Vreni Mark

Vreni worked with Albert Schweitzer at his hospital in Lambarene from 1962-1963.

Once Vreni had moved to the UK, she joined the International Albert Schweitzer Association, organising events, talking to schools and travelling with the then president, Dr. James Witchalls, to various symposiums as his interpreter and secretary.

After Schweitzer’s death in 1965, Ali Silver, one of Schweitzer’s trusted secretaries became Director at the Albert Schweitzer House and Museum in Günsbach. Vreni joined her there to help with organ masterclasses. Before her death in 1987, Ali appointed Vreni as director, a role she held for two years before passing it onto Sonja Poteau.

Vreni is now an ambassador of Reverence for Life UK and remains committed to help projects that care for people, animals and plants and that put Schweitzer’s ethic into action.