Catholic workers movement

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Catholic Workers' Movement
(KAB)
logo
legal form non-profit registered association
founding May 22, 1971
Seat Cologne , Germany
main emphasis Social policy , social law
people Andreas Luttmer-Bensmann , Maria Etl
Members 125,000 (2017)
Website KAB website

The Catholic Workers 'Movement (KAB) is a social association in Germany , Austria and Switzerland that has its roots in the Christian workers' movement of the 19th century. It emerged in Germany from the merger of workers' associations with the support of Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler from Mainz . The KAB is part of the World Movement of Christian Workers (WBCA) and stands in the tradition of the Catholic workers' associations of the 19th century .

history

Germany

history

The first Catholic workers' support association was founded in Regensburg in 1849 . The Catholic workers' associations received express recognition and orientation through the first major social circular Rerum novarum from Pope Leo XIII. in 1891. In that year, the southern German region merged to form the Association of South German Catholic Workers' Associations . The workers 'associations in Central and Eastern Germany as well as in the diocese of Trier merged in 1897 to form the association of Catholic workers' associations "Sitz Berlin". In 1903 the "West German Association of Catholic Workers 'and Miners' Associations" was founded.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 , the workers' associations were serially banned and many clubs lost their possessions. The Westdeutsche Arbeiterzeitung, the organ of the West German workers' associations, was banned. The then management of the West German Association, the workers 'secretary Bernhard Letterhaus , association president Otto Müller and the editor of the West German workers' newspaper Nikolaus Groß , were arrested in the course of the arrests following the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . Groß and Letterhaus had contact with the Goerdeler resistance group. Groß and Letterhaus were sentenced to death in sham and show trials of the People's Court , chaired by Judge Roland Freisler . Letterhaus was executed on November 15, 1944 and Groß on January 23, 1945 in Plötzensee . President Müller was arrested on September 18, 1944. He was taken to Tegel prison , where he fell ill. He died a month later on October 12, 1944 in the police state prison. The former KAB secretary in the diocese of Augsburg, Hans Adlhoch , was also arrested after the Stauffenberg assassination attempt and was sent to the Dachau concentration camp . He fell ill on the so-called death march at the end of April. Shortly after the liberation, he succumbed to his illness in a Munich hospital. In the southern German area, the former workers' associations began again in 1947 under the name "Werkvolk - South German Association of Catholic Workers".

On May 22, 1971, the South German and West German associations as well as the Rottenburg-Stuttgart regional association founded the Federal Association of the Catholic Workers' Movement as an umbrella organization. The work people became the Catholic Workers' Movement. After the founding of the new federal association, the KAB Deutschlands e. V. (October 3, 2003) the regional associations disbanded and became the KAB Deutschlands e. V. convicted. In 2012, the KAB joined the alliance Umfairteile and advocated, among other things, an unconditional basic income . She therefore took part in the BIEN Congress in 2012 , and in 2013 also in a European Citizens' Initiative in which the European Commission is asked to look for ways to introduce an unconditional basic income in Europe. "We need a Europe for all people, not a Europe of banks and corporations," said KAB basic income expert Matthias Blöcher in this appeal. In March 2014, one of the three members of the federal management, Federal Chairman Georg Hupfauer, resigned after an investigation into the allegation of possession of child pornographic images.

Former KAB federal chairwoman Regina Dolores Stieler-Hinz at the DGB reception for the 99th German Catholic Day in Regensburg
Good Friday (2013) KAB-Austria
KAB flag

structure

The KAB Deutschlands e. V. is divided into diocesan associations. All KAB associations / local groups of a diocese form the diocesan association. The KAB of Germany currently consists of the diocesan associations Aachen, Augsburg, Bamberg, Berlin, Dresden-Meißen, Eichstätt, Erfurt (Meiningen), Essen, Freiburg, Fulda, Görlitz, Hamburg, Hildesheim, Cologne, Limburg, Magdeburg (as of December 31, 2019 dissolved), Mainz, Munich and Freising, Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn, Passau, Regensburg, Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Speyer, Trier and Würzburg. Associations and local groups in a region can form a district association. The Christian Workers' Youth (CAJ), founded independently in 1925, works as a youth organization with the KAB. The Associazioni Cristiane Lavoratori Italiani Germania (ACLI Germania) is also a member of KAB Germany. In 2014, the KAB in Germany had around 125,000 members. Since October 2015, Andreas Luttmer-Bensmann and Maria Etl have been the national board of KAB Germany.

Facilities

KAB houses
Ketteler Ferienwerk

The Ketteler Ferienwerk enables members to travel cheaply for groups and families.

Weltnotwerk

The KAB Weltnotwerk, founded in 1960, is the KAB's international aid organization and promotes the establishment and expansion of Catholic workers' organizations and KAB movements in the so-called Third World.

Association body

The organ of the association is the magazine Impuls , which appears four times a year .

Austria

The first Catholic workers' associations, which were founded around 1870 in the Vienna area , can be seen as forerunners of the KAB in Austria. The KAB Austria was then officially on 6/7. Founded April 1951 in the Redemptorist College in Attnang-Puchheim under the name "Catholic Labor Movement". There was a close cooperation with the KAJ from an early stage , which is evident, for example, in a joint membership card and a joint prayer in 1969. In January 1972, the association newspaper Neuer Arbeiter was restructured and given the new title ZeitZeichen . The book Documents - Stages of the Catholic Social Movement since 1850 and 30 Years of the Catholic Workers' Movement in Austria was first published in 1980 and, according to its own account, is now the standard reference work for the founding years of the Austrian KAB. Under the motto “Don't leave the future to chance”, the 5th National Study Conference of the KAB Austria with 200 participants took place in Seggau Castle in May 1985 , at which statements on the reduction of working hours and the protection of Sundays were developed. Two years later, with the contents of the study conference of 1985, the 4th basic program of the KAB Austria was decided and published. In October 1993 the Austrian KAB changed its name to “Austrian Catholic Workers Movement”.

In its mission statement of March 13, 2010, the Austrian KAB describes itself as an independent lay movement of the Catholic Church. Its most important principle is "We put people first", with special attention paid to the disadvantaged and the weak. The KAB Austria sees its mission in the creation of a humane and solidary life for everyone. The aim is to create an activity company in which the three fields of gainful employment, private work and voluntary work apply equally. A special focus is on educational work. The mission statement states that the Austrian KAB promotes the work of its members and groups through training, advice, support and networking.

Switzerland

The first KAB in Switzerland was founded in St. Gallen on January 29, 1899 as the Catholic workers' association of St. Gallen Cathedral . This local organization was a model for the founding of other associations and thus spread throughout Switzerland. The establishment of self-help groups, Christian trade unions and parties was the Catholic response to the socialist ideas of the time. In the course of history, the associations changed into the Catholic workers' movement KAB. In 1956 the aid organization Brücke der Bruderhilfe was founded, which is now called Brücke • Le pont . The meeting point is the official organ of the association, with internal issues as well as social issues from the perspective of Christian ethics .

See also

Web links

Commons : Catholic Workers Movement  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Support group in the Umfairteile Alliance ( memento from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), subpage at umfairteile.de , last accessed on June 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Basic Income Congress was a complete success , on lasst-euch-nicht-abhaengen.de ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Call for the signature of the European Citizens' Initiative on Basic Income. (pdf) In: Cologne Impulse. Diözesanverband Köln , May 21, 2013, p. 4 , archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ KAB boss Hupfauer resigns because of child porn investigations. In: Welt Online . March 6, 2014, accessed May 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ KAB has concluded with Georg Hupfauer. In: Welt Online. March 13, 2014, accessed May 12, 2014 .
  6. ^ Official Journal of the Diocese of Magdeburg, February 2020
  7. ↑ http://www.kab.de/kab/geschichte/
  8. ↑ Chronicle: 2.2. Formation of Catholic Workers' Associations, accessed on November 3, 2015
  9. ↑ Chronicle: 1. The hour of birth retrieved on November 3, 2015
  10. ↑ Chronicle: 3.2. The second decade: "Butter BREAD with jam", accessed on November 3, 2015
  11. ↑ Chronicle: 3.3. The third decade: "Extrawurst mit Gurkerl auf BROT", accessed on November 3, 2015
  12. ↑ Chronicle: 3.4. The fourth decade: "Two topped BREAD with ham ..." accessed on November 3, 2015
  13. ↑ Chronicle: 3.5. The fifth decade: "Knäcke-BROT" accessed on November 3, 2015
  14. ↑ Mission statement of KAB Austria from March 13, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 3, 2015@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kaboe.at  
  15. ^ History of KAB Switzerland ( Memento of October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 13, 2012
  16. ↑ Bridge • Le pont aid organization
  17. ↑ striking point Christian Social magazine of the KAB (Switzerland)