BDH Bundesverband Rehabilitation e.V.
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BDH Bundesverband Rehabilitation e.V.

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The Tannwald 179215 Elzach

Social organisation

The BDH Federal Association for Rehabilitation has represented the interests of people with disabilities for 100 years.

As a social association, it is an independent, non-profit self-help organization and solidarity community. In a nationwide network of district associations find B

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The BDH helps its members through voluntary advice and professional legal representation to the authorities and before the social courts. It also promotes contact between those affected.

He sees himself as an independent self-help organization that participates in the socio-political securing of the social benefit system.

Clinical operators

In seven clinics throughout Germany and an outpatient therapy center, about 10,000 people are treated annually.

The BDH still performs pioneering work in the field of neurological rehabilitation and neurological early rehabilitation and has founded institutions that set standards.

Last updated on 10.09.2025

Key activities

Self-help on the spot.

The excellent service offered by the BDH also includes a dense network of district associations, which is connected throughout Germany.

The main task of the district associations is to provide advice, arrange social law advice and support by the BDH, but also to organize exchange and social relations between those affected and their relatives. However, with the membership structure and the needs of those affected, the questions and problems presented to the district associations also change.

Increasingly, a socio-medical or in the narrower sense rehabilitation-technical and therapeutic counseling is now desired. The district associations therefore increasingly see themselves as a link in the rehabilitation chain and as a link between self-help in everyday life and institutionalized rehabilitation.