Werner School from the German Red Cross

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The Werner School building in Göttingen (2012)

The Werner School of the German Red Cross (short: "Werner School in the DRK") in Göttingen was a central educational institution of the DRK sororities for managers in nursing and for the advanced training of nurses. The school existed from 1903 to 2016 - taking into account the immediate predecessor institutions. The school was run by the Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross eV (VdS).

history

In addition to numerous hospital-related schools for nurses, the DRK sororities also run central educational institutions for nursing managers. These were initially set up by individual sororities, later by the umbrella association of sororities, partly together with the Federal Association of the German Red Cross .

In 1903, Clementine von Wallmenich , the head of the Munich Sisterhood of the Bavarian Red Cross , founded a training center for managers in nursing under the name “Oberinnenschule” in Munich . Von Wallmenich also connected this with the goal of further developing and systematically passing on the knowledge of care. After internal disputes in Munich, the school moved to Kiel as early as 1905 and became part of the sisterhood there. During the economic crisis in 1923 , the facility had to be closed.

In 1927 it was re-established as the "Werner School of the German Red Cross" in Berlin , with an expanded offering that also included the training of nurses. The school was named after Otto Werner (1847–1923), a chairman of the umbrella association of sororities, who had campaigned particularly for the advanced training of the Red Cross Sisters.

Operation in Göttingen

War memorial (WWI) in the garden of the building: a sister gives a wounded soldier to drink. (Detail photo, 2019)

After its building was destroyed in World War II , the school moved to Göttingen in 1944, where it resumed operations in 1947 after a break after the end of the war. In the 1990s, the school expanded its range to include external training events in hospitals under the name "Werner School mobile".

In 2002, the DRK and the VdS also founded the University of Applied Sciences in the German Red Cross in Göttingen , which offered bachelor's degrees in the subjects of social management and care management . The college was closed in 2008 due to economic difficulties.

In 2011, the Association of Sisterhoods had the Werner School building completely renovated and equipped with the latest technology for 1.2 million euros. On the occasion of the topping-out ceremony, the President of the VdS, General Superior Sabine Schipplick, stated that with the investment, the association was sending out a signal that “we are not just one of the most important future social tasks in the professionalization of the care professions and in the promotion of the next generation in professional care have recognized, but that we will do everything we can to fulfill this important task ”. Due to decreased demand and a lack of profitability, the VdS closed the Werner School at the end of 2016.

Web links

Commons : Building of the Werner School in Göttingen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Werner School from the DRK . In: Website of the Werner School from the DRK ( Memento in the Internet Archive of April 7, 2016)
  2. ↑ No perspective for the DRK University of Applied Sciences in Göttingen , press release by the DRK General Secretariat of March 12, 2007. In: Website of the University of Applied Sciences in the German Red Cross ( Memento in the Internet Archive of March 12, 2007)
  3. ↑ Werner School: DRK education center modernized for 1.2 million euros. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. September 20, 2011, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Werner School: Refurbishment for one million euros. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. August 18, 2010, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Operation of the Werner School ceased. (PDF, 411 kB) In: Verbandsticker - Newsletter of the Association of Sisterhoods of the DRK eV, issue 1/2017. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Current: Werner School. (PDF, 4.5 MB) In: Rotkreuzschwester, the specialist magazine of the Association of Sisterhoods of the German Red Cross, issue 1/2017, p. 6. Accessed on January 29, 2019 .