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Scandal 500,000 euros a year for a former DRC Superior
At present, a discussion about the salaries of executives at the German Red Cross (DRK) has flared up. According to information of the RBB magazine "plain text", apparently the mother superior and Federal Merit carrier Heidi Schäfer-Frischmann, have received an annual salary of about 500,000 euros.
"For us, humanity means looking after one another, one is always part of a community with us, no matter how young or old one is," said the new superior, Doreen Fuhr, the DRK sisterhood Berlin. The new head of the DRC does not want to comment on her predecessor and her salary. "Well, I really can not give you any information about that, it's beyond my knowledge."
Did not know anything
Her predecessor Heidi Schäfer-Frischmann was from 1996 to 2012 the Superior of the DRK Sisterhood Berlin. A nonprofit association. He represents 1,100 members, mostly nurses. They work in the club's own clinics: in the Westend, in Wedding and in Köpenick. The hospitals do not pay the sisters directly, but to the association. He in turn pays the sisters. The matron's job is not to run the clinics. She is only responsible for the 1,100 nurses. And the predecessor, who retired in 2012, should have paid 500,000 euros annually between 2009 and 2010.
In addition to the already lush annual salary of 360,000 euros, it should also have given bonuses for example for economic success, so that a total amount of just under half a million euros came about.
These are references from which ordinary employees as well as bosses of smaller companies can only dream. For comparison: The boards of the Berlin city cleaning or the transport companies were in 2010 with 313,000 and 305,000 euros annual salary downright modest.
The fact that the former matron had such a high salary was known to very few people involved. Even the successor Fuhr, who has been superior to the Berlin Sisterhood for two years, is said to have learned of the high pay only through the research of the magazine.
Anger and incomprehension
Now the DRC wants to act. As one spokeswoman said: "We have commissioned an external audit by an auditing firm that assesses the appropriateness of the compensation of the Superintendent i. R. as well as the effectiveness of internal control mechanisms examine. "On large incomprehension came the scandal also with the general secretariat of the DRK. Dr. Dieter Schütz told the "Kurier": "If the allegations are correct, we consider a former leader of the Sisterhood Berlin annual salaries in this amount for completely inappropriate." Stunned showed Ellis Huber, former President of the Medical Association: "An annual salary of over a million, that really makes me stunned. And it's unreasonable to raise such exorbitant salaries with a charitable orientation. "Nurses and nurses are among the lowest earners in the republic, even though they work weekends and shift work. (Sb)
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