Christian Youth Village Association in Germany

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Christian Youth Village Association of Germany
(CJD)
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legal form registered association
founding 1947
Seat Ebersbach an der Fils ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 21.4 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 15.3 ″  E )
Chair Kornelie Schütz-Scheifele
people Hans Wolf von Schleinitz, Oliver Stier, Siegbert Hummel (Board of Directors)
sales 597,350,000 euros (2018)
Employees 10,004 (2018)
Website www.cjd.de

The Christian Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD) is a youth, educational and social organization that offers young and adult people training, support and support in their current life situation. “His views of man, of the world and of history are based on the Christian faith. Accordingly, the CJD wants to be a place of encounter with Jesus Christ for all employees and for young people ”, it says in the preamble of the statutes of the CJD. Among other things, the CJD is a member of the YMCA Association in Germany and the Diakonisches Werk der Evangelische Kirche Deutschland (EKD) .

history

After the Second World War , the number of uprooted people in Germany was very high, especially among children and adolescents, who in addition to the loss of their previous living environment (bombed out or expelled) also had to complain about that of their parents and were disoriented.

Pastor Arnold Dannenmann from Faurndau near Göppingen recognized this need and with a small group of committed Christians he founded a plant that should give young people the opportunity to start again. On December 5, 1947, the work was registered as a Christian welfare organization - the youth village (CWJD) at the Stuttgart District Court in the register of associations . At the inaugural meeting, Dannenmann was the first president to outline the association's vision: “This work will appeal to young people in Germany from the Alps to the North Sea. The slogan is: Nobody should be lost! ”The Christian orientation became clear from the beginning, so the plant is a member of the YMCA Germany as well as the Diakonisches Werk of the EKD . In addition, the staff should belong to the church , supported people do not necessarily have to, but the CJD wants to be a meeting place for them with Jesus Christ .

In 1947, accommodation was set up in Blaubeuren for homeless or young people with health problems. Further accommodations follow in Helmscherode (1948) and Limmer (1949). The first “youth village” was set up in 1949 in Kaltenstein Castle in Vaihingen an der Enz , today the oldest facility of the CJD. In 1950, another youth village for 150 young people was built in Dortmund , made possible by a DM 200,000 donation from the United States , which was brought by Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer .

Arnold Dannenmann, CJD founder

In 1951, with the establishment of the Christophorus School in Elze, the educational and school training in the CJD began. Vocational training was also started in cooperation with industry, for example in mining in the Ruhr area or with BASF in Ludwigshafen . In the same year, due to the connection of the CJD to the YMCA World Federation, the international commitment began with the first youth village abroad in Venezuela . CJD offshoots also emerged in other countries such as Madagascar , Guinea , Israel and Jericho , which after a successful start were transferred to local hands after a few years. In 1953 the association was renamed Christian Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands, non-profit association in the German national association of the YMCA-Geneva .

In 1967, the CJD Dortmund developed the vocational preparation year together with the employment office , which was legally recognized in 1969 by the then North Rhine-Westphalian Science Minister Johannes Rau through the Employment Promotion Act .

In the 1970s, the field of activity of the CJD was expanded to include vocational educational work, which takes care of young people with physical and learning disabilities and young people from a migrant background with language difficulties; At first it was mainly about ethnic repatriates who came to Germany to a greater extent due to the Eastern Treaty . Special support for the gifted has also been started, for example in the Christophorus School in Berchtesgaden .

In 1985 Arnold Dannenmann retired, but continued to work as honorary president until his death in 1993. He was succeeded by his son Christopher Dannenmann , who died in 2020 and was president until 1992.

After German reunification in 1990, 50 new facilities were created, mainly in the area of ​​assistance for the disabled . Due to the strong growth, a restructuring of the administration followed: the presidium and management were clearly separated. As a result, Erich Schneider took over the office of President in 1996 and the individual institutions were combined into regional associations . In 2000 the name was changed to Christian Youth Village Association in Germany's non-profit organization. V. (CJD) . In 2002, a full-time executive made up of Hartmut Hühnerbein and Berthold Kuhn was added to the administration; the honorary presidium took on the tasks of a supervisory board . Georg Michael Primus has been President of the CJD since 2008 and Hans Wolf von Schleinitz replaced Berthold Kuhn in the management. From 2002 until his retirement in 2013, Hartmut Hühnerbein was spokesman for the executive board. In January 2014 he was replaced in this position by Matthias Dargel , who formed the board of directors together with Hans Wolf von Schleinitz from 2014 to 2018. Oliver Stier, attorney, was then appointed to the board. On October 1, 2019, Siegbert Hummel added to the board.

The CJD has been registered in the register of associations at the Berlin District Court (previously Stuttgart) since 2011.

deals

The 9500 employees of the CJD support 155,000 people. Nationwide, the CJD operates more than 150 facilities in which, among other things, disadvantaged people live, learn and work. Simultaneously, the CJD promotes gifted . These facilities include 44 state-approved and state-recognized schools of the various school types (including eight grammar schools), facilities for sports promotion, the promotion of disabled people and adult education .

For the alumni of the eight grammar schools, the CJD student body was an organization that organized interdisciplinary educational seminars until 2014. The express goal was the implementation of lifelong learning for alumni of the CJD Christophorus Schools. The work of the CJD student body was stopped in 2014 for financial reasons.

The CJD offers offers and support programs for socially, physically or mentally disadvantaged people. Its assistance is divided into the areas of school education, child and youth welfare , criminal assistance, vocational training, rehabilitation , migration work, help for people with disabilities as well as continuing education and training. The educational work of the CJD is holistic, body, mind and soul are addressed and promoted equally. The CJD derives its pedagogy from the Christian image of man, which is based on four core competencies :

Training as a state-approved youth and home educator

The CJD offers training for educators that deviates from the typical form of this training. It is very practical and conveys the theoretical learning content using the Internet. As part of this training, you also get an additional special education qualification and a qualification for early childhood education, which normally requires an additional year. Like normal educator training, it lasts three years. Admission requirements are an intermediate level of education and a voluntary social year or two-year training as a social assistant .

The most important feature of this training is the high practical content. The trainees spend most of their training year in a youth village in Germany and go to the Arnold Dannenmann Academy in Eppingen for a month twice a year to deepen the theory developed via the Internet and to provide evidence of their performance. The training is state-approved and qualifies you to work in all socio-educational areas for which no studies are required.

Facilities

(Selection) The headquarters of the CJD is in Ebersbach an der Fils . The numerous facilities include:

Well-known graduates

Among the former students of the CJD institutions are e.g. B. Georg Hackl , Axel Voss , Hilde Gerg , Maria Höfl-Riesch and Alice Weidel .

Web links

Commons : Christian Youth Villages Germany  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c statutes of the Christian Youth Village Association Germany e. V: (PDF; 310 kB) Version of June 18, 2011, 1st edition February 2011
  2. ↑ Fachverband CJD der EKD , seen on June 2, 2011
  3. ↑ Obituary Dr. Christopher Dannenmann , cjd.de, obituary dated March 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Change of management at the CJD: Dargel follows Hühnerbein , pro-medienmagazin.de, message from March 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands e. V .: CJD at a glance
  6. ^ CJD Christophorus Schools Berchtesgaden: Hall of Fame
  7. ^ Marc Uthmann: CJD high school graduate in the federal board of the AfD. In: Haller Kreisblatt. March 17, 2016, accessed September 24, 2017 .