Workshop Bremen - Martinshof

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The Bremen workshop with Martinshof is owned by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in Bremen , Hoffmannstrasse 11. As a recognized workshop, it offers work and accommodation for people with disabilities. The centerpiece is the Martinshof workshops, which manufacture in line with the market as part of vocational support. The Bremen workshop employs around 2200 people, 1880 of whom work at 37 locations (as of 2018), making it one of the largest employers for people with disabilities in Germany.

organization

The Bremen workshop is divided into

  • the Martinshof with the central areas and the regional centers
  • Werkstatt Nord as a non-profit company with Martinshof Nord and its regional workshops in the Osterholz district in Osterholz-Scharmbeck and the branch office.

The Martinshof works in a wide range of activities in partnership with the regional economy and institutions in and around Bremen, also with a focus on vocational rehabilitation.

In Bremen there are several sales outlets such as Martinshof Buntentorsteinweg 94, City-Shop Am Markt 1, in Bremen Airport , Martinshof Gärtnerei Im Suhrfelde 5 ( Hastedt ), Martinshof Bicycle Shop Diedrich-Wilkens-Straße 49–53 (Hemelingen), Martinshof Ceramics Workshop Georg -Gries-Straße 1 ( Sebaldsbrück ) and beekeeping shop in Osterholz-Scharmbeck Jacob-Frerichs-Straße 8.

The Senate Department for Social Affairs, Youth, Women, Integration and Sport is the responsible supervisory authority for the workshop for the Bremen Senate .

The in-house operation is supported by the Bremen citizenship from the Bremen workshop works committee .

history

Forerunners from 1923 to 1945

In 1923 the labor office and welfare office in Bremen founded the workshops for people with restricted earning capacity as a GmbH (from 1929 Arbeitsstätten GmbH ), which existed in Bremen Neustadt, Buntentorsteinweg 94, in the former dairy stalls until 1932. Around 180/190 people were employed here and 70 also lived here. In 1932 they moved into a new building.

In 1938 Arbeitsstätten GmbH was dissolved by the Nazis and the institutes and labor establishments were re-established. No reliable information is available about the individual fates of the previous disabled employees and residents at a time when disabled people were forcibly sterilized , deported and murdered. During the Second World War , only three of 12 buildings were preserved. The few people who still lived there were evacuated and returned after 1945.

Reconstruction from 1946 to 1952

With the old name, the institutional and work operations were reopened in November 1946 for people with limited employment, the mentally and physically handicapped as well as supervised young people. Eleven employees, 34 workers and nine nurses were part of it in 1947. Damaged houses were refurbished. Since 1947 Georg Gries was involved in the development of the workshop for the disabled and in 1949 he took over the management. In 1951 a two-story new building was completed on the Kleine Weser . The 22,200 m² complex thus comprised nine buildings with a carpentry, locksmithing, shoemaking, upholstery, sewing, painting workshop, laundry, small workshop, carpet store, the home with 50 places, central kitchen and the administrative barracks.

Martinshof from 1953

Martinshof - Municipal social workshops and care home has been the name of the facility on Buntentorsteinweg since 1953 in what is still the current (2019) main facility. Bremen companies were clients and later also several industrial companies such as AEG and Nordmende . From 1945 to 1956 the Red Cross Hospital occupied the red brick building and barracks could be abandoned. In 1958 the home had 85 places. In 1960, Gries was a co-founder of Lebenshilfe for mentally handicapped children (today the Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe ) and its managing director in Bremen. In 1961 the overall plan for mentally handicapped people in the state of Bremen was drawn up under Senator for Welfare Annemarie Mevissen ( SPD ). The Martinshof was now a department in the social welfare authority. In 1966, 74 employees and 252 disabled people worked in the facility and there were 116 residents. In 1968 new buildings were added. In the 1970s, a support association for the Martinshof was established.

The following decentralized expansions were added (space information 2003 with branch offices):

  • 1969: Extension for 70 places in Bremen-Nord , Alte Hafenstrasse
  • 1975: Martinsheide plant in Vegesack for 300 people
  • 1980: Westerdeich plant in Woltmershausen for 240 people
  • 1984: Georg-Gries-Strasse plant in Hemelingen for 340 people
  • 1987: Small workshops at seven locations for 230 people (2003)
  • 1997: Schiffbauerweg plant in Gröpelingen for 135 people, as well as an affiliated support group

From 1987 the workshops for people with mental disabilities were expanded. An inclusion project followed in 1999 as a department of the Bremen workshop. In 1993 the facility became a state-owned company. In 2000, Werkstatt Nord was founded as a GmbH offering job opportunities in Bremen and Lower Saxony. In 2003 the Martinshof Foundation was established. After Wilfried Hautop took over the management, the company had 1,552 places in 2002. Among the clients in 2004 u. a. Daimler / Chrysler , Siemens , Wilkens & Sons Stahlwerke Bremen , Lemförder Metallwaren, Bremen Police , Bremen-Mitte Clinic .

executive Director

  • 1949–1953: Georg Gries (institutions and work establishments)
  • 1953–1965: Georg Gries (Martinshof)
  • 1965-1983: Hans Menning
  • 1985–1999: Hannelore Stöver (Bremen workshop)
  • 1999–2000:?
  • 2001–2016: Wilfried Hautop
  • From 2016: Ahlrich Weiberg

literature

  • Wilfried Hautop, Lydia Niehoff : The Bremen Martinshof . Hauschild, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-89757-186-2 .
  • Weser-Kurier : work, participation and integration. A new chapter in social history in Bremen began in 1953 with the Martinshof . In: Special supplement of the WK Links der Weser , Bremen 2016.

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