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          Hermann Gmeiner was an Austrian philanthropist and the founder of SOS Children's Villages....

          Hermann Gmeiner

          Austrian philanthropist (1919–1986)

          Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986) was an Austrian philanthropist and the founder of SOS Children's Villages.

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        1. The Hermann Gmeiner book: The story of the SOS-Children's Villages and their out of 5 stars out of 5 stars.
        2. Hermann Gmeiner was an Austrian philanthropist and the founder of SOS Children's Villages.
        3. Hermann GMEINER was born in Alberschwende, Austria, in He came from a farming family in Vorarlberg and lost his mother at an early age.
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          5. Life

          Born to a big family of farmers in Vorarlberg (present-day Austria), Gmeiner was a talented child and won a scholarship to attend grammar school. His mother died while he was still a young boy, and his eldest sister Elsa took on the task of caring for the smallest of the children.

          Having experienced the horrors of war himself as a Wehrmacht soldier fighting in the USSR, he was then confronted with the isolation and suffering of the many war orphans and homeless children as a child welfare worker after the end of the Second World War.

          In his conviction that help can never be effective as long as the children have to grow up without a home of their own, he set about implementing his idea for SOS Children's Villages.

          With just 600 Austrian schillings (approx.

          40 US dollars) in his pocket Hermann