Rummelsberger Diakonie

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Rummelsberger Diakonie
legal form Registered association
founding 1948
Seat Rummelsberg
management Reiner Schübel (CEO), Martin Neukamm, Karl Schulz, Elisabeth Peterhoff
Number of employees 5400
Branch Social
Website www.rummelsberger-diakonie.de

The Rummelsberger Diakonie eV is a supporter of the Diakonie and a member of the welfare association Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . The Rummelsberger Dienst für Menschen gGmbH currently maintains almost 250 facilities and services in child and youth welfare facilities, facilities for the disabled, care facilities for the elderly, schools and training facilities.

history

The historical roots of today's Rummelsberger Diakonie lie in the State Deacon Institute, which the then only a few years old State Association for Inner Mission in Bavaria founded in Nuremberg in 1890. The first class for deacons consisted of eight men between the ages of 17 and 38 years. Her most important practical field of application was nursing in the Nuremberg hospital. While there had been two prosperous deaconess houses in Neuendettelsau and Augsburg since the middle of the 19th century, the establishment in Nuremberg was the first to establish a church-based training for social professions for men for the first time in Protestant Bavaria. A first attempt at the Puckenhof near Erlangen had previously failed.

While the Diakonissenanstalt in Neuendettelsau was spiritually shaped by the strictly Lutheran theologian Wilhelm Löhe , the State Association for Inner Mission saw itself more in the tradition of the Hamburg theologian and social reformer Johann Hinrich Wichern .

The adoption of a new youth welfare law in the Kingdom of Bavaria gave the state association the opportunity to open up a new field of work and at the same time to use it as a training facility for young deacons. In 1904 the Rummelsberg farm (today part of the community of Schwarzenbruck near Nuremberg) was acquired and the “Rummelsberger Anstalten” opened there in 1905, which consisted of an educational facility for boys and a training facility for deacons. Both were housed in one building (today the specialist academy for social education).

After the end of the First World War, the Rummelsberger Anstalten experienced a phase of strong growth under the leadership of the first rector Karl Nicol (1886–1954). In quick succession, a "Kriegssiechenheim" (1920, today Waldheim), a first Brothers House (1922, today Waldheim), the local Philip Church (1927), a craftsmen's house (1927, today Diakoniemuseum) and the Brothers House (1931) were built. The number of deacons rose from 117 (1919) to 227 in 1933. The first came into being with the Wurzhof (1912, today the municipality of Postbauer-Heng in the Upper Palatinate) and the Wichernhaus in Altdorf (1925), the former University of Nuremberg Facilities outside of Rummelsberg. Above all, the Wichernhaus, which at that time was considered a role model for physically handicapped people throughout the Reich, was of enormous importance for the Rummelsberg establishments at that time.

Nicol succeeded in firmly anchoring the office of deacons in the Bavarian regional church. Deacons were soon active all over Bavaria not only in social professions, but also as sacristans, organists and youth workers. The first Bavarian parish deacon was Heinrich Schlötterer (1890–1978) in Munich-St. Matthew. In 1942 the "Church Law on the Office of Deacon" was first formulated: "The office for male diakonia is essentially an ecclesiastical office of its own."

When the NSDAP came to power in 1933, those responsible in Rummelsberg also acknowledged with satisfaction, if not enthusiasm. A 40-strong delegation from Rummelsberg with Pastor Brothers Wilhelm Strohm (1902–1937) took part with great enthusiasm at the “German Deacon Day” in Hamburg, which submitted to Hitler with an enthusiastic address of devotion. In Rummelsberg, subdivisions of the Hitler Youth, SA, German Labor Front and company group operated. Intercession for the “Führer” was one of the prayer requests of every Sunday service.

In May 1934, Rummelsberg was the founding site of the “Bavarian Parish Brotherhood”, which became an important institution within the “Confessing Church”. In 1941 Nicol succeeded in saving the mentally handicapped people living in Rummelsberg who were affected by the T4 campaign from being transported away and murdered by the Rummelsberger Anstalten undertaking to cover all future costs for these people. This was only possible because here - unlike in Neuendettelsau, for example - there were only very few people who lived in the “war hospital”.

In 1943 the already ordered complete evacuation of the Rummelsberg establishments in favor of the air force hospital in Mögeldorf was not carried out because the hospital was destroyed in a bomb attack shortly before the planned relocation. During the entire war and post-war period, Rummelsberg was a place of reception and residence for resettlers, refugees and displaced persons, etc. a. from Bessarabia, South Tyrol, Serbia, Silesia and East Prussia. The brotherhood from the East Prussian Carlshöfer Anstalten joined the Rummelsberg Brotherhood in 1947. The Silesian deaconess house Lehmgruben (Breslau), which was rebuilt in 1950 in Marktheidenfeld, had belonged to the Rummelsberg institutions since 1988.

In 1948 the Inner Mission in Bavaria was reorganized. A newly founded "Regional Association for Inner Mission" (today: Diakonisches Werk Bayern ) took on the function of the umbrella organization for all diaconal organizations in Bavaria. The "Regional Association for Inner Mission" was renamed "Rummelsberger Anstalten der Inner Mission eV". The Rummelsberger Anstalten were thus legally independent for the first time since their foundation. Around 40 facilities throughout Bavaria, mostly refugee and old people's homes, which had previously been in the care of the state association, now came under Rummelsberg's responsibility. Among them was the Auhof near Hilpoltstein (formerly “Veilhof Educational Institution”), which became a center for work with mentally handicapped people from 1953, and the “Schertlinhaus” nursing home in Burtenbach (Swabia).

By 1965 the number of deacons grew to 737. The "Rummelsberger Anstalten" experienced another growth phase under Rector Karl Heinz Neukamm (1929–2018). Large facilities such as the “Wichernhaus” hospital, the vocational training center and the youth welfare center were built. In the "Stephanusheim" nursing home, which was built in 1968, lived from 1971 to 1988 the former SS-Hauptscharführer Martin Sommer, who was at times the arrest warden of the Buchenwald concentration camp (known as the executioner of Buchenwald). [3] In 1982 a deacon community was founded in Rummelsberg. Since then, training as a deacon as well as a deaconess has been possible in Rummelsberg. In 2007, the rector and chairman of the board, Karl Heinz Bierlein, resigned when allegations were raised that he had abused deacons. [4] At the general meeting in 2012, the association was restructured and renamed to its current name. Since 2015 the Rummelsberger Diakonie has been running a Diakoniemuseum, which shows the history of Diakonie in Bavaria in changing exhibitions. The association operates facilities in over 40 locations across Bavaria. Around 6,100 people are currently employed there. The current rector and chairman of the board, Reiner Schübel, took up his post on January 1, 2020.

Headquarters

After-work house

At the headquarters, the Rummelsberger Diakonie operates an elderly care facility (Stephanushaus), a vocational training center with an attached boarding school for young people with physical disabilities, a large youth welfare association with several houses, the study center (formerly a deacon school), a conference center. The two hospitals (Laurentius- and Wichernhaus) were sold to the Sana Kliniken in 2010 . The latter is known throughout Europe as one of the leading specialist orthopedic clinics. In addition to training to become a deacon, there are a number of other training opportunities in Rummelsberg, especially for young people with behavioral problems and people with physical disabilities. These training companies include a café, a car workshop, a carpenter's shop, a gardening shop, various industrial and administrative training in the vocational training center, painting and metal construction. These companies are among the productive companies and are also open to customers from the surrounding area.

The Rummelsberg services for people

The Rummelsberger Dienstleistungen für Menschen non-profit GmbH is the parent company of the following services and is responsible for managing the Rummelsberger Diakonie e. V. the division:

  • RDA Rummelsberger services for people in old age non-profit GmbH
  • RDB Rummelsberger services for people with disabilities non-profit GmbH
  • RDJ Rummelsberger Services for Young People non-profit GmbH
  • Rummelsberger Servicegesellschaft mbH (RSG)

The company is the owner of all shares in the companies listed. In addition, as an independent non-profit activity, it is responsible for the education and development department of the Rummelsberger, to which the technical academies, vocational schools and technical schools belong.

The managing directors are Reiner Schübel, Harald Frei and Karl Schulz.

Rummelsberg services for people in old age

The non-profit company RDA Rummelsberger Services for People in Old Age non-profit GmbH is within the Rummelsberger Diakonie the carrier of 17 inpatient care facilities for the elderly, three outpatient services and other offers for old people in Bavaria.

Rummelsberg vocational training center

The Vocational Training Center (BBW) Rummelsberg is divided into three areas: the training company, the state-recognized vocational school and the boarding school, which is designed to be handicapped accessible. In the BBW, young people with physical or mental disabilities are trained. The training takes place in the commercial and industrial area. The training courses are identical to the level of vocational training outside. The vocational training center also includes a state vocational school, which is largely used by participants in the BBW. The employment agency is the largest cost bearer of the vocational training center.

Due to the wide variety of training types that other vocational training centers do not offer, some participants come to Rummelsberg from all over Germany.

Rummelsberg clinics

On July 26, 2010, the Rummelsberger announced the sale of the Rummelsberg hospital to the Sana hospital chain. The clinics in Rummelsberg go to Sana Kliniken AG. The children's clinic in Garmisch-Partenkirchen will be taken over by the previous chief physician Johannes-Peter Haas and the investor Karl-Heinz Schmiegel.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Rummelsberg (Schwarzenbruck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b The Rummelsberger Diakonie about themselves
  2. The association about itself
  3. Wehr, Gerhard: Doing good and not getting tired. A century of Rummelsberg diakonia . Munich 1989, p. 35 f .
  4. ^ Greif, Thomas: The regional association for internal mission with the Rummelsberger establishments . In: Greif, Thomas (ed.): Field hospital and traveling cinema. The Inner Mission in Bavaria between the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Diakoniemuseum Rummelsberg . Lindenberg 2018, p. 93-122 .
  5. ^ Tölken, Christian: From then until now. On the history of the Wichernhaus Altdorf . Altdorf 1990.
  6. Wehr, Gerhard: Doing good . S. 273 f. and 341 f .
  7. a b Strohm, Albert: Wilhelm Strohm as a parish priest in Rummelsberg 1928–1936. A case study . Ed .: ZBKG. tape 68 , 1999, p. 133-155 .
  8. Wehr, Gerhard: Doing good . S. 147 f .
  9. Deinlein: From the history of Rummelsberg . S. 111 ff .
  10. ^ Hager, Angela: Kurt Frör (1905–1980) . In: Greif, Thomas (ed.): Kaiser, Chancellor, Rummelsberger. 21 footnotes of German history. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Diakoniemuseum Rummelsberg . Lindenberg 2017, p. 125-137 .
  11. Christine-Ruth Müller, Hans-Ludwig Siemen: Why they had to die. The ordeal and extermination of disabled people from the Neuendettelsau nursing homes in the “Third Reich” . Neustadt / Aisch 1991.
  12. ^ Greif, Thomas: Karl Nicol (1886–1954) . In: Greif, Kaiser, Chancellor, Rummelsberger . S. 55-75 .
  13. ^ Haas, Willi: Arthur Krumm (1908–1975) and Greif, Thomas: Gertrud Hampel (1925–2018) . In: Greif, Kaiser, Chancellor, Rummelsberger, 21 footnotes of German history. Accompanying volume for the exhibition . S. 139-149 and 179-191 .
  14. ^ Greif, Thomas: On the reorganization of the Inner Mission in Bavaria after 1945. Manuscript lecture to the general assembly of the Diakonisches Werk Bayern v. 10/22/2018 .
  15. Deinlein, Konrad: From the story of Rummelsberger . Come reprint of the original edition from 1982, Nuremberg 2019.
  16. ^ A b The Rummelsberg services for people non-profit GmbH
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