Catholic University of Freiburg

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Catholic University of Freiburg
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founding 1971
Sponsorship ecclesiastical
place DEU Freiburg im Breisgau COA.svg Freiburg in Breisgau
state Baden-WürttembergBaden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg
country GermanyGermany Germany
Rector Edgar Kösler
Students 1,790 (as of summer semester 2020)
Professors 36, about 160 lecturers
Website www.kh-freiburg.de
Catholic University of Freiburg, building 3

The Catholic University of Freiburg (KH Freiburg) was founded in 1971 by merging several traditional predecessor institutions. It is one of the five Freiburg universities and one of seven Catholic universities in Germany.

The University

The Catholic University of Freiburg ( Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg ) is the largest college of social and health services in Baden-Württemberg .

The Catholic University is run by the Catholic University of Freiburg gGmbH. Its shareholders are the Archdiocese of Freiburg , the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , the German Caritas Association , the Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Freiburg and the Caritas Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

The KH Freiburg is officially recognized. The state recognition was extended to the courses in the nursing department in 1992 and in 2001 to the courses in the management department. Their tasks in teaching and studying, research and further education are carried out independently.

In accordance with the original educational mandate of the universities of applied sciences in Germany (Wissenschaftsrat 2002), the KH Freiburg provides its students with practical and professional training on a scientific basis.

The KH Freiburg currently offers six bachelor 's degree programs , two master’s degree programs plus a joint master’s degree and nine additional teaching programs.

In the current CHE university ranking (2020/2021), the KH Freiburg achieved positions in the top group in seven categories with its BA in Social Work. This certifies that the university has a very high level of student satisfaction and is one of the best universities for this course in German-speaking countries.

34 professors work in teaching, research and further education for the approximately 1,800 enrolled students.

The Caritas library (also the university library) is the largest German specialist library for social affairs and care.

The university maintains international partnerships with 40 European universities and several relationships with universities on other continents.

history

In 1911 was in Heidelberg by Maria Countess Graimberg-Bellau initiated Social Women's School of Heidelberg founded. It existed until 1971 as a higher technical school for social work sponsored by the German Caritas Association ; from 1971 until its dissolution in 1979 as the Heidelberg department, it was integrated into the Catholic University of Freiburg, making it the oldest predecessor of today's university .

At the end of the First World War , the first social schools were built in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1919, initiated by the Catholic Women’s Association in Freiburg, the association Sozialpolitische Frauenschule Freiburg e. V., the sociopolitical women's school, the training company. An important concern of the founder of the German Caritas Association Lorenz Werthmann was the qualification of the employees. The Freiburg Caritas School was created in 1920 with the aim of preparing for Caritas work in the parishes. Caritasschule and women's school were run in the form of a working group together with the Verein Sozialpolitische Frauenschule until 1925.

From 1927 the Caritas Association continuously offered retraining courses for its male employees. The welfare school was set up in 1930 to prepare for the final examination for state recognition as a welfare worker. In 1933 it was renamed "Seminar for welfare workers". Both schools, the Social Women's School of the German Caritas Association and the seminar for welfare workers of the German Caritas Association, merged in 1969 to form the Higher Technical School for Social Work at the German Caritas Association and in 1971 became part of the college as a social work department.

In 1927, the youth leader seminar founded by Maria Kiene at the German Caritas Association was a third predecessor of the Catholic University of Freiburg. This seminar qualified practically active kindergarten teachers and after-school care workers for management and teaching tasks in a one-year advanced training with a state final examination .

From 1947 the youth leaders' seminar trained social pedagogues in two-year basic training courses as a higher technical school for social pedagogy. In 1971 this facility was also integrated into the University of Applied Sciences as a social pedagogy department.

The basic structure of the new university of applied sciences established in 1971 was completed by the integration of the curative education seminar at the German Caritas Association . This seminar was founded in 1965 and has now been incorporated into the university as a specialty pedagogy . There was also a religious education department (1973), a nursing department (1992) and a management department (2003).

On October 1, 2010, the university was renamed from the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg to its current name.

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, the KH Freiburg organized a symposium on November 11, 2011 with the topic "The Catholic University of Freiburg in the network of the Church and its Caritas".

Principles of the Catholic University

tuition fee

For the summer semester 2007, the then state government of the CDU and FDP introduced a tuition fee of € 500. Independently of this state resolution, the same amount of tuition fees was introduced at the Freiburg Catholic University of Applied Sciences at the decision of the shareholders. The green-red state government elected in 2011 abolished tuition fees at state universities in the 2012 summer semester. For the 2012/13 winter semester, the tuition fees for the bachelor's degree programs at the Catholic University of Freiburg were reduced from € 500 to € 280.

Course offer

Bachelor courses

The following bachelor courses are offered:

  • Social work
  • Applied Nursing Science
  • Curative Education / Inclusive Education
  • Healthcare Management
  • Vocational education in health care (formerly: nursing education)
  • Applied theology and religious education
  • Management of educational and educational institutions (to be discontinued)
  • Pedagogy (to be discontinued)

Masters courses

Consecutive

  • Clinical curative education

Further education

  • Management and leadership skills are offered as an open study course and as part of the Project and Study program

Composite master

  • Applied Gerontology

Web links

Commons : Catholic University (Freiburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  • Herbert Pielmaier / Helmut Schwab: From the Caritasschule to the Catholic University, in: caritas '97. Yearbook of the German Caritas Association, Freiburg 1997, pp. 76–82
  • Catholic University of Freiburg

Individual evidence

  1. https://idw-online.de/de/news449712
  2. http://www.kh-freiburg.de/studium/studieren/studienbeitraege/

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 14 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 27 ″  E