Annelie Kümpers-Greve was born in Ellerau near Hamburg in 1946 as a direct descendant of the Mennonite family Van der Smissen. She was married to the entrepreneur Rainer Kümpers, who came from a Westphalian textile industrial family. They had three daughters together.
Annelie Kümpers-Greve has been a member of the Hamburg church council since 1988.
Since 1980 she has supported the International Mennonite Organization
(IMO), as well as a European aid organization for Mennonite communities with a focus on South America. She has also been one of the founding members of the aid organization since 1995 Love your neighbor eV, one of the supporting organizations of the IMO. Annelie Kümpers-Greve has been a supporting member of the Mennonite History Association
and since 2000 member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, within which she particularly represented the point of view of Anabaptism.
She died on March 11, 2017 in Hamburg.
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Annelie Kümpers-Greve was born in 1946 in Ellerau – next to Hamburg. She is a direct descendant of the family of Mennonites Van der Smissen. She was married with the employer Rainer Kümpers, who derives from an industrials-family in the textile trade in Westfalen, - and has 3 children.
Annelie Kümpers-Greve belonged to the Hamburg Council of Churches since 1988.
Since 1980 she was supporting the Internationale Mennonitische Organisation/IMO (trsl.: international organisation of Mennonites) and also an European aid with main focus in South America. Since 1955 she even more depended to the founder-members of the aid Liebe Deinen Nächsten e.V. (trsl.: love your fellow human beings, registered association) – which is one carrying aid of the IMO. In the year 1992 Annelie Kümpers-Greve started her support as a member of the Association for history of the Mennonites; and since the year 2000 she owned the membership in the European academy of science and art, Salzburg, - in which here main focus respective position especially is the baptism (historical explanation: anabaptism catholic propaganda called this religious group anabaptists).