Friedehorst Foundation
The Friedehorst Foundation is a diaconal foundation under ecclesiastical law in Bremen - Lesum , Rotdornallee 64.
It promotes church / diaconal tasks in the elderly, work for the disabled, care, rehabilitation and further education.
The charitable, diaconal company with 1400 employees provides services for over 2000 people in the fields of care for the elderly, professional reintegration, assistance for the disabled and neurological rehabilitation.
history
The United Institutions of the Inner Mission Friedehorst in the Bremen Diakonie was founded in 1947. According to a proposal by the first director of the facility, Bodo Heyne, the name should stand as a message of peace and for a nest , as a nest for security, after the war . The Association for Inner Mission took over an American military hospital on what is now 275,000 square meters - formerly the barracks of a flak position of the Wehrmacht - in Bremen-Lesum according to an agreement that was initiated by Eldon Burke, the coordinator of American relief supplies to alleviate the people in Bremen. Burke accompanied the construction work of Friedehorst with u. a. Food and clothing donations. The buildings were renovated and rebuilt in the years to come, and by the end of 1947 50 people were already admitted. The deaconess mother house used the building for a tuberculosis ward and later as an orthopedic clinic. The first chairman was Pastor Heinrich Johannes Diehl from 1948 to 1980 .
In 1956, Friedehorst was the first facility in Northern Germany to offer training courses on care for the elderly and the special needs of young disabled people. In 1957 a vocational training center was set up together with an apprentice home.
A dormitory, a therapeutic unit and a special school were set up. The lease period ended in 1962 with the purchase of the site, with the Bremen Evangelical Church donating half of it. Today (2016) the site covers around 27.5 hectares including Friedehorst Park . The independent association Friedehorst - United Institutions of Inner Mission eV was founded.
In 1964, the training of physically handicapped people was transferred to another institution and Friedehorst set up a vocational support organization for retraining measures. Work workshops and a school boarding school were created. The apprentice home was converted into a home for physically handicapped adults. There were now three areas: care for the elderly, support for disabled people and professional rehabilitation.
In 1974 a new building for the elderly was built. The Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe recognized the house as a model project. Other existing care stations had to be rebuilt and refurbished.
In 1985 the fourth unit, the neurological rehabilitation center for children, adolescents and young adults, was established and in 1997 the building was enlarged for this purpose.
In the handicapped sector, the traditional home structures have been changed in favor of individual developments and social integration. The residents now live in manageable, domestic communities and external residential groups in various parts of Bremen. The therapeutic workshops were converted into day care centers.
Older people now live in apartment buildings and short-term care as an outpatient care service was offered.
Around 2000 Friedehorst set up the department for the most neurological care ward for coma patients and a children's home. In 2000 the orthopedic clinic of the deaconess mother house changed its location. In 2003 a house for the care of the elderly, new apartments for people with physical and mental disabilities and the Bodo Heyne House for people with disabilities and people with Korsakov's syndrome were founded. Since 1997, the Vocational Promotion Agency has expanded the range of training and advisory services. Special integration programs are taking place in northwest Germany. One of the buildings in Bremen-Lesum was named Eldon-Burke-Haus in 2004 , the initiator of Friedehorst.
In 2004, due to legal and economic requirements, Friedehorst was converted into the Friedehorst Foundation as an umbrella organization and Friedehorst gGmbH and its subsidiaries. The four areas initially belonged to Friedehorst gGmbH.
A parental home was built in May 2005 for the neurological rehabilitation center.
The restructuring of 2007 led to the independent companies of the four areas. The Friedehorst-Bremen professional development agency continues to belong to Friedehorst gGmbH.
In 2007 the evangelical-diaconal Nebelthau-Gymnasium opened with a 5th grade, in 2009 the services for seniors and care opened their first day care and in 2010 the new care clinic for services for seniors and care . The building, designed by Haslob , Kruse + Partner, was awarded the 2010 BDA Prize. In 2010 a house for services for people with disabilities was inaugurated. In 2013 the new Jona children's life center and the new adult rehabilitation center for the neurological rehabilitation center were able to start operations. In 2013, following financial and management crises and the demand for a general wage reduction, a change in management at the foundation took place.
The branch of professional development is important, especially for mentally impaired people. Friedehorst has 13 branch offices (2017) that seek to integrate people on the labor market, which are often difficult to place.
The Friedehorst Association was founded in 2004 and supports the foundation.
Companies of the foundation
The Friedehorst Foundation is the sponsor of the following companies:
- Friedehorst gGmbH
- Berufsförderungswerk Friedehorst gGmbH with branches in Bremen-Mitte, Bremerhaven, Buchholz, Cloppenburg, Hildesheim, Leer, Lingen, Oldenbur, Osnabrück, Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Stade, Verden and Wilhelmshaven as well as with u. a. Elderly Care School Friedehorst and Vocational Training Center (btz)
- Services for seniors and care Friedehorst gGmbH (431 places and 79 apartments)
- Services for people with disabilities Friedehorst (345 places) for housing and outpatient offers
- Neurological Rehabilitation Center Friedehorst (138 inpatient places)
- Reha-Aktiv Friedehorst gGmbH
- Parat Personal und Service GmbH
- Friedehorst Mobil gGmbH (approx. 350 care companions)
- Nebelthau-Gymnasium - Evangelische Schule Friedehorst from 2007, named after the founder and forwarding agent Eduard Nebelthau . The school is housed in a new building for twelve grades with around 25 students each.
- Jona outpatient children's hospice service from 2006
Management of the foundation
- Michael Schmidt, pastor, headmaster
- Onno Hagenah, commercial director
- Walter Weber, Chairman of the Foundation's Board of Trustees
Sources, literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Theiner: Friedehorst board member dismissed . In: Weser-Kurier from April 16, 2013.
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 36 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 45" E