Dortmund Social Academy

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The Dortmund Social Academy (SAD) was opened in 1998 as a teaching institution and part of the Center for Further Education within the Technical University of Dortmund and no longer exists. There are offers and seminars to enable employees and their representatives to work independently in the world of work, associations, business and society.

Building of the Dortmund Social Academy at Hohen Strasse 141 in Dortmund, near the B1.

history

The Dortmund Social Academy was founded on June 10, 1947 on the initiative of the union secretary Alfred Gundlach (1895–1951), who had been organizing a "union working group for young people" since 1946. The establishment took place after consultation of the Dortmund trade unions with the North Rhine-Westphalian state government, the Dortmund city administration and the social research center of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . According to the statutes, it pursues the goal of "enabling people, primarily from the group of employees, within the framework of special social science studies to make independent judgments and to work independently in the world of work, economics and politics". On November 3, 1947, a first course was offered with the subjects of economics and sociology, economic and social policy, business administration, jurisprudence (social law), trade union theory, history and practice of the trade union movement as well as medical ergonomics and social psychology. SAD was sponsored by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , the city ​​of Dortmund and the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB). It is therefore the second oldest academy for workers after the Academy of Work (AdA) at the University of Frankfurt am Main, which was founded in 1921. The Academy for Community Economy in Hamburg has been pursuing a similar mission since 1949 . In 1954 the SAD received the status of a Scientific Academy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. After the passage of the General University Development Act of May 18, 1972 (Section 33), it was accepted into the association of the University of Dortmund. Since January 1st, 1998 it has been part of the University of Dortmund.

literature

  • Ludwig Bußmann, Bärbel Malkowski-Andrzejewski, Rolf Ruppio: 40 years of the Dortmund Social Academy: a historical and empirical study , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 9783428069378

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