National foundation for the bereaved of those killed in the war
The National Foundation for the Survivors of those Fallen in War was a foundation to provide for the war widows and war orphans of the First World War .
history
The National Foundation was established in September 1914, one month after the start of the war. Similar to the institutions of the Hindenburg donation and the Ludendorff donation, which took care of war invalids, it supplemented the state welfare benefits, in this case for widows and orphans. In a short time a central committee as well as regional committees such as the provincial committees (in Prussia) and the state committees (in the other federal states of the German Reich ) and, above all, hundreds of district and local committees were founded. The local committees collected donations, among other things, for the nailing of iron crosses . As of January 1, 1918, before the last year of the war, the number of war widows to be cared for in the German Reich was estimated at around 500,000.
Today the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs oversees the national foundation for the survivors of those killed in the war.
literature
in order of appearance
- August Stocker: Welfare for survivors of the war. A handbook of social welfare for the bereaved of those killed in the war . Macklot, Karlsruhe, 2nd, improved edition 1918.
- Alice Simmel, Elisabeth Schott, Helene Stranz, Karl Reutti: War survivors in Prussia. Result of a survey at the official welfare offices (= publications of the National Foundation for the survivors of those who died in the war, vol. 10). Heymann, Berlin 1919.
- Karl Reutti: The development of the military survivors' supply in Germany (= publications of the National Foundation for the survivors of those killed in the war, vol. 12). Heymann, Berlin 1920.
- Pierluigi Pironti: Victims of War and the State. Social policy for disabled people, widows and orphans of the First World War in Germany and Italy (1914–1924) . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22519-3 .
- Peter Käser: In the middle of the war. National Foundation for the Bereaved - War nailing during World War I in Seyboldsdorf , Vilsbiburg 2016, accessed on June 28, 2019.
Archival material
- Michaela Schmitz: Archives of the main welfare office for war disabled and war survivors of the Rhine Province, 1914–1963 in the archives of the Rhineland Regional Council , Pulheim 2011 ( online ).
- National foundation for the bereaved of those who fell in the war, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt regional committee
- Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg, inventory 180 Eschwege No. 2224
- State Archives Ludwigsburg, E 191 Bü 2428
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guidelines for the welfare to be granted to war widows and orphans by the “National Foundation for the Survivors of those Fallen in War” . In: August Stocker: War survivors welfare. A handbook of social welfare for the bereaved of those killed in the war . Macklot, Karlsruhe, 2nd, improved edition 1918, pp. 237-240. here p. 237.
- ↑ Helene Stranz: The welfare offices . In: Alice Simmel, Elisabeth Schott, Helene Stranz, Karl Reutti: War survivors welfare in Prussia. Result of a survey at the official welfare offices . Heymann, Berlin 1919, pp. 11–28, here p. 12.
- ^ Karl Reutti: result of the figures . In: Alice Simmel, Elisabeth Schott, Helene Stranz, Karl Reutti: War survivors welfare in Prussia. Result of a survey at the official welfare offices . Heymann, Berlin 1919, pp. 1–10, here p. 1.
- ↑ List of foundations with legal capacity under civil law based in Berlin , as of January 20, 2015, p. 20.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs: Filing Plan Department I , No. 53281: National Foundation for the Survivors of Those Fallen in the War .