Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt am Main Höchst
| Federation for Public Education Frankfurt am Main Höchst (bfv) |
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| purpose | To develop and present cultural and leisure activities for Höchst and the western districts of Frankfurt. |
| Chair: | Gerald Zier |
| Establishment date: | 1868 |
| Seat : | Frankfurt-Höchst |
The Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt am Main Höchst eV (bfv) has existed as an association for the promotion of education and culture in the Frankfurt district of Höchst since 1868. It emerged from the training of workers at that time. The association is an important part of the cultural life in Höchst.
For a long time it was also responsible for adult education and adult education in the west of Frankfurt, until this task was taken over in 1976 by the newly established Office for Adult Education / Adult Education of the City of Frankfurt.
activities
In accordance with its statutes, the Bund für Volksbildung set itself the task of “activating the participation of broad sections of the population in cultural life and leisure activities”.
The club has been awarded the 1987 founded cabaret Neues Theater Höchst and connected thereto cinemas Film Forum maximum . In conjunction with the New Theater Höchst, the association has been organizing the late summer theater festival Barock am Main in the garden of the Höchst Bolongaro Palace since 2004 .
With the “Highest City Talk” held at irregular intervals, the Bund für Volksbildung offers politically interested citizens of the western parts of Frankfurt a platform for public participation and communication. According to the statutes, special emphasis is placed on the support and promotion of so-called disadvantaged groups .
history
In the German Empire - 1868 to 1918
Since the middle of the 19th century, Germany was in economic upheaval with the industrial revolution . The city of Höchst am Main also quickly developed into a prosperous industrial city through the establishment of the tar paint factory Meister, Lucius & Co. in 1863, later Farbwerke Hoechst , and its economic success.
With the economic development, the interest in a broad education grew in order to be able to keep up with the upheavals of the time. Therefore, on October 30, 1868, members of a Catholic reading club, the Höchst Trade Association and politically active workers founded the Höchst Training Association . The association's initial activities were limited to irregular lectures and the loan of books that are administered and stored by the association's members. After a committee for public lectures was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1890, the Höchst Advanced Training Association decided in 1894 to make the collection of all its books publicly available in a library and reading room. The financial maintenance of the rented rooms in the former Antoniterkloster was secured by the city of Höchst, the dye works and donations.
In 1897 a committee for popular lectures was founded in Höchst in addition to the advanced training association. Shortly afterwards, all associations with similar goals from the Frankfurt area merged to form the Rhein-Mainischer Verband für Volksvorlesungen, based in Frankfurt am Main. In 1904 the Höchst Advanced Training Association was merged into the Committee for Popular Lectures, which took over the library and also the financial contributions from the city and the paint works. In 1909 the association invited all parties, associations and clubs in Höchst to send representatives to the association's board in order to better coordinate educational work in Höchst. Two years later the committee was renamed the Volksbildungsverein . For the 50th anniversary in 1913, the association received a donation of 10,000 Reichsmarks from the color works.
During the First World War 1914 to 1918, the committee's educational activities were severely restricted. The educational material was geared towards war-related topics, which reduced offers due to a lack of personnel. To maintain the popular education idea, the Rhein-Mainischer Verband organizes three military academies from 1916 onwards.
During the Weimar period - 1919 to 1933
After the First World War, a restructuring of popular education work became necessary under the sign of the young German republic . Further factors for a reorganization were the population of Höchsts, which doubled from 1917 to 34,000 due to the incorporation, as well as the French occupation that lasted until 1930, which made communication between the city and the surrounding area - especially unoccupied Frankfurt - difficult.
In November 1919, after a short period of preparation, the committee for popular lectures changed its name to the Bund für Volksbildung Höchst am Main . The work of the new association was supported by the city of Höchst with 25,000 Reichsmarks annually, whereby the city reserved a say in the use of the funds. In the following years specialist departments were founded; Theater and cinema performances, lectures and concerts form the focus of the association's educational activities.
As early as 1920, the von Meister family, co-founders of the Farbwerke, gave the association the Bürgersaal on Gartenstrasse (today Peter-Bied-Strasse ) for use. In 1925 the citizens' hall was converted into a public education center at a cost of 300,000 Reichsmarks, most of which came from donations and public grants. Due to the high maintenance costs of the building, it became the property of the city of Höchst, and use was free of charge for the federal government. The people's education home was inaugurated in January 1927. With the incorporation of Höchsts to Frankfurt a good year later, the building passed into Frankfurt ownership, but what was now the Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt / M.-Höchst remained independent in its work in the western parts of the city and the suburbs in the Main-Taunus district . Only the association's lending library was taken over by the city of Frankfurt as the Volksbücherei Frankfurt / Main-Höchst in 1929.
As early as the end of the 1920s, the Bund für Volksbildung (Bund für Volksbildung) was involved in the training and further education of unemployed young people and adults. With growing unemployment in the wake of the global economic crisis , voluntary labor services for young people were set up in 1932, and job-promotion measures were offered in cooperation with the Farbwerke. All federal educational programs at that time were free and regularly booked out.
The work of the Federation for Popular Education came to a sudden end in 1933 as part of the “ Gleichschaltung ”. On April 25, 1933, the Bund für Volksbildung (Bund für Volksbildung) was dissolved by the National Socialist rulers and transferred to a National Socialist cultural community .
The post-war period - 1945 to 1986
After Frankfurt was occupied by American troops in March 1945, the American command office founded a section for adult education to educate Germans to democracy. Else Epstein and Carl Tesch in Frankfurt and Kurt Debus in Höchst, who were already involved in popular education before 1933, were given permission to rebuild the old popular education associations. In this way, the first educational events as well as theatrical and cinema performances could take place at the end of 1945 in Höchst, which was not very much destroyed, despite the great lack of space - all larger rooms had been confiscated by the occupation troops. In 1947, the range of courses was expanded considerably in order to help war refugees to close the war-related training gaps.
The provisional re-establishment of the Federation for Popular Education Frankfurt am Main Höchst took place in April 1946, in 1948 the association was formally re-established after approval of the statutes by the occupation command, in 1949 the association was recognized as non-profit by the state of Hesse . As early as October 1947, the association for public lectures in the Main and Rhine regions , which had been dissolved in 1933, was re-established as the Hessian state association for adult education by Allied decree , and Carl Tesch from the Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung took over management.
The number of courses and events offered grew continuously in the years to come, so in 1954 the Höchst historian and journalist Rudolf Schäfer was appointed managing director. In 1957 the people's education home was cleared by the US authorities and could again be used for theater performances and concerts. Regular trips to foreign theaters have been included in the program. The adult education program was also constantly expanded and expanded. With the Hessian Adult Education Act of 1970, the work could be professionalized through the state funds now available.
To the surprise of the highest population, the city of Frankfurt had the Volksbildungsheim on Peter-Bied-Straße demolished in 1975 and replaced by the new building of the Education and Culture Center ( BIKUZ ), which also houses the Friedrich-Dessauer-Gymnasium . A branch of the Frankfurt City Library and the office of the Frankfurt-West Adult Education Center were set up in the building. After the demolition of the BIKUZ in 2007, the facilities housed there were distributed to other buildings in Höchst; they moved back there after the completion of the new building in August 2009.
In 1976, the city of Frankfurt communalized the Höchst Adult Education Center and the Frankfurt Adult Education Center founded by the Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung in 1948. It formed the office for adult education / adult education center , from which the adult education center Frankfurt am Main emerged in 1999 as a municipal company. The Bund für Volksbildung now concentrated on cultural work in the west of Frankfurt. However, the BIKUZ hall was often unsuitable or not available, and the cultural meeting place on Königsteiner Straße was often too small. Therefore, alternative rooms were sought in order to be able to continue the cultural work appropriately.
After negotiations with the city of Frankfurt, the city rented a property in Emmerich-Josef-Strasse in 1986 . The former Excelsior cinema center had recently been closed. This is where the Federation for Popular Education organized its first events after the war. The former cinema offered enough space for events. After the renovation of the building, the New Theater Höchst was set up here in 1987 , to which the Filmforum Höchst was attached as part of the Höchst Adult Education Center. This means that there was again a regular cinema offer in Höchst.
literature
- Klaus Kippert: From popular education to adult education. 100 years of the Bund für Volksbildung Frankfurt / Main-Höchst eV 1868–1968. Höchst history books 14/15. Frankfurt-Höchst 1968: Association for history a. Antiquity.
- Rudolf Schäfer: Chronicle of Höchst am Main. Frankfurt am Main 1986: Waldemar Kramer.