Together for the future of youth

K o r n t a l / 14 December 2009

The Hemminger businessman Rolf Eisenmann is a unique and many-sided individual. For years he has been supporting the Kallenberg Children's Fest and associations in his home town of Korntal-Münchingen and has, moreover, been active in local politics. With a 3,000 euro donation he is now supporting the Hoffmannhaus Youth Welfare in Korntal because, when it's about the future of young people, he knows what he's talking about.

At first glance, Rolf Eisenmann and the Korntal Hoffmannhaus Youth Welfare, a part of the deaconry of the Korntal Evangelical Brethren, appear to have little in common. Eisenmann founded an automotive supply company and earns his money from exhaust systems for Porsche cars, among others. The Korntal Hoffmannhaus looks after children and adolescents who, due to complex family problems, have behavioural issues and are therefore at risk of dropping out of society. But on closer examination, the businessman and the "children's home" do indeed have a common objective: both have a big interest in these adolescents becoming independent people. The one trains apprentices, quite undeterred by the present economic climate, and gives them the chance to rise in the business. The company Eisenmann has been awarded the Karl-Mommer-Preis for this. The Hoffmannhaus social workers, on the other hand, endeavour to help children and adolescents already heavily lumbered with life’s baggage so that they have the chance of benefitting from a good life.

"It's always an enriching experience for us when the two worlds meet", said the Hoffmannhaus leader, Klaus-Dieter Steeb, during the cheque presentation at the Hoffmannhaus. "Despite the fact that we work in quite different fields, we share a common activity for the future of youth."