Baden Red Cross

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The Baden Red Cross is a regional association of the German Red Cross (DRK) and formerly its own National Red Cross Society in Baden . It is legally organized as a registered association . The regional association is based at Schlettstadter Strasse 31 in Freiburg im Breisgau . Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 26.6 ″  E President of the Baden Red Cross is the former district administrator of the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district, Jochen Glaeser . The country manager is currently Birgit Wiloth-Sacherer. The Baden Red Cross has around 150,000 supporting members and 14,000 active members (2013).

structure

The regional association is divided into

  • 16 district associations
  • 233 local associations

The regional office

About 92 employees currently work in the regional office. The office is currently divided into the following departments:

  • Aid society & rescue service ( international humanitarian law on standby work, civil and disaster control , work abroad, tracing service , broad-based training, financing rescue service, radio, state rescue school)
  • Social work (health promotion, family education, emergency aftercare, project funding, care, migration services)
  • Youth Red Cross / Voluntary Service (youth association, funding and training, school youth work and voluntary service)
  • Association development and public relations (press and public relations, publications, statistics, association development, volunteer work, recruiting sponsoring members, honors)
  • Administration / finances (law and statutes, finances, internal service, personnel, personnel, IT)

history

As early as 1859, the then Grand Duchess Luise founded the Baden Women's Association (see: Women's Association ) as a forerunner of the Red Cross Sisterhood .

The forerunner of the Baden Red Cross was the Baden Aid Association , which in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 maintained 42 hospitals for soldiers in its own country and thirteen hospitals in Alsace, four medical magazines and, at times, two refreshment stations. The Baden War Ministry issued the following appeal: “The German fatherland is threatened by the enemy. Feeling the righteousness of its cause, it looks with confidence on the patriotic devotion of all its sons. Our troops advancing into the field for prince and German honor are not yet in possession of the necessary number of medical staff. The doctors of Baden, who will certainly not be inferior to any of their fellow citizens in patriotism, are therefore urgently called upon to give their support to their fighting brothers during the forthcoming campaign ”. The Badischer Frauenverein, which later joined the Red Cross, also played an important role at the time. After the turn of the century, the association's fields of work included caring for the poor, those who had recently given birth and infants, children, girls and workers who had left school, as well as nursing and tuberculosis control. As a member of the Red Cross, the association was obliged to support the military medical service in the event of war.

The Baden Red Cross was founded as the National Red Cross Society in the Grand Duchy of Baden . On January 25, 1921, the German Red Cross was founded through the merger of all existing German Red Cross regional associations and regional women's associations, which also made the Baden Red Cross a regional association in the Republic of Baden and later in the Baden part of Baden-Württemberg .

The health fund for people without a residence permit

In 2008, the Baden Red Cross was one of the first regional associations of the DRK to set up a health fund for refugees without legal residence. Doctors who treat people without papers can receive a grant from the donation-financed fund for costs incurred such as medication, dentures or other material resources. However, this project moves in a legal gray area, because according to § 1 of the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act , people without a right to stay have a right to health care, but only if “the illegal is willing to disclose his status”. If those affected do so, they are threatened with deportation. The person directly helping, the doctor or nurse, is legally protected. According to Section 96 of the Residence Act, acts with humanitarian motives can be regarded as “assistance to illegal residence” and are therefore punishable, but emergency medical assistance does not meet this requirement. The situation is different for other people. According to the Residence Act, public bodies are obliged to report persons without legal residence if they become aware of this in the course of their work. This concerns z. B. People in the hospital administration when it comes to billing for medical care.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] The Baden State Association / About Us (accessed on February 14, 2015)
  2. ^ [2] The Baden State Association / About Us (accessed on February 14, 2015)
  3. ↑ Badische Zeitung, November 18, 2012, p. 30, Regio-Medien , ko : Grand Duchess Luise von Baden - The Mother of the Red Cross ; Reference to: Kurt Bickel: Luise von Baden - The forgotten mother of the Red Cross. DRK district association Karlsruhe (ed.). Karlsruhe 2011
  4. ↑ http://ka.stadtwiki.net/Badischer_Frauenverein
  5. ↑ http://www.drk.de/ueber-uns/geschichte/zeitzeile.html
  6. ↑ http://www.drk-baden.de/index.php?/was_wir_tun/sozialarbeit/migration_und_integration/gefo
  7. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/suedwest-1/behandeln-aber-nicht- Abschieben-- 8307659.html

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