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The Internationale Bund ( IB , until 1995 Internationaler Bund für Sozialarbeit / Jugendsozialwerk eV) is one of the largest German service providers in the fields of youth , social and educational work with its registered association (eV), its non-profit and commercial companies and investments . The IB is also active abroad. a. with the Foundation Internationaler Bund Polska as well as u. a. with educational institutions in China, Georgia and Turkey. Today the IB maintains around 700 institutions in over 300 locations nationwide and supports numerous educational activities abroad.

Foundation of the IB

The International Federation was founded in Tübingen in 1949 . Initiators were the SPD politician and then State Director for Justice, Education and Art of the State of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern and a member of the Parliamentary Council Carlo Schmid , the French occupation officer and socialist Henri Humblot and the former Hitler Youth Chief and Head of Department of the Reich Youth Leadership Heinrich Hartmann .

Members of the IB's founding meeting on January 11, 1949 at the University of Tübingen included the Interior Minister of the State of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Viktor Renner , the Rector of the University of Tübingen Walter Erbe and the political scientist Theodor Eschenburg . The theologian Ernst Steinbach was elected the founding president. From 1953 to 1978 Georg Ebersbach was executive chairman.

In 2014 the IB Presidium gave the order to document the history of the IB. For this purpose, contemporary witnesses are to be questioned with scientific advice and documents are to be evaluated. The first part on the founding history and the first 20 years of the existence of the International Federation was published on January 9, 2017. The author of this work, Marion Reinhardt, comes to the conclusion that on the part of Schmid and Humblot the founding of the International Federation was also an attempt to integrate former functionaries of the Hitler Youth into the new German state. While Heinrich Hartmann specifically interested former Hitler Youth leaders in working in the IB, the honorary presidium, which consisted of unencumbered public figures, was supposed to be in charge. Reinhardt explains that this should also prevent the emergence of underground movements by former Hitler Youth functionaries. In this respect, the founding of the IB is a success story.

Today the international federation is a modern social service provider that works non-denominational and non-partisan.

Business areas and activities

In the area of ​​social work, he operates 76 locations with facilities for open child and youth work, 90 youth migration services in which he looked after 21,000 young migrants (2017) , 94 day care centers and 50 assisted living arrangements and fully inpatient offers for people with disabilities .

In the area of ​​vocational training, the IB maintains 38 training centers, almost 200 independent general and vocational schools and medical academies with a total of 10,500 pupils and offers integration and professional language courses at 125 locations. In addition, the IB operates hotels , guest houses and youth guest houses and the like. a. in Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart, Jena and Dresden. In the area of ​​international work, he is involved in around 100 projects in 30 countries together with 200 partners from all over the world. The IB looks after a total of around 350,000 people annually.

The IB is also one of the major providers of legally regulated voluntary services . These include the formats Voluntary Social Year (since 1964), Voluntary Ecological Year (since 1993) and the Federal Volunteer Service, which has existed since 2011 . The IB also offers various international volunteer services in 30 countries. Around 10,8000 mostly young people take part in these offers every year.

With a 75 percent stake, the IB is the majority shareholder of the Business School for Management gGmbH , which operates the private Business School for Management in Mannheim , founded in 2011 . The IB also includes a university with its administrative headquarters and study center in Berlin and four other study centers in Cologne, Stuttgart, Coburg and Hamburg.

The IB has also been a guest member of the National Poverty Conference since 2018 .

Organization and finance

The IB is a non-profit association and is politically and denominationally independent. Thiemo Fojkar has been the CEO since 2013. Petra Merkel , a member of the Bundestag (until September 2013), has been the honorary president of the IB since June 2013 . The honorary presidium includes representatives from public life, social partners , political parties as well as from business , science and administration .

In 2016 the IB eV made a turnover of 220.9 million euros (previous year: 278.3 million euros). The IB Group achieved a turnover of 625.4 million euros in 2016 (previous year 526.7 million euros).

In 2016, IB Group's revenues came from the following sources:

source million Euro percent
Municipalities 162.5 26.1
Federal agency for work 115.0 18.5
Federal states, regional councils, districts 143.8 23.1
Other income 49.9 8.0
Contracts with companies, institutions and participants 47.1 7.6
Federation 43.1 6.9
ARGEn, opting municipalities, districts 26.4 4.2
Care services 20.5 3.3
EU, international activities 12.3 2.0
Donations, fines, contributions 1.4 0.2

The IB Group is based in Frankfurt am Main.

IB employees

The IB Group employed 12,436 people at the end of 2017. 4148 of them work in the eV, the others in the non-profit organizations of the IB and other subsidiaries. The IB officially speaks of currently more than 14,000 employees, including freelance workers and volunteers. At the beginning of 2016, the International Federation completed the largest restructuring in its history. Eight large organizational units have emerged in the non-profit area. Three (IB South, IB North, IB Baden) in IB eV and five as non-profit limited companies (IB Berlin-Brandenburg, IB Mitte, IB West, IB Southwest and IB Society for Interdisciplinary Studies).

Tariff policy

The education and science union (GEW) had criticized in the past that the spin-off of individual business areas carried out by the IB into independent companies, mostly in limited liability companies operating nationwide , was anti- employee. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, around 300 employees of the outsourced GmbH were offered an employment contract in March 2006 , which provided for a 30 percent reduction in salaries, accompanied by the announcement that the entire NRW branch would be closed, if not at least 90 percent of the employees within the next accept the offer for ten days. The trade unions Ver.di and GEW therefore gave their consent in the restructuring collective agreement of March 27, 2006 between IB GmbH NRW and ver.di / GEW to reduce salaries by between 15 and 20 percent. In May 2012, the IB management threatened to close the West branch with a total of three companies in North Rhine-Westphalia and around 600 employees if they were not prepared to make further wage cuts.

After an 18-year break, the trade unions ver.di, the GEW and the IB agreed on a general collective bargaining agreement for almost all (92 percent) employees in the non-profit areas of the International Federation. It came into force on October 1, 2016 and applied to all 11,160 IB employees at the time in the non-profit organizations of the IB and IB eV

In January 2018, the IB and the trade unions ver.di and GEW signed a new collective agreement for all almost 14,000 employees in the non-profit organizations of the IB and IB eV. Among other things, it stipulates that all employees receive collective wages and are grouped into at least pay grade 1. It was also agreed that all IB employees will receive Christmas bonuses in the future, which will increase to 1400 euros across the IB by 2021. The collective agreement applies to those employed in education and social work.

literature

  • Stefan Zowislo: The founding history of a welfare association or the coping with the past of former Hitler Youth leaders , in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 52, 1993, pp. 466–478.
  • Marion Reinhardt: Founding History of the International Federation. Topics, actors, structures . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach / Taunus, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7344-0415-3 .

Web links

Commons : Internationaler Bund  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Philipp Mausshardt: Who was Henri? Former Hitler Youth and the International Bund. In: Die Zeit , No. 49, November 29, 1996.
  2. Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.internationaler-bund.de
  3. IB Annual Report 2016, page 30 ff
  4. IB Annual Report 2016, page 30
  5. Annual Report 2016/2017, p. 30. Internationaler Bund, accessed on April 13, 2016 .
  6. Personnel report [1]
  7. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from March 10, 2006
  8. Available in the ver.di NRW tariff archive