Bremer Heimstiftung
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| legal form | Foundation (Germany) |
| founding | April 10, 1953 |
| Action space | Bremen |
| sales | 91,000,000 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 2600 (2020) |
| Website | www.bremer-heimstiftung.de |
The Bremer Heimstiftung is a legal foundation under civil law. It was founded in 1953 by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen - acting for the City of Bremen .
purpose
The Bremer Heimstiftung is a non-profit provider of foundation residences, district houses and foundation villages. In 30 facilities in all parts of the city of Bremen, elderly or disabled people are offered housing, care and care. The foundation is part of a civic network in Bremen. Close cooperation exists z. B. with the community foundation Bremen .
history
Roots and forerunners of the Bremer Heimstiftung
The beginnings of the Bremer Heimstiftung go back to the late Middle Ages. The St. Ilsabeen house was originally founded in 1499 in Bremen Neustadt. In a chronicle from 1882 it says: “In 1499 the inn of St. Elisabeth was donated by the council and citizenship of the Hanseatic City of Bremen to give shelter to poor sick people.” A few centuries later the building was used as a monastery for “women and old Jungfern "used. The house is named after Elisabeth von Thuringia (Low German: Ilsabeen), who lived from 1207 to 1231 and was married to Landgrave Ludwig IV (Thuringia) . After the death of her husband, who died during a crusade, she devoted herself to charitable tasks and devoted herself primarily to nursing. After the women's monastery fell victim to the bombs dropped on Bremen during World War II , St. Ilsabeen was rebuilt in Bremen-Nord in 1952.
The St. Remberti Stift , which was first mentioned in a document in 1306, is even older than this house . There is talk of a “hospital for poor, unclean Lüde”, in which people suffering from leprosy were accommodated. Because leprosy became less and less common over time, the character of the foundation changed. From the 16th century onwards, healthy people could also be admitted. When the epidemic completely disappeared, the building complex gradually developed into a facility for the elderly.
Kahrweg Asyl, founded in 1882, is also one of the forerunners of the Bremer Heimstiftung. The home for “poor sick people” was built in Neustadt by Ernst Heinrich Kahrweg , a businessman with paralyzed legs. In 1880 he set up a foundation whose funds (200,000 marks) initially made it possible to build a house with 120 beds. The city provided the land for this to Kahrweg. Additional 230 spaces were created by 1927.
In 1929 it was said: "Intended for local sick people ... of both sexes who require expert care, especially those who suffer from an incurable disease". And it was also noted: "The institution is subordinate to the authority for welfare". Senator Wilhelm Kaisen became chairman of the foundation . 125 places for men and 221 for women were available in the building at Nordstrasse 116 at the time. The daily care allowance was 1.80 Reichsmarks at the time .
Consequences from the Second World War
In 1944 the bombed house burned down. The residents had already been evacuated in 1942. Other old people's homes and monasteries, such as Haus St. Ilsabeen (Grosse Sortillienstraße), founded in 1499, with 60 places or part of the St. Remberti monastery , dating from 1306, were destroyed by bombs or seriously damaged.
Many of the former residents of the Kahrweg Asylum had to leave Bremen. "The inmates were deported to Bavaria , Thuringia and the Rhineland , which caused many tears in them and their relatives". Other old people, including those from the destroyed Ansgarhaus municipal facility , were quartered in the Lower Saxony area as well as in numerous houses in Bremen and provisionally set up branch offices in Bremen. Additional emergency quarters such as the Stromwinkel house or the sandwich home in Rönnebeck were added in the post-war years, when the stream of refugees from the eastern regions brought more and more old people from Pomerania , Silesia and East Prussia to Bremen. Most of these houses with a total of 250 beds were placed under the administration of Kahrweg Asyl , which maintained a makeshift office in the ruins of the former home, which was constantly threatened with collapse.
A development that was particularly tragic for the residents was looming around the Horn country house , which had been run by a private foundation and survived the war unscathed. In February 1946 the American occupying forces ordered the complete evacuation of the modernly equipped facility, which was completed in 1930, in order to set up a hotel for the relatives of the soldiers in its rooms. The residents were instructed to leave all furniture behind and take only the bare essentials; they had to find a new home themselves. In 1952, after being returned to the municipality of Bremen , the Landhaus Horn was again converted into a retirement home, to which the old people from the many small branch offices could move. As early as 1951, an urban retirement home was set up in a villa on Marcusallee .
Establishment of the Bremer Heimstiftung
Landhaus Horn and the Villa Marcusallee as well as the Sandwichheim, the Villa Blumenkamp and the Worpsweder Diedrichshof with a total of 484 beds were combined by the resolutions of the Senate in 1953 in the Bremen Home Foundation , which succeeded the Kahrweg Asylum , which was placed under municipal administration in 1936 .
The Bremer Heimstiftung was formally established on April 10, 1953. “Home foundation established” was the headline of a message from the Weser courier . It also said: “The city of Bremen has set up a non-profit foundation which, according to its statutes, is supposed to reach, manage and promote social institutions of all kinds. ... The purpose of this foundation is to ensure that the homes are run as flexibly as possible. ”The establishment was promoted by Mayor Wilhelm Kaisen and the Senator for Welfare, Johannes Degener .
Bremen put the economically independent, largely independent Foundation 20,000 DM for the ground floor of the foundation's assets are available. According to the statutes, the foundation “exclusively and directly pursues charitable and benevolent purposes ... in particular the construction, operation and promotion of old people's homes and similar institutions that serve to accommodate people in need and at the same time ensure close ties to the city”.
First board member and managing director
The board consisted of 1953
- The senator responsible for social welfare as chairman. Senator Degener was the first chairman.
- Two servants whom the chairman appointed from his division.
- A representative of the Senator for Finance.
- Three members from the responsible deputation .
The management was entrusted to an administrative director. Arend Becker was the first administrative director. After his retirement, Hansgünter Matuschak was managing director of the Bremer Heimstiftung from 1967 to 1989, making it the largest provider of care for the elderly in Bremen and an exemplary institution in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time. * /
Board member since 1992
In 1992 the foundation statutes were thoroughly modernized. Thereafter, a seven-member, honorary board of trustees, under the direction of the Social Senator, takes over the supervision of the Bremer Heimstiftung. In the place of the previous managing director, full-time board members are appointed, each of whom is appointed for a period of five years, and who are responsible for managing and representing the foundation in all business matters.
In 1992, the Board of Trustees appointed the banker Alexander Künzel (* 1956) to be the first solely responsible member of the Board of Trustees. In 1999, in view of the strong growth in the size of the Bremer Heimstiftung, the committee was expanded to include the position of CFO with the businessman André Vater (* 1968).
April 2018 Alexander Künzel resigned from his position as CEO; The successor is André's father.
Locations
The Bremer Heimstiftung maintains a wide variety of residential and care options for mainly older people at around 30 locations in Bremen:
- Foundation residences Marcusallee, Ichons-Park , Riensberg, Landhaus Horn, Luisental, St. Ilsabeen and
- District houses St. Remberti, im Viertel, Kattenesch, Huchting, OTe, Kattenturm, Marßel, Neustadt, cigar manufacture and
- Foundation villages Fichtenhof, Vier Deichgrafen, Hollergrund, Osterholz, Rablinghausen, Hemelingen, Blumenkamp, Rönnebeck, Gröpelingen, Walle, Borgfeld, Arberger Mühle, Blockdiek, Ellener Hof.
Housing forms
- Foundation residences
The foundation residences of the Bremer Heimstiftung are located in the preferred residential areas of Bremen and have spacious apartments and flats.
- District houses and foundation villages
The district houses and foundation villages are lively centers in the respective residential areas. Here you can find residential apartments in different sizes.
Economic data
The Bremer Heimstiftung has foundation capital of around 8 million euros.
It employs over 2000 people.
Annual sales are around 80 million euros with total assets of over 200 million euros.
Together with their subsidiaries, almost 3,000 people from Bremen are addressed as tenants, residential or nursing home residents.
Subsidiary of the Bremer Heimstiftung
- Bremer Heimpflege gGmbH
- Bremen Service Service GmbH
- Bremer Stiftungs-Service GmbH
- Parity care services Bremen gGmbH
- outpatient care Bremer Heimstiftung
- Bremen company for administrative services mbH
- Bremer Kontor GmbH
- Alte Rembertischule - education center of the Bremer Heimstiftung
- Elderly Care School
- Technical school for physiotherapy
- Technical school for occupational therapy
- Erwin Stauss Institute
Cooperations
- Member of the parity supply network
- Partner in the SONG network: Redesigning social issues
- Member of the Foundation House Bremen eV
- Member of the German Housekeeping Council .
literature
- Künzel, Alexander: A comprehensive range of assisted living in Bremen: The Bremer Heimstiftung. In: Self-employment through assisted living in old age. (1994), pp. 76-81.
- Künzel, Alexander: All's well that ends well: On the design of care rates in the Rablinghausen house communities of the Bremer Heimstiftung. In: Pro Age. (2002), 2, ISSN 0946-4875 , pp. 48-49.
- Brauner, Melanie: The family counts here: Bremer Heimstiftung. In: nursing home. Vol. 44 (2005), 6, ISSN 0002-6573 , pp. 36-38.
- Schrader, Steve: Inpatient management - outpatient care: Bremer Heimstiftung. In: nursing home. Vol. 45 (2006), 12, ISSN 0002-6573 , pp. 19-21.
- Schulz, Peter: Living where life goes on: the Bremer Heimstiftung - location description 2008. Kellner, Bremen 2008.
Web links
- Bremer Heimstiftung
- Network SONG: Redesigning social issues
- STIFTUNGSHAUS BREMEN e. V.
- Equal supply network
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clarification due to the dual function of the Senate for the City and State of Bremen
- ^ The welfare institutions in Bremen . Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 1929.
- ^ Johann Gätjen (former home manager): Letter to Mayor Kaisen , November 1945 (?)
- ↑ Weser-Kurier of April 18, 1953
- ↑ Changing of the guard on the bridge of Bremen's largest elderly aid agency. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, accessed on April 12, 2018 .
- ↑ List of members on www.hauswirtschaftsrat.de (Link checked on May 21, 2018)