Polytechnic Society

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Company headquarters in the Untermainanlage in Frankfurt am Main

The Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main is a registered association with the purpose of promoting education, stimulating innovation and alleviating hardship. It has around 320 members.

history

The association was founded on November 24, 1816. The 33 founders, including Simon Moritz von Bethmann and Adolph Diesterweg , responded to a call to “promote progressive ideas in the technical, economic, social and cultural fields”. The first president was Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe , professor at the municipal grammar school .

As the “Frankfurt Society for the Promotion of the Useful Arts and the Sciences that ennoble them”, it campaigned for the promotion of culture and education, but also for numerous social initiatives. Honorary members of the association were u. a. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein , Justus von Liebig and Friedrich Wöhler , whose father August Anton Wöhler was President of the Society from 1820 to 1850. The founding rector of the Frankfurt University, founded in 1914, Richard Wachsmuth , had resigned his chairmanship of the Polytechnic Society after the National Socialists changed the statutes, according to his son.

In 1822, the Polytechnische Gesellschaft founded the Frankfurter Sparkasse from 1822 to give low-wage earners and craftsmen the opportunity to invest their savings securely. In 2005 the Polytechnische Gesellschaft sold its shares in the Frankfurter Sparkasse to the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen and brought the proceeds to the Polytechnische Gesellschaft foundation .

Subsidiary institutes

  • Foundation for the Blind, today Frankfurt Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired , founded in 1837 to enable blind and visually impaired people to actively participate in social life.
  • Wöhler Foundation, named after August Anton Wöhler , founded in 1846 "to train young people for trade and commerce" as a forerunner organization of today's vocational schools . After the loss of the foundation's capital during the Second World War, the Frankfurter Sparkasse renewed the foundation with a donation, which has been awarding grants for outstanding research work that is dedicated to the historical work of Wöhler or the Polytechnic Society and its daughters.
  • Central German Arts and Crafts Association in Frankfurt V., founded in 1877. In 1881 he opened the Museum of Applied Arts in Neue Mainzer Straße. The city took over the facility in 1921 after the club lost its fortune to inflation. The museum was renamed Museum für Kunsthandwerk in 1936, and has been called the Museum Angewandte Kunst since 2013 . After the currency reform, the arts and crafts association was re-established as the museum's association.
  • Institute for Apiculture in Oberursel, founded in 1937, today affiliated to the Department of Biosciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
  • Kuratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt e. V., founded in 1957 to promote cultural life in Frankfurt. Its goals are to enable documentation of Frankfurt's cultural assets, to cultivate the relationship between citizens and the cultural tradition of their city, to support Frankfurt's cultural institutions and to promote artists and art exhibitions.
  • Association for the maintenance of chamber music and for the promotion of young musicians e. V., founded in 1959. It organizes a series of concerts in Frankfurt am Main and awards grants to young musicians.
  • Polytechnic Society Foundation , founded in 2005 from the proceeds from the sale of Frankfurter Sparkasse. The purpose of the foundation is to promote urban society in the areas of family education and prevention, language education, cultural education, introduction to science and technology, and civic engagement.

honors and awards

literature

  • Thomas Bauer: In good company. The history of the Polytechnic Society in Frankfurt am Main. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 3-8653-9677-1 .
  • Franz Lerner: Citizenship and Citizenship. History of the Frankfurt Polytechnic Society 1816-1966. Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
  • Oliver Ramonat: The Polytechnic House. A short history of the Lower Main System 5th Polytechnic Society Foundation, Frankfurt am Main 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.polytechnische.de/der-verein/
  2. ↑ Based on the description of the Polytechnic Society. According to other sources, including the Institute for City History , the name was "Frankfurt Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts and their Auxiliary Sciences".
  3. ↑ Werner Wachsmuth : A life with the century. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York / Tokyo 1985, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Frankfurt Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  5. ↑ Kunstgewerbeverein in Frankfurt
  6. ^ Institute for Apiculture
  7. ^ Kuratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt