Heinz-Kühn-Bildungswerk
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| legal form | Training facility |
| founding | 1975 |
| Seat | Dortmund |
| management | Renate Schmeltzer-Urban (Managing Director),
Jan Zajic (educational director) |
| Branch | Advanced training |
| Website | www.heinz-kuehn-bw.de |
The Heinz-Kühn-Bildungswerk has been a state-recognized further education institution in North Rhine-Westphalia with locations in Dortmund and Cologne since 1975 . The organization is run by the SBG-Zentralausschuss eV The Bildungswerk organizes conferences, seminars, educational leave and study trips on socio-political topics. According to the company, this is intended to strengthen the democratic sense of responsibility, promote critical judgment and facilitate dialogue between different social groups.
history
The socialist educational institute already existed in the 1920s, the model of which was in turn the workers' education associations of the 19th century, in which German workers could deepen their education according to their interests.
The establishment of the Heinz-Kühn-Bildungswerk can be traced back to the Socialist Educational Communities (SBG). In 1947, Heinz Kühn founded his first informal educational community. At regular meetings, Kühn gave lectures on the history of the labor movement in Germany and, with Willi Eichler, established a forum for the exchange of ideas about the principles of a new party program. The content-related work primarily conveyed political knowledge that tried to overcome the burdens of National Socialism and wanted to generate and strengthen democratic awareness.
The Bildungswerk describes the further education law from 1975 (during the term of office of Minister President Heinz Kühn) as a milestone in its own history . Here the promotion of political education was legally fixed.
The Heinz-Kühn-Bildungswerk aims to reach around 10,000 people annually with its offers.
profile
The topics of the Heinz-Kühn-Bildungswerk include German unity , Europe , basic questions of democracy and political systems, participation and elections.
Important topics are the questions of reunification and the political, economic and social development of the new federal states , but also the history of the GDR , SED and the Stasi . European integration is described as a further focus of political education . The educational institute states that it wants to provide information about the basics of the European Union from the Treaty of Rome to the European Constitution .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Kühn Bildungswerk - SGK NRW. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Political Education. Accessed November 6, 2018 (German).
- ^ History. Accessed November 6, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Heinz-Kühn-Bildungswerk - SBG Central Committee eV | bpb. Retrieved November 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Our profile. Accessed November 6, 2018 (German).