FriedensBrot Donations for Initiatives in Ukraine

Within the scope of its 7th FORUM, the FriedensBrot association supported two Ukrainian initiatives with funds from its Ukraine fund-raising campaign which was started early this year. One of these is the “Bortsch” initiative in support (seeds and plants) of Ukrainian families and farmers for home growing of vegetables for their national dish. For this […]
Dedication of the Field of Peace at Kärsämäki in Finland

Vice chairman Udo Folgart and Managing director of the association FriedensBrot e.V. Dr. Gibfried Schenk at the invitation of Ms Hanna Karsikas, chairwoman of the friends’ association of the shingle church, attended the dedication of the Kärsämäki Field of Peace. At the initiative of the architect Mikael Merenmies, who lives in Berlin, this peace field […]
Guests at the rye field at the Bernauer Strasse Wall Memorial

Since the founding of the association FriedensBrot e.V., Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank has supported the association and the international network “Peace and Agriculture” associated with it.On June 27, 2022, Jens Kollmann, general counsel, and Helga Immel, liaison office of Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, visited the Wall Memorial. They were accompanied by Dr. Antje Pecher, director of the Volkshochschule at […]
War in Ukraine – FriedensBrot is committed to solidarity

Always – be it the leadership of the VDL Landesverband Ost, or scholars, as well as the management of the Verbindungsstelle Landwirtschaft-Industrie (liaison body agriculture/industry) and the Rehwinkel-Stiftung (foundation) for the rye field, and regarding the Berlin Wall Memorial, whether the extended board meets for a strategy conference at the Heimvolkshochschule on the Seddiner lake, […]
Fundraising “Ukraine”

The PeaceBread association is calling on its members, friends and supporters to a fundraising campaign “Ukraine”. With this, the association wants to specifically support aid measures and projects from the (international) PeaceBread network that are now underway or will be started for the people in Ukraine. You can find the call for donations by the […]
Peace and Agriculture

Picture: Sebastian Christ Dear friends, members, partners and supporters of the association FriedensBrot e.V. and the international network “Peace and Agriculture”, with our partners from Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, we are united by the common history of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the […]
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture

We warmly welcome the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Cem Özdemir as the new patron of the PeaceBread project! We are grateful that the minister is continuing the good tradition of the previous ministers, most recently Julia Klöckner. Picture: BMEL/Photothek/Trutschel
FriedensBrot 2021 stands for cooperation and solidarity across borders. Looking forward to the International PeaceBread Conference on 7 September, 2021

On 23rd August, the PeaceBread association presented this year’s PeaceBread to Mr. Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). On this occasion, Mr. Anton Blöth, Chairman of FriedensBrot e.V. explained: “European PeaceBread is a unique symbol for cooperation and solidarity across borders in Europe. Every year, we and […]
PeaceBread before the harvest – 7th conference “Peace and Agriculture” on September 7, 2021 digital

Berlin, 22.06.2021. The rye at the Berlin Wall Memorial is growing, together with its offspring in the partner countries of the PeaceBread project. Soon it will be harvested, sent to Berlin and the joint PeaceBread 2021 can be baked.After a Corona-related break last year, nothing stands in the way of the 7th “Peace and Agriculture” […]
Soil of the rye fields at the Berlin Wall Memorial improved

Just in time for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall An essential part of the Berlin Wall Memorial along Bernauer Straße between Ackerstraße and Brunnenstraße is the annual cultivation of rye at the Chapel of Reconciliation. This project goes back to an idea of the sculptor Michael Spengler, who sowed rye […]