Augustinum group

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Augustinum

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legal form profit company
founding 1954
Seat Munich , Germany
management Joachim Gengenbach (Chairman), Matthias Heidler, Axel Krieg, Johannes Rückert
Number of employees more than 4500 (2017)
sales 367 million euros (2017)
Website www.augustinum.de
www.augustinum-gruppe.de

The Augustinum Group is a German social service company . The company consists of 23 residential monasteries with around 7,400 residents, a clinic , schools and facilities for the disabled, as well as two sheltered houses for the elderly.

founding

Motto of the Augustinum Hamburg (quote from the confessions of the church teacher Augustinus )

The Augustinum Group, named after the church father Aurelius Augustinus von Hippo , is committed to basic Christian values ​​and is a member of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church in Bavaria. The foundation of their historical nucleus in Munich by the Protestant pastor Georg Rückert and his wife Gertrud goes back to 1954, the year of the 1600th birthday of the church father Augustine.

structure

The Augustinum Foundation has been the umbrella of the Augustinum Group since January 1999. Augustinum gGmbH acts as the parent company of the group; it centrally manages all subordinate subsidiaries in which the individual business areas of the Augustinum are organized.

Residential pens for seniors

Around 3,000 employees care for around 7,400 senior citizens in 23 Augustinum residential buildings (as of 2017). The Augustinum is the market leader for upscale senior living in Germany.

concept

As early as the end of the 1950s, the idea of ​​a residential monastery for older people arose in the Augustinum with the aim of guaranteeing its residents independence and security. In 1962 the first house in Munich-Neufriedenheim was moved into. The Augustinum Group has since opened a further 22 stores in Germany. As early as 1980, a care cost supplement scheme (PER) was introduced, which is designed as a "solidarity fund" and protects care costs above a monthly deductible.

If necessary, care is organized by the in-house care service in your own home. Legally, the residential homes are as old people's home to look at, because the individual financial management is relieved of food preparation and home economics room care.

The theater, concert and cinema hall in the Augustinum Heidelberg, here with an orchestra structure

One of the unique selling points of the Augustinum Wohnstifte is a partly public cultural program. Depending on the size, the residential pens are equipped with multi-purpose event rooms or large theater, cinema and concert halls. In addition to public events such as concerts, film screenings, lectures and the like, each residential monastery offers a course program for residents. The offer ranges from gymnastics to language courses and memory training to painting courses, discussion groups, making music and so on. In addition, residents also help shape the program, for example by giving lectures, giving concerts or offering courses.

Locations

The 23 locations of the residential pens are mainly in the old federal states :

Cinema Augustinum

About a third of the 23-Augustinum retirement homes are licensed cinemas and as cinemas to see. Depending on the location, films are regularly shown with a digital cinema projector (e.g. in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch or Dießen am Ammersee ) or BluRays / DVDs.

A special feature is the cinema in the Augustinum Mölln, which is also considered the city's cinema and has received several awards.

clinic

Another division of the Augustinum Group is the Augustinum Clinic in Munich with 155 hospital beds. She started work in April 1962. The Heart Clinic has established itself as one of the top addresses for heart surgery since 1995 in cooperation with the Munich University Clinic.

Other facilities

Schools and boarding schools for the hearing impaired

School and professional training has a long tradition in the Augustinum. In the SchulCentrum Augustinum, around 750 students with hearing impairments or learning and performance disorders are taught by around 150 employees. The SchulCentrum includes:

  • the Samuel-Heinicke-Realschule Munich , which has been leading hearing-impaired and well-hearing students to secondary school since September 1971.
  • the state-recognized Samuel Heinicke College in Munich. Since 1983 it has been leading hearing-impaired and well-hearing pupils with an intermediate school leaving certificate to the technical college entrance qualification. The attached Evangelical Student Home in Munich combines boarding and day care.
  • the boarding school and country school home Elkhofen in Grafing, a scientific and technological secondary school. Here, since 1988, pupils with above-average talent have been given special education if they fail in the normal school system due to partial learning and performance disorders.
  • the Friedrich-Oberlin-Fachoberschule for social affairs and economics in Munich-Pasing, which leads after two years to the subject-specific and after three years to the general technical college entrance qualification.

Special educational institutions for the mentally handicapped

In the Special Education Center Augustinum (HPCA) in Munich-Hasenbergl, over 800 mentally and multiply disabled people of all ages are supported.

Since 1972 there has been a school for mentally handicapped children and young people, the Otto Steiner School.

Another institution is the Bildungswerk in Oberschleißheim, founded in 1977. It offers numerous adult education courses and educational trips for people with intellectual disabilities.

Protective homes for people with dementia

The Augustinum Schwindegg sanatorium, which has been in existence since April 1982, and the Itzel sanatorium in Bonn-Oberkassel since October 1993, belong to these “sheltering houses” with around 120 sanatorium places for elderly people with dementia, for example Alzheimer's disease .

Fraudulent sale of residential pens

Real estate transfer

Between 2010 and 2013, the Augustinum sold eleven of its senior citizens' pens to Nordic Kontor GmbH from Heide (Schleswig-Holstein) or their sub-companies founded for this purpose and then leased them back. Nordic Kontor bought three other houses in which the Augustinum was only tenant from other owners with the consent of the Augustinum. The Augustinum provided the Nordic Kontor with a loan of 728 million euros for the purchase price. So the seller lent the buyer the money so that he could buy the senior pens. Nordic Kontor paid the interest on the loans with the rents paid by the Augustinum.

The ex-supervisory board chairman Artur Maccari, who died in early 2014, and ex-Augustinum managing director Kurt Wilkin are said to be responsible for this deal. A broker based in Switzerland received almost 40 million euros as a commission. Maccari is said to have received part of it, while another part is said to have gone to the villa of the former Augustinum managing director. As managing director, Wilkin received twice as high a supervisory board fee as his managing director colleague Markus Rückert, as well as 90 days of vacation per year and other fees, including around 40,000 euros for planning a fireplace evening. Rückert now feels deceived by the real estate trade.

The supervisory board of the Augustinum was made aware of the events by an anonymous tip and started internal investigations. As a result, the company filed a criminal complaint against Wilkin and fired him in April 2014. The public prosecutor's office was investigating fraud. Wilkin was in custody for nine months.

Reverse transaction

The Augustinum, in turn, tries to cancel all contracts with Nordic Kontor, as they are void in its opinion. In spring 2016, Augustinum received the first three houses back: the Bad Soden, Heidelberg and Munich-North properties. The other eleven properties have property arrests and temporary injunctions in favor of the Augustinum (as of the end of 2017). The sales and reconditioning efforts had no effect on operations in the residential monasteries.

accusation

According to a press release dated October 17, 2017, the Munich I public prosecutor's office brought charges against four people in September 2017 “on charges of fraud and breach of trust to the detriment of the non-profit Augustinum group”. At the center of the indictment is the accusation that the (now deceased) chairman of the supervisory board of Augustinum GmbH, together with the commercial director, an agent and two people acting on the buyer side, the chairman of the management of the GmbH and the other members of the supervisory board over material sales in real estate Circumstances should have deceived.

“As a result,” the public prosecutor said about the main features of the indictment, “the accused are said to have obtained consent to conclude contracts that are economically disadvantageous for the Augustinum in order to enrich themselves. In particular, it is said that the economic background and the creditworthiness of the buying companies, which are in fact wealthy, were misled. ”It also states that the sale of eleven residential properties, advances and fake commissions involved high millions; it is a matter of “commercial gang fraud”.

literature

  • Markus Rückert: Diakonie and Economy. Responsibility, financing, profitability . Gutersloh 1990
  • Times of man . Festschrift 25 years of the Collegium Augustinum. Munich 1979

Web links

Commons : Augustinum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Supervisory board and management. In: www.augustinum-gruppe.de. July 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  2. a b c Augustinum Group Facts and Figures. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Möllner cinema program. Accessed February 3, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ The state's cinema prize goes to Mölln and Ratzeburg ln-online.de, July 4, 2015.
  5. Minister awarded cinema prizes Kulturportal-herzogtum.de, June 23, 2016.
  6. TIP 2018 . Annual program of the HPCA educational organization: including offers, courses, educational trips (PDF, 104 pages).
  7. Public prosecutor's office investigates because of multi-million dollar deals with senior citizens' residences Süddeutsche Zeitung May 24, 2015
  8. a b Expensive Kaminabend Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 21, 2015.
  9. ^ A b Investigations against four persons responsible for fraud and breach of trust to the detriment of the non-profit Augustinum group justiz.bayern.de, press release of October 17, 2017.
  10. Media reports on Augustinum-Immobilien Press release of the Augustinum Group, May 30, 2015.
  11. Augustinum: Annual Report 2017 (PDF), p. 34.