YMCA State Association of Bavaria

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CVJM-Landesverband Bayern e. V.
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legal form Registered association
Seat Bavaria
founding 1903

place Nuremberg
Secretary General Michael Götz
Board Carola Welker
executive Director Hans-Helmut Heller
Members around 12,000
Website www.cvjm-bayern.de

The CVJM-Landesverband Bayern eV is a Christian , legally independent youth association . He is a member of the German umbrella organization of the YMCA , the YMCA-Gesamtverband in Deutschland eV

General

The YMCA Bayern consists of 107 active local associations and affiliated youth groups from Bavaria (and an associated member from Austria ). There are around 12,000 members of the YMCA Bavaria and around 90,000 people are currently reached annually through regular (including weekly) and occasional events. It has around 3,300 volunteers and around 45 salaried employees.

( Source: YMCA Bavaria, as of 2015 )

Inner structure

The seat of the association is in Nuremberg . Carola Welker has been the chairman since November 2015. She replaced Werner Kurz from Bayreuth, who held the office from May 2002 to November 2015. Michael Götz from Nuremberg has been Secretary General since September 2015.

The organs of the regional association are the assembly of delegates, the main committee, the entire board and the board.

The assembly of delegates meets once a year and consists of the delegates from the local associations. Every four years it elects the main committee, which consists of 20 to 40 members. The main committee elects six to eleven of its members to the full board, as well as the chairman and two deputy chairmen who make up the executive board.

State Secretaries

There are 8 full-time state secretaries at the YMCA Bavaria, each with a specific area of ​​responsibility:

  • Gass, Daniel (teenager, international work)
  • Göttlicher, Thomas (integration and refugees)
  • Heretic, Dina (teenage girl)
  • Schmid, Martin (staff and club support)
  • Schlosser, Jakob (Integration and Refugee Project Adventure Germany)
  • Schlosser, Clemens (experiential education and teenage boys)

Secretary General Michael Götz is currently provisionally responsible for working with families.

history

In 1890, in the context of the community movement, a Christian youth association was founded in Nürnberg-Gostenhof , which was to become the most important Bavarian YMCA. The first Bavarian trombone choir was also created here. In 1898 the YMCA Nuremberg was founded, which the Gostenhofen YMCA joined as a branch in 1905.

In 1903 the "Bavarian evang.-luth. Jünglingsbund "was founded, which in 1908 was renamed the" Bavarian Federation of Christian Associations of Young Men and Protestant Youth Associations ". In 1910, among others, the first Protestant scout groups in the YMCA came into being in Bavaria after the scout book " Scouting for Boys " was translated into German in 1909 .

The YMCA was able to record great successes in the 1920s with “winter camps” and “set-up times” and thus became the most important Protestant association for male youth work. In 1925, the YMCA Bayern acquired the Wernfels Castle near Spalt, which subsequently became a kind of "spiritual center" for the regional association. Up until 1932, around 24,000 young people in Bavaria were organized in Protestant youth associations, which is around 7% of Protestant young people (10–20 years) in Bavaria. The YMCA was able to unite 41% of the male adolescents.

By 1934, the National Socialists smashed free youth work and thus also the structures of Protestant youth work in Bavaria. Independent work at the association level was no longer possible. In Bavaria, therefore, many youth groups disbanded and from then on operated as free "community youth" that had no permanent membership. So part of the youth work could continue. The YMCA had to stop its child and youth work, but could remain as an association (for adults).

After 1945, the reconstruction in Bavaria took place with national help, especially from the USA and Great Britain. From this time on, the Protestant youth developed in two tracks, the community youth and the association youth. The YMCA soon became the largest Protestant youth association in Bavaria. After the war he took special care of prisoners of war, returnees and displaced persons.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a lively child and youth work developed in the YMCA, with a focus on sports, games, diaconal work and the preaching of the Gospel. In addition to weekly group lessons ( youth groups and youth groups), this also happened at Pentecost meetings or large summer tent camps. In the 1960s, socio-political issues were also dealt with in working groups. In the 1970s, many YMCAs were influenced by the Jesus People coming from the USA , who represented a new, strongly emotionally colored religiosity. In Munich, the " John Mott House " was a new, district-specific form of youth social work that is aimed primarily at young people with a migration background. In the 1980s the ten-sing work (music) came from Norway and in the 1990s the missiopoints as new forms of missionary youth work.

The participation of girls and young women in YMCA groups has been documented since the beginning, but in Germany did not lead to the possibility of equal membership for a long time. Since 1919 women have been able to become supporting members of the German "Arbeitsgemeinschaft CVJM". In 1976, after intensive discussion, the Bavarian regional association was the first of the German regional associations to rename it to “Christian Association of Young People” and from then on accepted girls as members of its associations with full equal rights.

Whitsun conference in Bobengrün

Whitsun conference in Bobengrün

On the Whitsun weekend, the member association Bobengrün of the YMCA Bavaria organizes an annual conference in and around the Froschbachtal near Bad Steben in the Franconian Forest . "Pentecost in Bobengrün" is known nationwide - from Whit Saturday to Whit Monday over 10,000 visitors come to experience Christian community and to sing, pray, and celebrate together in the middle of the forest and to hear sermons on biblical and Christian topics in the open air. Many participants camp on the site. The conference has the character of a Christian Open Air - festival . The founding of the Pentecost Conference in 1946 is a late consequence of what was then called a revival in Bobengrün in the 1920s (today, instead of revival, one would say "spiritual awakening").

KonfiCastles

Every year in spring and autumn so-called KonfiCastle take place at Wernfels Castle. Confirmands from all over Bavaria come together in these.

See also

literature

Web links

  1. ^ YMCA Bavaria State Secretaries

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