German Depression Aid Foundation

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German Depression Aid Foundation
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legal form non-profit foundation under civil law
founding April 2008
Seat Leipzig , GermanyGermanyGermany 
main emphasis Promotion of science and research in connection with the clinical picture of depression, to pass on knowledge in further training courses and campaigns, and to support artistic and cultural activities
people Ulrich Hegerl (CEO)
Harald Schmidt (Patron)
Simon Licht (Ambassador)
Victoria van Violence (Ambassador)
Website deutsche-depressionshilfe.de

The German Depression Aid Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation under civil law. The central aim of the foundation is to improve the situation of people suffering from depression . Her core tasks include press and public relations work as well as carrying out research, aid projects and further training measures.

The chairman of the board is Ulrich Hegerl . The patron of the foundation is Harald Schmidt . The foundation's ambassadors are actor Simon Licht and blogger and alternative model Victoria van Violence .

Creation and order

The foundation was established in April 2008 with the aim of continuing and expanding the work of the competence network for depression and suicidality, which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) until 2009 .

The focus of the foundation's work lies in conveying information about the causes, course and treatment options of depressive illnesses. In training courses, seminars and conferences, those affected and their relatives as well as doctors and medical specialists are made familiar with the clinical picture. High-profile events also reach people who are not affected by the disease themselves. The German Depression Patient Congress, which has been held every two years since 2011 with the German Depression League in cooperation with the German Alliance against Depression and the Deutsche Bahn Foundation gGmbH, offers those affected, relatives and other interested parties the opportunity to exchange knowledge in addition to imparting knowledge.

Under the umbrella of the German Depression Aid Foundation, the German Alliance against Depression eV works on a regional level to improve the care of people with depression. Since it was founded in 2003, more than 85 regional alliances against depression have been formed.

Activities and collaborations

Projects under the umbrella of the German Depression Aid Foundation

The German Depression Aid Foundation has been supported by the Deutsche Bahn Foundation gGmbH since 2014. As part of this cooperation, the German Depression Aid Foundation was able to open the Depression Research Center in 2014. B. also offer the free Germany-wide information phone Depression under the number 0800 3344533.

Sponsorship awards

The research award of the German Depression Aid Foundation was awarded for the first time in 2009. Christian Otte was honored for his research on the influence of the body's own stress hormone cortisol on depressed patients.

Since 2011, the Carlsson Wedemeyer-Förderpreis has been funding research projects to optimize the care of children and adolescents suffering from depression. In 2011, the Carlsson Wedemeyer Prize was awarded to Thomas Hillecke, Franz Resch and Julian Koenig for a pilot project to research music therapy in the treatment of depressed adolescents. In 2013 the sponsorship award went to the Leipzig University Hospital for research into a creative therapeutic group offer for children and adolescents with a depressive illness. At the 3rd German Depression Patient Congress in 2015, the research project “ Light Therapy for Depression in Children and Adolescents” at the LWL University Hospital Hamm under the direction of Martin Holtmann and Tanja Legenbauer was awarded the Carlsson Wedemeyer Prize. At the 4th German Depression Patient Congress, Dr. med. Tomasz Antoni Jarczok for his pilot study “Vigilance and Depressive Disorders in Adolescence”.

The German Media Prize for Depression Aid honors journalists who report vividly and competently to a broad audience on depression illnesses and their treatment methods. In 2013 the first prize went to Ann-Kathrin Eckardt (NEON) for her article Schattenliebe and Beate Wagner (Focus Gesundheit) with the contribution "Depression - A taboo only for men?" In 2015 Anna Bühler and co-author Till Ottlitz (youth radio PULS of Bavarian Broadcasting) were awarded first place for their contribution “The question: Are we getting more and more depressed?”. At the 4th German Depression Patient Congress on August 26, 2017, the jury awarded 1st place to Anne Thiele for her contribution "Living with Depression - Long-Term Support for Those Affected" on Extra - the RTL magazine.

financing

The foundation is primarily financed by donations , endowments, grants and third-party funds for projects and research. In addition, there is income from commercial operations. The German Depression Aid Foundation is not dependent on the pharmaceutical industry .

Management, board of directors and board of trustees

Managing directors

  • Susanne Baldauf
  • Christian Sander (Deputy Managing Director)

Board

  • Ulrich Hegerl (Chairman of the Board of Management)
  • Nico Niedermeier (Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management)
  • Thomas Müller-Rörich

Board of Trustees

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Articles of Association (as of December 1, 2014)
  2. ↑ Harald Schmidt does not only counter depression with loose slogans. His commitment is far greater. He wants to prove that in Leipzig too. In: sächsische.de , accessed on November 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ Invitation to the symposium of the Competence Network Depression, Suicidality and the German Depression Aid Foundation on November 5, 2009 ( Memento of November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 0.7 MB).
  4. ^ Stiftung Deutsche Depressionshilfe in Leipzig: Depressives wait too long for a doctor's appointment In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , accessed on October 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ U. Hegerl, I. Heinz: Depression networks and their care policy significance. In: Ärzteblatt Sachsen 9,2010. (PDF file; 0.3 MB).
  6. ↑ The Alliance: We About Us. German Depression Aid Foundation, accessed on January 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Committees. German Depression Aid Foundation, accessed on March 12, 2020 .