananenkonzern Fyffes dr?ngt auf den deutschen Markt - auf
seinen Plantagen in Belize herrschen ¸ble Zust?nde
from Berliner Zeitung, 23rd July 1996 by
Frank Nordhausen (in German)
Imperium der Lumpensammler
Der Spiegel, 13.05.1996
by Frank Nordhausen. Eine alternative
Lehrerclique mit Sitz in Daenemark baute binnen zwei Jahrzehnten das
internationale Tvind-lmperium auf. Der Fuehrungszirkel des Konzerns, der
straff organisiert ist wie eine Sekte, profitiert von staatlichen
Verguenstigungen und von Millionengeschaeften mit Altkleider-Spenden.
Auch in Deutschland werden Idealisten ausgenommen. (in German)
13.
L. Stäudel u.a.: Tvind - Impressionen, Aspekte, Dialoge.
In: Gesamthochschule Kassel (Hrsg.): Prisma Nr. 20 (1979), S. 69 -
Television
Deutsche Welle TV
A correspondent in the US writes: First, my brotherr woke me up at around midnight last night to let me know he'd just watched a 5 - 10 minute segment about Tvind on European Journal on TV - DW (Deutsche Welle), which he gets on cable tv in Chicago
From other languages:
Hintergrund: Tvinds Imperium
Internetzeitung Jyllands-Posten, 28. April 2001
Von Mikkel Hertz
Tvind verzögerte die
Untersuchungen acht Jahre lang Internetzeitung Jyllands-Posten, 26.
April 2001 Von Orla Borg
Dokumentation:
Pressemitteilung des Polizeimeisters. Der
Polizeimeister in Holstebro 25. April 2001
Pressemitteilung betreffend Tvind Internetzeitung
Jyllands-Posten (Dänemark):
Aussteiger: Wichtiges Material
wurde entfernt 26. April 2001 Von Lars Roger Sørensen
Tvind Alert was contacted by two German students, both concerned at
their 'exploitation' by Tvind, in January 2000. They both
left the College for International Cooperation and Development in Hull,
England, and asked for their money back. Click
here to find out more.
In Germany Humana must state on its containers that it is a commercial enterprise. [Rotterdam Dagblad, Holland, 1995]
Cult information
Religio
German cult directory: This information-site informs You over sects and
cults in Germany and worldwide.
winfried.mueller@jena.thur.de
ALEMANIA: Die Vereinigung gegen Tvind
More information, please
Humana Germany (1986)
http://www.humana-de.org/
Humana Germany
GERMANY
HUMANA Kleidung für Entwicklung GmbH,
Köpenicker Strasse 45, 12355 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 66 909 100
Fax: +49 30 66 340 16
humana@humana-de.org
www.humana-de.org
Germany
Berlin Humana, Koepenickerstrasse 45, Mrs Monika Muesson
Cologne Humana, Herman Segerstrasse 33 mr. Moin Rizvi/mr. Neil
Tvind assets: Humana shops, clothes collection boxes, sorting centre, volunteer recruitment.
Latest news:
Oct 2003: Complaint to German Youth Service. 'Hellen Adler' <hellenadler@web.de> has posted a complaint about Tvind schools on a German web site, and the complaint has been widely circulated among the German youth service. Read it here in English.
April 2002: German Tvind TG member Jochen Schaffer has been killed in a robbery near the Tvind plantation in Brazil. See reports in Guest book.
Humana has a huge presence in Germany, collecting and selling old clothes and recruiting volunteers for its colleges. It also advertises its schools for children in Denmark widely in German on the Internet. Despite being listed as a cult by several cult watchdog groups, its activity is unchallenged by local authorities, police or government.
Berlin journalist Frank Nordhausen has written a detailed account of Tvind in his book, Psycho- Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfänger, and has also chronicled the growth of Tvind in a series of newspaper articles.
Books
Psycho-
Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfänger
(Psycho-cults - how the soul-catchers work)
Frank Nordhausen and Liane von Billerbeck (Fischer-TB.-Vlg.
Ffm. 1999. ISBN 3596142407) (in German)
Berlin journalists Nordhausen and Billerbeck include a chapter about
Tvind in their book on "psycho-cults", outlining in detail
Tvind's worldwide network and complex financial structure
Click here to read part of the book in
English.
"Auf
dem Weg des Sieges" (On the road to
victory)
På sejrens vej historien om skolesamvirket Tvind og dets skaber
Mogens Amdi Petersen (On the road to victory - the story
of the School Co-operation Tvind and its creator Mogens Amdi Petersen)
by Jes Fabricius Møller (Forlaget DIKE, 256pp) (in Danish)
Click here for partial German
translation
Companies
See: Tvind companies
Humana collects clothes in Stuttgart, Ulm, Cologne, Berlin and many other parts of Germany. There are three Humana companies in Germany.
Humana
Kleidung für Entwicklung Gemeinnützige GmbH
("Humana Clothes for Development")
A charity.
("Humana Clothes Collection", a private limited company (plc)?)
Humana Second-Hand-Kleidung
GmbH
("Humana Second-Hand-Clothing", plc)
A correspondent writes: "Each area of Collection (i.e. Stuttgart, Ulm, Cologne, Berlin...) has an area manager ('Gebietsleiter'), who is responsible for organising the collection, hiring drivers and people for the repair shops, packing, someone for managing the drivers and someone to find new places for the collection bins and maintaining contact with the owners of these places. These area managers have a 5-year contract, and as far as I've heard, not everyone stays with Humana after that. All job offerings in the areas are published in Newspapers, so I've come to believe that everyone below the area-management is coming from the outside, i.e. has no previous contacts to Tvind.
"But here is something for you to look up: a part of the collected clothes is being sold to Romania and, I think, Belorussia. The Sales Agent is Janice Jane of Garson & Shaw Ltd., London."
Further separate companies?
Berlin Humana, Koepenickerstrasse 45, Mrs Monika Muesson
Cologne Humana, Herman Segerstrasse 33 mr. Moin Rizvi/mr. Neil
Berlin Humana and Cologne Humana were suppliers of Textile Transformation EC Trading b.v of Holland (went bankrupt 2000)
Newspaper articles
See: news archive
In German:
<http://griess.st1.at/tvind>
Link to extensive database of German-language news articles about Humana and Tvind
Grossrazzia in
Daenemark gegen Tvind-Humana Sektenartiger Konzern des Steuerbetrugs
verdaechtigt Berliner Zeitung, Auf
Frank Nordhausen
KOPENHAGEN, 26. April. Eine der groessten Operationen in der
Nachkriegsgeschichte Daenemarks fuehren Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft
derzeit gegen den so genannten Tvind-Humana-Konzern durch.......(in
German)
Der
falsche Glaube, etwas Gutes zu tun Alte Kleider, freie Schulen und
Plantagen in der Karibik: Seltsame Geschafte des Tvind-Konzerns
Berliner
Zeitung, 19th June 1996. by Frank Nordhausen (in
German)
"Hier ist alles vergiftet"
Der irische Bananenkonzern Fyffes dr?ngt auf den deutschen Markt - auf
seinen Plantagen in Belize herrschen ¸ble Zust?nde
from Berliner Zeitung, 23rd July 1996 by
Frank Nordhausen (in German)
Imperium der Lumpensammler
Der Spiegel, 13.05.1996
by Frank Nordhausen. Eine alternative
Lehrerclique mit Sitz in Daenemark baute binnen zwei Jahrzehnten das
internationale Tvind-lmperium auf. Der Fuehrungszirkel des Konzerns, der
straff organisiert ist wie eine Sekte, profitiert von staatlichen
Verguenstigungen und von Millionengeschaeften mit Altkleider-Spenden.
Auch in Deutschland werden Idealisten ausgenommen. (in German)
13.
L. Stäudel u.a.: Tvind - Impressionen, Aspekte, Dialoge.
In: Gesamthochschule Kassel (Hrsg.): Prisma Nr. 20 (1979), S. 69 -
Television
Deutsche Welle TV
A correspondent in the US writes: First, my brotherr woke me up at around midnight last night to let me know he'd just watched a 5 - 10 minute segment about Tvind on European Journal on TV - DW (Deutsche Welle), which he gets on cable tv in Chicago
From other languages:
Hintergrund: Tvinds Imperium
Internetzeitung Jyllands-Posten, 28. April 2001
Von Mikkel Hertz
Tvind verzögerte die
Untersuchungen acht Jahre lang Internetzeitung Jyllands-Posten, 26.
April 2001 Von Orla Borg
Dokumentation:
Pressemitteilung des Polizeimeisters. Der
Polizeimeister in Holstebro 25. April 2001
Pressemitteilung betreffend Tvind Internetzeitung
Jyllands-Posten (Dänemark):
Aussteiger: Wichtiges Material
wurde entfernt 26. April 2001 Von Lars Roger Sørensen
Tvind Alert was contacted by two German students, both concerned at
their 'exploitation' by Tvind, in January 2000. They both
left the College for International Cooperation and Development in Hull,
England, and asked for their money back. Click
here to find out more.
In Germany Humana must state on its containers that it is a commercial enterprise. [Rotterdam Dagblad, Holland, 1995]
Cult information
Religio
German cult directory: This information-site informs You over sects and
cults in Germany and worldwide.
winfried.mueller@jena.thur.de
ALEMANIA: Die Vereinigung gegen Tvind
More information, please
Humana Germany (1986)
http://www.humana-de.org/
Humana Germany
GERMANY
HUMANA Kleidung für Entwicklung GmbH,
Köpenicker Strasse 45, 12355 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 66 909 100
Fax: +49 30 66 340 16
humana@humana-de.org
www.humana-de.org
Germany
Berlin Humana, Koepenickerstrasse 45, Mrs Monika Muesson
Cologne Humana, Herman Segerstrasse 33 mr. Moin Rizvi/mr. Neil
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