Youth Welfare Act
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Youth Welfare Act |
| Short title: | Youth Welfare Act (not official) |
| Previous title: | Reich Law for Youth Welfare |
| Abbreviation: | JWG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Special administrative law , youth law |
| References : | 2162-1 a. F. |
| Original version from: | July 9, 1922 ( RGBl. I p. 633) |
| Entry into force on: | April 1, 1924 |
| New announcement from: | April 25, 1977 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 633 , ber.p. 795 ) |
| Last change by: |
Art. 6 § 8 G of July 25, 1986 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1142, 1154 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
September 1, 1986 (Art. 7 § 2 G of July 25, 1986) |
| Expiry: | January 1, 1991 (Art. 24 No. 1 G of June 26, 1990, Federal Law Gazette I p. 1163, 1195 ) |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The Youth Welfare Act (JWG), sometimes called the Youth Welfare Act , regulated youth welfare in Germany from 1961 to 1990 .
It was created in 1922/24 as the Reich Law for Youth Welfare and was renamed the Law for Youth Welfare in 1961. On January 1, 1991, it was replaced by the Child and Youth Welfare Act in SGB VIII .
The youth care decree was a forerunner .
history
During the drafting of the Civil Code at the end of the 19th century, the lawyer Alexander Achilles , among others, expressed the idea of passing a separate youth welfare law. But it was not until the Weimar Republic that these ideas were implemented. The first collective law on youth welfare valid throughout Germany was passed by the Reichstag in 1922 as the Reich law for youth welfare and came into force on April 1, 1924. However, in many of its core areas, this law was still strongly oriented towards police and regulatory law. Due to the tense political situation at the end of the Weimar Republic, in which the government ruled almost continuously with emergency laws, the concrete implementation was very hesitant or was stopped.
In the era of National Socialism from 1933 to 1945 by the were Reichsgesetzblatt for Youth Welfare created facilities and institutions into line and the law in its welfare policy hardly applied approach. The organization of the youth welfare office was changed by law in 1939 so that instead of collegial management, management was transferred to the mayor or district administrator . The youth welfare office controlled and directed families and children politically from birth. Infants and mothers in Lebensborn homes , small children and mothers from youth welfare offices, adolescent boys from the Hitler Youth (HJ) and adolescent girls from the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) were placed under the control of the state.
After 1945, the old Reich law was resumed in the western occupation zones and thus by the developing Federal Republic . With the new announcement of August 11, 1961 ( Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1205 ), it was renamed the Youth Welfare Act (JWG) in addition to some changes in content . Many structures and mechanisms in the old imperial law that had not been implemented at all until then could only then come into effect.
In the Soviet occupation zone , the Youth Welfare Act only had a transitional role. The Youth Services was in the GDR of popular education affiliated with and for its own Youth Code created.
See also
- Youth welfare (Austria)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Potrykus: Youth Welfare Act. In addition to the implementing laws and regulations of the German states. Comment . 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-406-03147-1 , foreword.
