VHS Witten / Wetter / Herdecke

VHS Witten / Wetter / Herdecke
type of school	Community College
founding	1977
address	Holzkampstrasse 7 58453 Witten, Germany
place	Witten
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 26 '41 "  N , 7 ° 22' 10"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '41 "  N , 7 ° 22' 10"  E
carrier	Witten , Wetter , Herdecke
management	Bettina Sommerbauer
Website	www.vhs-wwh.de

The VHS Witten / Wetter / Herdecke is the joint adult education center for the cities of Witten , Wetter and Herdecke .

history

Program of the home evening of the VHS Witten on December 9, 1928; The sponsor was the later "Aryanized" department store Alsberg & Blank

The adult education center in Witten was founded in 1919 in the auditorium of the court school. In the 1920s, the city of Witten paid the club-supported VHS annual subsidies. At the beginning of the 1930s, the city had to stop these payments due to the global economic crisis and so the last course of the VHS Witten took place in 1933. During the period of National Socialism the VHS mode rested. In 1946 the VHS was re-established. In 1963 the VHS moved into the Villa Friedrich Lohmann senior. as a VHS house . In 1964, the city of Witten took over the sponsorship of the VHS Witten from the Adult Education Association.

Head office and seminar center in Annen

1977 merged the community college Witten , founded in 1974 Volkshochschule weather and founded in 1948, community college Herdecke for Adult Education Zweckverband Witten / weather / Herdecke . Since the mid-1990s, the VHS has been using the former premises of the Ostermann furniture store in Annen as a seminar center, to which the Witten office moved in 2011 . At the end of 2007, the VHS decided to found a non-profit GmbH .

VHS sales point and event location in the city center in a listed round kiosk

Sonja Leidemann , mayor of Witten since 2004 , was director of the VHS Witten / Wetter / Herdecke from 1998–2004.

Publicly funded employment

In cooperation with the qualification and employment company of Diakonie Ennepe-Ruhr / Hagen ( QuaBeD ), the VHS operates two companies in the publicly funded employment sector , the second-hand shop Tragbar and the second-hand hardware store Cap Baumarkt .

literature

• Ralf Molkenthin, Hardy Priester: “We want to educate people.” On the history of the Witten adult education center . In: VOHM (Hrsg.): Year book of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark . tape 100 . Witten 2000, p. 209-250 .
• 50 years of VHS. 1919-1969. Adult Education Center of the City of Witten . 1st edition. Adult Education Center, Witten 1969.
• Heinrich Schoppmeyer : Witten. History of the village, town and suburbs . tape 2 . VOHM , Witten 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040266-1 .

Web links

Commons : VHS Witten / Wetter / Herdecke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• VHS Witten / Wetter / Herdecke

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. German National Library , accessed on December 8, 2012 . 
2. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. German National Library , accessed on December 8, 2012 . 
3. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. German National Library , accessed on December 8, 2012 . 
4. ^ Ostermann furniture store. einrichtungsforum.de, accessed on December 9, 2012 . 
5. ↑ VHS leaves Witten house. The adult education center is moving. Ruhr Nachrichten , April 14, 2011, accessed on January 20, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Witten. Vhs becomes a business. WAZ , November 16, 2007, accessed December 1, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Mayor Sonja Leidemann. City of Witten, accessed on March 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ portable in Witten. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 9, 2016 ; accessed on February 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ The CapBaumarkt. Retrieved February 9, 2016 .