After 20 years, Hermann Assies leaves the AGJ professional association’s homeless assistance in the district.
. Some could hardly believe that Hermann Assies (53) would stop: They told him that he could not go because he embodied helping the homeless. Since 2006 he has been head of the homeless assistance of the AGJ association for prevention and rehabilitation in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. He started working there in 2001. Saying goodbye is difficult for him too.
What is it about working with homeless people? “It’s about very existential questions in life,” says Hermann Assies. About life stories that are tragic and difficult. And of course about justice. Such topics have always preoccupied Hermann Assies. In the family of six children in which he, born in Dörpen im Emsland in 1967, grew up in a Catholic village nearby, he was the one who was most interested in religion. His parents had a …
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