The Björn Steiger Foundation (Björn Steiger Stiftung) is a German charity which assists in providing funding for emergency services, and rescue organisations.

[1] It is named after an 8-year-old child, Björn Steiger, who died in 1969 after being hit by a car whilst returning home from a communal swimming pool.

Despite several calls to emergency services it took nearly one hour until paramedics arrived.

[2] Shortly after this incident, his parents, Siegfried and Ute Steiger, set up the foundation in his memory.

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