Hamburg workshop for the disabled

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The Hamburg workshop for limited earnings GmbH (HAWEE) was founded in 1920 by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . The company served to create jobs primarily, but not exclusively, for disabled people from the First World War . The Hanseatic city was the sole shareholder of the workshop . After the Second World War it continued as a workshop for disabled people. The task of HAWEE was to employ unemployed people in need of care who lived in Hamburg. The employment relationship at HAWEE should enable them to find a job on the primary labor market .

In 1947, the workshop had approximately 200 employees in different for war invalids craft professions. She prepared her employees for the journeyman's examination a . a. in the professional fields tailor , shoemaker and carpenter . From 1951 the workshop for war disabled had more than 200 employees annually. The company paid the collective wage applicable in the respective industries . After the Second World War, around 30% of employees left each year to take up employment in the primary labor market.

In 1962, the Hamburg Vocational Promotion Agency developed from the workshop for disabled people . Originally, the vocational support organization consisted of two facilities: a workshop for people with disabilities and a vocational retraining facility. The workshop for people with disabilities was spun off from the vocational support organization as a GmbH in 1974 . From 2006 the Hamburger Werkstatt GmbH belonged to the PIER group; just like Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH . In 2010, Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH replaced PIER Holding GmbH as the parent company. Since 2010, Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH has combined the activities of the Hamburg workshops for people with disabilities, which are close to the city.

HAWEE developed in the 20th century into a company whose objective since the 1960s has been to provide jobs for people with disabilities. The history of HAWEE underlines that war invalids have contributed to promoting the social integration of people with disabilities in Germany .

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  1. ↑ Uta Krukowska: War invalids. General living conditions and medical care of German disabled people after the end of the Second World War in the British zone of occupation in Germany - illustrated using the example of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg , Books on Demand , Norderstedt near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3833447257 , pp. 119–121.