Pestalozzi Foundation (Frankfurt am Main)
The Pestalozzi Foundation in Frankfurt was founded in 1873 and is an incorporated foundation under civil law. As a training foundation, it uses grants to support students who cannot pay for the training themselves. It is primarily aimed at Jewish applicants and students who start or continue their studies in Frankfurt am Main as a result of political or racial persecution.
history
In 1873 the brothers Zacharias and Isaak Königswarter as well as Mrs. Lisette Königswarter, b. Dear ones, the Arthur und Emil Königswarter'schen teaching and study foundation with assets of 300,000 guilders.
With the seizure of power by the National Socialists, a period of conformity and expropriation began for the Jewish foundations as well . In 1934 they lost their non-profit status , and in 1938 purely Jewish foundations were incorporated into the Reich Association of Jews in Germany . Interdenominational or at least equal foundations could remain in existence if they abandoned the names of the Jewish founders and the services only benefited German people .
This regulation was often used to maintain foundations. In 1939 a new, independent foundation was established in Frankfurt under the neutral name Pestalozzi Foundation. The Arthur and Emil Königswarter'schen teaching and study foundation was merged into this foundation and five other foundations were merged with it:
- Siegmund-Brühl Foundation (established in 1864)
- Leopold Odrell'sche Scholarship Foundation (established in 1886)
- Hermann and Luise Katz Foundation (founded 1929)
- Baron Anselm Salomon von Rothschild Foundation (founded 1877)
- Dora Trier'sche Scholarship Foundation (founded in 1902).
In this way it was possible to protect the foundation's assets from access by the National Socialists. After 1945, the foundation's funding focus was redefined. According to the original intention of the donors, Jewish applicants are now the focus of the funding practice again.
In 1975 the Frankfurt couple Katharina and Oswald Pfeffer made an endowment.
literature
- Gerhard Schiebler, Hans Achinger, Arno Lustiger: Jewish Foundations in Frankfurt am Main, 1988, ISBN 3782903587 , page 26 ff.
- Foundation report 2009/10, ISBN 394136801X , page 29, online
- Karl-Erich Grözinger, Harry Van der Linden (Ed.): The foundations of the Prussian-Jewish court jeweler family Ephraim and their traces in the present, 2009, ISBN 9783447057554 , page 109, online
Web links
- Website of the Pestalozzi Foundation Frankfurt
- Information page from the City of Frankfurt on the Pestalozzi Foundation