Umbrella organization of free ideological communities

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In the umbrella organization of free philosophical communities (DFW), headquartered in Berlin have various free-thinking religion or belief communities from Germany together. The individual member organizations represent different religious or ideological positions; They include free humanists , free religious , pantheists , atheists , agnostics , free thinkers and Unitarians . In general, the DFW sees itself as representing the interests of people outside the church .

The main goals are the amalgamation of all free-religious and free-spirited German associations, a stronger separation of church and state and the introduction of integrative values ​​teaching at state schools, which is to replace the previous religious instruction. It stands for humanism , tolerance and human rights, for a peaceful and solidary coexistence of people regardless of their religious, ideological and political views.

history

The DFW emerged in 1991 from the German People's Association for Intellectual Freedom (DVfG), which was founded on October 8, 1949 in Wiesbaden. In terms of its name, but not structurally or functionally, the Volksbund was linked to the Volksbund for Intellectual Freedom founded in 1925; he sees himself in the traditions of the "Weimar Cartel" and the "Reich Working Group of Free Spiritual Associations of the German Republic". Founding members were the Federation of Free Religious Congregations of Germany (BFGD), the Free Religious State Congregations of Bavaria (later: Bund für Geistes Freiheit Bayern ) and Württemberg-Baden, the Free Spiritual Union of Munich, the German Freethinkers Association , the German Monist Association , the Unitarians - Religious Community of Free Faith , the Association for Volunteering Celebrations (later: Eekboom-Gesellschaft), the Independent Society for the Care of Young Art and Science , the Society for Life Studies Duisburg and the Germanic Faith Community . In the following years the number of members decreased. In 1957 only the BFGD, the German Unitarians, the Monisten and the Eekboom Society are named as members. In the early years, the Volksbund was able to unite associations from the entire continuum of free religious and ideological communities and included the socialist freethinker association as well as the religious- folk Germanic belief community. The president from 1949 to 1959 was the zoologist and social democratic politician Gerhard von Frankenberg , who was also honorary president of the German Monist Association. From 1959 he was honorary president. The following presidents were: Albert Heuer (1959–1960), Fritz Hermann (1961–1973), Hans-Joachim Firgau (1973–1985), Gerd-M. Achterberg (1985–1987), Fritz Bode (1987–1994), Helga Lewandowsky (1994–1996), Klaus Stolle (1996–1999), Volker Mueller (1999–2010) and Renate Bauer (2010–2018). Swaantje Schlittgen has been president since 2018.

The DFW currently has nine member organizations. He publishes the series for free-spirited culture as well as the press service of Free Weltanschauungsgemeinschaften.

Member associations

According to its own information, the DFW represents around 25,000 members of the following associations:

Memberships

The DFW has been a member of the European Humanist Federation (EHF) since 2002 and a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) since July 7, 2005 .

He works in the coordination council of secular organizations - KORSO - (founding member 2008).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dfw-dachverband.de/satzung.html
  2. ^ Peter Bahn : German Catholics and Free Religious. History and culture of a religious and ideological dissident group, illustrated using the example of the Palatinate (=  studies on folk culture in Rhineland-Palatinate. Vol. 10). Society for Folklore in Rhineland-Palatinate V., Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-926052-09-0 , p. 135 f. (At the same time: Dissertation University of Mainz, 1991).
  3. ↑ Dietrich Bronder: Bronder's world panorama. Life among giants and dwarfs 1921–1988. Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-89228-031-2 , p. 333.