Dresden Student Union

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The Studentenwerk Dresden is the nine universities in Dresden , Zittau and Görlitz competent student union . It is an institution under public law with its seat in Dresden and branches in Tharandt and Zittau / Görlitz. It pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes. After the association “Studentenwohl” in Bonn, it is the oldest student union in Germany. Both were founded in 1919. A total of over 43,000 students are looked after in eight universities (as of December 2019). The largest supervised universities are the Technical University of Dresden with around 32,400 students (as of November 2018) , the Dresden University of Applied Sciences with around 5,000 students (as of December 2019) and the University of Zittau / Görlitz with 3,000 students (as of December 2019) . Martin Richter has been the managing director since January 2010.

history

On December 4, 1919, the Hochschul-Wirtschaftsgenossenschaft eGmbH was founded by students and university teachers to improve the economic situation of students after the First World War . This cooperative emerged from the university purchasing and consumer cooperative founded on October 26, 1919 in the auditorium of the TH Dresden, and was the first of its kind in Germany.

In the late 1920s, the Dresden Student Union and the German Student Union emerged from the self-help facility. Both were during the DC circuit in 1933 in the Empire Student forced integrated and dissolved in larger parts.

After the Second World War , efforts were made to re-establish the Dresden Student Union, which initially remained unsuccessful. Up until German reunification , the social tasks were carried out by the universities themselves. The re-establishment of the Dresden Student Union, as an institution under public law, took place on July 1, 1991. The legal basis was initially the Saxon Student Union Act, and from 1999 the Saxon University Act . Today's basis is part 10 of the Saxon Higher Education Act of December 10, 2008.

tasks

The task of the Studentenwerk is to provide social, economic, health and cultural support and support for the students, in particular through the operation of student dormitories and catering facilities. Within the scope of its financial capacity, it takes into account the special needs of students with children, disabled students and foreign students and promotes the compatibility of study and family. He is also responsible for state funding for training. With the approval of the State Ministry for Science and Art, it can take on other tasks, such as the canteen supply for state employees and students as well as the operation of day-care centers for the universities, provided this is economically expedient and the financing is secured. ( § 109 SächsHSFG)

The Studentenwerk provides inexpensive student catering in a total of 10 production canteens , 6 serving canteens and 4 independent cafeterias, including the old cafeteria, which it claims to be the oldest cafeteria in Germany. Over two million meals are distributed annually. It provides housing for students and especially freshmen. The Studentenwerk operates 41 dormitories with 6,697 places (as of 2016), of which (as of 2017) 29 houses in Dresden, three in Tharandt , seven in Zittau and one in Görlitz. Most of the rooms in the dormitories are furnished. For short-term stays in Dresden, the Studentenwerk provides accommodation in the international guest house. The guest house at Hochschulstrasse 50 was completely renovated in 2006 and now offers a total of 310 rooms for guests of Dresden universities or for friends and relatives of students.

Other fields of activity of the Dresden Student Union include advice on issues relating to student financing , the processing of BAföG applications and the processing of applications for relocation allowance from the City of Dresden. The Studentenwerk offers free social services for students, such as B. Legal advice and psychosocial advice. It also offers support for students with disabilities, for students from abroad or students in need. In addition, the Studentenwerk operates two day-care centers with 250 places and, since 2007, in partnership with the TU Dresden, the campus office “Uni mit Kind”.

The promotion of student culture is another area of ​​work. One focus is on looking after the student clubs in Dresden, Tharandt, Zittau and Görlitz. The Studentenwerk also runs a student gallery, rents rooms to bands and artists, and offers an extensive program of artistic and study-promoting courses every semester.

A total of 590 employees (as of 2016, for comparison (2007): 488 employees, 211 of them part-time) generate an annual turnover of over 30 million euros . In addition to these own sales, the company finances its services primarily from student contributions - the so-called student union contribution (summer semester 2017: € 77.50), which is collected by the universities as part of the semester contribution - and from grants from the state of Saxony. The state of Saxony has, however, reduced these grants more and more in recent years, which has consequently led to increasing student contributions. These increases in the student union fee caused some displeasure among the students concerned, but were always also borne by the student members of the Dresden student union's administrative board.

Businesses of a commercial nature

To promote student and youth welfare, the promotion of cosmopolitanism, tolerance in all areas of culture and the idea of ​​international understanding as well as welfare, in particular social and cultural care and promotion of students:

  • Advice (psychosocial, legal and social advice, study finance advice, specific advice for disabled, chronically ill, foreign and students with children as well as appropriate support offers and services),
  • Health promotion (measures to promote the health of students and corresponding service offers),
  • University catering (providing students with food and drinks at particularly low prices and, in the sense of youth welfare, through appropriate group catering offers),
  • Information and orientation offers (on student-specific topics and through corresponding events and publications),
  • International affairs (promotion and dissemination of international and intercultural offers for students, through offers and services for advising and supporting foreign students as well as promoting the international mobility of domestic students),
  • Childcare (establishment, maintenance and operation of childcare facilities, childcare offers for universities and to promote the compatibility of studies and family, in particular by helping and promoting students with children of toddler and preschool age),
  • Culture (provision of rooms for the students, the operation or promotion of student houses and clubs, the promotion of artistic groups, student events, projects and initiatives as well as corresponding programs),
  • Social Fund (granting grants and loans to students, managing the Social Fund) and
  • Student housing (construction and maintenance, the provision of inexpensive housing to students, the arrangement of student housing, the care services in the dormitories and the use of rooms for the purposes of student and youth welfare).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to the Dresden Student Union. In: About us. At Studentenwerk-Dresden.de, accessed on December 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Numbers and facts about TU Dresden. In: Profile. At TU-Dresden.de, accessed on December 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Numbers and facts. In: The HTW Dresden. At HTW-Dresden.de, accessed on December 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Studying without limits. In: Our mission statement. At HSZG.de, accessed December 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ On the history of the Studentenwerk Dresden - events in headlines. In: About us. At Studentenwerk-Dresden.de, accessed on December 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ 10 years of student economic work in Dresden. In: Studentenwerk magazine for student self-help work, 1929, p. 376ff.
  7. ^ Hannelore Stephan: Jubilee of the Studentenwerk . In: Dresden University Journal . Volume 20, No. 20, December 8, 2009, p. 8 ( online as PDF ; 3.8 MB).
  8. ↑ a b c performance figures of the student union - mirror of a stable company. Studentenwerk Dresden, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  9. ^ Canteens and cafeterias in Dresden, Tharandt, Zittau and Görlitz. Studentenwerk Dresden, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  10. ^ Student residences in Dresden and Tharandt. Studentenwerk Dresden, accessed on September 17, 2017 . Student residences in Zittau and Görlitz. Studentenwerk Dresden, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
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  11. ^ Daycare centers of the Dresden Student Union. Studentenwerk Dresden, accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  12. ↑ The performance figures of the Studentenwerk. Retrieved on September 17, 2017 (from the newspaper "SPIEGEL-EI" of the Dresden Student Union, issue 3/2008 of February 4, 2008).
  13. ^ Statutes of the Dresden Student Union for tax-privileged commercial operations from March 5, 2015, SächsABl. 2015 p. A 198 ff. ( Online as PDF ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); 216 KB; p. 26–34)

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