b'i nM eMoriaMPETRA WEISSJuly 17, 1965December 3, 2023BY SCOTT C. TIPS, NHF PRESIDENTA fter a sudden andI last saw Petra in Berlin, unexpectedbriefGermany on November 12, illness,NHF-Ger- 2023, as we left to go our manyExecutiveseparatewaysafterhav-DirectorPetraWeipassedingattendedaCoronavi-awayinthelocalhospitalonrus symposium with many December 3, 2023. Petra becamespeakers at the German Par-ill on a Friday, was rushed to theliamentbuilding.Wehad hospital, and was gone by Sun- been meeting a number of day. people there who were and Throughout the Fall of 2023,stillarewillingtowork Petra had been diligently work- with NHF. ing on staging an NHF event inThe Petra whom I knew Europeandjustthepreviouswas non-partisan but politi-month had met with NHF Presi- cally engaged and with firm dent Scott Tips to continue theiropinions. She was commit-planning for it. ted to a government with Petra Weiss was the Nationalmore transparency for re-Health Federations amazinglysponsible citizens, for more dynamic representative in Germany. A superb organizer,citizen participation, and she was most decidedly against she had helped, among other events, to stage a Michaelthe so-called free trade agreement called TTIP, and es-Jackson concert in Germany, hardly an easy feat to ac- pecially against its arbitration courts.complish. Knowledgeable about Codex Alimentarius and NHFs In 2011, she arranged a weekend meeting at a Germanwork there, she also could speak at length on European castle in Baden-Wrttemberg for all of the other NHFpolicy and the European Unions Lisbon Treaty. Her representatives in Europe to get together, deepen theirmotto was the same as that of her friend Professor Dr. acquaintances, and to synergize their work efforts. TheKlaus Buchner (Member of the European Parliament, event took place with Petras characteristic signature per- DP): Those who sleep in democracy wake up in fection as NHF representatives from Ireland, Great Brit- dictatorship.ain, Sweden, Belgium, and France flew or drove to attendFor the last many years, Petra cared for her elderly the meeting. Petra lived in a large house in Gundelsheimmother, Gudrun Wei, without complaint and who now am Neckar, not far away from the castle. Some of thesurvives her. She also cared greatly for animal welfare participants stayed at her home, while most stayed at theand their protection from cruelty and abuse. Petra was a castle. It showed her typical generosity of spirit when sheunique and talented woman with much compassion and opened up her home to others. insight. She will be dearly missed. H ealtHF reedomN ews /w iNter2023 23H ealtHF reedomN ews /w iNter2023 23'