Volkshochschule Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

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House of the adult education center at Pestalozzistraße 40–41

The Volkshochschule Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , also called VHS City-West is a Berlin public institution of adult education in bezirklicher ownership. The adult education center has existed since 1905.

history

In the course of the expansion of university offers, courses for the working class were held for the first time in Germany at the Technical University of Charlottenburg in 1901. This resulted in the city of Charlottenburg's advanced training courses for workers from 1905 to 1919.

With the formation of Greater Berlin in 1920, the central VHS was primarily managed from the Mitte district . The opening ceremony of the Volkshochschule Groß-Berlin took place on January 10, 1920 in the university in the presence of President Friedrich Ebert . A keynote speaker spoke:

“The tasks of the adult education centers are clear, but the way is difficult to find, they have to look for new paths. Its aim is to educate the individual to observe, think and feel people. "

After the NSDAP came to power in 1933, the head of the VHS Groß-Berlin, the Social Democrat Erwin Marquardt, was deposed. Then Konrad Kosmehl headed the VHS from the German National People's Party until 1945.

Liselotte Richter , first adult education center councilor in Charlottenburg 1945–1946, and as the first woman in Germany professor of philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin, describes the beginnings in Charlottenburg after the Second World War :

" Tormented by the fever of the typhoid vaccination , we brought out our first posters and lecture lists, we got ready for the opening ceremony of the first Charlottenburg adult education center."  

With the district merger, the Volkshochschulen in Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf published a joint “merger program” for the years 2000–2001 for the first time.

According to the Berlin statistics, VHS City-West conducted around 1,700 courses for the 2017 calendar year, with 74,000 teaching hours and 21,500 participants (participants) with 15 full-time employees and 350 freelance course instructors.

Community college building

The building, which is now a listed building, was designed by the architect Paul Bratring . In 1894 construction began on the “community double school” and in 1895 classes began. In the course of history, different types of schools have had the building in today's Pestalozzistr. 40/41 used. In 1930 the school for the hearing impaired moved in , in 1937 a vocational school and in 1980 the Volkshochschule Charlottenburg moved in. Today, the Charlotte-Wolf Kolleg to catch up on the Abitur is also located under the same roof.

Other teaching locations

Prinzregentenstrasse Adult Education Center City West

In addition to the "House of the Adult Education Center" in Pestalozzistraße, there are other teaching locations at the VHS City West:

management

  • 1956–1968 Eva Hahndorff
  • 1969–1979 Ursula Beul
  • 1979–1990 Monika Londner-Kujath
  • 1991-2003 Ruth Ellerbrock
  • 2003–2011 Laurenz Ungruhe
  • 2011–2014 (provisional management) Peter Hagemeister and Brigitte Kippe
  • since 2015 Sigrid Höhle

Educational offer

Similar to the program structure of other adult education centers in Germany, offers are continuously made available in the program areas 1. Politics and society, 2. Culture and design, 3. Health, 4. Languages, 5. Work and occupation and 6. Basic education. Women's education and basic education are part of the specific educational profile of the VHS Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ellerbrock 1995: p. 13
  2. ↑ Sassenbach 1962: p. 59
  3. ↑ Ellerbrock 1995: p. 21
  4. ↑ Ellerbrock 1995: p. 25
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 30 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 12.3 ″  E