Karl-Heinz Vogt accompanied the office of the chairman and managing director of Caritas Wohnen gGmbH. At the same time, Klaus-Heiner Kaufmann was a board member, managing director of Caritas Werkstätten gGmbH and managing the association’s main office. Their official farewell had to be canceled due to the corona.
Karl-Heinz Vogt (67) has retired after 52 years of work. Born in Rimbeck, he was head of the curative educational therapy and support center (HPZ) St. Laurentius in Warburg for decades. Vogt had already carried his personal belongings out of his office in the HPZ before Christmas. Including a so-called “sign of life”, a person carved out of wood that his daughter had brought him from Africa. “This figure grounds me. It reminds of the originality of being human, ”says the Africa lover and father of three children. Vogt has five grandchildren – “and the sixth is on the way”.
In the past few decades, there has been no greater professional happiness for him than being there for other people. “People with disabilities and the elderly are our clients, not legislators or offices,” emphasizes Vogt.
For the first half of his professional years, the graduate in administrative management was initially a municipal civil servant and later worked in various management positions in the disabled and elderly care.
Under Vogt’s leadership, 60 million euros were invested in the future and modernization of the HPZ between 2003 and 2014. A significant improvement in living conditions and the personnel situation can be attributed to him. In the past, for example, three to four-bed rooms were the norm for residents, but now almost everyone has their own apartment. In addition, outdoor living groups have been set up.
Entrepreneurial thinking established
He has always seen establishing entrepreneurial thinking in the health industry as the cornerstone of his actions, for example transforming facilities and services into service companies – also to bring young people and skilled workers to Warburg. To promote work in the social economy in relation to local, state and federal politics, Vogt saw as a core task of his work, for example in helping to shape and implement the Federal Participation Act.
An affair of the heart for Vogt is the creation of the “Quartiers Laurentiushöhe”, a new district with an inclusive approach to the HPZ, which Vogt played a key role in getting started with. Vogt recalls that he had the idea seven years ago. However, the implementation is a generational mandate and not tied to his person. In the role of observer, now without responsibility, he will continue to critically monitor the development of the quarter – “a huge opportunity for Warburg”.
Karl-Heinz Vogt also wants to continue to work professionally as a management consultant. “The time for the rocking chair has not yet come,” he says. He wants to use the freedom he has gained to read more in retirement and indulge in long-distance running.
Workshops expanded
In 1990, Klaus-Heiner Kaufmann began his career in assistance for the disabled as a workshop manager at the Caritas workshops in Warburg. After holding several management positions within the entire company, Klaus-Heiner Kaufmann was entrusted with the management of the Caritas workshops in 2005. As a member of the board of the CWW Paderborn, he was responsible for the central services finance and IT, later also for the head office. Klaus-Heiner Kaufmann has expanded the workshops, which now have ten companies and 1700 employees in Paderborn, Büren and Warburg, into places of participation in working life. His main goal was to enable employees to move out of the workshop and into the primary labor market. Through vocational training close to the labor market, around 170 jobs were created in the economy. In doing so, he pursued the goal of inclusion from the start and made the workshops fit for the future.
New chairman of the board
Dagmar Kieselmann, who was unanimously elected by the Supervisory Board, has been the new CEO of CWW Paderborn since January 1st. The qualified social worker and business economist has been managing director of Caritas Altenhilfe since 2009 and board member of CWW Paderborn since 2010.
New managing directors
The Supervisory Board has already made the personnel decision for the successor to the two departing managing directors. As of January 1st, Karla Bredenbals has taken over the management and board position for the workshops division, and Matthias Schmidt for the living division. Together with Dagmar Kieselmann they form the board of the CWW Paderborn.
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