NEHEMIAH GATEWAY - Key Persons
Having completed her German literature, Italian and film & television studies in Frankfurt and Rome (MA), she found her home in Eltville near Wiesbaden. Her particular interest lies in the coverage of medicine and science together with reporting on all walks of life.
For over 25 years, the experienced television journalist presented for, amongst others, HR, 3sat, Premiere as well as the SAT.1 morning show. Today she works as a television news editor and anchor for SWR in Mainz. As a media expert, she passes on her knowledge of successful communication to managers from the world of commerce and science in media and presentation seminars.
Nehemiah Gateway met Anke Neuzerling in 2005, while filming for the ZDF. She was particularly moved by the profound difference Nehemiah Gateway makes in the lives of children and youths, and as a result the fundamental new perspectives that are opened for their families and community. She is dedicated to making the excellent work of Nehemiah Gateway known to a wider audience and enthuse sponsors for the work.
Job Titles:
- Founding Member
- Managing Director
Arnold Geiger is the founding member of various national and international organizations. He was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit for his multifaceted commitment (Bundesverdienstkreuz) in 2008. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Nehemiah Gateway in Albania he received the "Mother Teresa" award, honoring his outstanding achievements for the country of Albania.
Arnold Geiger and his wife Esther have five children. Having finished his studies in public administration he occupied different functions within the federal police for nine years.
Following several relief-goods transports and humanitarian missions to various countries including Sudan, Eritrea, Malawi, Ethiopia, Russia, Rumania, Turkey and Iran, he and his family decided to move to Pogradec, in Albania after the opening of the borders in 1991, to actively and sustainably invest in the long-term development of that society.
Bernd Borchardt studied psychology at the Wilhelms-University in Münster, Germany, whereupon he successfully completed his preparation training for Higher Foreign Service between 1981 and 1983. After three years as country officer for the Nordic states, he changed to the German embassy of Guinean Conakry as permanent representative from 1986 to 1989.
After further occupations in Mogadishu, Pretoria and Tallinn, Bernd Borchardt returned to the Federal Foreign Office as the representative head of division for Southeast Europe from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he became the representative head of the Kosovo Verification Mission of the OSCE, whereupon he went to the German embassy in Bukarest, Rumania, as permanent representative.
After further positions as the head of division for different departments and representative head of the Asia department, Bernd Borchardt was appointed Ambassador in Tirana, Albania, in 2007. Between 2010 and 2013 Bernd Borchardt was the coordinator for International Personnel Policy in the Foreign Office. Following that he was head of EULEX Kosovo (European Union Law of Rule Mission). As founding director of the Internationale Akademie Nürnberger Prinzipien (International Academy Nuremberg Principles) he moved to Nuremberg in October 2014. From 2016 through September 2020 Ambassador Bernd Borchardt was Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania. He is now retired and lives in Germany, but always remains attached to Albania.
Since 2007, Andreas Metzger runs his own specialist practice for orthopedics and sports medicine in Nuremberg.
He finished his studies of human medicine in Kiel, Ulm and Erlangen in 1997 and, thereupon, successfully completed his specialist education for orthopedics in Fürth, Herzogenaurach as well as the Dr. Erler Klinik in Nuremberg.
Various sports clubs and athletes are cared and provided for in his practice. In addition to that, since 2001, he has worked as a permanent consultant sports orthopedist for the development department, the biomechanical laboratory as well as the athlete service of the sports manufacturer adidas.
Dr. Metzger is an avid endurance sportsman and has already done several city marathons as well as crossings of the Alps on his mountain bike.
In 2008, he first got in touch with NEHEMIA through a personal visit of the foundation in Albania.
Since then he has been an active supporter, especially of medical needs through his personal visits as well as the development of a medical network for different specialist areas.
After completing his apprenticeship and several years of professional experience with the German bank Stadtsparkasse Nuremberg, Jonathan Daniel studied economics at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen from 1990 - 1995 (including one study year abroad at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, USA). From 1997 to 2000 he wrote his doctorate thesis (part-time) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in statistics and empirical economic research.
Several departments and management positions within Sparkasse Nuremberg followed. In 2011, he was appointed to the Board of the Sparkasse Nuremberg where he is responsible for private banking.
In 2018, he joined Nehemiah Gateway Advisory Board to contribute with his rich professional experience.
Gerd Seitz is a self-employed attorney and tax consultant working in Munich. He completed the first and second state law examinations with focus on trade and tax law at the Universities Mannheim and Tübingen (Germany), as well as the exam for tax consultants. He is looking back on many years of professional experience, among others on 20 years in his own law firm with five co-workers in Munich.
Through an important supporter and friend, he came in contact with Nehemiah Gateway. As a founding member of Nehemiah Gateway Service's predecessor organization he has been actively involved in NG Team's organizational development since 2005.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Municipal Council
On completion of his studies in architecture at the University of Stuttgart, Helmut Hauser started his career in 1976 for Heuser+Dorner+Partner in Nagold. As an architect and junior partner, he dealt with various larger projects, predominantly in the field of social services. In 1984, he founded his own architecture office hauserpartner in Egenhausen. A further office was opened in Berlin in 2004. His staff of 22 coworkers implement architecture and engineering projects from planning to construction monitoring in the areas of urban planning, clinics and hospitals, church-related constructions, educational institutions, industry and business constructions as well as residential buildings of different sizes. Apart from their core competence of cost and time management, the company specializes in the development and implementation of woodwork constructions.
Helmut Hauser occupies several voluntary positions: member of the municipal council, member of the county council Calw, Supervisory Board member of the Klinikverbund Südwest, Advisory Board member of "de'ignis-Fachklinik", Board member of the architectural association of Calw-Freudenstadt, German-Albanian Economic Society Berlin, and member of the council of the foundation for core values and international understanding in Berlin. In 1966, Helmut Hauser cofounded the Black-Forest-Brass-Band of which he is still an active trombonist.
After his first trip to Albania in 1992, he had numerous encounters with NEHEMIA Albania. As he continued to become acquainted with the country and its people he developed a growing appreciation and love for them. The contact deepened, dreams became reality over the years as they were able to construct a variety of buildings, such as schools, a university, a guest house, a church and a sports compound.
Helmut Hauser is married and has one daughter.
After completing his studies, Diploma in Mathematics, in 1981, Johannes Selle worked as a project leader and branch manager in various companies before he became a member of the German Parliament from 1994 to 1998, and subsequently from 2009 to 2021. In 1998 he began his work as the head of Contract Management in the Central German Media Fund GmbH in Leipzig. Since 2007, he has also been managing the Children's Media Centre in Erfurt.
He holds various party offices and is a member of the CDU Executive District of Kyffhäuserkreis, member of the County Council in Kyffhäuserkreis, Chairman in the Economic Supervisory Committee as well as being a member of the SMI association.
Johannes Selle is an active, voluntary member of the Political Working Committee of the Protestant Alliance Germany and the Society for Core Values and International Understanding. He is Vice Chairman of the Parish Council as well as Chairman of the Church Sponsoring Committee St. Boniface.
After graduating from the Hardenberg High School in Fürth, he studied law at the University of Erlangen, completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg and founded his own law firm in Nuremberg in 1982.
Since then, Jürgen Feldmeier has seen himself as a service provider for people in need, gaining more and more experience as the long-standing chairman of a foundation in Nuremberg, founder of an association for justice in real estate and banking law, board member and management consultant.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- President
In 1990, Kai Uellendahl graduated with a degree in Economics from the Ruhr-University in Bochum as well as the Bergische University in Wuppertal.
Between 1991 and 1999, he worked in different Controlling departments for the GRUNDIG enterprise. Following that, he was employed by the adidas-Solomon AG for nine years, serving in the positions of, but not limited to, Senior Controller (Europe), CEO adidas Switzerland as well as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer for Solomon Central (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia).
From 2008 to 2014, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer of the ROSEN Group. After five years as Chief Financial Officer of LUCERNE FESTIVAL, one of the world's leading concert promoters for classical and contemporary music, he is now working as a business consultant.
Job Titles:
- Member of the NG Advisory Board
Margit Lange studied Romanic Linguistics and English Linguistics and Literature at the University of Bamberg and as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Universities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and Poitiers, France.
Her professional life is characterized by her work with young people in a university context, whether as a student advisor at Campus for Christ, as a consultant in the International Office of the Technical University of Nuremberg or currently as an independent coach. In the area of developing key competencies, she is a lecturer at the Management Center Innsbruck International University MCI. As an e-portfolio coach, she supervises Master's students in the area of leadership skills at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University DHBW.
Helping young people to discover and develop their potential is her passion, along with her enthusiasm and experience in the intercultural field through her time abroad, international relationships and advanced training.
Margit Lange has been a member of the NG Advisory Board since 2024.
Michelle has worked in the international world of non-profits for over 30 years. Her specialty is organizational development and the establishment of accounting and internal control systems for non-governmental organizations.
Widely travelled and having lived abroad for a number of years in various countries including Albania, Germany and India, she is experienced in public speaking in multilingual settings and is able to bring business skills into culturally diverse settings. Whether through teaching accounting skills in a mud and grass hut in South Sudan, training entrepreneurial leaders in the mountains of North India or reviewing non-profit practices in the Balkans, she seeks to help enterprises and leaders grow in integrity, transparency and effectiveness as they serve their local communities and society. Michelle also teaches as a guest lecturer at Nehemiah Gateway University in Pogradec.
It was during her years in Albania in the late ‘90s where she was first introduced to the expanding and impactful work of Nehemiah Gateway.
She currently lives in Colorado with her husband, Doug, and has three grown children.
Ulli Arnold studied business economics and teacher training for commercial schools at the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Nuremberg. After completing his diploma, he worked as a research associate at the University of Göttingen. There he was awared his PhD (1974) and qualified as a professor for the subject of business economics (1981). Following chairs at the universities of Kassel and Würzburg, he took over the chair for Business-to-Business Marketing and Procurement Management at the university of Stuttgart (1992) and there was bestowed the title of Emeritus Professor in October 2012. Thereafter he lectured mainly at foreign universities. Many international teaching and research contacts were made and are still in touch today (e.g. USA, China, Vietnam, Poland, Russia, Hungary).
One of the focal points of his research was the management of non-profit organizations - a field completely ignored by 'classical' business economics until quite recently. In particular, sheltered workshops for people with disabilities (WfbM) were the main focus of numerous studies. He is the founder and co-editor of a standard reference work for the management of social organizations (Nomos-Verlag). For many years, he has been chairperson of the Supervisory Board of a large WfbM (Lebenshilfe) and a large social organization. In April 2009, he was awarded the German Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon by the German President.
While teaching at the NG University in Albania, he came into contact with Nehemiah Gateway and is committed to the further development of this institution.
Harald Seubert is a professor of philosophy and lecturer. His wide range of studies (e.g. philosophy, literature, history, social sciences, protestant theology, etc.) led him, amongst others, to the universities of Erlangen, Frankfurt/Main, Munich and Vienna. In 1998, he received a doctorate on Heidegger and Nietzsche in Erlangen and, five years later, qualified as a professor in Halle/Saale on Platon's legal doctrine.
Following his function as professor and lecturer at various international universities and colleges - in Bamberg, Munich and Posen (Poland) - he has been working as professor and head of department for philosophy and religious studies at the Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule in Basel/Switzerland since 2012, and from 2010, as a part-time lecturer at the Bavarian University of Political Science in Munich.
Moreover, since 2018, he has been adjunct professor of philosophy at the Freie Theologische Hochschule (FTH) in Gießen; since 2016, chairman of the International Martin Heidegger Society; since 2018, chairman of the Ostwest-Akademie; and together with the artist LaGBC, Prof. Dr. B. Mika and Prof. Dr. Harald Haarmann member of the Los Altros Foundation's governing board.
Harald Seubert regularly publishes articles for cultural magazines (e.g. MERKUR), daily and weekly newspapers (e.g. DIE WELT, NZ) as well as German and international professional periodicals (e.g. PHILOSOPHISCHES JAHRBUCH). He published about 20 independent books and works internationally as consultant and lecturer.
Between 1955 - 1967 Manfred Spreng studied telecommunications engineering (TH Karlsruhe) as well as medicine (Erlangen-Nuremberg). After completing his PhD in engineering and being appointed associate professor and head of the functional department Physiological Acoustics and Information Technology in the Institute for Physiology and Biocybernetics, his main fields of work were in Sensory and Neurophysiology, medical data processing and medical expert systems, in addition to audiology , hearing aid technology and noise research.
Until 2001, he was a member and chairman of various associations and specialist committees (e.g. German Society for Cybernetics, Information Technology Society in the VDE, etc.). Over 200 publications as well as scientific articles in books and journals can be credited to his name.
Manfred Spreng is a volunteer in the executive committee of the Free Evangelical Church, Erlangen. He is also the leader of the discussion forum, Life and Faith in Erlangen/Nuremberg. Prof. Spreng is motivated by the meaning and consolidation of Christian faith in all private and public fields of life as well as maintaining Christian values.
Since May 2012, he is member in the Advisory Board of the Nehemiah Gateway University.
After graduating from the technical secondary school in 1975, Roman Fertinger joined the Bavarian riot police. For the next three years, he worked as patrol officer in Nuremberg.
Between 1982 and 1984, he studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Fürstenfeldbruck and changed to upper civil service for law enforcement. Thereupon, in 1990, he studied at the leadership academy in Münster-Hiltrup and joined the higher police service.
After passing through various leadership positions in higher service, Roman Fertinger was eventually appointed President of the police headquarters for Middle Franconia in Nuremberg, Germany. He retired at the end of 2022.