Association for children's kitchens and after-school care centers

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The association for children's kitchens and after-school care centers was founded in Berlin in 1893 by the Jewish businessman Herrmann Abraham .

history

Feeding the schoolchildren, archived in the Ida-Seele archive

After it was founded, the association began building kitchens wherever the poorer population lived: Gesundbrunnen, Wedding, Moabit, in the north and east of the city. In 1910 the association opened 13 after-school care centers for a total of 600-700 children. The children were allowed to visit an after-school care center, "who had also been identified by the poor authorities as requiring care." In 1913, for example, the association distributed lunches to 1,069,483 schoolchildren and approx. 1,000 lunches to non-school-age children:

Abraham collected the money needed for child feeding in the best circles of society through collections, fundraising, benefit concerts and charity bazaars. In many cases, the money was raised very aggressively, a practice that critics did not always find worthy .

The help and advice centers set up by the association in its facilities were given to mothers "in all cases where there is care for the children, advice from the women of the association and in all cases of nutritional need free feeding is granted for the children" (quoted . n. prospectus, archived in the Ida-Seele archive ). The children were fed throughout the year, both on school days and during the school holidays.

The Nazis dissolved the association.

literature

  • Twenty-five years of the association for people's kitchens and day care centers . Berlin 1918
  • Manfred Gailus , Heinrich Volkmann (ed.): The fight for daily bread . Opladen 1994, p. 259 ff.
  • Meinolf Nitsch: Private charities in the Kaiserreich , Berlin 1999, p. 216 ff.
  • Peter Reinicke : Pioneer of school child feeding in Germany: Herrmann Abraham 1847 - 1932, in Sabine Hering ed., With Sandra Schönauer: Jewish welfare in the mirror of biographies. Series of publications History of Jewish Welfare in Germany, 2nd ed. Hering, Gudrun Maierhof, Ulrich Stascheit. Fachhochschulverlag, Frankfurt 2007 ISBN 3936065802 pp. 20–33 (with photo of Abrahams)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nitsch 1999, p. 216 f
  2. ↑ http://www.europa.clio-online.de/site/lang__de/ItemID__110/mid__11428/40208214/default.aspx

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