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OEB speaker Klaus Buchmüller

Klaus Buchmüller

Technisches Hilfswerk (THW, a department of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior), Germany

Activities & Responsibilities   

1989 – 1994    forwarding merchant for several companies

1993               Several international missions and deployments as a volunteer for the Federal Agency for Technical Relief  (THW)

                                                04/94 – 02/96 THW-mission to Mostar as logistics specialist

                                                02/96 – 02/98 THW-mission to Mostar as head of office

                                                02/98 – 04/99 THW-mission in Bosnia as head of country office

                                                04/99 – 01/01  THW-mission as special envoy to the Balkans

                                                02/01 – 06/02  THW-deployments in India, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan as special envoy

                                                06/02 – 04/04 THW-special envoy for international operations by order of the the THW-president

                                                (missions to Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Irak)

                                                 05/04 – 01/06   THW-headquarters, responsible for international operations

                                                (missions to USA, Romania, Pakistan, etc.)

 

Actual Position                            since 02/06     

THW-headquarters, head of division for international operations (missions to Cyprus, Libanon, China etc.)

 

Decorations                               THW-decoration for humanitarian assistance abroad (1991)

                                                THW-decoration for humanitarian assistance abroad (1992)

                                                THW-decoration for humanitarian assistance abroad (1993)

                                                THW-medal for volunteers in gold (1993)

                                                THW-decoration for humanitarian assistance abroad (1994)

                                                THW-decoration in silver (1998)

                                                THW-certificate for 10 years of voluntary engagement (1998)

 

Acknowledgement of the Minister of the Interior for the mission to the Balkans (1999)

Acknowledgement of the Minister of the Interior for the mission to South East Asia after the tsunami (2005)

Acknowledgement of the US Army Corps of Engineers for the mission to New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina (2005)

Knights of Malta Decoration “Großes Kreuz” (2008)

Malteser decoration “„pro merito melitensi“ (2017)

Malteser decoration “Einsatzmedaille Nepal” (2016)