Purpose Humanitarian Aid Main organ General Assembly | President Gerald Schöpfer | |
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Formation March 14, 1880; 136 years ago (1880-03-14) |
The Austrian Red Cross (German: Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz, ÖRK) is the national Red Cross Organization in Austria and is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It was established on March 14, 1880 by Doctor Adam Lichtenheld of the Vienna General Hospital and is the biggest aid agency in the country.
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Duties
Its duties contain:
Most employees are volunteers. In the year 2004, 45.000 employees were counted.
Presidents of the ÖRK
National Organisation
The organisation persists of 9 subordinate national organisations, all are their own entities but are bound to the basic principles of the Austrian Red Cross. This has historical reasons, the national organisation originated out of many small, local aid organisations.
These consist of totally 142 district offices and 956 local offices.