Social Work Guild
The Gilde Soziale Arbeit eV (GiSA) is a registered non-profit association of social work based in Hamburg .
In the Gilde Soziale Arbeit eV, women and men from practice, teaching and science who are committed to social work work together. The purpose of the association is the promotion of youth welfare and social work as well as the collection and dissemination of knowledge about progressive, contemporary ways and forms of social work.
Guild newsletter
The newsletter "Gilde Soziale Arbeit" has been published since 1925. After issues published sporadically in the years from 1925 to 1933, the "Rundbrief" has been published regularly since 1947 ( ISSN 0942-6779 ), with up to 100 pages. It should be a mirror of the existing problems in the field of social policy and social work and focuses on the dissemination of new knowledge and developments in the field of social work . Subscribers to the Gilde circular are mainly libraries from various universities in the field of social work, but also interested private persons from teaching and practice.
Series of publications
The guild is the publisher of a series of publications that has now appeared in the third volume. What is special about the works in the series is that almost exclusively guild members are responsible for the creation of the book. Thus, there is an interesting mix of practical work, paired with scientific knowledge, which can be found in the reviews of the series.
activities
The Social Work Guild holds an annual conference each year, as well as an autumn conference and the "Older Guild" conference on current topics in youth welfare and social work. In various cities there are guild circles in which members meet on regionally important topics.
history
The guild was founded in 1925. At that time, socially committed women and men came together to support plans and initiatives that were supposed to eliminate economic and social emergencies. The members still feel connected to this tradition today.
It began with a call from Justus Ehrhardt, a member of the youth movement , in the Bundestag magazine 'Zwiesschlag' to collect all those involved in social work. With Alwin Brockmann, Max Martin and Heidi Denzel he formed a 'guild office'; Gustav Buchhierl and Werner Kindt joined them . They founded the "Gilde" in 1925 out of the will to work responsibly in eliminating social grievances and out of the knowledge that social work had to be fulfilled by the ideas that were alive from the youth movement.
Instead of a statute, a program was formulated: "The Gilde Soziale Arbeit is the union of men and women who come from the youth movement or are close in spirit and who are voluntarily or professionally active in social work. The guild wants the forces of the youth movement in of social work and develop in it. Beyond the circle of members, the guild also wants to gain influence on the design and development of social work. "
The guild included many of the personalities who are important for contemporary social pedagogy. Their decades of solidarity with the guild indicate the strong social cohesion and high emotional bond of the group.
In 1925/1926 the Gilde Rundbrief was created, in which articles on factual issues, organizational notices and dates were published from then on. The first conference in 1927 was attended by more than 300 members, the number of which increased to 800 to 1,000 by 1932. Local and landscape-bound circles were formed all over the empire .
In 1929 new applicants had to provide one or two supportive guarantors. This regulation is no longer valid. Among the members coming from science and practice were personalities such as Curt Bondy , Herbert Francke, Walter Hermann, August Oswalt , Hermann Schektiven , who played a leading and creative role. The guild meetings from 1927 to 1932 mainly took place in the eastern parts of Germany, namely in Ludwigslust / Mecklenburg, Friedrichroda / Thuringia and in Saxon Switzerland. Topics were welfare education reform , occupation, training and social worker problems .
The guild was politically neutral. In relation to the emergence of National Socialism from 1932 on , an important principle was formulated: "Radical political decisions that lead to the rejection or sabotage of social work are automatically excluded from the guild." When the political situation worsened, the guild tried to draw attention to the impending danger through a public event at which Herman Nohl and Curt Bondy spoke on the subject of "Educational Movement or Educational Response". When events precipitated in 1933 and in order to avoid being "brought into line " by the Nazi regime, the guild disbanded. In the years that followed, many members kept in contact with one another, so that the "spirit of the guild" remained alive.
reorganization
Two years after the end of the war, Anneliese Hückstädt called in Hamburg to bring the members of the guild together. She took over the editing of one of the first publications on "social rethinking" with contributions from Helmuth Tormin, Hans Hennings, Magaretha Cornils, Hildegard Kipp and Hermine Albers. The actual start, however, was a first meeting under the leadership of Helmuth Tormin, Walter Hermann, Wilhelm Mollenhauer and Hermann Schektiven in May 1947 at Ludwigstein Castle , the seat of the archive of the German youth movement.
In the years after 1947, there was an increasing number of old and new members who belonged to the providers of public and independent youth welfare and social work or who came from socio-educational training centers. The new offers for training, but also the new style and diversity of social work, became more and more visible in the origins and fields of work of the conference participants, which included not only social workers and teachers, but also members of medical, administrative and legal professions . An important element of maintaining contact between the guild members was the meeting with former guild members from the GDR in Berlin, first in West Berlin and later in East Berlin.
The annual meetings, which have become a tradition, took place from 1947 (until 1950) at the youth castle in Witzenhausen ad Werra, then in the Bielefeld-Sieker youth hostel, between 1952 and 1962 in the YMCA leisure home in Dassel / Solling and since 1964 with a few exceptions (Dörnberg b.Kassel and Königstein i. Taunus) in the Heimvolkshochschule Haus Neuland in Bielefeld-Sennestadt.
Topics of the 1950s were the homelessness, unemployment and education of young people, problems of a threatened childhood and new forms of social roots. In the 1960s, questions about the basic orientation of education in youth welfare , home education dominated , or there were critical debates in the comparison of authoritarian structures and democratic tendencies in social education and social work. In the 1960s, questions about professionalization and structural problems in social work came to the fore, as did the discussion of " conflict and action ".
The tradition of the "older guild" has existed since 1969. It describes the regular annual meeting of the guild seniors in Stapelage in Westphalia.
The Guild and the "New Practice"
From the mid-1970s to the end of the 1990s, the guild worked in close cooperation with the magazine "Neue Praxis", which was founded by members of the guild, including a. Hanns Eyferth , Waltraud Hackewitz, Paul Hirschauer, August Oswalt , Hans-Uwe Otto , Kurt Utermann , Gottfried Weber, Ulf Weißenfels. Problems of integrating theory and practice in training and work were increasingly discussed, as were central aspects of social work in the welfare state or professional standards in social work and social pedagogy in the conflict between economic efficiency and professional ethics. A large number of conferences led to special issues.
Publications
- Rita Braches-Chyrek, Kathrin Macke, Ingrid Wölfel (eds.): Childhood in foster families . (Series of publications by the Social Work Guild, Volume 1). Budrich, Opladen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86649-256-1 .
- Rita Braches-Chyrek, Gaby Lenz (Hrsg.): Poverty obliges - positions in social work. (Series of publications by the Social Work Guild, Volume 2). Budrich, Opladen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86649-349-0 .
- Rita Braches-Chyrek, Gaby Lenz, Bernd Kammermeier (eds.): Social work and school - in the field of tension between upbringing and education. (Series of publications by the Social Work Guild, Volume 3). Budrich, Opladen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86649-477-0 .
literature
- Peter Dudek : Mission: Comrade and helper. Socio-educational movement in the Weimar Republic using the example of the “Social Work Guild” . dipa-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1988 (= sources and contributions to the history of the youth movement 31 ).
- Peter Reinicke : The professional associations of social work and their history: from the beginning to the end of the Second World War . 2., revised. and exp. Edition Frankfurt am Main: Dt. Association for Public and Private Welfare, 1990 ISBN 3-17-006653-6
- Barbara Stambolis : The social work guild - child and youth welfare against the background of the experiences of two world wars. In: Barbara Stambolis (ed.): The youth movement and its effects. Imprinting, networking, social influence. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8471-0343-1 , (= forms of memory , vol. 58), pp. 355–374.
- Walter Thorun : Social Work Reform Project - 75 Years of the Social Work Guild. Münster 2000, ISBN 3-933158-22-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ P. Dudek