Evangelical Foundations Osnabrück
The Evangelical Foundations Osnabrück ( ESO ) are an amalgamation of foundations, some of which can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The main purpose of the non-profit organization today is to promote offers in youth and elderly care, further training opportunities in the areas of education, society and work, as well as individual support for people in need. In order to realize these goals, the ESO cooperate with various partners from the diaconal and urban environment in Osnabrück.
Mission and goals
The ESO are a church foundation with legal capacity under civil law based in Osnabrück . You have been working in Osnabrück for over 750 years. The purpose of the foundation is based on the Christian image of man, according to which every person has an unrestricted right to a decent life and to be treated with respect.
In the statutes of the Evangelical Foundations of March 3, 2014, the funding areas are set out accordingly. Your funding activities are therefore divided into four main areas:
- Needy individuals,
- Diaconal institutions such as nursing homes, senior citizens' residences, advice centers and other facilities to help people at risk,
- Day care centers,
- Projects in the fields of elderly, youth and refugee aid, education including public relations.
organization
The institutional seat of ESO is the foundation's office in Osnabrück. The foundation is managed by a board of directors and a board of directors.
The Board of Directors consists of twelve members. It appoints the foundation's board of directors and supports its work. Six church representatives and six representatives from the city council and city administration of Osnabrück sit on the administrative board. The current chairman of the board of directors is Wolfgang Griesert, Lord Mayor of Osnabrück, his deputy is Joachim Jeska, Superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Osnabrück .
The foundation's business is managed by a board of directors. He represents the Evangelical Foundations externally and heads the foundation's office. Johannes Andrews, who has a degree in economics, has been Chairman of the Board of Management since March 2013. Important decisions of the foundation are made by mutual agreement of the board of directors and the administrative board.
The foundation is a member of the Lower Saxony Diaconal Employers' Association.
Foundation assets
The ESO have endowment assets of around 46 million euros. This includes forest areas with a size of around 450 hectares, around 150 properties and around 600 leasehold properties.
By investing the assets, the foundations want to preserve their value on the one hand, and on the other hand guarantee the continuous and reliable funding of projects.
Trust foundations
The ESO are active as trustees and were certified as certified foundation trustees in 2015. The foundation assets transferred to the Evangelical Foundations are managed separately from their own assets in accordance with the foundation's statutes.
The foundations currently manage two trust foundations: the Dr. Wilhelm Heemeyer Foundation and the Evangelical Family Education Center. Together, the two trust-managed foundations have a value of 3.2 million euros.
Promotional activities
In 2016, 31 social projects in Osnabrück were funded with a total of 726,000 euros. The majority of the funding goes into the financing of project plans and non-profit organizations without a specific purpose, a smaller part is used directly to support disadvantaged people and people in need.
The range of funded projects includes offers that are intended to support the integration of refugees, offers of help for people in a wide variety of emergencies, and offers for families and senior citizens.
partner
The ESO cooperates with the following institutions:
- Permanent exhibition "Rosenstrasse 76 - Overcoming Domestic Violence"
- Diaconal work in the city and district of Osnabrück
- Evangelical Family Education Center eV Osnabrück
- Evangelical Lutheran Church District Association of Osnabrück City and State
history
The ESO see their origins in the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, established in 1250, which became an important refuge for poor, sick and old people as early as the Middle Ages. Together with two other hospitals that were established a little later, it played an important role in caring for people in need in Osnabrück.
In 1620 the ESO acquired the Tecklenburger Hof, which had burned down a few years earlier, and rebuilt it as an orphanage and poor house. The resulting orphan fund became an important addition to the foundations.
In the course of the Middle Ages, orphan funds and hospitals steadily expanded their property. In 1833 they used it as the basis for the establishment of the “Church and School Fund”, which initially had nothing to do with schools, but only benefited the three hospitals. Only later did the main purpose of the fund shift to supporting the Protestant schools in Osnabrück for reasons of city politics.
Social and economic upheavals at the beginning of the 19th century had far-reaching effects on the property of the foundations. Changes in land policy, for example, led to the abolition of serfdom , which gave the farms once belonging to the institutions their independence. In addition, there was a redistribution of communally used land in the early 19th century. In the process, the foundations lost part of their foundation, but received generous severance payments. In 1893, their property was finally recorded in detail for the first time: At that time they managed grounds with a size of 213 hectares , and their assets amounted to around 990,000 Reichsmarks .
The merger to form the "Evangelical Foundations Osnabrück" (ESO) finally took place in 1931. The plural in the name reflects history and takes into account the many different individual assets from which the ESO emerged.
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