Poster rest home
A poster rest home was a rest home for postal workers set up by self-help groups and organizations - mainly the postal unions.
history
Reichspost
In 1907 the Berlin post office officials decided to set up a rest home in Templin, 70 km north of Berlin . Thanks to financial support from the Deutsche Reichspost , it was inaugurated the following year (architect Wilhelm Walter ). The Breslau post office officials also built a rest home in Zobten in 1909 with the help of the Reichspost . In the same year, the Dresden postal officials created another home in Hohenstein . These homes were primarily for the officials of the simple service determined. The various associations of post office officials created other rest homes in Niendorf , Grumbach (Vogtland), Rominten (East Prussia), Bad Liebenstein (Thuringia), Neuglobsow (Brandenburg province), Oberschreiberhau (Giant Mountains), Trutzigen , Brannenburg (today the ver.di education center “House Brannenburg ”, see Karl Kergl ), Königs Wusterhausen u. a. The Reichspost supported the post office workers' associations in the construction of the rest homes by granting subsidies . The operation of the homes was also supported by the Deutsche Reichspost through grants when the economic situation required it in order to enable affordable pension prices. In addition, the Deutsche Reichspost itself acquired some of its own rest homes (e.g. in 1907 in Blankenburg im Harz , 1927 in Wyk auf Föhr ) and made these homes available to the staff with moderate subsidies for those in need.
In 1933 the civil servants' associations were forcibly dissolved and some of the rest homes passed into the hands of the Reich Association of German Civil Servants . In some cases, the Reichspost acquired the rest homes in order to primarily serve the "extended recreational care for the female followers " . In 1938 the Reichspost acquired the Villa Gans (Königstein) as a rest home for female postal workers. During the Second World War, they served as convalescent homes for the Wehrmacht and later as temporary accommodation for bomb victims and displaced persons.
Federal Post
After the war, the homes were gradually returned to their original purpose. In 1953, the Deutsche Bundespost owned eight homes of its own ( Braunlage (Harz), Berensch near Cuxhaven, Haarstorf (Ebstorf district), Wyk auf Föhr, Timmendorfer Strand , Buch am Ammersee , Waltershausen Castle and Abwind near Lindau ). The German postal union at that time had the three rest homes in glassworks in the Black Forest, Brannenburg and bathroom Niendorf found on the Baltic Sea, the recovery assistance of the Federal Post. Also at the beginning of the 1950s, the operation of the Post Office's own homes proved to be uneconomical, which is why the Bundespost did not acquire any further homes, but at the same time it has contractually secured places in recognized third-party rest homes, pensions or similar facilities in order to make these available to the staff at low cost . The rest homes were announced every six months in the official gazette of the Federal Post Office. They were available to all civil servants, employees and workers of the DBP and their wives and retirees, but the active employees have priority over other persons.
privatization
With the privatization of the Deutsche Bundespost into the three stock corporations Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Postbank, the social affairs were transferred to the Federal Agency for Post and Telecommunications Deutsche Bundespost , as well as to the ErholungsWerk Post Postbank Telekom e. V. handed over.
literature
- Federal Ministry for the postal and telecommunications system (Hrsg.): Manual dictionary of the postal system . 2nd, completely revised edition, Frankfurt am Main 1953, “Erholungsheime”, p. 242
- Kleemann: The social policy of the Reich postal and telegraph administration towards its officials, sub-officials and workers. Gustav Fischer , Jena 1914
- Archive 1922, p. 290 ff .; 1925, p. 185; 1928 p. 165
- Bauerhorst: The health and welfare care at the Deutsche Reichspost. P. 67 ff.
- Hopp: L'Union postale. 1928, p. 133 ff
- Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung 1936, p. 435 ff.
- Postal yearbook 1939, p. 186 ff.