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Rotenburger Werke of the Inner Mission gGmbH
legal form Profit company
founding 1880
Seat Rotenburg (Wümme) , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management
  • Jutta Wendland-Park (managing director)
  • Thorsten Tillner (Managing Director)
Number of employees 1,900 employees, 1,200 of them full-time
sales 102 million euros (December 31, 2019)
Branch Health and social services
Website www.rotenburger-werke.de

The Rotenburger Werke of the Inner Mission , which was called Rotenburger Anstalten until 1996 , is a facility for people with disabilities in Rotenburg (Wümme) , Lower Saxony , in the area of Evangelical Lutheran social work.

They maintain “outpatient, semi-inpatient as well as inpatient facilities and services for living, for education and training, for work and employment, for accompaniment, promotion, care and care, for diagnosis, counseling and therapy for people with physical, mental and mental handicap ".

history

In 1877 the accident of a person suffering from epilepsy led the church district to consider offering help. A year later the association “for the care of epileptics” was founded and in 1880 a small house was bought and inaugurated by Superintendent Adolf Kottmeier as founder and first director. In 1897 150 people were already living in the facility. In 1905 the deaconesses of the mother house Bethesda came from Hamburg to Rotenburg and took over the care of the meanwhile 330 residents. Until 1930 the facility was called "Asylum for Epileptics and Idiots". As an institution director follow one another:

  1. Adolf Kottmeier (1880–1897)
  2. Pastor Niebuhr (1897–1903)
  3. Johann Buhrfeind (1903–1942)
  4. Wilhelm Unger (1942–1971)
  5. Bernhard Isermeyer (1971–1983)
  6. Wolfhermann Sprick (1983–1993)
  7. Manfred Schwetje (1993-2005)
  8. Jutta Wendland-Park (since 2005)

After more and more cases of nursing care were taken up from 1930, the profile of requirements for educators also changed. Under the direction of the pastor at the time, Johannes Buhrfeind, a training concept for "madmen" was developed, which already in 1931 included the elements "Hereditary teaching and inheritance" ( eugenics ), "physique and character" and "the problem of shortening life unworthy of life" ( euthanasia ) included. The application of this content in the period before the Third Reich has not yet been examined in more detail.

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1934 onwards, 97 girls and women and 238 boys and men were forcibly sterilized in the hospital of the deaconess mother house , a 13-year-old girl and an adult woman perished.

562 of the deported patients were demonstrably murdered later.

Since the prison management had refused to fill out the patient questionnaires for Operation T4 , a commission of four doctors from Operation T4 arrived on April 24, 1941 , “to take over the work with the questionnaires from the institution”. The Rotenburger Anstalten and their head at that time Pastor Buhrfeind offered no resistance. After a poignant farewell service, 120 severely disabled people were transferred to the Weilmünster sanatorium in Hesse.

With better financial resources from the National Socialist regime and the inexpensive use of forced labor from the Todt Organization , the building stock grew in the later years of the Third Reich. This already took place under the leadership of Pastor Buhrfeind's son-in-law, the NSDAP member Pastor Wilhelm Unger.

Individual fates known by name and date

The seven-year-old Marianne Janecke was deported to the Uchtspringe State Hospital on December 10, 1941 and murdered there.

The 13-year-old Eckhard Willumeit was killed on February 18, 1942 in the " children's department " of the Lüneburg sanatorium . His brain was then dissected. The resulting brain slices were buried in Lüneburg in 2003.

post war period

In 1949 the Rotenburg institutions were granted self-administration again. which were in the meantime reserve hospital, alternative hospital and internment hospital. 1966 to 1970 new houses were built and in 1972 a technical school for curative education care / vocational school for curative education assistance was established.

In 1979 there were 1273 patients and 900 employees in the Rotenburg institutions.

In 1995 a workshop for the disabled (WfbM) with an attached dormitory was set up.

On April 17, 1996, the general meeting of the association decided on a new statute and a new name: "Rotenburger Werke der Innere Mission".

In 2011 a children's and youth center was opened in Falkenburg (Ganderkesee) (district of Oldenburg).

In 2012 a house was inaugurated on the “Hartmannshof” five kilometers from Rotenburg - with a courtyard café, small animal enclosure and a “hands-on and adventure garden”.

Abuse

According to an estimate by the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, around 100,000 children in care throughout Germany were mistreated in the post-war period and experienced violence and drug abuse who were cared for as children and adolescents after 1949 in inpatient facilities for disabled people or psychiatry.

A recently published study on a church institution of the Rotenburger Werke shows what human rights violations there have been in some places.

There are reports of so-called "stereotactic brain operations" and drug trials.

Facility

Establishments

Under the roof of the Rotenburger Werke there are various companies that guarantee self-sufficiency in their facilities:

  • Kitchen and bakery
  • Housekeeping
  • laundry
  • Joinery
  • Industrial work
  • Gardening
  • Bicycle workshop
  • Products from the day-care facility
  • Textile center
  • Driving service

Locations

The facilities of the Rotenburger Werke offer inpatient places and outpatient help in several places in Northern Lower Saxony:

The administration is located in 27356 Rotenburg (Lindenstr. 14)

literature

  • Board of Directors of the Rotenburger Anstalten (ed.): Refuge under the shadow of your wings? The Rotenburg Institutions of the Inner Mission in the years 1933-1945 , Rotenburg (Wümme): Rotenburg Works of the Inner Mission 1992.
  • Ewald Albers, Adalbert Droßbach, Karlheinz Kraus: Adolf Wilhelm August Kottmeier (1822–1905). A teacher and pastor takes care of the disabled , in: Heimatliches Buxtehude 5 (1997), pp. 63–90.
  • Burkhard Stahl (Ed.): Systems of violence and systematic forces. About violence in work with mentally handicapped people , documentation of a symposium, Rotenburg (Wümme): Rotenburger Werke der Innere Mission 2014.
  • Uwe Kaminsky: About life in the Christian colony. The Deaconess Mother House Rotenburg, the Rotenburg Institutions of the Inner Mission and the role of their leaders 1905-1955 , Bremen: Edition Falkenberg 2016.
  • Karsten Wilke, Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Sylvia Wagner, Ulrike Winkler: Behind the Green Gate. The Rotenburg Institutions of the Inner Mission, 1945 - 1975 , Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paragraph 2, paragraph 1 of the statutes of the association "Rotenburger Werke der Innere Mission" ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rotenburger-werke.de
  2. ^ History of the Rotenburg Works on the works' website
  3. ↑ see Elise Averdieck
  4. ↑ The Diakonie mother house in Rotenburg
  5. ↑ https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/rotenburg/rotenburg-ort120515/patriarch-anstaltsleiter-6973843.html
  6. ↑ Historical overview of the history of the Rotenburg works. to: abw-verlag.de
  7. ↑ a b c d Uwe Kaminsky: About life in the Christian colony . Edition Falkenberg, Rotenburg Wümme 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-111-7 , p. 46 ( lesejury.de [PDF]).
  8. ↑ Historical processing of the role of Johannes Buhrfeind ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diako-mutterhaus.de
  9. ↑ a b Making history tangible - Rotenburger Werke. In: www.rotenburger-werke.de. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  10. ^ Rotenburger Diakonieklinikum: Patriarch as head of the institution . In: http://www.kreiszeitung.de . November 14, 2016 ( Kreiszeitung.de [accessed November 27, 2016]).
  11. ^ Raimond Reiter, Burkhard Stahl, Jutta Wendland-Park: History and Stories.
  12. ↑ https://www.rotenburger-rundschau.de/rrarchiv/lokales/rotenburg-wuemme/veranstaltung-zum-holocaust-gedenkag-am-montag-103952.html
  13. ↑ "Until then, goodbye, my little Karl". In: www.rotenburger-rundschau.de. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Simone Schnase: Book about "Rotenburger Anstalten": From the horror of the total institution . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 20, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed August 27, 2018]).
  15. ↑ Operations of the Rotenburg Works
  16. ↑ Home page of the Internet presentation