Association of Catholics in Business and Administration

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The "cruise ship", logo and common symbol of the association

The Association of Catholics in Business and Administration (KKV) is a Catholic community of women and men, employees, traders, craftsmen, members of the liberal professions and the public service in the Federal Republic of Germany , organized in over 90 local communities nationwide.

organization

The KKV local communities are usually legally independent associations . The common symbol of the association is the cruise ship.

Decision-making bodies:

  • Assembly of delegates (every two years at the federal association days)
  • Federal Main Committee (represents the interests of the diocesan, state and regional associations)
  • Federal association board

Juniors organize themselves in regional groups (e.g. in Hildesheim, Münster, Munich). In addition, young KKV interested parties and members have been organizing themselves in online networks since the end of 2007.

The federal association chairman is Josef Ridders, the clerical adviser is Peter Schallenberg .

Association organ : NEUE MITTE . Frequency: quarterly with a circulation of 7,000 copies.

The regional association of Bavaria offers a platform for seminars with its education center. The aim is to address and promote people holistically in their personality development.

Objectives and motivations

The association is interested in ecumenism and cooperation with other Christian denominations . Members can become Christians of all denominations who support the self-image of the KKV as a Catholic social association. The motto is: Serving people.

  • The KKV offers regional and supraregional opportunities for further training in a community of like-minded people on personal development , professional topics, questions of ethics , the search for belief and meaning.
  • Traveling together, pilgrimages and educational trips are also on the program, as are lectures on socio-political, economic, medical and religious topics.
  • Many local KKV communities offer a network of mutual support in private and professional matters.
  • All KKV local and diocesan associations offer their members an extensive and varied social get-together.

history

The association was founded in Mainz in 1877 as an association of the Catholic commercial congregations and associations in Germany , later the Catholic-Commercial Association - the abbreviation KKV, which is still used today, comes from this name . (Also in 1877 the Catholic commercial association Constantia was established in Würzburg ). The association has been based in Essen since 1891 . The foundation goes back to an initiative of the later cathedral capitular from Alzey, Friedrich Elz. Other founding members were Baron Felix von Loë-Terporten , the founder of the "Mainz Association" and the "Rhenish Farmers Association", Burghard von Schorlemer-Alst and Hieronymus Jaegen . Since its founding, the association has been building self-help institutions (job placement, health insurance , employee and death benefit insurance ) and institutions for vocational training and family recreation.

Through Ludwig Windthorst , the association's long-time honorary chairman , the KKV took part in the debates about Bismarck 's social reforms . In the 1950s, through his member Peter Horn, he played a decisive role in the development of the federal German social and pension insurance system . represented.

In honor of the 1,500 Catholic merchants who died in World War I , the Association built the Merchants' Memorial Church of St. Bonifatius in Leipzig - Connewitz in 1929/1930 .

In 1938, during the Nazi era , the KKV, like other Catholic associations, was banned, but was re-established in Letmathe in 1947 . The name was changed to the current name in 1965 due to the changed professional structure of the members.

KKV membership in other associations

The figurative mark of the KKV and its local associations

The “Kreuzschiff” logo shows an abstract hull and an associated Christian cross. It has been used as an association mark since its publication. In its form that still exists today, it was designed in 1931 by Anton Wendling , a university professor from Aachen, based on a design by Hubert Strauf , an advertising copywriter from Düsseldorf. The association colors that are also used in the symbol are HKS 7 and HKS 47 .

literature

  • Franz-Karl Enders: Catholics in business and administration. Structures, goals, attitudes and forms of behavior of the members of a federal association. Nymphenburger, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-485-03094-5 .
  • KKV - Federal Association of Catholics in Business and Administration (Ed.): Where is the KKV going? Rethink and reform the KKV. Contributions to the discussion. KKV, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-931283-39-9 .
  • Norbert Müller: KKV . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . Volume 6: Church history up to Maximianus. Herder, Freiburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-451-22006-7 , p. 108.
  • Ludwig Carl Winkel: History of the KKV Association. 75 years of professional community work in the service of church and state. Münstermann, Gelsenkirchen 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working Group of Catholic Associations and Organizations in the Archdiocese of Berlin (AGKVO), Berlin, May 2008, p. 14
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: p. 441.
  3. ^ Website of the association
  4. ^ KKV history
  5. ↑ Chapter Catholics in Economy and Administration . In: Episcopal General Vicariate Essen, Dept. Information / Episcopal Press Office (ed.): Our common path. 25 years of the Diocese of Essen . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1982. ISBN 3-88867-019-5 . P. 158.