Council of International Fellowship
in Deutschland e.V.

Verein zur Förderung des internationalen Austausches von Fachkräften in der sozialen Arbeit

In Memoriam

Gisela Senssfelder is dead. She died September 27, 2011
An obituary by our president Inge Bierbrauer you can
find here.

A personal "In Memoriam" was written by our member
Dieter Bettels, you will find it here.
There are still several fotos, which you may have a
look at here.


Like most know it for a while, we got the sad news that Martha Ollendorff died on March 21, 2011.
She died peacefullý at the age of 101 with her family around.
Martha has along with her husband Henry B. Ollendorff, the founder of CIP/CIF, from the very beginning our organization accompanied and supported. We thank her for her engagement and are grateful having had her for so many years within our CIF family. Last time she was in Europe was 2005 at the CIF conference in Bonn and the denomination of the "Ollendorffplatz" in Darmstadt.

Our sympatehy is with her family, her daughter Monica and her son Frank and his wife Jane Ollendorff. Frank and Jane are closely connected with the philosophy of CIP/CIF and the heritage of Henry B. Ollendorff.

Look here for the Obituary in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.


Our founding member Manfred Zielinski is dead. We are mourning very much. Manfred died at the age of 76 years on December 21, 2009.

Maria Hierlinge-Gudat and Jürgen Kalcher participated at his burial. Jürgen Kalcher has written an obituarey for the World News, which we publish here as well.