Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Social Analysis and Political Education ; (RLS)
legal form	Registered association
founding	1990 in Berlin
Seat	Berlin
precursor	Society analysis and political education
purpose	Political educational work, international understanding and cooperation, promotion of talented and committed young people through scholarships, science and research with socio-political objectives, promotion of art and culture, documentation of the democratic-socialist movement.
Chair	Dagmar Enkelmann
Managing directors	Daniela Trochowski
Employees	over 200
Members	146
Website	rosalux.de

The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Society Analysis and Political Education e. V. (RLS) is a German, party-affiliated foundation of the party Die Linke based in Berlin . It is named after the politician and representative of the European labor movement Rosa Luxemburg . The association is one of the providers of political education work in Germany. It sees itself as belonging to the basic intellectual current of democratic socialism .

Rosa Luxemburg statue in front of the headquarters in the Neues Deutschland publishing house

history

The association emerged from the society analysis and political education association founded in 1990 . V. and was recognized two years later by the PDS as a party-affiliated, nationwide association. The renaming of the association to "Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Society Analysis and Political Education eV" took place in 2000. As part of a foundation association, he cooperates in Germany with associations and state foundations that are close to the political left . The RLS participated in several international events such as the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre 2001 and the European Social Forum in Paris 2003.

engagement

The association feels connected to democratic socialism and supports numerous projects, publishes publications and organizes exhibitions. With around sixty employees and many volunteers, the association supports charitable purposes such as the promotion of political education and science, art and culture as well as international understanding. The RLS awards scholarships to students and doctoral candidates through its Studienwerk . The RLS is financed through the federal budget as well as through membership fees and donations.

The association has been the publisher of the Marx-Engels-Werke at Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin since 1990 and was involved in the publication of the magazine Utopie Kreativ until 2008. Since 2009 the magazine Luxemburg has been published by VSA-Verlag .

Legal form and financing

As is the case with most other party-affiliated foundations, the RLS, despite its name, does not have the legal form of a foundation , but a registered association . It is financed through donations, membership fees and, in particular, government grants. From these, she received around € 64 million in 2017.

organization

The highest body is the general assembly. This elects the board every four years. The board currently has fourteen members. ( As of July 2018 ) On December 1, 2012, Dagmar Enkelmann was appointed chairman. She thus succeeded Heinz Vietze , who held the office from 2006 to 2012. The other board includes a. Thomas Handel , Jan Korte and Rainer Rilling . The association has a scientific advisory board with its chairman Alex Demirović , which also includes Irene Dölling , Jörg Hafkemeyer , Frigga Haug , Michael R. Krätke , Rainer Land , Birgit Mahnkopf , Birgit Sauer and Axel Troost .

The association maintains regional offices in São Paulo , Brazil , Quito , Buenos Aires and Mexico City to coordinate activities in Latin America . In the Middle East , RLS has two offices in Tel Aviv and Ramallah . It also has regional offices in Brussels , Prague , New York City , Johannesburg , Dakar , Dar-Es-Salaam , Hanoi , Moscow , Beijing , Warsaw , New Delhi and Belgrade . In October 2012 an office was opened in Athens . The association is still a corresponding member of the German UNESCO Commission .

Institute for Social Analysis

The Institute for Social Analysis (IfG) is part of the association. This includes 15 employees and five freelancers. The work takes place in cooperation with the scientific advisory board of the foundation. Mario Candeias has been the director of the institute since 2013. His predecessor was Michael Brie . Other employees involved include: a. Alex Demirović , Tadzio Müller and Rainer Rilling . The main focus of the institute's work includes a. the analysis of capitalism and the study of democratic socialism .

State foundations

The association cooperates in a network with several state foundations in the individual federal states. Most of them are called the "Rosa Luxemburg Foundation", but some have names such as the Kurt Eisner Society in Bavaria , the Helle Panke in Berlin or the Jenny Marx Society in Rhineland-Palatinate .

The state foundations have their own program and their own budgets from which they finance special activities. The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brandenburg awards the John Desmond Bernal Prize to young scientists, and the Saxon State Foundation awards the Science Prize of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony .

Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation

Following an agreement with the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald , the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation took over the sponsorship of the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation on February 9, 2011 and set itself the goal of creating the Hans and Lea Grundig -Prize to be passed on in the spirit of the founder Lea Grundig .

New foundation headquarters

The German Bundestag has approved a good 20 million euros for the main administration, which can be accessed by 2018. ^[outdated]

The new building with around 6,000 square meters of floor space is to be built on a 2.8 million euro plot in Berlin-Friedrichshain near the East Side Gallery, southeast of the Ostbahnhof and next to the Postbahnhof . The property company Straße der Pariser Kommune 8 GmbH & Co. KG was founded for the project in summer 2013 . According to research by the daily Die Welt, this company does not belong to the foundation, but to the equity capital of former captain of the MfS Matthias Schindler . The foundation refuses to provide information about why it is making the largest investment in its history with a former officer of the GDR secret service.

Bodo Ramelow , currently Prime Minister of Thuringia , is responsible for the construction . The politician of the party Die Linke was responsible for the new building on the foundation's board until his departure at the end of November 2014. Ramelow has rejected criticism of his approach in this regard.

Publications

Franziska Schutzbach: “Gender out!” 12 Corrections to anti-feminism and gender criticism . Ed .: Heinrich Böll Foundation , Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86928-164-3 ( Online [PDF; 5.0 MB ; accessed on January 27, 2018]).
Benjamin Luig, Fran Paula de Castro and Alan Tygel (both Campanha Permanente Contra os Agrotóxicos e Pela Vida), Lena Luig (INKOTA network), Simphiwe Dada (Khanyisa), Sarah Schneider (MISEREOR) and Jan Urhahn (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation ): Dangerous pesticides from Bayer and BASF - a global business with double standards. (PDF; 2.4 MB) Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, INKOTA-netzwerk , Bischöfliches Hilfswerk Misereor u. a., April 2020 .; accessed on April 25, 2020

literature

Dagmar Enkelmann , Florian Weis (ed.): “I live happily in a storm” (Rosa Luxemburg). 25 years of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Social analysis and political education. VSA, Hamburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89965-678-7 .

Web links

Commons : Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Statutes of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation dated November 26, 2016. (PDF) In: rosalux.de. November 26, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
↑ https://www.rosalux.de/profil/es_detail/YQSYG8P211/dr-dagmar-enkelmann/
↑ https://www.rosalux.de/stiftung/organigramm/
↑ More about us. In: rosalux.de. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
↑ List of club members. In: rosalux.de. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b cf. Heisterkamp: think tanks of the parties? A comparative analysis of the German political foundations , 2nd edition, p. 442.
↑ Party-affiliated foundations cost taxpayers 581 million. Die Welt , February 12, 2018, accessed January 21, 2020 .
^ Information from the RLS management office, 23 May 2016
^ Institute for Social Analysis . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation website, accessed on February 16, 2014.
↑ Mario Candeias . Internet presence of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, accessed on April 9, 2017.
↑ Science and Innovation - Future Potential of the European Region Berlin-Brandenburg (PDF; 449 kB). 2004.
^ University of Greifswald hands over the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation to a new sponsor , press release of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of February 9, 2011.
↑ Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: The cartel of the state plunderers. Die Welt , October 10, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .
↑ RLS new building with writing and map. ( JPEG ) Die Welt, accessed April 9, 2017 .
^ The Stasi Connection Die Linke Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. (JPEG) Die Welt, accessed April 9, 2017 .
↑ Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: Stasi helps build the Left Foundation. In: investigativ.de. Die Welt, December 19, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .
↑ Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: Ramelow ran a real estate company with a Stasi captain. Die Welt, November 30, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .
↑ Ramelow and the ex-Stasi officer: Lieberknecht attacks leftists. Thüringer Allgemeine , December 1, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .

[satzung-1] Statutes of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation dated November 26, 2016. (PDF) In: rosalux.de. November 26, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .

[2] ttps://www.rosalux.de/profil/es_detail/YQSYG8P211/dr-dagmar-enkelmann/

[3] ttps://www.rosalux.de/stiftung/organigramm/

[4] More about us. In: rosalux.de. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .

[5] List of club members. In: rosalux.de. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .

[Heist-6] . Heisterkamp: think tanks of the parties? A comparative analysis of the German political foundations , 2nd edition, p. 442.

[7] Party-affiliated foundations cost taxpayers 581 million. Die Welt , February 12, 2018, accessed January 21, 2020 .

[8] Information from the RLS management office, 23 May 2016

[9] Institute for Social Analysis . Rosa Luxemburg Foundation website, accessed on February 16, 2014.

[10] Mario Candeias . Internet presence of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, accessed on April 9, 2017.

[11] Science and Innovation - Future Potential of the European Region Berlin-Brandenburg (PDF; 449 kB). 2004.

[12] University of Greifswald hands over the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation to a new sponsor , press release of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of February 9, 2011.

[13] Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: The cartel of the state plunderers. Die Welt , October 10, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .

[14] RLS new building with writing and map. ( JPEG ) Die Welt, accessed April 9, 2017 .

[15] The Stasi Connection Die Linke Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. (JPEG) Die Welt, accessed April 9, 2017 .

[16] Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: Stasi helps build the Left Foundation. In: investigativ.de. Die Welt, December 19, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .

[17] Martin Lutz, Uwe Müller: Ramelow ran a real estate company with a Stasi captain. Die Welt, November 30, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .

[18] Ramelow and the ex-Stasi officer: Lieberknecht attacks leftists. Thüringer Allgemeine , December 1, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .