European Academy of Labor
| European Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt | |
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| founding | 1921 |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| state | Hesse |
| country | Germany |
| management | Martin Allespach |
| Website | http://www.akademie-der-arbeit.de/ |
The European Academy of Labor in the University of Frankfurt (until 2009 Academy of Labor in the University of Frankfurt (AdA)) is a private law foundation of the German Federation of Trade Unions , the State of Hesse and the City of Frankfurt am Main . It is a teaching and research institution. Its purpose is to train employees for activities in business and public life. The academy cooperates with the Goethe University and the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences .
The academy's target group are students who, after completing their in-company training, want to expand their educational experience with a focus on social policy, economics and labor law. This is intended to promote the democratic participation of employees in the state, society and companies.
structure
The directorate of the European Academy of Labor is responsible for the management.
Since November 2014, the chairman of the board of trustees has been Rainer Gröbel , IG Metall , his deputy is the Hessian Minister of Social Affairs Stefan Grüttner .
history
The Academy of Work at the University of Frankfurt am Main was founded on March 3, 1921 as the “first German university for the people of work”. The initiative came from Hugo Sinzheimer , Ernst Pape , Theodor Thomas , Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy u. a. Just three months later she started work under Rosenstock-Huessy.
Lecturers at the Academy of Labor were u. a. Erik Nölting , Franz Oppenheimer , Otto Kahn-Freund , Henri de Man and Ernst Fraenkel . Shortly after the National Socialists came to power, the Academy of Labor was dissolved. After the end of the Second World War, it resumed teaching under the direction of Franz Josef Furtwängler in 1947 and was re-established as a foundation in 1951 by the State of Hesse and the DGB . In June 1951 it was approved as a foundation by the Hessian Minister of the Interior.
The academy's graduates include a. Walter Riester ( retired labor minister), Jürgen Peters (former chairman of IG Metall), Armin Clauss (retired Hessian minister for labor, environment and social affairs), Achim Vandreike (former Frankfurt mayor), Darmstadt's mayor Walter Hoffmann and also Gisela Kessler . After his retirement and moving to Frankfurt in 1972, Wolfgang Abendroth taught at the Academy of Labor.
New building
The state of Hesse, the city of Frankfurt, the president of the Goethe University and the chairman of the board of trustees of the European Academy of Labor sealed the move of the educational institute planned for 2017 from Mertonstraße 30 in Bockenheim to Eschersheimer Landstraße / corner of Miquelallee. The IG Metall union financed the new building. The state government of Hesse gives the property under heritable building right free of charge. In October 2019, this nationwide unique training center for working people was further developed and opened into a "House of Labor".
literature
- Christine Wittrock : The “Academy of Work” in Frankfurt am Main and its graduates. Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7638-0153-7 .
- Diether Döring: A forgotten piece of university history. In: Research Frankfurt. 2/2014, online , accessed February 8, 2017.
- Joseph Hoormann, Anna Kern: The Third Education Path for Students of the European Academy of Work , Hans-Böckler-Foundation, Düsseldorf 2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval of the “Akademie der Arbeit” foundation on June 21, 1951 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1951 no. 27 , p. 375 , 606 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.9 MB ]).