Deaconess Mother House of the Olga Sisters in Stuttgart
The deaconess mother house of the Olga Sisters in Stuttgart , whose beginnings go back to the year 1872, is supported by an evangelical sisterhood of Kaiserswerther . The task of the registered association is the care and support of old and sick people. He is the provider of an outpatient care service and supervised apartments , co-sponsor of a hospital and is involved in the training and further education of the nursing and health professions . His field of activity is Stuttgart .
Goal setting
The main field of work of the deaconess mother house of the Olga Sisters, which is located in Ostheim (district of Stuttgart-Ost ), is the care and support of old and sick people as well as training and further education for this area.
The basis of his nursing, educational and theological work is the mandate of Jesus Christ to help the needy and the weak. The mother house sees its work as Christian service to others .
The person in need is at the center of everything we do. At the same time, the diaconal work is based on the principles of professionalism and economic efficiency.
Areas of responsibility
The mother house in Stuttgart is the home and living space of the Olga sisters. Supervised apartments have been set up in the mother house and in the senior citizens' housing complex in Stuttgart-Ost . The Olga Sisters' outpatient care service takes on the task of accompanying and looking after the sisters and residents in assisted living. The aim is to look after the elderly in their own four walls according to their individual needs and to enable them to live as independently as possible despite illness or frailty.
The parent company is also a partner in the Karl-Olga Hospital GmbH, a clinic of standard care with shares of the central supply operates the east of Stuttgart. And it participates in the teaching and in committees of the Evangelical Education Center for Care Professions Stuttgart gGmbH, which maintains a school for health and nursing as well as care- related further and advanced training.
Another field of activity of the parent company is the accommodation and care of guests. Rooms are available for conferences and training events.
Mission statement
The mission statement of the parent company's motto is "People First". It has seven basic goals:
- We see our primary task in accompanying, looking after and caring for old and sick people and enabling them to lead a meaningful life despite their limitations.
- We orientate ourselves on the commission of Jesus Christ to put the Gospel into practice, and understand our work as an expression of the Church's responsibility to others.
- We continue the tradition of the Olga Sisterhood, which goes back over a hundred years, and we face the social and entrepreneurial challenges of the present and future.
- We respect the dignity and individuality of those entrusted to us and those who work with us, and we regard them as responsible and responsible partners.
- We put the wellbeing of our fellow human beings at the center of our actions and treat them with trust and appreciation.
- We do professional work and align our professional activities with the principles of personal, social and professional competence such as economic efficiency.
- As employees, we take responsibility for our work area, contribute actively and creatively to its further development, fulfill our tasks in a targeted manner and work together in a trusting and partnership-based manner.
Sorority
The Olga Sisterhood includes deaconesses and deaconal sisters and brothers . Most of them have worked in hospitals or social and diaconal wards as nurses and nursing managers and as teachers and managers in nursing schools.
For the deaconess the idea of a community of faith, life and service is fundamental. Women who are committed to the gospel form a community of sisters from which they gain strength and empowerment for their ministry . They forego payment and live in celibacy so that they can devote themselves entirely to those in need. The fellowship of the sisters with each other is expressed in worship and devotion, common prayer and singing, reflection on the Bible , but also mutual support and common celebration. Most of the Olgadiaconesses now live after work, as the sisters speak about retirement.
The Diakonische Schwestern- und Brotherhood understands itself, like the diaconology, as a spiritual community, more precisely as a community of faith and service. The life and ministry of diaconal sisters and brothers are also based on the gospel of Jesus Christ . The community with one another should make the gifts and abilities of the individual members fruitful and provide spiritual and caring support. The Diaconal Sisters and Brothers live in different places. You are or have been in “normal” employment. And the commandment of celibacy does not apply to them either. Most of them are now also retired. Therefore, today this sisters group is essentially about the exchange of questions about life and belief as well as common leisure activities.
organization
Members of the registered association, the deaconess motherhouse of the Olga Sisters in Stuttgart, which is recognized as a non-profit , are predominantly members of the sisterhood. The deaconess mother house is run by a board of directors, which consists of superior , head (as theological director) and administrative director. The supervisory function is carried out by the board of directors , which includes representatives of the sororities as well as personalities who are not affiliated with a sisterhood. Further decision-making bodies are the main conference (general assembly) as well as the respective councils and conferences of diaconal science and the diaconal fraternity. The interests of the employees are represented by the employee representatives .
The deaconess mother house is divided into the areas of board, administration , care service of the Olga sisters as well as housekeeping and building services. There are special connections to the Karl Olga Hospital and the Protestant Education Center for Nursing Professions in Stuttgart.
The Deaconess Mother House is a member of the Kaiserswerther Association of German Deaconess Mother Houses . V. and in the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg e. V.
history
The nucleus of the Olga Sisterhood were nursing courses that the central management of the charitable association in Württemberg set up in 1872 in conjunction with the Württemberg medical association at the municipal hospital in Heilbronn . The first patroness of the slowly developing sisterhood was the Queen of Württemberg and Russian Grand Duchess Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa (1822-1892) . Pastor D. Dr. played a decisive role in founding the school. Christoph Ulrich Hahn (1805–1881), who founded the Württemberg branch of the Red Cross in 1863. The school graduates were initially employed as carers in Heilbronn and the surrounding rural communities. As members of the Red Cross, they also undertook to provide nursing services in times of war.
In 1878 the central management founded an "Association for Nurses" in Heilbronn, which contributed significantly to the consolidation of the sisterhood. The sisters received their own house, the Olgahaus , and were now called Sisters of the Olgahaus, or Olga Sisters for short . Although they belonged to the Red Cross, they soon saw themselves as an evangelical sisterhood. The Heilbronn parish priest Dr. Paul Wurster (1860–1923), who later taught as a professor of practical theology and ethics at Tübingen University .
In 1892 the association in Heilbronn was dissolved because there were too few opportunities for the sisterhood to develop, and it was re-established in Stuttgart . In the east of the state capital, with financial support from the Württemberg royal couple, Karl I (1823-1891) and Olga, their own hospital was built, which was named Karl-Olga-Krankenhaus . The hospital opened in 1894. It was both the motherhouse and training center for the sisters. In 1910 another building, the Charlottenbau, was put into operation as a surgical clinic. It is named after the second patroness of the sisters, Queen Charlotte von Württemberg (1864–1946). The internal clinic remained in the old building.
The spiritual care of the sisters was in the hands of Government Director Rev. Dr. Karl Eberhard von Falch (1851-1919), who had been managing director of the central management of the Württemberg charity since 1896 and also a member of the board of directors of the parent company, later also its chairman. von Falch campaigned for the sisterhood to have a superior in 1893 and their own pastor as headmaster in 1897.
The sisterhood grew continuously and was able to expand its fields of work steadily. Olga sisters were sent to numerous towns and communities in Württemberg as nurses. They also worked in many hospitals in the country. In addition to Stuttgart, they were particularly well represented in the Heidenheim an der Brenz area and in the Balingen area . During the First World War , the sisters served in war zones in the East and West.
When the old order collapsed in 1918 and the patronage of the Württemberg queens ceased, the Olga Sisters had to reorient themselves. In 1919 you were among the founding members of the regional association of the Inner Mission in Württemberg, today's Diakonisches Werk Württemberg, and in 1923 you joined the Kaiserswerther Association of German Deaconess Mother Houses. The Olga Sisters became deaconesses , the motherhouse became deaconess motherhouse. Karl Olga Hospital and the motherhouse were expanded in the following years despite the difficult economic times. In 1930 the new internal clinic was built as a modern building in the Bauhaus style . In 1933 an after-work house was built for the no longer active sisters.
In addition to the deaconesses, there were also fewer non-sisterly nurses working in the Karl Olga Hospital. Since the beginning of the “ Third Reich ” they were under strong pressure from the new rulers to join the National Socialist “brown sisterhood”. In order to keep these nurses at the mother houses, so-called association nurses were brought into being in the area of the Kaiserswerther Association in 1939. This also happened in the Olga mother house. But even in the period that followed, the Nazis were hostile to the mother houses with their deaconesses and association sisters.
During the Second World War , the Olga Sisters were deployed in hospitals in Stuttgart and various other locations within Württemberg. In 1944 parts of the Karl-Olga-Hospital, the mother house and the after-work house were destroyed in a heavy bomb attack on Stuttgart. The patients had to be transferred to alternative hospitals in Steinheim am Albuch on the Ostalb and Sebastiansweiler south of Tübingen . The after-work nurses moved to Murrhardt in the Swabian Forest, where the motherhouse had had a rest home, the Olgaheim , for a long time .
In 1947 the after-work nurses were able to move into the restored after-work house and motherhouse in Stuttgart. In 1966, the sisterhood opposite the Karl-Olga-Hospital received its own building as the mother house, which was christened the sister's home . The hospital was rebuilt after 1945 and expanded according to the growing demands. Olga sisters continued to work as nurses and nursing staff in hospitals and community wards. A number of them also worked as teachers and headmistresses at nursing schools, in addition to the school at the Karl-Olga Hospital in Stuttgart, also at the schools in Balingen , Tuttlingen , Neuenbürg and Heidenheim an der Brenz . However, deaconry had had problems with young people since the end of the 1950s, and increasingly since the 1960s, so that the sisters had to withdraw more and more from external fields of work. In the 1970s there were no more entries. The number of retirement sisters grew, so in 1980 the sister home a Feierabendhaus was built with a chapel and administrative areas.
The Karl Olga Hospital had become in need of renovation over the years. That is why it was converted into a GmbH in 1985 under the leadership of the former Vice President of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Church in Germany , Ludwig Geißel (1916–2000), then Chairman of the Board of Directors of the parent company. This should relieve the sisterhood of the costs of the upcoming general renovation of the buildings. The parent company became a 26 percent partner in Karl-Olga-Krankenhaus GmbH. The majority shareholder became Sana Kliniken-GmbH, today Sana Kliniken GmbH & Co. KGaA, based in Munich , which is committed to the economic management of hospitals. The fundamental structural renovation of the Karl Olga Hospital was completed around the turn of the millennium.
In 1987 the parent company founded Karl-Olga-Altenpflege GmbH as the sole shareholder, which went into operation in 1994 with a nursing home , a day care center and assisted living apartments in the senior citizens' residential complex in Stuttgart-Ost. In view of the demographic change in Germany, elderly care was seen as the social challenge for the future that one wanted to face after the hospital became independent.
In order to fill up capacities that had become free due to the decline in the number of nurses, supervised apartments were set up in the parent house at the end of 1995 / beginning of 1996 and the outpatient care service of the Olga sisters was founded to take care of the living area and the elderly Olga sisters in the mother house. Assisted living in the senior citizens' residential complex in Stuttgart-Ost was taken over directly by the parent company in 1996, as the legislature at that time ruled out a connection between inpatient and outpatient areas.
At the turn of the millennium, the increasing age of the sisters and the long absence of offspring led to the almost complete withdrawal of the deaconesses from active work. The number of active diaconal sisters and brothers - that was the name of the former association sisters for several years - decreased more and more due to a lack of new entrants, so that freelancers took on the tasks in all areas.
Assisted living in the mother house was expanded parallel to the decline in the number of sisters. This area of responsibility, together with the outpatient care service, was given increasing weight. In 2004, the BruderhausDiakonie assumed shareholder responsibility for Karl-Olga-Altenpflege GmbH, as the parent company's resources were no longer sufficient to maintain the nursing home in view of the increasingly difficult economic conditions.
Even after the outsourcing of the Karl-Olga-Hospital, the parent company had management responsibility for the nursing school attached to the hospital, held a diaconal introductory seminar for future nursing students and participated in the lessons at the school. From 1998-2004 it was involved in the merger of the Protestant nursing schools (school of the Karl-Olga Hospital, the Evangelical Diakonissenanstalt Stuttgart and the later founded Diakonie Clinic Stuttgart and the Methodist Bethesda Hospital ) through the management of the project . Even after that, the parent company continues to work in the teaching and committees of the education center.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (eds.) And a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 44 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).