Family Federation of Catholics

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The Family Association of Catholics is a family association of Roman Catholic Christians in Germany founded in 1953 with headquarters in Berlin-Mitte and a non-profit registered association. Ulrich Hoffmann is the association's president and Matthias Dantlgraber is the managing director. The members of the federal association are the 25 diocesan and 10 regional associations of the family association as well as 14 other Catholic associations.

history

The association was founded on April 8, 1953 in Würzburg under the name Familienbund der Deutschen Katholiken . Significant impetus for this came from the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) founded in 1952 . The German bishops supported the Catholic lay movement and the efforts to increase cooperation in family work. In numerous pastoral words and declarations, the German episcopate referred to the immediate need of the people after the Second World War and very early and clearly emphasized the role of the family in the reconstruction of society.

15./16. October 1953 the constituent meeting of the Central Family Council took place as the highest body of the family union in Frankfurt am Main , at which the federal statute of the association was approved as the first item on the agenda. The headquarters of the federal office was initially Munich . In the country and in the dioceses, the family union developed a large number of offers and activities, with different focuses and specialist skills, such as family recreation, family education, family pastoral care or family burden balancing. With the diocesan family councils of Essen and Berlin, the establishment of the family union in the dioceses was completed at the end of the 1950s. On April 1, 1979, the federal office of the family association was relocated from Munich to the then federal capital Bonn. In the summer of 1999 the federal office moved from Bonn to Berlin, where it is still based in Berlin-Mitte today.

tasks

In terms of family policy, the Catholic Family Association is committed to strengthening and promoting all families in Germany, especially in the fields of financial social benefits, the care infrastructure for children and time policy for families. This also includes the protection of marriage and family and the freedom to choose family plans as well as the compatibility of family and work. The Catholic Family Association supports families on all levels of politics as well as within the church.

Publications

Since 1954 the association has published the association magazine “Voice of the Family” on a regular basis. It offers up-to-date information, positions and perspectives on family policy, mainly through scientific specialist articles, and provides information about what happens in the association. The magazine appears every two months with a different focus. The publication can be subscribed to at the federal office.

Offices

President

  • Josef Hall, Augsburg (1953-1959)
  • Hans Hutter, Eichstätt (1959-1974)
  • Gottfried Ledroit, Mainz (1974-1980)
  • Dietrich Simon, Göttingen / Marburg (1980-1986)
  • Karl Fell, Wegberg (1986-1996)
  • Andreas Brinkmann, Erfurt (1996 - 2000)
  • Elisabeth Bußmann, Haltern (2000 - 2014)
  • Stefan Becker, Aachen (2014 - 2018)
  • Ulrich Hoffmann, Weißenhorn (since October 2018)

Spiritual companions

  • Martin Lohr, Augsburg (1955–1973)
  • Heinrich Spoden, Augsburg (1974–1982)
  • Vinzenz Platz, Bonn / Stuttgart (1982–1995)
  • Norbert Glatzel , Freiburg i. Br. (1996-2007)
  • Heiner Koch , Archbishop of Berlin and Chairman of Commission XI. "Marriage and Family" of the German Bishops' Conference (since 2007)

Web links

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  1. ^ The diocesan associations. Family Association of Catholics, accessed on August 12, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ The regional associations. Family Association of Catholics, accessed on August 12, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ The member associations. Family Association of Catholics, accessed on August 12, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ a b c Bußmann, Elisabeth; Raabe, Stephan: "Voice of Families - Catholic Family Association 1953 - 2003. Five decades of politics for families" . Ed .: Familienbund der Katholiken Bundesverband eV Berlin 2003, p. 22nd f .
  5. ↑ a b cf. Family Association of Catholics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familienbund.org
  6. ↑ Familienbund der Katholiken (Ed.): Without a family, no state can be made. Berlin 2018.