Humanistic Association
| Humanistic Association | |
|---|---|
| Basic data | |
| President: | Sebastian Rothlauf |
| Board: | Michael Bauer |
| Structure: | Public corporation |
| Founding year: | 1848 |
| Address: | Kinkelstrasse 12, 90482 Nuremberg 90482 Nuremberg |
| Website: | www.humanistische-vereinigung.de |
The Humanistische Vereinigung (HV) is a German cultural and interest organization as well as an independent provider of education and welfare . It is recognized by the state as a ideological community and as a representation of the interests of non-religious people. Its legal form is that of a corporation under public law . The main office is in Nuremberg . Further offices are active in Berlin and Hanover, for the coordination of activities in Northern Germany and the federal capital as well as in the context of the international organization.
The Humanist Association is a member of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband , Humanists International and the European Humanist Federation .
Areas of activity
Social support and youth work
The Humanist Association and its subsidiary, the Humanist Social Work of Bavaria, currently run 19 day-care centers with around 1,000 places in Nuremberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Regensburg and Munich. She also runs the private humanistic elementary school in Fürth with an integrated after-school care center. The organization is active in the child, youth and senior citizens, it operates a student housing project and with the Jurahof in Schmidt City / Etzelwang a special education group home for children and adolescents. With the Fürth Hospice Association, the Humanist Association is currently planning the construction of a stationary hospice in Fürth, in Nuremberg and Fürth the association also has a permanent seat in the youth welfare committee.
Help in life, festival and celebration culture
The Humanist Association is also a belief community and membership association. On the basis of humanistic ethics and morals, it offers support and advice on practical life assistance (e.g. advice on medical ethics, advice on living wills for members) and organizes cultural and educational events on historical, philosophical and scientific topics. A humanistic festival and celebration culture is also cultivated, ranging from the name celebration to the youth celebration, the humanistic wedding celebration to the secular funeral speech.
Science communication
The Humanist Association is active in the communication of science through a subsidiary: philoscience gGmbH organizes advanced training courses, events and scientific educational offers. In an old city wall tower , she runs the Tower of the Senses with a science-educational adventure exhibition.
Advocacy
The Humanist Association campaigns for the rights of non-religious people and for their equal treatment. She advises on cases of ideological discrimination, does political lobbying and is currently campaigning for the introduction of humanistic school lessons.
Humanist Day
Since 2015, the AGM has hosted several major events through its Deutscher HumanistenTag gGmbH, such as the German Humanist Day 2017 in the Nuremberg Meistersingerhalle and, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , the Humanist Day 2018 Nuremberg. HumanistenTag 2020 was supposed to take place from June 12th to 14th, but has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
media
The AGM is active in journalism and publishing through the Humanist Media , an institution under public law. Among other things, the association magazine humanist appears there! and the second edition of the report Gläserne Walls on the disadvantage of non-religious people in Germany, which was published in 2020 .
structure
The highest body of the Humanist Association is the general assembly, which elects the honorary presidium every two years, the current president is Sebastian Rothlauf. Michael Bauer has been the managing director since 2011.
The Humanist Association is the sponsor of the trust foundation Weltlicher Humanismus and sole shareholder of philoscience gGmbH. Another subsidiary of the organization is the Humanistische Sozialwerk Bayern (HSW Bayern), which operates four day-care centers. The Bavarian Humanistic Academy acts as a study and educational facility.
history
The Humanist Association has its roots in the free-spirited Nuremberg of the 19th century. In 1848 a "free Christian community" was founded here in line with the reform efforts of the clergyman Johannes Ronge . The community had two kindergartens, a school and a social station, but was forcibly closed in 1852. It was restored in 1859 as a "Free Religious Congregation". Among the best-known members in the 19th century were the theologian Carl Scholl and the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach , who lived on the Nuremberg Rechenberg and to whom a “Philosophenweg” is dedicated today. In the Weimar Republic, the number of members of the " Bund für Geistes Freiheit " (bfg), as the community was called since 1927, reached several thousand people. Also in 1927 it was granted the status of a corporation under public law.
When the National Socialists came to power, the mostly social democratic bfg was banned and smashed. Its chairman, Richard Schramm, was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. After the war, the “Bund für Geistes Freiheit” was re-established. The opening of the first humanistic kindergarten in the Mögeldorf district in 1994 marks the beginning of the increased turn to a “practical humanism ”, which was underlined in 1997 by the renaming to “Humanistic Association of Germany - HVD-Nürnberg”. Since October 2011 it has been called HVD Bayern , on July 1, 2019 the name was changed to Humanist Association, which was intended to underline the focus on nationwide commitment.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ An education campus on Waldstrasse. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Will Fürth get its own hospice after all? Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ^ Members of the youth welfare committee of the city of Nuremberg. (PDF) Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Alternative to confirmation and communion. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Small on the outside, great diversity on the inside. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ HVD Bavaria is suing for approval of humanistic teaching. Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Review of the Humanist Day 2018. Retrieved on March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Festival for Freedom Rights. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ^ Website for Humanist Day , accessed on March 22, 2020
- ^ Website of the Humanist Media A.ö.R.
- ↑ humanistic! The magazine
- ↑ Organization chart of the HVD Bavaria. (PDF) Retrieved March 12, 2019 .
- ^ History of the HVD Bavaria. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ The HVD Bavaria becomes a humanistic association. June 3, 2019, accessed July 11, 2019 .