Welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg

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Welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg

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legal form Foundation under civil law
founding 1817
Seat Stuttgart , Germany
management Ingrid Hastedt, chairwoman of the board
Number of employees approx. 1,400
Branch Elderly care , social work Elderly care , welfare care
Website www.wohlfahrtswerk.de

The welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg emerged from an initiative of Queen Katharina von Württemberg (1788-1819), who in 1817 founded a coordinating “central management of the charity”. Today, the welfare organization, based in Stuttgart, as a foundation under civil law, is one of the major providers of care for the elderly in Baden-Württemberg and, with 1,400 employees, looks after around 2,000 elderly people and people in need of care. The welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg is a member of the German Parity Welfare Association and the German Association for Public and Private Welfare .

tasks and goals

The welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg has had two main tasks since it was founded: to maintain social services and to stimulate and implement innovations in the social field. A broad framework for the activities of the foundation was laid down in the foundation statutes. In addition to the operation of facilities and services, this also includes training and further education in the social sector, the testing of progressive methods of social work, the issuing of publications and the administration of other foundations such as B. that of Rudolf Knosp and his wife Sophie.

The non-denominational foundation now operates nursing homes , senior citizens' living communities , assisted living and a multi-generation home at 20 locations in Baden-Württemberg . For seniors who live at home, outpatient services, short-term care , day and night care, round-the-clock care and mobile food services are offered. The education center of the welfare organization carries out further training for internal and external specialists and, as a “private vocational school for social care with a focus on everyday care”, has been training service assistants in the social and health sector and as a “vocational school for geriatric care and geriatric care assistance” since 2013.

With over 1,200 participants per year, the welfare organization is the fourth largest sponsor of the Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) in Baden-Württemberg after Diakonie , the IB and the German Red Cross and has been the sponsor of the Federal Voluntary Service (BFD) since 2011 .

history

19th century

In 1817, Queen Katharina von Württemberg founded charities and set up a "central management" to coordinate them. The granddaughter Catherine the Great , daughter of the Russian Tsar Paul and wife of King Wilhelm I , wanted to fight poverty in the country and thus laid the foundation for a new social policy in Württemberg . It was their aim with this institution to provide help for self-help as well as to conduct prevention and public education. The task of the new organization was to coordinate and set up decentralized aid associations on a semi-state basis with the support of official agencies and churches. In practice, it was about providing people with food and clothing. In a second step, they should find employment. Queen Katharina's conviction was: "Getting work helps more than giving alms."

The main initiatives of the central management were:

  • the establishment of "rescue houses" for neglected children
  • the expansion of the medical infrastructure and medical care
  • the establishment of "industrial schools" to impart practical skills

In the course of the 19th century, the focus changed according to the current requirements such as natural disasters, the consequences of war or the fight against disease. From the middle of the 19th century, the organization positioned itself more strongly as an initiator, advisor and financier for associations and institutions. During this time, the focus was less on personal individual aid and more on building and improving the social infrastructure at the local level.

The magazine Blätter der Wohlfahrtspflege was launched in 1848, at that time with the name “Blätter für das Armenwesen”. This journal for social work is still published by the welfare organization and is published by Nomos Verlag .

Early 20th century

In 1902, the “Central Management of the Charity Association” was recognized as a public corporation . In 1921 it was renamed “Central Management for Charity in Württemberg” and placed under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior as an institution under public law.

After 1918 the “Central Management for Charity” fulfilled many important coordination functions for welfare work. However, the original work was considerably restricted by the expansion of state social policy , coping with the aftermath of the war and the loss of wealth due to inflation . However, the central management was able to help those people who were not yet supported by the social benefits of the state.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the NSDAP seized power , the central management lost a large part of its tasks - such as the organization of the successful winter relief organization - to the newly founded party organization National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). In 1937 the central management was renamed "Zentralleitung für das Stiftungs- und Anstaltwesen in Württemberg" and its tasks were limited to the supervision of the remaining ecclesiastical and private welfare organizations as well as the care of the foundations entrusted to it.

The workforce was reduced to a few employees, and the formerly full-time executive board became an honorary function ( Karl Mailänder was in the main office at the Württemberg State Welfare Association and Gau clerk). The officials were all made up of people they trusted in the regime and were politically well networked, including within the NSDAP. During the Nazi era, the central management geared itself towards National Socialist social policy and in November 1938 drafted the so-called "Heimerlass" (differentiation between residents of educational homes according to genetic and "racial hygiene" criteria). In the years up to the end of the Nazi dictatorship, around 5,200 children and young people were recorded in Württemberg and housed in specific institutions of voluntary welfare under the supervision of the central management. In 1944, the Reich Ministry of the Interior could easily access the "Mulfingen children" from Sinti families and have them murdered in concentration camps.

Central management was also involved in carrying out the euthanasia campaign. The Reich Special Authority T4 (named after its seat at Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin) had, among other things, confiscated the Grafeneck asylum on the Swabian Alb in 1939 and converted it into a killing facility for people with disabilities. The task of the state interior ministry - and thus also of the central management as the executive body - was to draw up lists of people from the supervised institutions for "transfer" to Grafeneck and to participate in the administrative process.

After 1945

After 1945 there was great need, especially in terms of the supply of housing. Older people living alone were particularly disadvantaged. Over time, a new focus area developed in this area: the provision of living space and assistance for older people. Other initiatives concerned the reopening of the middle class aid established in 1922 for trading in used household goods, the resumption of aid to artists and the start of "Swabian women 's diligence" for home work.

When the Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband was re-established in Württemberg-Baden in 1947, the central management was one of the founding members - as it did in 1925 when the “Fifth Welfare Association” was founded.

Another renaming followed in 1956 as "Landeswohlfahrtswerk für Baden-Württemberg" as an institution under public law. In addition to the construction and operation of care facilities for the elderly, the tasks at that time also increasingly included planning issues relating to infrastructure and the formation of theories in care for the elderly.

In 1972 the private law foundation with the current name “Wohlfahrtswerk für Baden-Württemberg” (new legal form ) was established by the state of Baden-Württemberg. This should strengthen the institution and ensure its independence from public framework conditions. In accordance with the foundation's mandate to promote innovation, the welfare organization introduced new forms of living for senior citizens in the following decades: in 1981 the first day care for the elderly in southern Germany , in 1987 the first assisted living in Germany, and in 2000 one of the first residential communities for people in need of care in Baden-Württemberg.

In 2013 and 2016, the welfare organization received the TOP 100 innovation seal , which honors the 100 most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany.

Chronicle of the chairmen

Period Chairperson Life dates
1819-1848 Johann Georg August von Hartmann * 1764 † 1849
1848-1852 Karl Scheuerlen * 1798 † 1850
1852-1870 Ludwig August von Gärttner * 1790 † 1870
1870-1872 Count Hugo von Leutrum * 1814 † ​​1884
1872-1876 Ludwig von Golther * 1823 † 1876
1876-1897 Theodor Köstlin * 1823 † 1900
1897-1908 Rudolf Moser von Filseck * 1840 † 1909
1908 Rudolf Christian Scharpff * 1862 † 1914
1908-1911 Karl von Gessler * 1853 † 1911
1912-1914 Heinrich von Mosthaf * 1854 † 1933
1914-1924 Hermann von Kern * 1854 † 1932
1924-1934 Edmund Rau * 1868 † 1953
1934-1938 Karl Waldmann * 1889 † 1969
1938-1946 Karl Mailänder * 1883 † 1960
1946-1950 Friedrich Haussmann (acting board member) * 1873 † 1951
1950-1959 Karl Mailänder board again
1959-1972 Albert Scholl (Director of the State Welfare Organization)
1972-1984 Hans Hummel * 1917 † 1994
1984-1996 Paul Samuel Hero * 1932
1996 With an amendment to the articles of association, Dietmar Nittel becomes an additional member of the board, Paul Samuel Held becomes chairman of the board
since 1997 Ingrid Hastedt * 1963
since 2004 Thomas Göbel (deputy chairman / successor of Dietmar Nittel) * 1965

structure

The welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg has founded four subsidiaries since 1995 . They cover the central tasks of the foundation and also offer services for external institutions :

  • Wohlfahrtswerk Altenhilfe gGmbH: Services in elderly care
  • Silberburg Hausdienste GmbH: cleaning and building services
  • Wohlfahrtswerk Management und Service GmbH: Administration
  • Wohlfahrtswerk Bau- und Immobilienmanagement GmbH: Construction services

Locations

Sources and references

  • Sabine Holtz (Ed.): 1817 - 2017: Help for self-help. 200 years of welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg. Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2016.
  • Federal Association of German Foundations eV (Ed.): Donor state Baden-Württemberg. Detailed book accompanying the traveling exhibition of the same name. Federal Association of German Foundations, Berlin 2005, p. 294f.
  • Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Files on charitable and social policy in Württemberg in the 19th and 20th centuries . Inventory of the holdings of the central management of the charity and associated charities in the Ludwigsburg State Archives, edited by Wolfgang Schmierer, Karl Hofer and Regina Schneider, based on recordings by Hans-Ewald Kessler. Publications of the State Archives Administration Baden-Württemberg. Volume 42, Stuttgart 1983.
  • State capital Stuttgart, staff unit “Promotion of Civic Engagement” / Initiativkreis Stuttgarter Stiftungen / Bürgerstiftung Stuttgart (Ed.): Getting the ball rolling. Foundations in Stuttgart 4th edition. Stuttgart 2005, p. 173.
  • State welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg (ed.): 150 years of welfare in Baden-Württemberg. Commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the state welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg, initially central management of the charity in Württemberg. Landeswohlfahrtswerk, Stuttgart 1967. Also published in: Blätter der Wohlfahrtspflege. Born 1967, pp. 1-119.
  • Ingrid Hastedt: The foundation as a service provider - the welfare organization for Baden-Württemberg sees itself as an entrepreneur and innovator. In: sheets of welfare. Vol. 2007, No. 2., pp. 53-57.
  • Willi A. Boelcke: Social history Baden-Württemberg 1800-1989 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1989, p. 159 ff.
  • Announcement by the Minister of the Interior on the basic provisions of the Central Management for Charity in Württemberg from June 9, 1937. In: Leaves of the Central Management for Charity in Württemberg. Volume 99, year 1937, No. 6., pp. 98f.
  • Arnold Weller: Social history of southwest Germany . Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1979, p. 105 ff.
  • Christoph Sachße / Florian Tennstedt: History of poor welfare, Volume 3: The welfare state in National Socialism . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1992.
  • Thomas Stöckle: Grafeneck 1940. The euthanasia crimes in southwest Germany . Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2002.
  • Harald Stingele: Karl Mailänder. Welfare officer, desk clerk and Federal Cross of Merit . In: Hermann Abmayr (Hrsg.): Stuttgarter NS-Täter . Butterfly publishing house, Stuttgart 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Top 100 from 2016