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Feels comfortable in his role: Lars Heimke has been general manager of Regens Wagner in Rottenbuch since March 2023.
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Lars Heimke has been running Regens Wagner in Rottenbuch since March last year and has mastered the first few months and thus the challenges of a new start.
And has set some goals.
Rottenbuch – It was a small garden in Kieselwitz that Lars Heimke’s parents had.
About ten kilometers from home in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg.
Heimke estimates he must have been five, maybe six years old when he started playing regularly with a boy from a neighboring garden.
“It always worked well, it was completely normal,” remembers the now 39-year-old.
“As a child you don’t have scissors in your head.”
The neighbor's child had quadriparesis, a form of spastic paralysis, and was therefore in a wheelchair.
Heimke suspects today that playing with him shaped him to some extent.
“It was inclusion as it should be.” And which he continues to advocate for in adulthood.
For eleven months as general manager of Regens Wagner in Rottenbuch.
In March last year, Heimke took over the responsibilities of Achim Gerbig, who had retired.
Lars Heimke has been running Regens Wagner in Rottenbuch for almost a year
The start went well.
“I had imagined it would be jerkier,” admits Heimke.
“Of course not everything went perfectly right away.
The tasks have become more and I had to learn to give something away.” Heimke was already familiar with Regens Wagner’s facilities when he took office and had worked as a Gerbig representative since 2020.
And already have a lot of experience.
After completing his training in Munich, the trained curative educator gained his first professional experience and also completed a specialist in social health care.
In an evening course he then added a bachelor's degree in social and health management.
This gave him “more in-depth knowledge” of business and economics.
Heimke took on a management position at a private provider in the social psychiatric field in the Erding district.
56 employees reported to him.
In 2017 he moved to Starnberg.
He had “great jobs” both in Erding and there, assures Heimke.
“But the driving…”
Now “fully arrived” in a management position – diverse tasks
At that time he was already living in Bad Kohlgrub with his wife.
While visiting a friend in the village, the two, who had met in Munich, accidentally discovered an apartment for themselves - and so they moved out to the country in 2016 and now live there with three children (two to eight years old).
Heimke first found his new home there - and in 2020 he also found a suitable employer just around the corner in Regens Wagner.
He has now “fully arrived” in the management position.
Whether decisions on financial issues or personnel, the plans for the new Don Bosco School or agreements with the authorities - everything ends up on Heimke's desk.
“From everyday questions to more complex problems.”
The tasks as overall manager are varied because this is also what Regens Wagner offers.
In Rottenbuch, educators and childcare workers are trained, among other things, and the foundation also runs the Don Bosco special school with a focus on intellectual development and a special education day care center on site.
In Rottenbuch and Böbing, residential groups for children and young people are offered; in Peißenberg, twelve adults with intellectual disabilities can be supported in a support center and in a housing offer.
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Greater focus on public relations: Regens Wagner should become better known
Lots of offerings, a strong contact point in the district.
And yet still too unknown, says Heimke.
“Some people don’t even know Regens Wagner.
That can’t actually be the case.” That’s why the general manager is increasingly focusing on public relations.
Training and job fairs in the area are contact points, and Regens Wagner also specifically targets schools.
There was also an internal meeting in October, and since then there has been increased advertising, especially on Instagram.
“It takes time, it takes effort.
But we hope it will pay off,” says Heimke.
“At least in terms of the number of followers it is noticeable so far.”
But not yet when it comes to applications.
More specialist staff would be needed in the residential groups - then more residential places could be offered in both Rottenbuch and Böbing.
The number of students at the vocational school for child care has also been falling for years.
The fact that another school has now been opened in the neighboring district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen “makes it even more difficult”.
Nevertheless, Heimke is optimistic that the branch can be preserved.
After all, the numbers at the specialist academy where educators are trained remain stable.
"Fortunately."
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However, on-site training is not always a guarantee that skilled workers will be available to fill your own offerings.
Many students leave Rottenbuch.
But Gerbig had prepared his successor for this.
“He told me that you have to let students go first.
And then some come back,” remembers Heimke.
“That turned out to be true.” This school year, two teachers who had once completed their training in Rottenbuch started at the technical academy.
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