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Friday, October 26th, 2012Frontpage
Letter from the German Federal President’s office!!!
As already reported several times I was during my visit at the book fair on 12.10.2012 pushed ruggedly across the street without asking by a bodyguard due to the arrival of our federal president.
Thereupon I wrote on 15.10. an e-mail to the federal president.
All this can be referred to in the blogposts from 14.10.12 and 16.10.12.
I have continuously heard comments that I should have saved the work with the letter, it wouldn’t bother anyway anyone “up there” what concerns us “minor citizens”.
Even if I got a reply this would last weeks, or even months.
But many people were curious to read the reply as well!
On Friday 25.10.2012, already 10 days after the e-mail, I received a letter from Bellevue Palace (translator’s note: official residence of the German federal president), see stamp.
The letter is not signed by Mr Gauck, but by one of his three closest staff members, his
Personal Officer Mr Johannes Sturm.
TRANSLATION!!!
OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PRESIDENT
Personal office of the
Federal President
BERLIN, 19th October 2012
Spreeweg 1
Mr.
Steffen Löw
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxx Frankfurt am Main
Dear Mister Löw,
Federal President Joachim Gauck thanks you for your e-mail from 15th October 2012.
He has asked me to answer you. He has read your description of your unpleasant experience at the Frankfurt book fair attentively.
I can understand very well that it must have been unpleasant that you were pushed across a street in your wheelchair surprisingly and without being correctly addressed. It is regrettable that this apparently happened. It is not possible to verify your suspicion any more that the person concerned was a security force of the federal president. At this day personnel of a private security company and the Hessian state police were on duty as well.
At the same time I am asking for your understanding that the officers who are in charge of the security of the federal president before and during an event visited by such numerous people like the book fair are bearing a particularly large responsibility. This is concerning the security of the federal president as well as the prevention of possible accidents during arrival and departure of the car convoy.
In good knowledge of the acting officers and the described situation I can assure you that none of the officers is acting in thoughtless or unkind intention.
However I used your letter as occasion to discuss with the officers again the special situation of wheelchair users. Therefore I thank you for your feedback.
The federal president sends his best wishes and sincere regards.
Kind regards,
Johannes Sturm
Personal Officer of the Federal President
Mail address: Bundespräsidialamt 11010 Berlin, lnternet: http://www.bundespraesident.de
E-Mail: poststelle@bpra.bund.de
I have achieved what I had intended with my e-mail.
Mr Sturm has discussed with the security forces the special situation of us wheelchair users.
Download as PDF answer_federal_president_office
Translator BL
Wheeler book tip part I
Thursday, October 25th, 2012Frontpage
One of the reasons why I was at the book fair 2012 in the beautiful Frankfurt was to meet again my friend and author Roberto Sastre in person.
Many fellow wheelers keep a diary already in the hospital after their accident. Writing as is known is medicine as well. So did my friend who wrote down his experiences from the start (as skilled IT guy of course in an internet blog).
This blog has been so successful that he was forced a little to publish it as a book.
His writing style is unique. He manages with his easy cynical style to describe the beginning as wheeler rookie so that articulations like ehhh, ouch, ahaaaaaaaaaaa are totally normal while reading.
The book may not be so suitable to read in a train.
Everybody who liked the movie “The Intouchables” gets his money’s worth with Sastre. The book is called
Rolling Thunder,
(ISBN/EAN: 9783845006550) you have to read it, a little bit like:
” Everything you always wanted to know about spinal cord injury but were afraid to ask”
His next literary act is a crime story,
Bender’s 1st case “Blackout”
(ISBN/EAN: 978-3-8450-0962-9) which is set in Frankfurt. An excellent book!!!
Private investigator Bender is of course a wheelchair using ex-commissar, with a van type “A-team” and an a little bit modified electric wheelchair with the name Elsbeth.
His own vehicle is a bit customized as well.
The book starts with the sentence: This book is made-up from the beginning to the end…
I don’t believe this, I even have the suspicion that he has hacked my computer, stolen my latest research results of most innovative wheelchair reconstruction and published them in his book. 
Extract from this novel:
As already said, you can build a lot into such an electric wheelchair.
In Rehab I have met Steffen.
He is totally nuts, has the weirdest ideas, and I and my electric wheelchair always have to suffer. With the result that my batteries are constantly empty.
Until Steffen had the idea with the fuel cell. Had almost cost me my wheelchair.
Because my bottom sustained a slight fire damage I let the hospital check it first…
“Now you’ve got a micro turbine.
There is a new bearing material. Special ceramics. Doesn’t need greasing, nor cooling. Is whistling a bit, but I’ll still carry that off.
From naught to fifty in 2.6 seconds. A bottle of camping gas every 4 weeks.
And I built in a small surprise for you.”
I can recommend those two books out of my deepest conviction, there is so much info inside, and even in a splendid packaging!!!
Translator BL
Eigude Shame XX
Saturday, October 13th, 2012Frontpage
Unbelievable but true, something new all the time…
Today I was at the
book fair in Frankfurt.
I wanted to meet my friend and author Roberto Sastre there.
I will write a separate blogpost about the reunion with him.
When I left hall 3 where there were mainly children books, comics and presumably human beings in Manga costumes, it happened.
I was suddenly grabbed quite ruthless on the handles of my wheelchair by an unknown guy and was pushed without asking me quite snappy across a small road to the main plaza of the fair.
Except me, there were only pedestrians on this road, the passage was closed to traffic.
Even shouting didn’t help, the guy didn’t let go my handles.
I was rather in panic, but was lucky that this guy didn’t push me out of my wheelchair.
If there would have been a small curb I would have been licking the pavement.
What was happening???
Just in the moment when I was at the other side of the road three black cars with flashing blue light came speeding around the corner.
One of the limousines had the
license plate 0-1
and two coloured flags with a black eagle on the wings.
Actually our
Federal President Joachim Gauck
was sitting in the back of the car.
This would have been something again if the bodyguard of our head of state would have pushed me out of the wheelchair.
Who doesn’t know my “Eigude blog” (click Frontpage) should know that last time I fell out of my wheelchair I broke my shinbone and fibula (see older blogposts).
When I explained to the guy with the ear piece that I didn’t like this he told me:
This is the president, it is like it is!!!
When I was driving home in my car this convoy blocked me again, now our president is spending the night in a grand hotel around the corner of my home.
I would be interested if this bodyguard has ever pushed around Mr Schäuble (translator’s note: the German minister of Finance is sitting in a wheelchair).
Translator BL
Technical Aids construction corner :-)
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
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I already mentioned several times that I should rest my broken leg despite orthosis in an elevated position as much as possible.
To rest the leg elevated sitting in my own wheelchair under my desk on a small flower stool turns out to be a little inconvenient, especially when you permanently need something, or the arm is not long enough again…
I refuse the tank wheelchair in my flat (see blogpost below).
The latest “technical aids construct” appears a little clumsy at first sight, but is well thought on and almost ready for series production.
With a Swedish drawer box, the book “Our Wonderful Planet” and a blue pillow of a German coffee roaster a rolling board for flower pots from my stairwell which I coaxed as permanent loan from my neighbour was pimped to the exact positioning height of my leg.
Rolling board
I now put my leg coolly on my rolling board-drawer box and drive comfortably with my wheelchair under the desk.
With a special adaption on the wheelchair my rolling board should also be outdoor suitable. A medical device number has been applied for, and a motorization is currently in the planning phase!
Translator BL
