Diakonie Austria

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Diakonie Austria
logo
legal form Evangelical Church Association
founding 1968
Seat Vienna
main emphasis Social work , humanitarian aid , social policy
people Maria Katharina Moser (Director)
sales EUR 356 million (total revenue of all members 2015)
Employees 9000 (2017)
Volunteers 1500 (2017)
Members 30 (2015)
Website diakonie.at

The Diakonie Austria , based in Vienna, is the umbrella organization of all diaconal Protestant party in Austria and consists of 34 member organizations with approximately 7,500 employees. Diakonie is one of the five largest Austrian welfare organizations and has been awarded the Austrian seal of approval for donations . Pastor Michael Chalupka was the head of Diakonie Austria from 1994 to 2018 . On September 1, 2018, Maria Katharina Moser was appointed director.

The core competencies are work with the elderly and care, work for the disabled, health, children and young people, training and schools, migrants and refugees, emergency services and patient transport as well as social crises. With Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, Diakonie Österreich provides humanitarian aid in natural disasters and armed conflicts worldwide. This involves emergency humanitarian aid in the event of a crisis on the one hand, and reconstruction, which sometimes takes several years, on the other, and disaster risk management. Diakonie is a member of the aid campaign Neighbors in Need with ORF as its media partner.

In the area of ​​development cooperation, Diakonie is involved in international projects with the “Bread for the World” campaign. The focus of work here is on the inclusion of people with disabilities, food security, the advancement of women, peace-building and education. Both Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and Bread for the World Austria are members of the ACT Alliance .

history

After centuries of bans and resettlements, Emperor Joseph II granted the tolerance patent of 1781 to allow the practice of the Protestant religion in Austria again. Legal equality with the Roman Catholic Church took place under Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1861 with the Protestant patent .

In 1873 the Protestant Countess Elvine de La Tour founded a charity for girls on her estate in Russiz near Görz ( Austrian coastal region ) . In the same year, Pastor Ernst Schwarz in Waiern in Carinthia began with the so-called child rescue work . The first association was founded in 1874 by his brother, Pastor Ludwig Schwarz, the Association for Inner Mission in Gallneukirchen in Upper Austria , from which the Evangelical Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen emerged in 1877 .

Ernst Schwarz later founded the Protestant Diakoniewerk Waiern. After Countess de La Tour's death in 1916, part of her fortune was transferred to the Diakoniewerk Evangelische Stiftung de La Tour. As early as 1885 she and her husband had acquired the Schlossgut Treffen on Ossiacher See for child labor.

Thus the brothers Schwarz and the Countess de La Tour are the founders of diakonia in Austria.

In 1912 the Central Association for Inner Mission was founded, which after the Second World War was renamed the Evangelical Central Committee for Inner Mission and later the Evangelical Central Committee for Inner Mission and Diakonia in Austria . This association was replaced by the Diakonisches Werk für Österreich , now known as Diakonie Österreich .

construction

Three of the 34 member organizations are permanent members of the Diaconal Council with a seat and vote: the Evangelical Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen, the Diakonie de la Tour and the Diakonie-Zentrum Spattstraße in Linz , the three largest diaconal providers in Austria.

The Evangelical Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen , founded in 1877, is the largest and oldest diaconal institution in Austria . The parent company Bethanien is located in the Upper Austrian town of Gallneukirchen in the Lower Mühlviertel , around 14 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Linz . Over 3200 people are employed in the numerous fields of activity, working at over 100 locations in five federal states as well as in Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina . The Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen looks after the facilities in Sibiu in Transylvania (Romania) and in Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Diakonie de la Tour is the second largest diaconal institution in Austria and the umbrella organization for the two Diakoniewerke in Carinthia, the Diakoniewerk Evangelische Stiftung de La Tour and the Evangelische Diakoniewerk Waiern. This Diakonie has several locations in seven Carinthian parishes.

The Diakonie Zentrum Spattstraße in Linz strives for the well-being of children and young people in Upper and Lower Austria . It is owned by the United Methodist Church . Around 500 employees work at ten locations of the three regional offices.

Another large diaconal institution is the Diakonie Eine Welt acc. GmbH . It combines the work areas of refugee work, educational work (especially in Vienna ), disaster relief and development cooperation. Diakonie Eine Welt GmbH was founded in 2009. She is responsible for the management and further development of the Evangelical Relief Organization in Austria and the Evangelical School Works AB Vienna. The rector is Michael Bubik. On behalf of Diakonie Österreich, Diakonie Eine Welt manages the organizations Diakonie Austria, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and Bread for the World in Austria. Together with the three kings campaign of the Catholic youth group, she runs the “fair share” project. Diakonie Eine Welt has been involved in Oikocredit since 2012 .

There are also providers in Burgenland and Styria , the Salvation Army and the Johanniter Accident Aid .

Diakonie is ecumenically oriented, so include the Old Catholic diakonia of the Old Catholic Church of Austria , the Salvation Army Austria and the Relief Association of Baptists in Austria to the members of the Diakonie Austria.

Directors

financing

The Diakonie publishes an annual report. For the year 2015 total revenues of all members are given of 356 million euros. This is an increase of approx. 30% compared to 2010. The largest part of the expenditures (approx. 65%) flows into personnel expenses, which have increased significantly again in recent years (personnel expenses 2011: 60.2%).

Diakonie's sales are exempt from sales tax.

Diakonie does not publish a breakdown of the proceeds according to origin. However, the Fundraising Association Austria reports in its annual donation report of three diakonia organizations that receive donations. In total, the donations of these three organizations in 2015 amounted to EUR 4.8 million or 1.4% of the total revenues of the Diakonie.

International cooperation and tasks

In Europe, several social welfare organizations from different countries work together in “ Eurodiaconia ”. In doing so, they jointly represent the interests of the member associations vis-à-vis the European institutions.

Worldwide, the diaconal organizations are united in a world association. The European associations are involved in the "Europ-Africa" ​​regional assembly.

Meaning of the symbol

The logo contains the crown cross designed by Richard Boeland of the Berlin Art School in 1925. It originally represented the artistic combination of the letters I and M (Inner Mission). However, it became known as the Crown Cross, where the recognizable cross stands for distress and death and the crown for hope and resurrection. The signet was used when the Diakonisches Werk der Ev. Church in Germany adopted as its own symbol in 1957.

literature

  • Wilfried Brandt: For an avowed diakonia. Contributions to an evangelical understanding of the diaconate. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001, ISBN 3-7887-1854-4
  • Joachim Dettmann, Michael Holewa: Perspective Diakonie 2025. future - power - knowledge. Shaping demographic change. Transfer-Project, Berlin 2006
  • Heidrun Szepannek: Elvine Countess de La Tour ; Publishing house of the Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-900531-77-5 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diakonie annual report 2015, p. 15. (PDF) Retrieved on April 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Diakonie annual report 2015, p. 15. (PDF) Retrieved on March 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ orf.at: Maria Katharina Moser: Diakonie has a new director . Article dated September 1, 2018, accessed September 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ Diakonie Österreich: Annual Report 2008 ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  5. ↑ Child and youth welfare: equal opportunities for all children! Press release. In: ots.at. June 26, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe helps on site: Being there for people in greatest need - where it matters. Press release. In: ots.at. July 22, 2018, accessed September 2, 2018 .
  7. ^ Diakonie Österreich: The beginnings of diaconal work in Austria ; made available by the Austrian Diakonie via email
  8. ^ Diakonie de La Tour: Diakonie Austria | Diakonie de La Tour. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
  9. ^ Diakonie Kärnten: Homepage , (accessed on June 14, 2009)
  10. ^ Diakonie Zentrum Spattstrasse: Home page , (accessed on June 15, 2009)
  11. ↑ Diakonie Österreich Old Catholic Diakonie in Diakonie Österreich (accessed on February 16, 2015)
  12. ^ Diakonie Österreich Salvation Army in Diakonie Österreich (accessed on February 16, 2015)
  13. ^ Diakonie Österreich Aid Association of Baptists in Diakonie Austria (accessed on February 15, 2015)
  14. ↑ Chalupka adopted as Diakonie director. In: religion.orf.at. June 22, 2018, accessed February 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Maria Katharina Moser becomes the new Diakonie director. In: diakonie.at. September 25, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  16. ^ Annual report of Diakonie Österreich 2015. p. 14 , accessed on April 28, 2017 .
  17. ^ Annual report of Diakonie Österreich 2012. p. 22 , accessed on April 28, 2017 .
  18. ↑ §6 Abs. 1 Zi 25 UStG ( Federal Law Gazette No. 663/1994 )
  19. ↑ Donation report 2016. Fundraisingverband Austria, p. 17 , accessed on April 28, 2017 .