Diakonie Austria

Diakonie Austria (Diakonie Österreich) is the umbrella association of diaconal provider organizations in Austria. According to its official website, 27 larger and smaller works and associations, which support, accompany and advise over 599,000 people at around 620 locations, are members of Diakonie Österreich. The association Diakonie Österreich carries out its tasks for charitable and benevolent purposes. Its tasks include networking, supporting and promoting its members, developing and spreading the diaconal idea, developing and disseminating the theological and ethical foundations of diakonia, evidence-based development of socio-political and socio-ethical positions in the service of Diakonie's clients, representing Diakonie and its positions in the media public, representing Diakonie vis-à-vis politics and authorities at the Austrian level, networking with church bodies and supporting congregational diakonia, representing Diakonie vis-à-vis and cooperating with sister associations, and international networking. The Diakonie as a help and social organization of the Protestant churches looks back on a long history in Austria; it emerged in its current form in Germany, where the roots of organized Diakonie lie, with the Protestant pastor and social reformer Johann Hinrich Wichern considered the founder and the year 1848 as the birth hour.

The Diakonie as a help and social organization of the Protestant churches looks back on a long history in Austria. It emerged in its current form in Germany. The roots of organized Diakonie lie in the heartland of the Reformation, in Germany. The Protestant pastor and social reformer Johann Hinrich Wichern is considered the founder, and the year 1848 the birth hour. The engagement of the Protestant church in care for the poor and sick reaches further back. In the time of incipient industrialization, poverty and social need increased rapidly. In response to the misery in which Hamburg's street children lived, Wichern founded the "Rauhe Haus" in 1833, a so-called "rescue house" in which he took in children "with the worst conceivable prospects" and gave them education. At the Protestant Kirchentag in Wittenberg in 1848, Wichern pushed for the founding of the "Central-Ausschuss für Innere Mission der Evangelischen Kirchen in Deutschland". The basic idea of the Inner Mission was the renewal of the Protestant church from within through the connection of faith and practically lived neighborly love. In the following years, associations of the Inner Mission arose everywhere in Germany. Among other things, orphanages, schools and training institutions, homes for people with disabilities, hospitals and city missions were established.

Umbrella association of diaconal provider organizations in Austria; charitable and benevolent association.

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