Stephan Tanneberger

He left Germany in 1991 to work in the field of palliative care for cancer patients in Italy as well as in various countries in the Third World.

Stephan Tanneberger was born in 1935 in Chemnitz[1] and enrolled in medicine and chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1954, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1961[2] and his M.D.

Tanneberger has published several books about his experience regarding treatment of cancer and care for terminally ill patients.

[6] Since then, he acts as chairman of the foundation's executive board and is involved with the restoration of a former Wehrmacht prison in Anklam as well as with the project Wald für Frieden und gegen Klimawandel (Forest for Peace and against Climate Change) which is part of the Billion Tree Campaign of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

In 1986, he was awarded the honorary title Verdienter Wissenschaftler des Volkes (Merited Scientist of the GDR).