Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation

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Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation
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Legal form: charitable foundation
Purpose: Supporting people with disabilities to lead a self-determined lifestyle
Chair: Guidotto Count Henckel Prince of Donnersmarck
Managing directors: Wolfgang Schrödter
Consist: since 1916
Founder: Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck
Seat: Berlin
Website: www.fdst.de

The Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation in Berlin (FDST) designs offers with and for people with disabilities . The aim of the foundation is to support a self-determined lifestyle.

The founding of the FDST goes back to Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck . In view of the dramatic consequences of the First World War , he donated around 250 hectares of land in Berlin-Frohnau in 1916 and four million gold marks to care for war invalids. This fortune was intended for the establishment of “a sanatorium for the wounded and sick warriors” and a “research facility for the scientific processing and therapeutic utilization” of the “medical experience gained” during the First World War. However, the FDST was only able to start operating at the beginning of the 1950s. Today, the FDST implements the foundation's purpose in the three areas of neurological rehabilitation / living / assistance , tourism / travel and leisure / education / advice. To this end, it operates the PAN Center for Post-Acute Neurorehabilitation in Berlin-Frohnau, an outpatient service and an outpatient assisted living for people with disabilities in several decentralized residential units in Berlin, two barrier-free hotels in Rheinsberg and Bad Bevensen and the "Villa Donnersmarck" as Meeting center for people with and without disabilities in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Since 2006, the Foundation's Board of Trustees has awarded the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation's International Research Prize for neurological rehabilitation. In 2017, the FDST employed more than 600 people and has stable assets of around 180 million euros.

history

Foundation activity until 1945

Guido and Rina von Donnersmarck in the midst of war casualties in the club hospital in Frohnau

The origin of the foundation lies in Berlin-Frohnau . Guido von Donnersmarck bought part of the Stolper Heide there in 1907 in order to build the " Garden City Frohnau". In the period up to the First World War, the first streets, houses and the Frohnau train station were built. Immediately after the outbreak of war, Guido von Donnersmarck set up a military hospital for those injured in the war. They should not only be cared for here, but should also be prepared for a life that is as self-determined as possible after their discharge through therapy, training and job placement. The ongoing war events made it clear that medical care for the wounded would remain an urgent task even after the end of the war. That is why Guido von Donnersmarck decided to make a permanent contribution to the provision of war invalids by setting up a foundation. With the support of his personal physician Max Berg and the head of the Prussian field medical services, Otto von Schjerning , he turned to Wilhelm II. The notarial establishment took place on May 8, 1916. In the first post-war years, the foundation remained chaired by Otto von Schjerning because of the loss of hers Foundation capital inactive due to hyperinflation . Only the publication of the nine-volume "Handbook of Medical Experiences in World War" sponsored by the FDST falls during this period. Attempts to dissolve the foundation were made during National Socialism . It was only able to prevent this through cooperation with the Reich Aviation Ministry , to which the FDST transferred part of its premises in Frohnau.

Activities of the foundation after the Second World War

After the Second World War , the FDST broke away from the tradition of military medicine. According to the first post-war constitution of 1949, the foundation now aims to "rehabilitate, care, support and promote" people with disabilities. In order to realize the purpose of the foundation, the board of trustees began to gradually sell the property in the Frohnau forest area in the following years. In 1973/74 a large part of the Frohnau forest area was sold to the State of Berlin. At that time, the income was reinvested in the purchase of residential properties, which guarantees the foundation's financial independence to this day. The money generated from these assets is the basis of their activities in the fields of leisure, education and counseling, rehabilitation and tourism.

The work area leisure, education and advice

Cover of the first WIR issue from December 1954

The area of ​​"Leisure, Education and Advice" is the oldest of the FDST. It goes back to socio-pedagogical group work that has been started in Berlin neighborhood homes since the early 1950s. In the summer of 1960, the FDST acquired the later so-called Villa Donnersmarck for further work in Berlin-Zehlendorf, which since its barrier-free conversion has been an inclusive leisure, education and advice center for people with and without disabilities. In 1980 the “blisse 14” opened, the first completely barrier-free café in Berlin, which the foundation operated until 2000. Attached to the cafe was the social therapy center, which offered artistic and therapeutic courses for people with and without disabilities. The magazine WIR has been published since 1952 and is published by a voluntary editorial team made up of people with disabilities and employees of the foundation.

The tourism department

Tour group of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation in New York

The FDST began its work in the tourism sector as early as 1955. At that time Paul Neukirchen organized the first “Good Will Trip”, a recreational trip for people with disabilities to Oerlinghausen near Bielefeld. The difficulties in finding barrier-free accommodation for the travel participants prompted the FDST to create a barrier-free guest house itself from the mid-1960s. For this purpose, the Heidehotel was opened in Bad Bevensen in 1972. Since 2001 the FDST has been operating the Seehotel Rheinsberg, a second barrier-free hotel in the new federal states. In order to raise awareness of the needs of people with disabilities, the foundation organized several long-distance trips in the 1960s. They led to Israel, Greece, the USA and Thailand, among others.

The rehabilitation work area

The origins of the rehabilitation work area do not go back to the FDST, but to the “Association for the Promotion of Protestant Homes for the Physically Handicapped”. In the early 1960s, he built a home for children with polio on the foundation's property in Frohnau. This was taken over by the FDST in 1964 due to economic problems and continued to be operated and expanded as Fürst Donnersmarck-Haus (FDH). In the 1980s and 1990s, the FDH gradually became a specialized facility for people with neurological rehabilitation needs. For this purpose, the PAN Center for Post-Acute Neurorehabilitation was launched around 2005, which since 2015 has been establishing the connection between acute medical care after damage to the central nervous system and participation-oriented long-term rehabilitation in a new building.

Parallel to the content-related concentration on the rehabilitation of people with acquired brain damage, the process of outpatientization of inpatient housing has been running since the 1970s. As early as 1977, the first residents of the FDH moved into an outdoor residential group. Two years later, the FDST opened its first flat-sharing community for people with disabilities at Blissestraße 12. With the establishment of further outdoor living groups, assisted living was expanded noticeably in the following decades and supplemented by a program for living with intensive care (WmI). This is aimed at people with a high need for support. The FDST outpatient service is also involved in “support in weaning from ventilation”, in which people who rely on ventilators or a tracheostomy tube after an accident or serious illness practice breathing independently again.

literature

  • Thomas Golka, Horst Wieder: History of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation, 1916–1991. Berlin 1991, DNB 921278470 .
  • Weinert, Sebastian: 100 years of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation 1916–2016. Berlin, 2016. DNB 1100283609 . Full text in SSOAR

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Rasch : The entrepreneur Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck. A sketch. Essen, 2016.
  2. ↑ Anonymous: A million dollar donation from Prince Henckel-Donnersmarck. In: Neues Wiener Journal 24/8060 (April 8, 1916) p. 3.
  3. ^ Weinert, Sebastian: 100 Years of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation 1916–2016. Berlin, 2016. p. 33.
  4. ↑ Research Prize 2015 from the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation. In: Web presence of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation. Retrieved February 2, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Binder, Hermann: The "Foundation Fürst Donnersmarck-Institut zu Berlin" In Frohnau. In: 50 Years of the Garden City of Frohnau. Edited by the Berlin-Frohnau landowners association. Berlin, 1960. p. 22.
  6. ^ Mechow, Max: Frohnau. The Berlin garden city. Berlin, 1985.
  7. ^ Knop, Christiane: 75 years garden city Frohnau. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins 81/3 (1985) pp. 304–308.
  8. ^ Knop, Christiane: The military sanatorium in Frohnau. A file from the Wilhelmine Empire. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins 79/2 (1983) pp. 46–54.
  9. ↑ Knop, Christiane: report from a difficult time. The club hospital in Frohnau 1914-1919. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins 83/3 (1987) pp. 541–549.
  10. ↑ Schjerning, Otto von (ed.): Handbook of medical experience in the world wars 1914–1918. Leipzig, 1921–1934.
  11. ↑ Anonymous: Frohnau Forest is being sold. In: Der Nord-Berliner (September 15, 1972).
  12. ↑ Winters, Peter Jochen: The forest, the prince and Frohnau. In: 100 years of the garden city of Frohnau. A Berlin district of its own. Ed. By Peter Jochen Winters. Berlin, 2010. pp. 14-19.
  13. ^ Neukirchen, Paul: Neighborhood groups for severely disabled people. In: The severely disabled. Circular letter of the working group "Life review of the severely disabled" 2/7 (1955) p. 27.
  14. ^ Nietfeld, Gundi: Social-cultural work in the course of time. The history of the Schöneberg neighborhood home, Berlin, 1995. pp. 53–57.
  15. ↑ Current issue of WIR magazine. In: Web presence of the Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2018 .
  16. ^ Wagenknecht, Wilhelm: Bad Bevensen. The story of a spa. Bad Bevensen, 1982.
  17. ↑ Anonymous: Germany's largest handicapped hotel opened. In: Berliner Morgenpost (June 29, 2001) p. 29.
  18. ↑ Stope, Herbert: The origin and development of the Fürst Donnersmarck House, an evangelical center for the rehabilitation of physically handicapped children in Berlin-Frohnau. Reprint of the journal Research - Practice - Advanced Training 17/14 (1966) pp. 489–492.
  19. ↑ Bamborschke, Stephan: Post-acute long-term rehabilitation in the PAN center. In: Neurologie & Rehabilitation 3 (2012) p. 171.
  20. ↑ Fürst Donnersmarck Foundation supports people with disabilities. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Wegschneider, Karl u. Ferdinand Schliehe: Model project "Living with Intensive Care (WmI)": Outpatient long-term care for people with severe multiple disabilities. In: The rehabilitation. Journal for Practice and Research in Rehabilitation 53/1 (2014) pp. 1–3.
  22. ↑ Wolf-Ostermann, Karin u. a .: Model project "Living with Intensive Care (WmI)": The scientific evaluation. In: The rehabilitation. Journal for Practice and Research in Rehabilitation 53/1 (2014) pp. 4–43