German Volksbildungswerk
The Reichsamt Deutsches Volksbildungswerk (DVW) emerged in 1936 from the "Training and Education Department" of the National Socialist DAF organization Kraft durch Freude (KdF). The task was to organize cultural and cultural-political events. Its director was Fritz Leutloff .
activities
The main goal of the DVW was the cultural-political training mainly for the adult population in the sense of National Socialism. To this end, it developed a lively activity in the field of ideological lecture and popular education. In this way, the DVW quickly became "the central party organizer of author readings". As a sub-organization of the KdF, it had an extensive network of lecture and educational facilities as well as close contacts with the Gauleiters . In addition, unlike the KfdK or the Nazi cultural community , it was comparatively well funded. The first annual report of the DVW lists a total of 52,990 events nationwide with 3,873,801 participants for 1937.
literature
- Jan-Pieter Barbian: Literary politics in the "Third Reich" . dtv Munich 1995.
- Helmut Keim / Dietrich Urbach: National Education in Germany 1933-1945 - Introduction and Documents . Westermann Braunschweig 1976.
Web links
- Literature from and about Deutsches Volksbildungswerk in the bibliographic database WorldCat