Wolfratshausen - The Malteser Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen have a new district management.
District Commissioner Countess Stephanie zu Ortenburg and District Manager Elisabeth Vogel form the dual leadership.
After Elisabeth Vogel took over the management of the district from her predecessor Anke Ringel in September, the official appointment of Countess Stephanie zu Ortenburg as district commissioner completes the new district management of Malteser in Wolfratshausen.
Countess Ortenburg succeeds Richard Schottenhaml, who was the district representative of the Malteser in Wolfratshausen from 2016.
After many years of professional work in the association, the new district manager Elisabeth Vogel can now combine her “weakness for networking with a humanitarian task”.
As a district manager, the law graduate sees herself finally having reached her professional goal.
In addition to her full-time job, Vogel always finds time to volunteer for refugees, people with dementia and those with educational disadvantages.
“As a child I wanted to be Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer or Heidi.
Now I've found a good combination in my duties as the Malteser District Managing Director, ”says Vogel.
"Once a Maltese, always a Maltese"
District Commissioner Countess Ortenburg has been involved in many national and international projects of the Maltese since her youth.
“Bringing people back to zest for life through closeness has always shaped my voluntary work.
Where could that work better than with the Maltese, where closeness counts.
Once a Maltese, always a Maltese, ”reports the economist.
After working in project management for several years, she is now the full-time mother of almost five children.
The new district management has a lot planned: “We want to be a reliable partner by the side of people who are restricted in their everyday life by immobility, loneliness or illness.
Here in the district we bring people together who want to volunteer with those who hope for support, ”says Vogel.
And Countess Ortenburg adds: "What we have learned from the corona pandemic is that we have to do even more for people who have suffered particularly from the measures and contact restrictions and are lonely or otherwise socially needy."
Café for people with dementia
One of the ambitious projects has already been implemented: Café Malte is due to open for the first time in November.
In the café, people in the early stages of dementia are supported by trained volunteer Maltese dementia carers on an hourly basis.
The kick-off event met with great public interest from all social institutions and the population.
Volunteers are welcome and receive training as dementia companions.
The Malteser’s visiting service, which has been in high demand for years, is to be expanded according to the wishes of the new district management.
"We want to visit more senior citizens in inpatient facilities and therefore cooperate more intensively with retirement and nursing homes," Vogel plans.
"We are then again looking for women and men who would like to volunteer."
At www.malteser.de/fassdireinherz there is information about voluntary work with the Maltese.
