Burckhard House

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Former Burckhard house in Berlin-Dahlem

The Burckhardthaus was an institution of the Evangelical Churches in Germany that existed from 1893 to 2007 . From 1970 it was an advanced and advanced training institute for employees of the Protestant churches and church institutions.

history

Beginnings

The Protestant clergyman Johannes Burckhardt (1853-1914) was the first chairman of the "Board of Directors Association (es) of Protestant Virgins' Associations in Germany" founded in Barmen in 1893 . This was renamed in 1906 to "Association of Evangelical Virgins' Associations Germany" and in 1913 to "Evangelical Association for the Care of Female Youth", and in 1918 to "Evangelical Association for Female Youth in Germany", and finally in 1929 to "Evangelical Reich Association of Female Youth". In 1932 it had about 304,000 members. This association is considered to be the origin of the "World Association of Christian Women in Germany - German YWCA ".

Burckhardt, who had got to know the plight of the maids as a pastor in Berlin , got involved with these young women, who had often moved from the country to the big city. After he had founded the station mission in 1897 , he trained women in a one-year course to become “professional workers” who could be deployed in congregations or the Inner Mission . Burckhardt also trained so-called “travel secretaries” who visited women's groups and gave suggestions for work.

A club house of its own was founded in Berlin-Dahlem for the rapidly growing work, which was named "Burckhardthaus" after Burckhardt's death. On April 27, 1918, a Burckhardthaus publishing house was founded as a GmbH.

After Burckhardt, Wilhelm Thiele (1863–1930) and Anna Paulsen (1893–1981) in particular shaped further work and in 1926 founded the “Bibel and Youth Leader School”. The work, which was continued under the changed name “Evangelical Reich Association of Female Youth eV”, was massively hindered by the National Socialists from 1933 onwards, and leisure time and nationwide youth conferences were no longer allowed to take place. In 1941 the "Burckhardthausverlag eV" was banned. a. the "Deutsche Mädchenzeitung" had published with a circulation of 40,000 copies. In 1943 the Bible School was relocated to Lobetal near Bernau , a branch of the von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel , due to the danger of bombs , but closed there before the end of the war.

The Burckhardthaus-Ost

For the East Zone / GDR , work was initially resumed at Bernauer Strasse 4, East Berlin . The "Biblical Help" A and B (for older and younger) as well as the devotional book "Halt us with firm faith" were taken over by the Evangelical Publishing House. The “Seminar for Church Women’s Service” was initially continued there. Furthermore, there was training in organ playing , and a boarding school was attached to the training facility. Forty foreign students lived there in October 1954. The construction of the Berlin Wall forced the seminar to move to Lobetal, where it remained until 1971, while the headquarters of the Burckhardthaus-Ost found a place to stay in the rooms of the Berlin Sophiengemeinde after some back and forth . In addition to the office, the employees of the editorial department, the areas of further education and training, child labor and, from 1969, also those of distance learning worked there . The training in seminar form ended in 1972. As early as 1961, a two-year distance learning course enabled the qualification to work as a community helper, the completion of which in 1971 was recognized as a professional examination for church community work. The advanced training courses for youth work as well as the basic and advanced courses for distance learning took place from 1970 in Potsdam on Bauhofstrasse, later on Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse. In 1980 a course on “Counseling and Pastoral Care in Adolescence” was added.

The Burckhardthaus-West

After the war, the headquarters of the Burckhardthaus was reopened in 1949 after a few moves in the “white villa” in Gelnhausen . There it developed as Burckhardthaus - Evangelical Institute for Youth, Culture and Social Work eV to the central training center of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) . His tasks were qualifying long-term programs, thematic courses, consultations and specialist conferences on the following topics: Training center for leadership and leadership (WBZ), counseling and personal development, living theology, management in the office, social work in the community, youth work and street work, aesthetic education / youth cultural work, Supervision. The constant, critical and reciprocal dialogue between theology and the social and human sciences was also part of his duties.

A conference center was attached to the Burckhardhaus-West, which was also available to other institutions and organizations. With its nationwide advertised offers, the Burckhardthaus participated in the performance of joint tasks of the EKD within the framework of its constitution.

The Burckhardthaus was financed by course fees, donations, grants from the EKD and federal funds. The Burckhardthaus was a member of the conference of central training institutions for youth and social work.

After 1990

After the reunification, the question arose how the work of the two Burckhard houses should continue. In the discussions between the governing bodies and the respective lecturers, it became clear how differently the work had developed in East and West. In Gelnhausen, in addition to working with children and young people, the Burckhardthaus had taken on tasks in the field of social, women's, community and community work as well as artistic training. There was no longer any distance learning training for community workers in the West. The continuation of one's own editorial work also no longer seemed sensible. The EKD Council urged that the two Burckhard houses be united into one house.

According to a resolution of the EKD Council from 1992, the united Burckhardthaus was supposed to promote the establishment and development of Protestant youth work in the new federal states . In practice, however, in order to avoid double financial burdens, all branches of the Burckhardthaus-Ost and the conference center in Potsdam, and later the headquarters in Berlin, were given up. The Burckhardthaus-Ost thus suffered the same fate as many other "wound up" institutions in the new federal states.

In the following years, the Burckhardthaus in Gelnhausen continued to participate with its offers in the performance of community tasks of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). The courses offered there should offer the opportunity to look together for solutions to individual, social and political problems that the participants encounter in their church work. The work of the Burckhardthaus included a dialogue between theology and the social and human sciences . Since 2004 the Burckhardthaus has been a member of the German Society for Social Work - forum for science and practice .

In 2007 the Burckhardthaus was incorporated into the Federal Academy for Church and Diakonia and thus ceased to exist after more than a hundred years of history.

Head of the Burckhard House

The management was mostly in the hands of a director and a director who, until 1945, were often also chairmen of the "Reich Association of Female Youth".

Dahlem before 1945

Head in Berlin (East) after 1945

  • 1948–1949 Johannes Jänicke (1900–1987)
  • 1949–1959 Theodor Jänicke (1907–1985)
  • 1951–1963 Ingeborg Becker (1910–1983)
  • 1963–1974 Gisela Fengler (1923–2005)
  • 1960–1970 Heinz Blauert (1920–2005)
  • 1970–1978 Claus-Jürgen Wizisla (* 1931)
  • 1988–1997 Fritz Dorgerloh (* 1932)

In the years 1978–1988 there was no director. Therefore, in 1975 the director's position was converted into a director's position, initially held by Waltraud Hopstock and, from 1977, by Gertraud Hegermann.

Head in West Germany

  • 1945–1971 Ilse Ultsch, manager of the house in Hanerau-Hademarschen
  • 1949–1956 Helmut Pfeiffer, director
  • 1953–1964 Gertrud Friedrich, director
  • 1957–1961 Jörg Zink , director of the Burckhard House in Gelnhausen
  • 1964–1971 Eva Renate Schmidt (* 1929), director
  • 1962–1969 Wilhelm Brunotte
  • 1968– Heinrich-Constantin Rohrbach
  • 1976–1989 Karl – Behrnd Hasselmann
  • –2007 Peter Musall

swell

  • Barbara Thiele: Youth work as a mirror of current affairs . Shown using the example of the work of the Burckhard House from 1893–1968. Burckhardthaus-Verlag, Gelnhausen / Berlin 1968.
  • Peter Musall: Continuity and Change . Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Burckhardthaus e. V. Gelnhausen 1994.
  • Ellen Ueberschär : War and end of war . The survival of Protestant association work between 1939 and 1945. In: Norbert Friedrich, Traugott Jähnichen (Hrsg.): Bochum forum for the history of social Protestantism . Social Protestantism under National Socialism Diaconal and Christian social associations under the rule of National Socialism. tape 4 . Lit Verlag , Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7039-1 , p. 147-154 .
  • Rebecca Müller: Training as a community helper . The seminar for church women service in Burckhardthaus eV 1926-1971. Kohlhammer , Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-026301-7 .
  • Christa Paulini: "Serving the people as a whole is not a class struggle" . The professional associations of social workers in the changing world of social work. In: Siegen studies on women's studies . Vol. 8. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 978-3-8100-3127-3 .
  • Dietlind Glüer (Ed.): The Burckhardthaus-Ost - experienced and remembered - . Lutherische Verlagsgesellschaft, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-87503-214-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grete Schemann:  Burckhardt, Johannes Friedrich Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 41 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Volker Brecht: The missionary relevance of community counseling . 2004 ( propertibazar [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on March 2, 2019] doctoral thesis).
  3. ^ A b Petra Brinkmeier: Female youth care between sociability and morality . On the history of the Association of Protestant Virgins' Associations in Germany (1890-1918). Potsdam 2003, p. 248,454 ( uni-potsdam.de [PDF; accessed on March 6, 2019] dissertation).
  4. ^ Rebecca Müller: Training to be a community assistant. (see section literature )
  5. ^ History. In: Germany YWCA. World Federation of Christian Women in Germany V., accessed on March 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ cf. also history of evangelical women's aid. Anna Storck (1898–1982) - The first travel secretary. Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, accessed on March 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ in Friedbergstrasse 25-27, since 1938 Rudeloffweg 25-27
  8. ↑ Inauguration on June 7, 1914 (according to information on the back of a historical postcard)
  9. ↑ Christian Halbrock: blasted away. (No longer available online.) In: Journal of the Memorial Museum in the round corner. Citizens Committee Leipzig eV for the dissolution of the former State Security (MfS), 2008, pp. 12–17 , archived from the original on June 19, 2018 ; accessed on June 19, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horch-und-guck.info
  10. ^ Burckhardthaus - Evangelical Institute for Youth, Culture and Social Work eV In: Specialist portal of child and youth welfare. IJAB - Specialized Agency for International Youth Work of the Federal Republic of Germany, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Self-presentation in Margrete Reinel: Burckhardthaus - Ev. Institute for Youth, Culture and Social Work eV In: Education Network Rhein-Main. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Our story. Federal Academy for Church and Diakonia , accessed on June 20, 2018 .