Maria Siepe-Gunkel, fyrrum ræktunarleiðtogi þjóðverja, látin

Maria Siepe-Gunkel er látin eftir stutt og alvarleg veikindi.

Maria var mikils metinn félagi í íslenska hestasamfélaginu en í mörg ár var hún fulltrúi ýmissa hagsmunasamtaka tengda ræktun á íslenska hestinum, bæði á landsvísu sem ræktunarleiðtogi þjóðverja og á alþjóðavettvangi sem virkur meðlimur í ræktunarnefnd FEIF.

Maria ræktaði einnig mörg frábær hross kennd við Habichtswald, sem dæmi Óðinn vom Habichtswald og móðir hans Óskadís.

Í tilkynningu FEIF segir:

„With great sadness we learned of Maria’s death, and we are very sorry to lose a highly valued member of our Icelandic horse community.

For many years, Maria mastered the challenge to represent the various interests of the breeding community, both at national level as the IPZV Breeding Director and at international level as an active member of the FEIF Breeding Committee. She has always done this work with a positive attitude, and a lot of commitment, and it has been a pleasure to work together with Maria for so many years.

Her dedication and positive approach have contributed to important discussions on changes and improvements to breeding policies, and to the implementation of significant innovation for the benefit of the Icelandic horse and Icelandic horse breeding.

She always fought for her ideas, looked for solutions and good compromises, supported the work in the breeding area and motivated many people.

Maria, we will miss you!“

Eiðfaxi vottar aðstandendum Mariu sínar dýpstu samúðarkveðjur.