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The Kreuzbund is a professional association of the German Caritas Association , which offers help for alcohol and drug addicts and their families as a self-help and helper community . The club is based in Hamm in Westphalia.
history
The association was founded in Aachen in 1896 by the Catholic priest Josef Neumann and soon became known as the Cross Alliance. The current name has been used since 1926.
Since alcoholism was recognized as a disease by the WHO in 1964 and by the Federal Social Court in Germany in 1968 , and this insight has also spread more and more in society, the Kreuzbund has developed from an abstinence association into a self-help and helper community that today works for addicts and their families across Germany is.
assignment
The health and socio-political mandate of the association grows from the self-image of the Kreuzbund to be a self-help and thus also a community of helpers. Both in the area of health policy and social policy, the Kreuzbund has the task of representing the interests of its members, demanding and promoting preventive measures, implementing addiction policy initiatives and providing awareness-raising work.
As a specialist association of Caritas, the Kreuzbund is in close cooperation with the other addiction self-help associations and the German Central Office for Addiction Issues (DHS).
In Germany, the Kreuzbund has around 1,300 local groups for addicts and relatives, in which around 20,000 people in need and helpers come together every week (as of 2017). In response to alcohol abuse among young people, the “Young Cross Association” was founded. The Josef Neumann Foundation was established in 2012 to support the Kreuzbund .
As an award for special services to the Kreuzbund, the association awards members the Kreuzbund Medal and non-members the Josef Neumann Medal.
Magazines
- companion
Other publications
- Hohenecker Singebuch. Compiled by Hubert Göbels and Ewald Veltgens. Hoheneckverlag, G. mb H., Heidhausen-Ruhr 1926.
Alternatives
Other aid organizations and self-help groups with a focus on alcoholism sometimes use different approaches. Evangelical counterparts are the Blue Cross and the Friends of Addiction Help . Alcoholics Anonymous is another self-help organization who, like the Good Templars, are denominationally independent.
literature
- Heinrich Weertz: Anno Neumann and the newer Catholic anti-alcohol movement ; Heidhausen (Ruhr): Kreuzbündnis-Verlag, 1913
- Heinrich Czeloth, Carl von Vogelsang: From Lourdes to Neviges. 50 years of the Kreuzbund Association of Abstinent Catholics ; Büren: Hoheneck, 1948
- 80 years of the Kreuzbund. 1896-1976 ; Hamm: Kreuzbund, 1976
- 100 years of the Kreuzbund. 1896-1996 ; Hamm: Kreuzbund, 1996 (special edition of the association magazine Weg Companion )
Web links
- Official website of the Kreuzbund Germany
- Johannes Abeler, Rainer Müller-Broders: The Kreuzbund historical retrospection