History
The Society for Threatened Peoples Germany emerged in 1970 from the Hamburg based “Aktion Biafra-Hilfe”. Aktion Biafra-Hilfe was founded in June 1968 by Tilman Zülch and Klaus Guerke during the Biafra War to draw attention of the world to the occurrences within Biafra in present day Nigeria and to stop the hunger and genocide going on there."" Zülch went to the area to witness the atrocities and eventually wrote a book together with Klaus Guerke."" The experience campaigning for the protection of the victims and refugees encouraged campaigns for other minorities transforming Aktion Biafra-Hilfe into the Society for Threatened Peoples-Germany.""
In 1978 the headquarters of the Society for Threatened Peoples_Germany moved from Hamburg to Göttingen. In 2011 the headquarters moved to Berlin.
Since 1993 the STP has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The STPI is also a Member organization of Committee for a Democratic UN. Since January 2005 the STPI also has participartory status at the Council of Europe.
In 2012, the state prosecutor of Göttingen announced investigations of charges of embezzlement filed by the STP board of directors against Tilman Zülch, the Secretary-General of both the international umbrella organization Society for Threatened Peoples International (GfbV-International), and the German branch Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV-Deutschand). The board of directors accused him of embezzlement of funds, and of having continued to receive salary payments even though he had been supposed to resign from the post of STP Secretary General and having ordered payments to the Bosnian STP branch on insufficient documentation. The organization rejected the charges and voted a new board of directors during the STP annual meeting November 2011.
Up to this today, Zülch is the President of the Society for Threatened Peoples International and the Secretary-General of Society for The Society for Threatened Peoples-Germany.
The District Court of Braunschweig did not recognized the legality of the annual meeting, and announced that the vote was not legitimate and not legal. But in 2012 the organization claimed that the Higher Regional Court in Braunschweig confirmed"" that the election of the new five-member board in November 2011 had been legally convened, even so the File Reference 2W 42/12"" the organizations is referring to cannot be found in any public records.
After the two former board members were in November 2012 ousted from the organization, the new board of directors withdrew the previously charges for embezzlement of donations which had been filed by the former board. Former board president Harald Klein and former Vice-chair James Albert pressed additional charges in 2013 to ensure that the investigation against the organization's embezzlement of donations shall continue.
February 11, 2013, the Society for Threatened Peoples International branch in Switzerland is under investigation for fraud and substantial embezzlement of donations.
Since 2013, two branches of the NGO Society for Threatened Peoples International faced criminal charges for fraud and embezzlement of donations and the organizations assets and are currently under state prosecutors investigation in two countries, Germany and Switzerland.
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