Bavarian Red Cross

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Bavarian Red Cross
(BRK)
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legal form Public corporation
founding July 27, 1945
Seat Munich , Germany
main emphasis Humanitarian aid , international humanitarian law , social work
Chair Theo Zellner
Managing directors Leonhard Stark
sales 1,167,000,000 euros (2016)
Employees 24,000
Volunteers 180,000
Members 955,000
Website www.brk.de
Christa Princess von Thurn und Taxis, President from 2003 to 2013, on February 17, 2013, the 150th anniversary of the German Red Cross
Motorcycle patrol on duty
First aid station of the Bavarian Red Cross at the Spring Festival in Munich

The Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) is a regional association of the German Red Cross (DRK). It was re-established on July 27, 1945. In contrast to all other Red Cross associations in Germany, which are organized in the legal form of registered associations , the BRK is a corporation under public law . The seat of the BRK is at Garmischer Strasse 19-21 in Munich .

The responsible supervisory authority is the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and for Integration . Theo Zellner has been President of the BRK since the 36th State Assembly on December 7, 2013 . The vice-presidents are Brigitte Meyer and Paul Wengert . The current managing directors of the BRK regional association are Leonhard Stark and Wolfgang Obermair. Honorary President of the Bavarian Red Cross is Christa Princess von Thurn und Taxis .

The number of members of the Bavarian Red Cross is around 955,000 (December 31, 2011). This makes the BRK the largest regional association of the DRK.

history

Already in 1864, in the year of the first Geneva Convention , there was a corresponding association in many other German individual states. Bavaria did not join the convention until 1868. The queen mother Marie and her son Ludwig II of Bavaria founded the Bavarian Women's Association in December 1869, which later adopted the addition of "from the Red Cross". In the same year the "Central Committee of German Associations for the Care of Wounded and Sick Warriors in the Field" was founded, which from December 1879 was named "Central Committee of German Associations of the Red Cross" and had its seat in Berlin. The German Red Cross was only founded on January 25, 1921 as a result of the First World War . The Bavarian Red Cross as a regional association was granted the status of a corporation under public law in 1921 and again after the Second World War on July 27, 1945. The founding president after the war was Adalbert Prince of Bavaria , who organized the re-establishment in collaboration with Karl Scharnagl , the mayor of Munich. On February 4, 1950, the German Red Cross was re-established. Otto Geßler , President of the Bavarian Red Cross from 1949 to 1955, was also President of the German Red Cross from 1950 to 1952 , after which it was Honorary President. In 1999 the then President of the BRK, Albert Schmid , resigned in the course of a bribe scandal at the blood donation service of the Bavarian Red Cross. Two ex-managers of the Bavarian Red Cross had to be arrested. The new President Heinz Köhler and his successor Christa von Thurn und Taxis tried to ensure better internal control with a “future program”.

structure

The regional association is divided into

  • the regional office
  • 5 district associations (Upper Bavaria, Upper and Middle Franconia, Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate, Swabia, Lower Franconia) and
  • 73 district associations

District Associations

The BRK is structured in the same way as the political territorial division in Bavaria. The seven government districts form five BRK district associations: Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate, Upper and Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia and Swabia.

Voluntary Communities

In these communities you can volunteer in a wide variety of areas.

President

Country Managing Director

  • 1971–1996 Heinrich Hiedl
  • 1996–1998 Georg Wagner
  • 1998 Thomas Ollech
  • 1998–1999 Harald Fischer
  • 1999–2002 Jürgen Götz
  • 2002/2003 Mr. Bühler (short), Mr. Fiedler (short), Mr. Klacks (short)
  • 2003-2006 Armin Bauer
  • Since 2007 Leonhard Stark

Marian associations

The Marienvereine have been official communities within the Red Cross communities of the Bavarian Red Cross since 2005 . They were created around the turn of the century at the instigation of the Duchess Maria von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , as Red Cross aid and care associations. They form a curiosity within the structures of the Bavarian and German Red Cross, as there are now thirty Marian associations only in the area of ​​the former Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha . Today the areas around Königsberg in Lower Franconia and Coburg in Upper Franconia belong to Bavaria.

Social services

In addition to the voluntary areas, the Bavarian Red Cross offers a variety of social services. E.g.

Criticism, scandals

As part of its audits, the Bavarian Supreme Audit Office revealed various undesirable developments at the Bavarian Red Cross at the end of 2010: According to its report, the main cause of losses was the state office (about 98 million euros minus between 2000 and 2007). The parking lot management at the central bus station in Munich was rated as particularly risky, as the lease had been concluded for 25 years. In the event of possible losses, income from donations and membership fees also indirectly served to cover. The Munich district association rejected this assessment.

According to a report by “ Report Mainz ”, the Bavarian Red Cross admitted at the beginning of 2014 that it had bought erythrocyte concentrates (“canned blood”) from the former GDR via a Swiss middleman in the 1980s , which had been obtained from blood donations forced by prisoners . The bribery scandal at the blood donation service of the BRK led to a reorganization after 1999.

Web links

Commons : Bavarian Red Cross  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://bvunterfranken.brk.de/wir-ueber-uns/geschichte
  2. ↑ http://www.brk.de/rotes-kreuz/ueber-uns/brk-praesidium/
  3. ↑ https://www.mittelbayerische.de/region/cham-nachrichten/theo-zellner-bleibt-brk-praesident-20909-art1587845.html
  4. ↑ BRK appoints new deputy Country manager: Wolfgang Obermair will head the welfare department from 2015 on: brk.de , November 18, 2014, accessed February 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Who we are. In: brk.de. Retrieved February 10, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Ludwig Kimmle: The German Red Cross , 1910, page 75 ff, 258 ff.
  7. ↑ Managers of the Bavarian Red Cross must be in custody , Der Spiegel , April 19, 2000.
  8. ↑ About us . In: Bavarian Youth Red Cross . October 13, 2015 ( jrk-bayern.de [accessed December 22, 2016]).
  9. ↑ BRK: BRK Wu. Bavarian Red Cross corporation under public law, accessed on August 31, 2017 .
  10. ^ Blood donation service of the Bavarian Red Cross non-profit GmbH
  11. ↑ merkur-online.de , December 7, 2010: Court of Auditors: Bad testimony for the BRK (March 9, 2012).
  12. ↑ focus.de , January 14, 2014: Blood Capitalism in Socialism: GDR prisoners: Workers for Aldi, bleed for the Stasi ;
    Millions of foreign currency for GDR forced labor and blood from prisoners (October 11, 2016).