After mother's death: donations collected for daughter's therapy - but the amount never arrives

Created: 05/24/2022, 14:11

No money in the world can "replace" Alina Herget (right) for the loss of her mother Hülya.

With the money that many Wetterauers have donated, her father could finance necessary therapies, since Alina is currently not doing well mentally.

(Archive) © Nicole Merz

Hülya Herget died last year at the age of 39.

More than 5,000 euros are said to have been donated from Wetterau to support the bereaved.

But only a small amount arrived.

Bad Nauheim – Andreas Herget only needs his strength for his 13-year-old daughter Alina.

Since her mother Hülya died of cancer on April 25, 2021, Alina has been doing very badly.

In order to continue to support the girl with therapies, her father wanted to use the money that was collected on the initiative of Elvisworld from Hochheim and many regional supporters.

More than 5000 euros are in the room, which Andreas Herget has not yet received, as reported by fnp.de.

Donations could be made via PayPal to Rainer Modess, now called Kremer, and to his Elvisworld account, which, based on the IBAN number, runs to Bank N26, based in Berlin.

But Kremer has not yet transferred the money, says Herget.

"He has repeatedly canceled or postponed planned meetings," says the father, annoyed.

And the regional and Wetterauer supporters are now asking him: Where are the donations?

Last year, Krämer only transferred 550 euros to Andreas Herget.

More was not collected, said Kremer when asked by the WZ.

With his company Elvisworld he was the initiator of a special charity campaign for Herget's deceased wife.

Before she died, she wanted to walk in Elvis' footsteps in Bad Nauheim and Friedberg again.

So at the beginning of April 2021, Kremer organized two last unforgettable days "all about Elvis" together with many Wetterauers.

Bad Nauheim: Only 550 euros arrived at Herget - over 5000 euros are said to have been donated

This newspaper and many other media reported extensively on this.

An official donation handover at the Elvis statue was planned for August 13, 2021.

Kremer himself contacted the WZ at the time and reported that this date was being postponed, but that it should be made up for on August 28th.

Even then he said to the WZ that well over 3000 euros had already been collected.

The meeting could not take place because of Alina's poor mental health.

"I couldn't have expected her to do that," says Herget.

"But I would have come to Bad Nauheim alone on August 28." This handover never took place.

Kremer canceled.

Instead, Herget was stalled month after month.

With reassurances via SMS, email or WhatsApp, as Herget says.

In January 2022, Kremer Herget sent a photo of an online transfer medium with the reported amount of 5,500 euros.

At Hergets Bank, Raiffeisen Bank Hilpoltstein, this sum never arrived.

Herget says he asked the bank, who replied that the photographed transfer slip was a fake.

Herget reports that he then received a voice message from Kremer saying that there had been a transposed number during the transfer.

In this message, however, Kremer promised to transfer the money immediately.

That didn't happen, according to Herget.

Kremer then shifted the blame to "his" bank, where the money was.

The 5,500 euros "landed" in another account, the owner of which now refuses to transfer the money back, reports Herget.

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"I said so in the heat of the moment"

"At some point it was supposed to have been my signature, which I should have done for Alina on site," says Herget.

He wanted to meet up with Kremer in Bad Nauheim several times.

Recently, on May 11th.

"At 8 a.m. I received a text message telling me not to leave Nuremberg because the bank advisor was ill," says Herget.

"That can't be, because according to my research there was nowhere to make an appointment with a bank in Wetterau," reports Herget.

Kremer no longer answers the phone when Herget calls.

When asked by WZ, Kremer pleaded innocent.

Only 480 euros were donated, he added money privately and transferred 550 euros.

Kremer cannot understand the current excitement and rejects all blame.

On the donation amounts of initially 1000, which he himself mentioned to the WZ,

then over 3000 euros he said on Friday: "I said that in the heat of the moment." More money than the 550 euros already transferred had never been donated.

Kremer does not remember a transfer slip with more than 5,000 euros, as he says.

He says he is wrongly accused and slandered by Herget.

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A meeting in Bad Nauheim was never in the room either.

"I have two small children, I'm on parental leave, I can't just go to Bad Nauheim like that," he told the WZ.

He didn't do anything wrong and always wanted to help Herget and his daughter.

"I have not embezzled any money," he said in the WZ interview.

According to Herget, no bank is allowed to say whether or not there is more money in the donation account because of banking secrecy.

The bank in Hilpoltstein advised Herget to contact the police.

“She can't do anything because there's no criminal offense.

I need a lawyer, preferably from Wetterau, to file a complaint with the public prosecutor's office," says Herget.

But he doesn't have the money for that;

he has used up almost all of his savings.

In this way he hopes to find a lawyer who can support him free of charge in order to ultimately help his daughter.

»I will not give up and fight for Alina.

I also owe that to the many Wetterau donors,” says Herget.

(Sabine Bornemann)