Evangelical working group for the care of soldiers
| Evangelical Working Group for Soldier Care e. V. (EAS) |
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| purpose | Care of soldiers, civilian employees of the Bundeswehr and their relatives in Germany and in the operational area |
| Chair: | Ingo Patschke |
| Establishment date: | 1957 in Bonn |
| Seat : | Berlin |
| Website: | www.eas-berlin.de |
The Evangelical Working Group for Soldiers Care e. V. ( EAS ) is an independent and non-profit organization that looks after soldiers, civilian employees of the Bundeswehr and their relatives in Germany and in the areas of operation of the German armed forces . To this end, EAS creates offers from the areas of education, family, culture, gastronomy and sport, which complement the work of the Bundeswehr and the Protestant military pastoral care.
The association was founded in 1957 as part of the development of the Bundeswehr in Bonn. He finances his work from funds from the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Federal Ministry of Defense as well as from self-generated income.
Mission statement
The Evangelical Working Group for Soldier Care overwrites its activities with the slogan “EAS strengthens. Soldiers. Familys. Community. "And declares three essential guiding principles for their care work at the Bundeswehr locations in Germany and abroad:
- On behalf of Ev. Military bishop and the Federal Minister of Defense soldiers and their families with additional offers.
- The EAS creates protected spaces for encounters with one another and with the civilian population.
- The EAS supports you in coping with everyday military life in operations and in the basic operations of the Bundeswehr.
As a member of the Diakonisches Werk , the association sees itself in the tradition of welfare work of the Evangelical Church in Germany and directs its offer to people of all ages, regardless of gender, religious affiliation and social or military rank.
Fields of activity
In the domestic and basic operations of the Bundeswehr, EAS initiates and organizes support projects in the areas of education, family and leisure / events. These include one-day and multi-day seminars on political, historical and sociological topics, family and children's camps, cultural events, sports competitions, specialist conferences and much more. The EAS soldiers' homes, leisure centers and restaurants at the same time, are open to civilian and military guests for individual celebrations, conferences and other occasions.
A large part of the project offers of the association is realized in close cooperation with the evangelical military pastoral care as well as with partners from the armed forces and other non-profit organizations. Every year the EAS is involved in an average of 1000 events and projects.
OASE mission support
Since 1996 the EAS has been involved in the 'OASE-Einsatzbetreuung' initiative together with the Catholic Working Group for Soldier Care. It operates catering facilities, the so-called OASEN, in the Bundeswehr's global field camps and initiates additional cultural offers for the soldiers on site.
The first OASE was set up in 1996 in the Benkovac field camp (Croatia). This was followed by care facilities in the Rajlovac field camp (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Camp Airfield (Kosovo) and in the Camp Warehouse (Afghanistan). EAS and KAS currently operate OASE catering facilities in Camp Marmal (Afghanistan), Camp Prizren (Kosovo) and Camp Erbil (Iraq).
history
The Evangelical Working Group for Soldiers Care was established in 1957 with the establishment of the Evangelical Military Pastoral Care for the then still young Bundeswehr. The Federal Ministry of Defense and the Evangelical Church in Germany recognized the off-duty care of soldiers as a task for which both sides are responsible. It seemed necessary to them to create a legally independent, non-profit institution in which the federal government and the church are equally determined: The Evangelical Working Group for Soldiers Care in the Federal Republic of Germany was established. V. founded.
Initially, the priority was the operation of soldiers' homes as meeting and leisure centers for the troops and the civilian population at selected Bundeswehr locations. For the new Bundeswehr locations in the new federal states, so-called “open support” - in terms of content comparable to soldiers' homework, but detached from the fixed infrastructure - was developed. This flexible care concept was later introduced to locations in the old federal states.
With the change of the Bundeswehr to an operational army in the course of the nineties, looking after soldiers on deployments abroad and their families became a new, essential task for EAS. Together with its Catholic sister organization, the EAS has since been operating the OASEn in the areas of operation of the Bundeswehr, which, adapted to the reality of the operation, adapt the principle of the soldiers' homes and "bring a piece of home into the field camps of the areas of operation" The German armed forces launched their own support programs, especially in the areas of education and family, through the missions.
Client / partner
- Ev. Military chaplaincy
- armed forces
- Federal Working Group for Soldier Care
- Bundeswehr-Sozialwerk e. V.
- German Armed Forces Association e. V.
- Woman-woman-online
- "Attack on the Soul" initiative
- Catholic Working Group for Soldiers Care e. V.
- Soldier families network
- Soldiers Aid Organization of the Bundeswehr e. V.
- Soldier self-help against addiction e. V.
- Association of the German Bundeswehr reservists e. V.
- Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V.
- Social service of the Bundeswehr
- Foundation Evang. Soldier care in Baden-Württemberg
structure
The Evangelical Working Group for Soldiers Care e. V. has its headquarters in Berlin. Nationwide, it is represented at around 60 locations by soldiers' homes as well as full-time, part-time and voluntary employees who work in so-called "open care". In the respective military chaplaincy areas, five Protestant state working groups for the care of soldiers cover regional needs. These act as legally independent associations, but are based on cooperation with the Ev. Working group for soldiers' care at the federal level. The members of the association currently include representatives from the Ev. State working groups for the care of soldiers, the YMCA -Gesamtverband in Deutschland e. V., the men's work of the Ev. Church in Germany, the Evangelical Church Office for the Bundeswehr and the Church Office of the Ev. Church in Germany. Ingo Patschke is currently the chairman of the association .
| Chair of the EAS | Period |
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| Ingo Patschke | since 2016 |
| Wolfgang Otto | 2009-2016 |
| Bernd Heise | 2004-2009 |
| Günter von Steinaecker | 1998-2004 |
| Dietrich Hahn | 1981-1998 |
| Helmut Stukenberg | 1977-1981 |
| Wilhelm Claussen | 1957-1977 |
Web links
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- Hardthöhenkurier , Issues 1–6 / 2010, Bonn.
- Hardthöhenkurier, Hefte 1, 4–6 / 2011, Bonn.
- Hardthöhenkurier, issue 1/2012, Bonn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Articles of Association of the Association, from October 13, 2010, § 1.
- ^ Lingenberg, Sören, in: Hardthöhenkurier, Heft 1/2011, Bonn, p. 115.
- ↑ EAS - Ev. Soldier care - deployment. (No longer available online.) In: www.easberlin.de. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hartmann, Rolf; Lingenberg, Sören in: Hardthöhenkurier, Heft 6/2010, Bonn, p. 76f.
- ↑ cf. Basic brochure of the EAS, Berlin, 2011, p. 16.
- ↑ cf. Evangelical Working Group for Soldier Care, 2. extended edition, Bonn, 1997, p. 5.
- ↑ EAS - Ev. Soldier care - news overview. (No longer available online.) In: www.easberlin.de. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
