DRK sisterhood Berlin
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The German Red Cross Sisterhood Berlin eV is an association of women who work in acute medical care, nursing, rehabilitation, prevention and health promotion.
The DRK Sisterhood Berlin is a member of the Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross . The sisterhood has almost 1,100 members. She is the sole shareholder of the DRK Kliniken Berlin . With more than 3,500 employees, they are among the largest employers in the capital.
Organization and structures
The DRK-Schwesternschaft Berlin eV is a non-profit association and is democratically organized. The relations between the sisterhood and the member sister are regulated in the statutes and the membership regulations. There the rights and obligations are described. The highest committee of the DRK sisterhood Berlin is the general meeting, which takes place every autumn. Here the voting members can participate in resolutions and decisions of the sisterhood. The general assembly elects the superior of the sisterhood, the board of directors and the sisters of the advisory board. Each member has the opportunity to have a say, to be responsible and to advise.
The chairwoman, Superior Doreen Fuhr, heads the DRK Sisterhood Berlin in cooperation with the other board members. The board of directors presents the annual report and the business plan to the members at the general meeting for voting. The advisory board as another body of the DRK sisterhood informs and supports the members.
Facilities
The DRK Sisterhood Berlin is the sponsor and sole shareholder of the German Red Cross Sisterhood Berlin Gemeinnützige Krankenhaus GmbH . This operates the facilities:
- DRK clinics Berlin Westend, Berlin-Westend
- DRK clinics Berlin Mitte, Berlin-Gesundbrunnen
- DRK clinics Berlin Koepenick, Berlin Koepenick
- DRK Clinics Berlin Wiegmann Clinic, Berlin-Westend
- DRK Clinics Berlin Nursing and Housing Mariendorf, Berlin-Mariendorf
- DRK Clinics Berlin Hospice Köpenick,
- biz training center for nursing professions of the DRK sisterhood Berlin, Berlin-Westend
Understanding of care
Under the guiding principle of the Red Cross, the members of the DRK-Schwesternschaft Berlin eV strive for optimal, professional nursing care for patients and residents according to their own understanding. Maintaining professionally means taking responsibility, respecting human dignity and alleviating human suffering.
All patients should be accepted and respected in their illness-related physical, psychosocial and individual situation. The traditions of the DRK Sisterhood Berlin eV and the professional ethical principles of the Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross should form the basis of the work. The members would be trained and deployed according to their skills and abilities.
history
Hedwig Countess Rittberg founded an Aid Sisters 'Association in 1875, which later became the Countess Rittberg Sisters' Association of the Red Cross - the first Red Cross Sisterhood in Berlin.
A few years later there were other sororities in the city such as the Märkisches Haus sorority, the Paulinenhaus sorority, the Luisen-Cecilien sorority and the Weißensee sorority. The daily work of all of Berlin's sisterhoods was based on the humanitarian principles of the German Red Cross: to maintain ideological, political and religious neutrality as well as to respect the dignity and individuality of each individual.
The ideal of sororities was to provide professional care and support with like-minded people in a community. Only in this way did they see an opportunity at the time to remedy the abuses in nursing, which they often perceived as catastrophic. The quality and professionalism of nursing should be increased. The sororities wanted to provide better training for their junior staff and fought for recognition of their profession.
Supporting each other to secure their own future was another important concern of the Red Cross sisters. In order to live in a community, they decided not to start their own family; and the less they had to worry about their existence, the more they could devote themselves to the people entrusted to them.
The DRK Sisterhood Berlin eV emerged in the spring of 1975 from the merger of the five above-mentioned independent organizations - exactly one hundred years after the establishment of the first Berlin Red Cross Sisterhood.
Resting place of the sisterhood of the Paulinenhaus
The communal resting place of the sisterhood of the Paulinenhaus from the Red Cross Charlottenburg is in the Epiphany block, garden block I on the Stahnsdorf south-west cemetery .
Superiors of the DRK Sisterhood Berlin eV (since 1975)
- 1975 to 1988: Superior Christa Rohr
- 1988 to 1996: Superior Renate Lawrenz
- 1996 to 2012: Superior Heidi Schäfer-Frischmann
- since 2012: Superior Doreen Fuhr
literature
- Heidi Schäfer-Frischmann , Thomas H. Wolter: Life useful for others. The book of the DRK sisterhood Berlin. 1875-2008. DRK-Schwesternschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025306-5 .
- Ludger Tewes , Red Cross Sisters Your assignment in the mobile medical service of the Wehrmacht 1939-1945 , Verlag Schoeningh, Paderborn 2016. ISBN 978-3-506-78257-1 .
