The Tvind cult in Germany.a dossier on Humana, Planet Aid, Campus California TG, IICD and Campus California TG.

Tvind assets:  Humana shops, clothes collection boxes, sorting centre, volunteer recruitment. 

  April 2002:   German Tvind TG member Jochen Schaffer has been killed in a robbery in Brazil.    See reports in Guestbook.

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 Seelenfnger, and has also chronicled the growth of Tvind in a series of newspaper articles.

Psycho- Sekten. Die Praktiken der Seelenfnger    (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)

P 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 Mller  (Forlaget DIKE, 256pp)  (in Danish)

     Click here for partial German translation

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 fr Entwicklung Gemeinntzige GmbH 

("Humana Clothes for Development")   A charity.

      Humana Kleidersammlung GmbH

("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)

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. Studel u.a.: Tvind - Impressionen, Aspekte, Dialoge.
In: Gesamthochschule Kassel (Hrsg.): Prisma Nr. 20 (1979), S. 69 - 

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 verzgerte 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 (Dnemark):

    Aussteiger: Wichtiges Material wurde entfernt  26. April 2001  Von Lars Roger Srensen

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]

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Humana Germany (1986)

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Kpenicker Strasse 45, 12355 Berlin, Germany
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