Academic Aid Association

The Academic Aid Association (AHB) was founded as a special purpose association in Berlin on April 8, 1915 at the suggestion of the German Burschenschaft during the First World War . Local committees of the Aid Federation were set up in other German university towns . The Academic Aid Association existed until the 1920s.

Task

The task of the Aid Federation was to support wounded academics and students who needed advice on their future employment or were forced to change their profession . They should be helped in building a new economic existence.

The Academic Aid Association took on the fate of war blind people in particular . The AHB set up homes for the blind in Marburg and Berlin.

Financing basis

Charity performances were held in university towns for the benefit of the Aid Federation. Donations also flowed to the Academic Aid Association .

Members of the AHB

In the Empire and the Weimar Republic had Hugo Boettger , Friedrich August Pinkerneil and Hermann Katzenberger held senior positions in the sub-covenant. Hugo Boettger was chairman of the Academic Aid Association from 1915 to 1925. Friedrich August Pinkerneil held the office of managing director in 1916. Hermann Katzenberger was appointed director of the AHB in 1918.

See also

• German war invalids in the 20th century

literature

• Alfred Bielschowsky (Ed.): Contributions to the education system for the blind , Volume 1, Springer-Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 1918.
• Trude Maurer : "... and we are part of it". University and 'Volksgemeinschaft' in the First World War , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3525336038 .
• Friedrich August Pinkerneil: The Academic Aid Association: His way and his goal . Publication of the office of the Academic Aid Association, Berlin 1916.
• From the past of the University of Würzburg. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the university , published on behalf of the Rector and Senate by Max Buchner, Springer-Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 1932.
• Tobias Wildmaier / Max Matter (eds.): Song and popular culture - Song and Popuar Culture . Waxmann Verlag , Münster / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3830916246 .

Web links

• E. Uetrecht: Student und Krieg , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Information on the AHB Berlin in: Blätter für Informationswesen , 1917, p. 4 , accessed on February 23, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Burschenschaftliche Geschichte , accessed on February 23, 2017.
2. ↑ From the past of the University of Würzburg. Festschrift for the 350th anniversary of the university , published by order of the Rector and Senate by Max Buchner, Springer-Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 1932, pp. 51–52.
3. ↑ Akademischer Hilfs-Bund , accessed on February 23, 2017.
4. ↑ Tobias Wildmaier / Max Matter (eds.): Song and popular culture - Song and Popuar Culture . Waxmann Verlag , Münster / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3830916246 , pp. 34-35.
5. ^ Alfred Bielschowsky (Ed.): Contributions to the blind education system , Volume 1, Springer-Verlag , Berlin / Heidelberg 1918, p. 8.
6. ^ Burschenschaftliche Geschichte , accessed on February 23, 2017.
7. ↑ Trude Maurer: "... and we are part of it". University and 'Volksgemeinschaft' in the First World War , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3525336038 , pp. 453-465.
8. ↑ Gerhard Köbler: Who is who in German law , accessed on February 23, 2017.