Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall

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The Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall eV was a large diaconal institution in Schwäbisch Hall in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg . The entire facility was usually referred to as Diak in the region and merged with Diakonie Neuendettelsau on April 1, 2019 to form DIAKONEO .

history

Hermann Faulhaber, founder and first director of the Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall
Sophie Pfizmajer, first superior of the deaconess institution Schwäbisch Hall 1886–1890

The facility was opened on February 1, 1886 as the "Diakonissenhaus" (since 1899 "Diakonissenanstalt"); 30 beds in the Deaconess Hospital were reserved for those insured with the district health insurance fund. In the "Stammhaus" built in 1885/86, apart from the hospital rooms and the operating room, there were also utility rooms for the pastor Hermann Faulhaber, the superior and the sisters. In 1890 the "Johanniterhaus" was built as a children's hospital and another hospital building.

Two hospitals already existed beforehand: the hospital founded in the 13th century and the municipal servants' hospital founded in 1850. The hospital was closed in 1856. After the introduction of statutory health insurance in 1884, there was again a need for a hospital for the entire district of the Hall Oberamt . At that time, Hermann Faulhaber (1842–1914) already had plans to found a deaconess house with an attached hospital to train young women ( deaconesses ) in nursing and to send them off to community nursing. The establishment of such an institution was mainly supported by Hermann zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , who was chairman of the founding committee and chairman of the administrative board for eight years. The Oberamt Hall agreed with the founding committee to provide 30 beds for those insured by the district health insurance fund.

In 1899, Gottlob Weißer took over the facility. Under his leadership, the “Diakonissenanstalt” expanded its areas of responsibility: looking after the mentally handicapped and the mentally ill (since 1900) and senior citizens (since 1904), expanding the economy and housekeeping. This was accompanied by brisk construction activity: u. a. Chapel (1903), wash house (1904), mother house (1906). The administration of the facility as well as living quarters for the sisters, superior and pastor were housed here. With the construction of a care facility in 1912 ( Gottlob-Weißer-Haus since 1935 ), the care capacity for mentally disabled women and children was increased to around 500. This made looking after and caring for these patients the largest branch of work in terms of beds.

During the First World War , the Hall sisters were sent to military hospitals on the western and eastern fronts, while the Johanniter Hospital in Schwäbisch Hall also served as a military hospital. In the economic crisis years after the First World War, the Diakonissenwerk acquired and operated a number of agricultural farms to cover supplies, and these farms were later leased.

In 1930 Wilhelm Breuning replaced the previous director of the institution, Weißer. Under his leadership, the high-rise hospital was built until 1938 , which shifted the focus of nursing from handicapped work to nursing. The high-rise hospital later served as a military hospital during World War II .

In November 1940, Nazi authorities confiscated the Gottlob Weisser House; all residents had to leave the house within a week. 265 patients could be accommodated in the Diak itself. However, 240 had to be moved to the Weinsberg nursing home. 184 of them were murdered in 1940 and 1941 as part of the Third Reich's euthanasia program " Aktion T4 " in the Nazi killing centers in Grafeneck and Hadamar .

After the Second World War a children's nursing school was opened. 1956 Gotthold Betsch replaced the previous head of Breuning in office. The care, but also administrative and housekeeping services were largely carried out by deaconesses until the 1950s. Since then, their number has been falling continuously. Today they no longer play a role in active work.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Diak experienced fundamental structural extensions. The Church of the Resurrection , a schoolhouse, a boarding school, the Bergfrieden House , numerous staff accommodation and a swimming pool were built. Older buildings, especially the hospital buildings and the mother house, have been renovated. In the 1960s there was also a major reorientation in the sisterhood, which in 1968 led to the establishment of the “ Haller Sisterhood ” with deaconesses and female nurses. After the male nurses joined the community in 1975, it became the “Community of Hall Sisters and Nurses” (since 2003 “Community of Hall Sisters and Brothers”). A name change was also made: On January 1, 1978, the “Diakonissenanstalt” became the “Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall eV”.

From 1980 to 1990 Eckhard Klein was the managing director and director of the Diak. Further extensive construction work took place during his tenure. In 1980 the Schöneck home for adults with mental or multiple disabilities was built, a new laundry in 1985 and, from 1988, a new operating wing of the hospital. The two residential and care pens have been extensively modernized. In 1990 Manfred Jehle took over the management of the institution.

Stephan Zilker was Chairman of the Management Board from May 2006 until his retirement in 2011. Zilker's predecessor Klaus-Dieter Kottnik was at the same time chairman of the Diakonie Stetten , meanwhile Kottnik is president of the Diakonisches Werk der EKD , based in Berlin . Prior to Kottnik, the current regional bishop Frank Otfried July held the office of Diakleitung . July initiated the change from a diaconal organization to a diaconal company. From 2011 to February 2018 Hans-Joachim Lenke was chairman of the board of the Evangelical Diakoniewerk and managing director of the Diakonie-Klinikum. Subsequently, Diak board member and managing director Michael Kilb took over the management of the Protestant Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall eV until the initially planned replacement of the position

In 2019, the Diakoniewerk in Schwäbisch Hall lost its independence after 133 years. The Diakonie Neuendettelsau joined the Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall eV as a legal person. All previous members had previously resigned from the registered association. The association was then converted into a non-profit limited company, the sole partner of which was Diakonie Neuendettelsau, [corporation under public law]. As a result, she changed her name to Diakoneo .

Business areas

The last three business areas existed in 2019:

Until 2012, assistance for the disabled was one of the Diak's business areas. It was handed over to the “Sonnenhof Schwäbisch Hall” on September 1, 2012.

The Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall e. V. held 74.9% of the holding shares in Gesundheitsholding Schwäbisch Hall gGmbH until 2012 , and the district of Schwäbisch Hall 25.1%. The holding was responsible for the Diakonie Clinic and the Crailsheim Clinic . It was disbanded in 2012. After that there was a cooperation agreement between the two companies.

The Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall last employed 2,300 people in 2019. 130 trainees were employed in the clinic alone. Sales in 2016 amounted to € 116 million. The Diak was at times the second largest employer in the Schwäbisch Hall district.

Community of the Hall sisters and brothers

The community of the Sisters and Brothers in Hall includes deaconesses and deaconal sisters and brothers. The community came into being in 1968 in the former deaconess institution through the merger of deaconesses and association sisters. Since 1975 men can also be members of the community. The community has around 1,000 members, of whom around 450 are active in community nursing, 300 members work in the inpatient facilities of the Diakonie (especially in the Diakonie Hospital). There are around 250 retired members, most of them deaconesses. The Hall community is a member of the Kaiserswerther Association of German Deaconess Mother Houses. V., in which 76 parent houses and social welfare organizations are united.

literature

  • Evang. Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall e. V. (Ed.): The Diak in Schwäbisch Hall - the small town on the mountain. Wir-Verlag Weller, Aalen 1996, ISBN 3-924492-70-0 .
  • Heike Krause: Being next to someone. The history of the Evangelical Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall . JF Steinkopf Druck, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-00-016075-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Merger with Diakonie Neuendettelsau to form Diakoneo
  2. ↑ Heike Krause: Das Diak: From the vision to the work . In: Andreas Maisch, Heike Krause (Hrsg.): On life and death. People and medicine in Schwäbisch Hall from the Middle Ages to 1950. 1st edition. tape 26 . VDS Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2011, ISBN 3-932146-29-8 , p. 445,448 .
  3. ↑ Heike Krause: Das Diak: From the vision to the work . In: Andreas Maisch, Heike Krause (Hrsg.): On life and death. People and medicine in Schwäbisch Hall from the Middle Ages to 1950. 1st edition. tape 26 . VDS Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2011, ISBN 3-932146-29-8 , p. 446 .
  4. ↑ a b Heike Krause: Das Diak: from the vision to the work . In: Andreas Maisch, Heike Krause (Hrsg.): On life and death. People and medicine in Schwäbisch Hall from the Middle Ages to 1950. 1st edition. tape 26 . VDS Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2011, ISBN 3-932146-29-8 , p. 450.451 .
  5. ↑ Heike Krause: Das Diak: from the vision to the work . In: Andreas Maisch, Heike Krause (Hrsg.): On life and death. People and medicine in Schwäbisch Hall from the Middle Ages to 1950. 1st edition. tape 26 . VDS Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2011, ISBN 3-932146-29-8 , p. 445 .
  6. ↑ Heike Krause: To be closest to a person . Ed .: Evangelisches Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall eV 1st edition. JF Steinkop Druck GmbH, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-00-016075-2 , p. 21 .
  7. ↑ Heike Krause: To be closest to a person . Ed .: Evangelisches Diakoniewerk Schwäbisch Hall eV 1st edition. JF Steinkopf Druck GmbH, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-00-016075-2 , p. 58 to 63 .
  8. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Schwäbisch Hall: Das Diak in the First World War . In: swp.de . October 18, 2014 ( swp.de [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Heike Krause: Confiscation of the Gottlob Weisser House in November 1940 . In: Andreas Maisch, Heike Krause (eds.): "Eliminate" - eugenics, forced sterilization and the murder of the sick in Schwäbisch Hall 1933-1945 . 1st edition. tape 25 . VDS Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2009, p. 111 to 114 .
  10. ^ Südwest Presse Online -dienste GmbH: Schwäbisch Hall: Formative personality . In: swp.de . April 4, 2015 ( swp.de [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  11. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Schwäbisch Hall: Deaconesses in the course of time . In: swp.de . August 9, 2016 ( swp.de [accessed June 14, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Heike Krause: Das Diak: From the vision to the work . In: Andreas Maisch, Heike Krause (Hrsg.): On life and death. People and medicine in Schwäbisch Hall from the Middle Ages to 1950 . 1st edition. tape 26 . VDS Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2011, ISBN 3-932146-29-8 , p. 450.451 .
  13. ↑ History | The Diak Schwäbisch Hall. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Congratulations, big brother! (PDF) In: Das Diakonie Magazin. The Diakonie Magazin, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  15. ^ Protestant press service. In: Evangelical press service. epd Landesdienst Südwest, November 14, 2018, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Hans-Joachim Lenke follows Christoph Künkel as Diakonie chief. In: Protestant press service Landesdienst Südwest. epd, November 17, 2018, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Marcus Haas: Diak pastor Hans-Joachim Lenke wants to return to his home church. In: swp.de. Südwestpresse, November 16, 2017, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  18. ↑ SWR: Deaf independence ends. Retrieved June 28, 2019 .
  19. ^ Protestant press service. , accessed on June 28, 2019.
  20. ↑ Press archive on the Schwäbisch Hall district website (as of November 5, 2015)
  21. ↑ Press release Klinikum Crailsheim 2012 (pdf) accessed on January 5, 2018
  22. ↑ Numbers and facts on the Diakoniewerk website (as of January 5, 2018)
  23. ↑ History on the Diakoniewerk website (as of September 20, 2008)