Chairman of the Supervisory Board Schellenberg recognizes his services
In a press release, the city of Darmstadt informs about an important personnel decision: Clemens Maurer, Managing Director of Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH, will end his work at the end of 2025. After over twelve years at the head of the clinic, he leaves the Rhine-Main area for personal reasons and will relocate his center of life near Berlin.
With very regret, André Schellenberg, chairman of the supervisory board and clinic director, met Clemens Maurer's wish and whose contract, as managing director and spokesman for the management of Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH (KDA), canceled at the end of 2025. Clemens Maurer took over the Darmstadt Clinic in March 2013. Next year he will leave the Rhein-Main area with his family for personal reasons and will relocate his center of life near Berlin.
“Clemens Maurer's departure at the end of the year hurts twice. On the one hand with a view of the company and on the other hand personally. Our collaboration was open, honest, trusting and transparent. Together we acted both in terms of health care for people in South Hesse and in the sense of all employees and continuously developed the house. Clemens Maurer leaves very big footsteps, ”says Schellenberg.
Sustainable maximum supplier for South Hesse
The aim was always to ensure the large medical range of services of a maximum supplier, an improvement in performance quality, the further development of the clinic into an attractive employer and the sustainable existence in local sponsorship. This goal was achieved through growth and centralization and the Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH - hospital and subsidiary - was further developed and sustained.
Maurer's focus was on both internal structures, processes and the collaboration culture in Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH as well as regional and national networking. His political engagement is reflected in his offices as the board of the Hesse Clinic Association, the Hessian Hospital Society and the Allianz of Local Housing. It was always the characteristics of his leadership to position themselves, search for allies, and to drive and implement transformations.
Growth and new building
When the chance of acquiring two Catholic hospitals in 2015 and thus ensuring the range of services in the Darmstadt Clinic in the long term, Maurer and his team, in coordination with a partner and supervisory board, succeeded in successfully implementing the purchase and later integration.
The significant improvement in the economic situation paved the way for investments in the amount of 270 million euros for the central new hospital building: old existing buildings were demolished during the ongoing hospital company and the central new building was built in December 2020-in the middle of the corona pandemy - could be obtained. "The fact that this large project could be realized in time and budgets was a masterpiece of the outgoing managing director," said Stadtkämer Schellenberg. The result is a modern, centrally located hospital with helipad, the latest medical and IT technology and comfortable patient rooms.
Sustainability and digitization
Clemens Maurer also developed the house in the direction of sustainability and digitization: 35 million euros were invested in a new energy center and there, among other things, in combined heat and power plants; Sustainability management was built in 2023. Already in 2019, he settled the topic of digitization as a top priority and financially equipped in such a way that the Darmstadt Clinic was able to overcome the new challenges that were steadily added as the House of Critical Infrastructure.
During the Corona pandemic, the Darmstadt Clinic took responsibility for South Hesse by taking over a central coordination function in cooperation with the state of Hesse, taking up seriously ill covid patients and working closely with the science city of Darmstadt.
Designer of the hospital reform
The development, which has been determined since Corona pandemic, has led to an economic imbalance of the hospitals nationwide and also met the Darmstadt Clinic. The external factors will result in the Darmstadt Clinic will make losses in the current and coming year. Under the leadership of Clemens Maurer, however, it was possible to keep the economic losses as low as possible. In an excellent, close and month -long cooperation with the city, the municipal hospital was economically stabilized and the liquidity was also secured for the coming years. On this basis, it was possible to prepare for the hospital reform adopted in 2024, to position yourself and to continue to pursue the goal of a well -positioned maximum supplier.
Maurer initiated the holding company with the Agaplesion Elisabethenstift, which was also based in Darmstadt. “Typical for Clemens Maurer is the foresight and foresight to prepare our clinic early on for future developments - currently the hospital reform. The idea of getting together with the Agaplesion Elisabethenstift in a holding company to tackle the reform is and was correct. We will stick to this idea and use the next few months to continue to develop the health care and the radiance of the clinic positively for the people in southern Hesse, ”said Schellenberg.
“This step is not easy for me. I feel very connected to our clinic and employees and I am very proud of what we did together, ”says Clemens Maurer. “But now is the right time to go. I thank our partner and supervisory board for your trust and the opportunity to be able to work. I would like to thank our employees for their achievements and the active participation of all changes. Together we completed a change of image, have grown, have developed our numbers positively and thus created the basis for our central new building. Last but not least, I would like to thank you for the extraordinary commitment during pandemic. That makes me proud and confident for the future. "
Clemens Maurer adds: “With a view to the hospital reform and the holding, the house has very good perspectives to stand up sustainably. This is a good time to give the house in new hands and a new management the opportunity to set the course for the next few years on a solid basis. ”
Finally, clinic director Schellenberg announced: “Clemens Maurer's departure is a big loss for Darmstadt. However, since he managed to set up the municipal hospital so well in his time and to prepare for the upcoming transformations as well as possible, we as a partner and on the Supervisory Board are sure that we will win a very good successor for him and the clinic. The decision to expand the management by a medical and recently also a nursing managing director proves to be correct in this situation. With Dr. Jörg Noetzel and Michele Tarquinio have two experienced managing directors who can and will reliably conduct the house in a transition period. ”
(Darmstadt - PSD Stip)
Clemens Maurer Photo: Markus Schmidt PSD
