The 'Order of Merit' to the President of the Paralympic Committee of Germany

Para sport in Germany has received recognition from the federal government after the country’s National Paralympic Committee President was honoured with a major award.

Friedhelm Julius Beucher has been given an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for his social commitment to Para sport, in the association he founded for social services in Bergneustadt and as a former Bundestag delegate and headmaster.