Connected to the region. Consistent. 29.09.2021 Federal President Steinmeier visits Zollverein Around three years after the farewell event to the German hard coal mining, top representatives of the RAG Foundation and RAG met again at a historic mining site with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Together with the head of state and other representatives from politics, business and culture, the chairman of the RAG Foundation Bernd Tönjes, member of the board Bärbel Bergerhoff-Wodopia and the chairman of the board of RAG Peter Schrimpf visited the exhibition “We are from here. Turkish-German Life 1990 ". The exhibition by the photographer Ergun Çağatay at the Zeche Zollverein is funded by the German Foreign Office and the RAG Foundation. Steinmeier visited the exhibition on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the German-Turkish recruitment agreement. "We should no longer talk about the fact that we have people with a migration background, but rather that over the years we have become a country with a migration background," emphasized Steinmeier after the tour. Without these people, some of the prosperity in our country could not be explained. During the active coal mining industry, RAG itself wrote integration history. Many different nationalities worked in the mines and in the factories. For example, they came from Italy, Spain, Poland, Greece, Hungary and Turkey. Integration was part of everyday life in the local mining industry - not least because of the local working group for cultural miners' care (REVAG) at the time. REVAG, founded in 1948 as a specialist agency for cultural support for miners, did pioneering work in the field of culture for miners. It led guest workers out of their linguistic and cultural isolation, created trust between immigrants and locals and opened up opportunities for migrants to participate equally in social, political and societal life. Photo rights: Ruhr Museum © RAG Aktiengesellschaft 2021 data protectionLegal noticeimprint