Dutch poor fund

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The Dutch Poor's Fund , founded as the Dutch Poor's Casse , is an aid organization in Hamburg .

history

Protestant refugees from the Netherlands came to northern Germany since 1567. In 1581 they founded the Dutch Poor's Fund in Altona as an aid to poor or sick compatriots who were passing through. In 1585 an institution of the same name was added in Hamburg. Since the local church organizations did not give them any help, they set up their own aid organization that strictly controlled the financial situation of the people they supported. Such a test could only be found much later in other institutions of the Hamburg poor relief.

The founding members of the facility included Gillis de Greve and Willem Amsinck . Twelve chiefs administered the organization. One of them was the year administrator. He accepted the donations collected from two Dutch people on a weekly basis and handed them over to recipients registered with the cash register, initially on a weekly basis and then at longer intervals. The poor fund also received donations and inheritances from wealthy people in the Netherlands. In 1586/87 ten people received help from the cash register, in 1601 another 25. From 1665 onwards, the annual administrator consulted all beneficiaries at least once a year to check their need for help.

Those in need received weekly allowances from the fund. In addition, the facility granted extraordinary grants for housing and doctor visits, heating costs, clothing, school visits and funerals. She also supported needy Dutch people passing through. Help could only be received by citizens of the Dutch provinces who professed to be part of the Confessio Augustana . In 1696, the income from the cash register was no longer sufficient to provide exceptional help. From 1711 the institution also supported people who were not Dutch. In 1780, 299 residents of Hamburg received help from there. In 1781 the poor fund stopped making payments to non-Dutch people.

The Dutch poor fund model shaped the care for poor people in Hamburg. One example of this is the general poor institution founded in 1788 . The poor charity, which still exists today, also made a major contribution to the work and prison and the city orphanage .

literature

  • Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: The Dutch Armen-Casse , Dutch Armen-Casse, Hamburg 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dirk Brietzke: Dutch poor fund. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 502.
  2. ↑ a b c d Dirk Brietzke: Dutch poor fund. In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 503.