Overview
- He is undertaking his eleventh annual, self-organized bike tour across Germany to collect donations for aid projects.
- The 2026 route covers roughly 5,000 kilometers through 12 federal states in more than 80 stages and runs into mid-August.
- Over the past decade his tours have raised about €110,000 for children’s charities, with this year’s donations directed to the group Wünsch dir was.
- He travels alone, hands out flyers with his story and a donation account, and asks people to give by bank transfer rather than cash.
- He continues despite lasting effects of partial larynx removal, and his work has earned recognition including a meeting with President Steinmeier and North Rhine-Westphalia’s Order of Merit.