Evangelical Society Stuttgart
| eva Evangelical Society Stuttgart | |
|---|---|
| legal form | non-profit registered association |
| founding | 1830 |
| Seat | Stuttgart |
| purpose | diaconal institution |
| Chair | Klaus Käpplinger |
| sales | 73,769,418 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 1285 (2018) |
| Volunteers | 1200 (2018) |
| Website | www.eva-stuttgart.de |
The Evangelische Gesellschaft Stuttgart (eva) is a Diakonie institution in Germany that performs a variety of social tasks. In around 150 services, advice centers, residential groups and homes, around 1,300 full-time employees look after people in need. They are supported by almost 1200 volunteer women and men as well as by volunteers.
history
In 1830, at the suggestion of Vicar Christoph Ulrich Hahn, the citizens of Esslingen founded a “Society for the Spread of Small Religious Writings”, which after two years had already distributed 39,000 and after twenty years around two million. In the beginning, following the spirit of the times, the dissemination of Bibles and evangelical edification literature was the central task of the young society. The founders soon published the weekly newspaper Old and New from the Kingdom of God , operated a lending library and took care of passing on donations to the needy.
In 1835 the company moved to Stuttgart .
From the Tract Association to the Inner Mission
The Evangelical Society took on a new direction when Johann Heinrich Wichern initiated the Inner Mission at the Wittenberg Kirchentag in 1848 and presented his ideas in Stuttgart the following year. The Evangelical Society set up a visiting service for the poor in the city, from which the city mission arose. City missionaries took care of prisoners and the steadily growing number of industrial workers. They conducted pastoral discussions and provided practical help. The driving force of these years was the pharmacist Gottlieb Scholl , who had been on the company's board of directors since 1849.
In 1858, the company acquired its first property and built a hall for lectures and building events. In 1874 she founded a bookstore and the publishing house. In the anniversary year of 1880, eleven colporteurs (i.e. distributors of religious writings), three city missionaries, a secretary, a manager and cashier as well as three office workers were in the service of the Evangelical Society. In 1903 she opened her first dormitory for girls, the Charlottenheim. In 1905 the Evangelical Community Gazette for Stuttgart appeared for the first time , today the Evangelical Community Gazette for Württemberg .
The hardship of the war years 1914 to 1918 presented the city mission with new tasks. In 1926 the Evangelical Society opened a transitional home for girls, the Margaretenhort. Three years later the Reichenberg Castle near Oppenweiler was added as a reception center for prostitutes. In 1932 the midnight mission became a focal point in the Stuttgart red light district.
The arrival of the National Socialists in power was initially hopefully registered in the Evangelical Society, but only for a short time. As early as the summer of 1933, pastoral care visits in the prisons were forbidden, the colporteurs no longer received a trade license, the city mission was classified as an organization hostile to the Reich. During the church struggle , the publishing house published Bishop Theophil Wurm's confession sermons . In 1939, the donor magazine Schatten und Licht , first published in 1930, was banned. The distribution of the community newspaper was also increasingly restricted, and in 1941 publication had to be stopped entirely. As a result of the bombing, the society lost all homes and houses.
New beginning after the Second World War
After the end of the war, the Evangelical Society faced a multitude of new tasks. It now ran an aid center for racially persecuted people and a city mission for the homeless, travelers passing through, refugees and returnees. After air raid shelters were converted into men's dormitories, the reconstruction of the destroyed houses and homes began. Particularly noteworthy is the men's dormitory in Stuttgart-Rot , completed in 1966 , which is now called Immanuel-Grözinger-Haus, based on the then head of the city mission. With 154 rooms on thirteen floors, it made bunker accommodation in Stuttgart largely superfluous.
The development over the next few years was rapid: “We cannot determine what we want to do. The work is presented to us, ”says the 1956/57 annual report. New approaches were also broken conceptually. Pastor Otto Kehr , the overall director from 1959 to 1981, wrote: "With the end of the 50s and the beginning of the 60s a profound change in the design of social welfare and diakonia began." The care diakonia of the "three S" (soap, soup, Salvation of the soul) was transferred to a diakonia with qualifications, which is still based on the principle of “helping people to help themselves” today. During this time, advice and support became the focus of diaconal work.
Development until today
As a result, the Evangelical Society made a name for itself with a large number of innovative projects. On May 2, 1960, the telephone counseling began its service, 1963 the foreigners service. In 1970, the first nationwide society for mobile youth work was established . In 1975 the nationwide first youth day group followed in the Flattichhaus (named after the pastor and educator Johann Friedrich Flattich ). In this facility, from 1998 onwards, the educational aids were tested for the first time, which are now standard in Stuttgart youth welfare.
In 1977 the Evangelical Society opened the first pregnancy counseling of the Diakonie in Württemberg, in 1978 it founded the work aid agency Neue Arbeit together with the Diakonisches Werk Württemberg . The services for mental health started in 1981, and in 1986, as a further milestone, the nationwide first AIDS counseling was set up under diaconal support. In 1987 the Evangelical Society founded the central debt counseling service together with the city of Stuttgart and the Caritas Association for Stuttgart. This was followed in 1989 by Alzheimer's advice, in 1994 by the hiding place for street children and in 1997 by the social and spatial educational assistance in Stuttgart-Nord. In 1999 the Evangelical Society started the federal model project “Fourth Phase of Life”.
In 2001 she opened the Gradmann House as the first nationwide center for people with dementia . In 2006 she took over the sponsorship of the Rehabilitation Center Rudolf-Sophien-Stift including the clinic. In the same year, the Helmuth-Galda-Haus dementia center was opened in Buchen . Between 1998 and 2003 the Evangelical Society also initiated various advisory projects for young people without work. In January 2010 she took over the Protestant youth homes Heidenheim as a new subsidiary. In the same year, together with the Baden-Württemberg commander of the Order of St. John, she opened the House of Life Chance, where young adults can catch up on their secondary school leaving certificate. At the end of 2011, the Evangelical Society founded another subsidiary, eva childcare “eva: lino”. It operates day-care centers at several locations in Stuttgart that offer flexible, integrative and company-related all-day care.
organization
The Evangelical Society Stuttgart e. V. is divided into a non-profit association, the eva Evangelische Gesellschaft Stuttgart e. V., and its subsidiaries: eva Heidenheim gGmbH, eva: Kinderbetreuung gGmbH, eva: IT-Services GmbH, eva-Seniorendienste gGmbH, Rehabilitation Center Rudolf-Sophien-Stift gGmbH, social enterprise Neue Arbeit gGmbH, youcare gGmbH as well as the publishing house and bookstore of the Evangelische Gesellschaft Stuttgart GmbH and the Evangelische Gemeindepresse GmbH, which publishes the church area newspaper " Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg " for the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
The three-person board of the Evangelical Society consists of: The chairman of the board, Pastor Klaus Käpplinger, the deputy chairman of the board, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Armbruster and Helmut Bühler. There is also a supervisory board that advises and monitors the management board, elects the auditor and adopts the annual financial statements. The chairman of the supervisory board also calls and chairs the general assembly. The members of the Supervisory Board perform their office on a voluntary basis.
Mission statement
The Evangelical Society has developed a model for its work, which was approved by the eva Supervisory Board on December 5, 2017. It says, among other things, “that every person is a unique and loved personality created by God”, that “every person has the right to participate in social life, to individuality and freedom, to self-determination and personal responsibility” and that everyone has the right To “develop one's personality with respect for oneself and for others”.
The basic theses and goals of diaconal work are based on this image of man:
- Enable people to live with dignity
- alleviate people's plight
- Identify the causes of the emergency and - if possible - remedy them
- strengthen faith in word and deed
- awakening and promoting social responsibility
- Win friends and sponsors for diaconal work
Target groups and numbers
The Evangelical Society today includes around 150 services, advice centers, residential groups and homes that support people in all phases of life. These people are poor, mentally ill or severely disabled, addicts or pregnant, on the run, over-indebted, in prison, unemployed or infected with HIV. The main focuses of the work include: pregnancy counseling, support and accompaniment of couples and young families, accompaniment of children and adolescents, educational aids, addiction counseling, housing emergencies, offers for the mentally ill and severely disabled people, debt counseling, assisted living, help for migrants, outpatient care services and pastoral offers.
In 2016, according to the Evangelical Society, more than 31,000 people of all ages received outpatient advice, care or nursing. Around 3,900 people lived in homes or residential groups of the Evangelical Society in 2016. Almost 21,000 people took part in information, education or prevention events in the same year. At the same time, over 56,000 meals were given out to poor people through the various services.
Web links
- Official website of the Evangelical Society Stuttgart
- Archive inventory of the holdings of the Evangelical Society Stuttgart, archive and central library of the Württemberg regional church in Württemberg .
- Diakonie in Stuttgart
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report 2018/2019. (PDF) In: eva-stuttgart.de. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Rainer Smile: Live in the world, believe in God. A century of piety and publicity: The Evangelical Community Gazette for Württemberg. Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-920207-10-6 .
- ↑ Simone Höckele: August Hinderer, road and work of a pioneer Protestant journalism. Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-933992-02-8 , pages 40-73.
- ↑ Shadow and Light magazine. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung : Zuffenhausen-Rot: The Flattichhaus is to be demolished . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed June 29, 2018]).
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs: Dementia diseases - a social and health policy challenge. (PDF) In: Drucksache Landtag. State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, October 8, 2002, accessed on June 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Board of Directors. Retrieved June 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Supervisory Board. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
- ↑ General Assembly. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Mission statement. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Here you will find all eva offers. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Annual report. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .