Henry and Emma Budge Foundation
The Henry and Emma Budge Foundation in Frankfurt am Main is a non-profit organization that has been looking after elderly Jewish and Christian people in need of support since it was founded in 1920 . As the only institution of its kind in Europe, the Budge Foundation's statutes apply Judeo-Christian equality.
The foundation was established by the Jewish couple Henry Budge (November 20, 1840 - October 20, 1928) and Emma Budge , née Lazarus (February 17, 1852 - February 14, 1937) on November 20, 1920 in Lugano. The original purpose of the foundation was to build a rest home for Jews and Christians in the vicinity of Frankfurt am Main. At the request of the Frankfurt magistrate, this purpose was changed in 1928 to the acquisition and construction of an old people's home for the middle class.
The first location of the "Henry and Emma Budge Home for Single Old People" was the Grünhof site in the Westend district of Frankfurt . The two-storey building for 106 residents with its light-flooded rooms, central common rooms and a terrace in each room was a model for many building projects in the care of the elderly according to plans by the architects Mart Stam , Ferdinand Kramer , Werner Moser and Erika Habermann. The first residents were able to move in there in May 1930. After the takeover of the Nazis in Germany in 1933 the Nazi began as racial ideology , the pressure on the Jewish Foundation and rise to their Jewish inhabitants. In March 1939, the last Jewish residents were expelled from the Henry and Emma Budge home, which was renamed “Heim am Dornbusch” in the same year. 1945 in was World War II in the air raids on Frankfurt by bombs heavily damaged building by the American army confiscated and used by the American military authorities until 1995 as a dental clinic. Today there is a privately owned nursing home here.
After the Second World War, the Frankfurt social administration found that the dissolution of the foundation in 1941 was illegal. The foundation was therefore able to make material claims for compensation, which were upheld in a settlement in 1956.
The Budge Foundation has been running an interreligious and intercultural nursing home and an assisted living area on Wilhelmshöher Strasse in the Seckbach district since 1968 . The residential complex, newly built in 2003, has over 170 one and two-room apartments. All apartments are handicapped accessible. In accordance with the legacy of the donors, the Budge Foundation also fosters the coexistence of Jews and Christians in the form of constant encounters and active cooperation.
Well-known personalities such as the historian, journalist, writer and publisher of the Jewish faith Paul Arnsberg (1899–1978) and the historian Arno Lustiger (1924–2012) belonged to the board of the Henry and Emma Budge Foundation .
literature
- Paul Arnsberg: Henry Budge: The beloved hometown - a blessing donated . Frankfurt am Main, 1972
- Arno Lustiger (ed.): Jewish foundations in Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt am Main, 1988
- Institute for City History of the City of Frankfurt am Main (ed.): The future of the former Henry and Emma Budge home . Frankfurt am Main, 1997
- Volker Hütte: On the courage to remember: the contribution of the Henry and Emma Budge Foundation to the library of the elderly , Oranienbaum, 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arno Lustiger (Ed.): Jewish Foundations in Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ a b c Municipal files of the city of Frankfurt am Main, Welfare Office: files on the Henry and Emma Budge Foundation from 1920 to 1926
- ^ A b Paul Arnsberg: Henry Budge. The beloved hometown - a blessing donated
- ↑ http://www.budge-stiftung.de/
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 57 ″ N , 8 ° 44 ′ 11 ″ E