Catholic University of Social Sciences Berlin
| Catholic University of Social Sciences Berlin | |
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| founding | 1991 |
| Sponsorship | ecclesiastical |
| place | Berlin |
| country | Germany |
| president | Ralf-Bruno Zimmermann |
| Students | 1.325 WS 2019/20 |
| Professors | 45, 87 lecturers |
| Website | www.khsb-berlin.de , www.studieren.khsb-berlin.de |
The Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin (KHSB) is a church-based, state-recognized university of applied sciences in Berlin . It is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Berlin and has its seat at Köpenicker Allee 39-57 in the Karlshorst district of the Berlin district of Lichtenberg .
In the 2019/2020 winter semester , 1,325 students were enrolled at the KHSB , the teaching staff comprised 45 professors and 87 lecturers .
Teaching
The focus of the studies at the KHSB are social work , health , upbringing and education . Seven bachelor 's and five master' s courses are offered in these areas . These include four full-time Bachelor courses (BA Social Work, BA Childhood Education , BA Curative Education , BA Religious Education in School and Pastoral Rooms ) as well as three extra-occupational Bachelor courses (BA Social Work, BA Social Gerontology, BA Design Therapy / Clinical Art Therapy). In addition, there are five accompanying master’s degree programs in the areas of social work, curative education, clinical social work , social work as a human rights profession and interdisciplinary psychosis therapy.
Further education and training courses are aimed at university graduates and professionals in social professions. Optionally, students can take part in a general theology course and in the social management cooperation network . In addition, there is the possibility for students of the Childhood Education course to acquire the additional qualification to become a specialist in integration. The adaptation course "Internationaler Bridging Course in Social Professions" (ApaLe) is aimed at people with foreign degrees who, after successfully completing the course, can apply for state recognition of their degree. Furthermore, specialists for religious education can receive further training through the continuing education course in practical religious education.
research
Research is one of the central tasks of the KHSB, alongside teaching, studying and further education. As a university for applied sciences, research at the KHSB is carried out in a special relationship to practice. It takes up fundamental social issues, develops concepts for challenges in practice and develops expertise for the further development of social, educational and health systems.
Six main research areas have developed at the KHSB :
- Social ethics , ethics of socially professional action and ethics advice
- Community work and community organizing
- Social health
- Gender and diversity research
- Inclusion and participation
- Method development of applied research.
These main research areas share an interest in questions of participation. Internal research funding supports third-party funding applications and contributions to pooling, supplementing and further developing previous research activities.
With the research focus on a "practice of participation", there are five institutes at the KHSB that bundle research activities in the fields of Christian ethics, community work, social health, gender and diversity as well as religious education and pastoral care:
- Berlin Institute for Christian Ethics and Politics (ICEP)
- German Institute for Community Organizing (DICO)
- Institute for Social Health (ISG)
- Institute for Gender and Diversity (IGD)
- Berlin Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Care (BIRP).
Together with the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin (ASH) and the Evangelical University of Berlin (EHB) , the KHSB is part of the SAGE association (social work, health, education and training) in the state of Berlin.
Rectorate / Presidium
- 1991–1993: Teresa Bock
- 1993–1997: Klaus Kliesch
- 1997–2009: Andreas Lob-Hüdepohl
- 2009–2013: Monika Treber
- 2013–: Ralf-Bruno Zimmermann
history
School and College
On April 8, 1917, the Social Women's School of the Catholic German Women's Association was opened in a rented apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg, Winterfeldstrasse 5-6. 47 students attended the first course. Anna Weltmann (1881-1946) took over the management, but after two years she resigned from responsibility for the training facility due to marriage. For a while, Ursula Ried (1887–1939) headed the school, which received state recognition on May 6, 1920. In April 1921, Paula Rengier was appointed head of the school. She headed the facility during the National Socialist era . In this regard, she wrote on the 40th anniversary:
- “As a representative of the Catholic welfare schools, I soon realized that a common level could never be found, that every foundation for it was missing, and that Catholic social endeavors were in grave threat. In retrospect it seems like a miracle that despite all the claims of National Socialism on the implementation of its worldview, despite the state examinations chaired by recognized Nazi representatives, the school never made a copcession that would burden the conscience. "
After the collapse of Hitler's fascism, the political conditions in the divided city of Berlin put the school's continued existence and internal work in serious danger. But the resistance of the bourgeoisie and the insight of the western occupying powers made the situation easier . Soon the number of schoolgirls grew again. In 1957 Marianne Pünder took over from Paula Rengier until 1965. The school, named after Helene Weber , moved to new rooms in the episcopal office building on the banks of the Lietzensee in 1965 . Joint training courses for women and men were held in the new classrooms. In 1968 the social training center was given the status of an academy . The University of Applied Sciences Act of 1970 meant the end of the denominational Helene Weber Academy , which was finally dissolved in April 1972 and transferred to the state-run Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Education .
In October 1991 the bishopric of Berlin took up the dormant tradition and founded the Catholic University of Applied Sciences for Social Education Berlin (KFB) . The founding rector was the long-time vice-president of the German Caritas Association and chairwoman - later an honorary member - of the German association , Teresa Bock , who was rector of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne from 1970 to 1977 .
The building
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Today the university is located in a listed building complex, which was built from 1928 according to plans and under the direction of the architect Felix Angelo Pollak as the St. Antonius Hospital in the Bauhaus style. Such a building was urgently needed in view of the growing population and also the supply problems that arose at the end of the First World War . However, neither money nor construction capacities were available, so that an ambulance was initially purchased in 1917 so that the hospital could be brought to hospitals more quickly. In a contemporary publication it says: “Karlshorst receives an ambulance !. Evangelical aid association and fire brigade take over the acquisition. "
When it was built, it was the most modern hospital in Berlin. The hospital construction was financed through a loan from the Sisters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Breslau. The Christians acquired large parts of the required property from Sigismund von Treskow . The entire land purchase for the hospital cost 260,000 marks .
After the Second World War , Köpenicker Allee belonged to the Soviet-occupied restricted area in which the SMAD settled. The buildings now served as the administrative headquarters of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) and partly also as a prison. When the restricted area was reduced in size in the 1950s, the property of the former hospital came to the GDR government. From November 1955 until its dissolution in February 1958, the Ministry of Mining and Metallurgy had its seat here. In 1963 the GDR Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Management moved into the building. After the dissolution of the GDR and with it all of its ministries, the buildings fell back into the property of the Catholic Church. In December 1990 St. Marien eV took over the administration of the premises and buildings.
In the years that followed, many parts of the building ensemble were refurbished and partly given new uses: the previous boiler system was converted into a cafeteria , and the former chapel became an auditorium and event hall.
Partnerships
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main research areas of the KHSB guidelines, areas of competence and strategic goals. Adopted by the Academic Senate on July 13, 2011
- ↑ ICEP: Berlin Institute for Christian Ethics and Politics. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
- ^ DICO: German Institute for Community Organizing. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
- ^ ISG: Institute for Social Health. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
- ↑ IGD: Institute for Gender and Diversity. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
- ^ Paula Rengier: 40 years of the Catholic Social Women's School (welfare school) Berlin . Berlin 1977, p. 7.
- ^ Paula Rengier: 40 years of the Catholic Social Women's School (welfare school) Berlin. Berlin 1977, p. 9.
- ↑ Köpenicker Allee 72 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1931, IV, Karlshorst, p. 2071. “St. Antonius Hospital ”.
- ↑ a b From hospital to college . In: Rathausnachrichten (Lichtenberg) , April 2, 2011, p. 7.
- ↑ Karlshorster Erzählkreis ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF) accessed in May 2006.
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 3 ″ E