Association Oberlinhaus
| Association Oberlinhaus | |
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| legal form | Old legal association |
| founding | 1871 in Berlin |
| Seat | Potsdam |
| purpose | diaconal society |
| Chair | Matthias Fichtmüller, Marcus Ceglarek, Andreas Koch |
| sales | 130,459,000 euros (2019) |
| Employees | 1955 (2019) |
| Website | oberlinhaus.de |
The Oberlinhaus in Potsdam-Babelsberg is an independent diaconal provider for specialized services in the areas of participation, health, education and work. The Oberlinhaus is named after the Alsatian social reformer Pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1740–1826).
organization
society
The Oberlinhaus association is an association under the old law , as it was founded before the Civil Code came into force . It pursues exclusively church-diaconal, charitable purposes. The business is run by a full-time executive board. In 2020, this consisted of three people, a theological director, a commercial director and a strategy director.
The Oberlinhaus association is a member of the Diakonisches Werk Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz eV
Around 2000 people work in 16 subsidiaries at 17 locations in Potsdam , Michendorf , Bad Belzig , Kleinmachnow , Werder (Havel) , Berlin and Wolfsburg .
Societies
- Oberlin day care centers
- Oberlin School
- School at the Norberthaus
- Oberlin vocational training center
- Oberlin vocational schools
- Oberlin life worlds
- Oberlin workshops
- Cooperative network Autism Berlin
- Assets Potsdam in the Oberlinhaus
- Elsa-Brändström Heim
- Oberlin service
- Oberlinklinik
- Oberlin MVZ
- Oberlin Rehabilitation Center
- Oberlin Rehabilitation Clinic
- Oberlin listening point
Oberlin Foundation
The Oberlin Foundation was founded in 2002 with the aim of promoting the Oberlinhaus in its tasks, services and projects. It is a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations and is committed to the principles of good church foundation practice.
history
The Oberlinverein was founded in Berlin in 1871 . It was named after the Alsatian social reformer, Pastor Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1740–1826). The driving force was Adolph von Bissing auf Beerberg , a Silesian nobleman who for years had been promoting a “Christian toddler school” (a kind of kindergarten or preschool ) and had run one himself. Organizing and promoting the care and education of young children was the main aim of the association. In 1874, the Oberlin Association opened a toddler school in what was then Nowawes (today in Babelsberg ) with a seminar on the training of toddler school teachers.
The toddler school was soon linked to community care. The congregations needed deaconesses , so that in 1879 the Oberlinhaus became a deaconess mother house. On January 12, 1905, the Oberlink Church was solemnly inaugurated on the site. The ceremony was also attended by Empress Auguste Viktoria, who donated not only a bell, but also money and an altar Bible with a dedication.
In 1878 the newly built deaconess mother house was opened, in which a polyclinic opened in 1881 , a crèche in 1883 and a first infirmary in 1888. Theodor Hoppe became the first head . In 1886, work with disabled people began in the Oberlinhaus.
With the help of donations, the Oberlinverein was able to open the first hospital in Nowawes with 45 beds on its own property on October 20, 1890. The first German fully cripple home followed in 1894, supplemented by a cripple school in 1899, the deaf and dumb home for the blind and workshops for disabled-friendly vocational training in 1906, and the Oberlin district hospital in 1910. The first deaf-blind child in the Oberlinhaus was Hertha Schulz in January 1887, who was tutored by the royal deaf-mute head teacher Gustav Riemann from 1891.
In the first 40 years of its existence, the entire Oberlinhaus plant grew very quickly. New tasks were always accepted and mastered. Before the turn of the century, the then head of the house (Oberin Thusnelda von Saldern and Pastor Theodor Hoppe) developed a substantive basis for further work in the Oberlinhaus. They developed the concept of a complex rehabilitation that holistically orients the medical, educational, professional and social tasks on a spiritual basis to the needs of the individual (cf. Wilken 2004, p. 97 ff.). This innovative and trend-setting concept at the time was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900.
Within the German Association for Cripple Care eV, the Oberlinhaus played a key role in the creation of the first Cripple Welfare Act, which was passed in 1920. This law was of crucial importance for the work in the facilities. From now on, handicapped care was no longer a grace, but an obligation of society and the state. It thus formed the cornerstone of today's rehabilitation laws.
In the thirties there was another expansion of the tasks and the associated structural extensions. In 1945 the Oberlinhaus was hit by heavy aerial bombs. The north wing of the home for the deaf and blind was completely destroyed, the old craftsman's house almost completely, the new craftsman's house partially destroyed. The church, mother house and clinic were badly affected by bombs in the vicinity. Overall, the Oberlinhaus had to mourn the deaths of two deaf-blind residents who were slain by the rubble of the deaf-blind home.
As a result of the war, the Oberlinhaus took on refugee welfare from January 1945. Many outstations of the Oberlinhaus had to be cleared and so many sisters and the children, sick and old people entrusted to them found their first refuge in the Oberlinhaus.
Immediately after the air raids, the staff and nurses set about rebuilding and setting up temporary arrangements. They kept the operation and supplies going. In the following years, a particularly large number of war wounded were cared for in the clinic. In 1945 the statistics counted 788 patients, in 1948 even 923 patients with a capacity of 305 beds.
It is thanks to the protective hand of Governor von Dietloff von Arnim that the Oberlinhaus was spared persecution and harassment during the Nazi era. Until his death in 1945, Mr. von Arnim was chairman of the central board.
Some houses were completely destroyed, and the church, motherhouse and clinic were badly affected by bombs nearby. In the following years, all war damage was repaired and the individual service areas could be restructured. Until the 1950s, the deaconesses of the Oberlinhaus looked after 47 outstations, including 39 community nurses, a clinic for the mentally ill, four old people's homes and a pulmonary welfare office.
In the spring of 1983, the Reinhold-Kleinau-Haus for physically and multiply disabled adults was inaugurated.
After the political change in 1989, the Oberlinhaus campaigned for the completion of the extension of the Oberlinik clinic. The festive handover of the four-story new building took place in the summer of 1995. In the years that followed, all wards in the old clinic area were modernized and partially rebuilt. With the establishment of the spine and pelvic surgery department, the opening of the first orthopedic day clinic in the state of Brandenburg in 2001 and the opening of the neuro-orthopedics department in 2005, new fields of treatment were gained. In 2007 an additional extension was opened. In 2018, the Oberlinklinik opened two new, state-of-the-art operating theaters in a new extension. A new pediatric and neuro-orthopedic ward was opened in 2019 for young patients with diseases, malformations and injuries to the musculoskeletal system and the spine .
With the establishment of the privately owned Oberlinschule in 1990, a new beginning also became apparent for this area. Due to the steadily increasing number of students, the Oberlinhaus decided to acquire the former municipal hospital from the city of Potsdam. After extensive renovation and renovation work, the Oberlin School moved in there in 1998. In the following years, further investments were made: in 2002 the renovated deafblind / hearing impaired area was opened, in 2011 the new school building and in 2013 the old building was renovated. Since 2011, the school at the Norberthaus has also been jointly sponsored by Oberlinhaus and the Teutonic Order.
After reunification, the workshop and employment areas for disabled adults were also restructured. The Oberlin workshops were founded at the end of 1991 as a non-profit limited company by the shareholders Verein Oberlinhaus and Hoffbauer Foundation , at that time still as "Diakonische Werkstätten für Behinderte Potsdam gGmbH". Further name changes followed and in 2006 the Oberlinhaus became the sole sponsor. In 2012 the new workshop building on Hermannswerder was inaugurated. On January 1, 2017, the name finding was completed, today the workshop is called "Oberlin Werkstätten".
With the establishment of the Oberlin Vocational Training Center in 1990, traditional vocational training for the disabled was re-established. From 1993 to 1997 a new building complex was built in Babelsberger Steinstrasse. A boarding area and the vocational school " Theodor Hoppe " (renamed in 2019 to "Oberlin vocational schools") were added.
With the acquisition of the former Babelsberg hospital, it was possible to renovate the associated old civil servants' house and make it barrier-free. In spring 1998 it was inaugurated as a new living area for deaf-blind adults. In 1999 the home for the deaf and blind was named "Eckard-Beyer-Haus". In 2018, three new residential groups for 30 clients were inaugurated. These are located just a few minutes' walk from the Eckard-Beyer-Haus in the so-called Feierabendhaus.
On the premises in Babelsberg's Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 138-144, a new student dormitory for children from the Oberlin School with physical and severe multiple disabilities was inaugurated in the summer of 1999. In 2008 the building was named "Ludwig-Gerhard-Haus". Today the house has five residential groups for children, adolescents and young adults with physical and / or mental disabilities as well as two small residential groups for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders .
In 2006, after only 6 months of construction, the “Moltke-Haus” - a special residential offer for people with early childhood autism and intellectual disabilities - was opened on the site behind the vocational training center in Steinstrasse. A modern two-story building was created, which consists of two connected halves of the house. Today 10 women and men between 20 and 34 years of age are supported and looked after here.
In 2009 the Oberlinhaus took over the "Hoher Fläming" rehabilitation clinic in Bad Belzig .
The Thusnelda-von-Saldern -Haus was opened in summer 2010. The house, which was occupied by the former residents of the now dilapidated Reinhold-Kleinaus-Haus, has three different service areas: living, temporary living and residential care. 80 employees look after over 60 clients there. Ten young people with a traumatic brain injury can live in the transitional housing area for up to three years.
Since the turn of the millennium, the number of employees at the Oberlinhaus has more than doubled from 2004 (934 employees) to 2018 (1,921).
literature
- U. Wilken: Inner Mission and "Cripple Welfare" as Protestant Diakonie. In: H. Stadler, U. Wilken: Pedagogy for physical disabilities. Study texts on the history of disabled education. Beltz-Verlag, Weinheim 2004. Full text as PDF
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Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '35 .8 " N , 13 ° 5' 23.8" E