Regens-Wagner Foundations

The Regens-Wagner-Stiftungen offer various offers and services for people with disabilities in the areas of education and training, work and employment, housing, advice and outpatient and mobile services in 14 regional centers. Its task is to advise, support, support and care for disabled children, adolescents, adults and seniors who are at risk of becoming disabled. As a church institution, the Regens-Wagner-Werk is committed to the principles of the Christian way of life.

history

The Regens-Wagner factory was built in Dillingen / Donau (Bavaria) around the middle of the 19th century . The then General Superior of the Dillingen Franciscan Sisters , Sr. M. Theresia Haselmayr (1808–1878), began to look after deaf girls. At that time, people with disabilities were largely without a chance. Sr. Theresia Haselmayr received great support for her project from the Dillingen dogmatics professor Johann Evangelist Wagner (1807–1886). He was the pastor of the Dillinger Franciscans and Regens (= leader) of the Dillinger seminary.

In 1847 the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters founded a school for deaf girls, the so-called deaf-mute school. Almost 10 years later a so-called pension institution was added, in which the young deaf women found accommodation, vocational training and work after their school days. At that time there were no social systems. Employment opportunities were sought based on the principle that “those who give us work give us bread” so that the hearing-impaired women could contribute to their livelihood. In textile workshops v. a. Paraments (ecclesiastical textiles) made.

JE Wagner and the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters increasingly took on people with intellectual disabilities. For example, by 1885, JE Wagner founded six further training and residential facilities in Bavaria in the form of foundations for people with various disabilities. To date, the successors of JE Wagner have created seven further Regens Wagner foundations and one in Hungary.

Offers and services

Today (as of December 31, 2013) Regens Wagner employs over 6,000 full-time and part-time employees. The services and offers currently provide advice, support and care for over 8,000 people with hearing impairments, language disorders, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, partial performance disabilities, mental disabilities, physical disabilities, age-related and chronic illnesses and other impairments. Regens Wagner offers various services in the field of education and training, work and employment, housing, advice and outpatient and mobile services:

School preparatory facilities, general education schools and vocational schools, remedial courses, primary vocational school year and vocational training, curative educational day-care centers, day care centers and integrative kindergartens are available for children and young people.
Young people and adults with disabilities can work in recognized workshops for disabled people (WfbM) according to their individual skills and inclinations. The textile workshops, gardening shops, agriculture as well as housekeeping and kitchen also open up fields of work.
Funding facilities prepare for work in the workshop and / or offer appropriate, structured and therapeutic support measures.
Seniors can use the offers of the day care centers for people with disabilities after working life.
The differentiated forms of living include boarding schools, outdoor living groups, outpatient assisted living, residential homes and nursing homes according to SGB XI.
The basic offer is supplemented by special educational and therapeutic services as well as leisure activities.
Early intervention centers, advice centers and the Open Aid services advise, relieve and support people with disabilities and their relatives.

Mission statement and mission

JE Wagner and the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters were guided by the Christian message and Franciscan spirituality and supported people with disabilities in an affirmative and encouraging manner. To this day, professional competence and quality, humanity and lived spirituality are part of the corporate culture of the Regens-Wagner-Werk. This means that everyone is recognized as an independent person and as a member of society. It is part of the self-image of the employees to treat people with disabilities with great respect and sensitivity and to respect their dignity, their personal responsibility and their right to self-determination. The integration of people with disabilities into their living environment is promoted through decentralized housing and employment opportunities.

Regens Wagner stands up for the unrestricted right to life of disabled people and wants to be vigilant against changing societal values.

Structure and legal form

The Regens-Wagner-Werk is an association of eight church foundations under public law . All foundations are legally independent. Their respective seat of the foundation is Dillingen ad Donau. They are under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Augsburg . The foundation supervisory authority required by the Bavarian Foundation Act is the Episcopal Finance Chamber in Augsburg for all foundations. The corresponding church laws issued by the Catholic Church apply to them. Another Regens Wagner Foundation exists in Hungary. The foundations serve exclusively charitable and charitable purposes of helping people with disabilities. The foundation bodies are the foundation council and the executive board.

Board of Trustees

The foundation council is the highest decision-making body and internal supervisory body of the respective foundation. It decides, among other things, the basics, corporate goals and concepts. It has three born members (the Provincial Superior of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters in the Regens-Wagner Foundations, the Spiritual Director, the Superior General of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters) and two appointed members.

Foundation Board

The foundation board of the respective foundation consists of three people: the spiritual director as chairman, the deputy chairman and one other member of the board. The foundation board manages the day-to-day business of the foundation in accordance with the law, the articles of association and the resolutions of the foundation council.

The employees of the management of the Regens-Wagner-Stiftungen are assigned to the foundation board. You carry out entrepreneurial tasks that affect all Regens-Wagner foundations and that can be handled more efficiently centrally. These are, for example, conceptual development, personnel management, construction, information technology, costing, association work (e.g. Caritas).

Regional centers

Regens Wagner and cooperation partner

The eight Regens-Wagner foundations carry out their foundation mandate in 14 so-called regional Regens-Wagner centers in Bavaria. In order to document the affiliation with Regens Wagner, all regional centers have been using the name "Regens Wagner" and the location of their main office since 2000:

Regens Wagner Foundation Dillingen as the legal entity of Regens Wagner Dillingen, Regens Wagner Burgkunstadt, Regens Wagner Glött, Regens Wagner Holzhausen
Regens Wagner Foundation Erlkam as legal entity of Regens Wagner Erlkam, Regens Wagner Munich, Regens Wagner Rottenbuch
Regens Wagner Foundation Hohenwart as legal entity of Regens Wagner Hohenwart
Regens Wagner Foundation Holnstein as legal entity of Regens Wagner Holnstein
Regens Wagner Foundation Lauterhofen as the legal entity of Regens Wagner Lauterhofen
Regens Wagner Foundation Lautrach as the legal entity of Regens Wagner Lautrach
Regens Wagner Foundation Michelfeld as legal entity of Regens Wagner Michelfeld
Regens Wagner Foundation Zell as the legal entity of Regens Wagner Zell, Regens Wagner Absberg

All Regens-Wagner-Centers are decentralized and branched out locally in the respective region.

Overall lines

The overall management and their representatives are responsible for ongoing operations in the 14 regional Regens-Wagner centers. Employees who work in the service areas offered by the regional center are assigned to your area of responsibility. Thanks to the decentralized structure, the independent service centers rooted in the region develop and design a differentiated range of services for people with disabilities, offer their services close to families and home, and react flexibly to changing conditions and demands in their region.

Holdings

Regens Wagner is involved in the following companies:

Swabian Support Center for the Hearing Impaired Augsburg GmbH (50% participation by the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen)
Werkstätten St. Joseph non-profit GmbH with branches in Burgkunstadt, Lichtenfels and Michelau (50% stake by the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen)
Autism Competence Center Upper Franconia non-profit GmbH (19% stake by the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen)
Network Autism Niederbayern Oberpfalz GmbH (3.60% participation by the Regens Wagner Foundations Lauterhofen and Michelfeld and 3.80% by the Regens Wagner Foundation Holnstein)
Employment initiative Landsberg am Lech non-profit GmbH (4.80% stake through the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen).
Offene Hilfen Neuburg-Schrobenhausen GbR (50% participation by the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen)

Cooperation partner

The eight Regens-Wagner foundations are closely related to the three following independent legal entities:

Province of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters in the Regens Wagner Foundations: Sisters of the order of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters have been working closely with the foundations since Regens Wagner was founded in 1847. The sisters enabled and promoted the implementation of charitable and benevolent purposes at Regens Wagner. Until around 1970, it was mostly sisters who provided support, support and care for people with disabilities around the clock. The Regens-Wagner Province sees its mission to this day in being there for people with disabilities. The proceeds from the work of her sisters directly benefit the Regens-Wagner Foundation and thus people with disabilities. In return, the Regens Wagner Foundations ensure that the sisters can exercise their religious life without restrictions and have committed to providing for their living and working conditions and for their care in sickness and old age. The Regens Wagner Province is an independent corporation under public law. She belongs to the congregation of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters.
Regens Wagner Közhasznú Alapitvány (= non-profit Regens Wagner Foundation Hungary): In the course of Europeanization, Regens Wagner founded the Regens Wagner Közhasznú Alapitvány in Hungary in 2000 and made the move towards internationality. The task of this independent foundation, established by the Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen and operating under Hungarian law, is to create needs-based offers for accompanying and promoting people with disabilities. She is supported professionally and organizationally by Regens Wagner from Germany. Right on Lake Balaton in Balatonmáriafürdö there are residential, employment and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities. Recreational and leisure activities are possible there not only for people with and without disabilities from Hungary, but also from Germany and Europe.
Regens-Wagner-Förderstiftung: The Regens-Wagner-Förderstiftung was founded in 2001 by the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters. It is a foundation under civil law that pursues charitable, charitable and church purposes within the meaning of § 52 AO. It is a member of the Federal Association of German Foundations eV In accordance with its statutes, the Regens-Wagner-Förderstiftung uses its income for the ideal and material support of advice, promotion, care and care of people with disabilities in the area of activity of Regens Wagner. It does not operate any services or facilities itself, but is actively involved in providing financial support. The Regens-Wagner-Förderstiftung supports the following projects: therapeutic (e.g. speech therapy for hearing impaired people) and educational measures (e.g. individual support for challenging behavior), educational measures (e.g. supported communication), participation measures social life, handicapped-accessible equipment of living groups and workplaces, structural measures indoors and outdoors (e.g. creation of wheelchair-accessible sidewalks).

Web links

Commons : Regens-Wagner-Stiftungen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website

literature

Peter Rummel: Johann Evangelist Wagner - A life for others . Ed .: Directorate of the Regens Wagner Foundations, revised and expanded edition based on the original edition by Friedrich Zoepfl, Don Bosco, Munich 2010.
Karl Pörnbacher: Regens Johann Evangelist Wagner. Pastor and advocate for people with disabilities . Ed .: Directorate of the Regens Wagner Foundations, Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2002
Regens-Wagner-Stiftung Dillingen (Ed.): Regens Wagner and his work . Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1986.