Adult Education Center Dortmund
The Volkshochschule Dortmund was founded on June 6, 1913 as the first adult education center in the Ruhr area before the First World War . It was supported by the Dortmund Adult Education Association , whose chairman was the former Reichstag member Franz Lütgenau .
After a brief break in World War I , the adult education center continued its work and reached its first heyday in the 1920s. After the National Socialists came to power , the Dortmund Adult Education Center was closed on December 4, 1933.
In the first years after the war , the adult education center resumed its work under Emil Figge in 1946 . When Alfons Spielhoff took over the management and was given the opportunity to use space in the newly built Fritz-Henßler-Haus , a continuous expansion of the program was initiated in the mid-1950s.
The year 1975 brought decisive progress with the entry into force of the further education law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which made the operation of adult education centers a compulsory task for the municipalities and at the same time stipulated that the state should participate in financing. As a result, in 1978 the adult education center became an independent municipal office of the city of Dortmund . In the 1990s there was another reorganization. Today, the adult education center is part of the Dortmund cultural operations, which also includes the theater, museums and other cultural institutions in the city.
The seat of the adult education center in Dortmund is today the Löwenhof , which was built in 1912/1913 according to plans by the architects Paul Lutter and Hugo Steinbach, former elite Cafe Dortmund, one of the largest concert cafes in western Germany.
Today, the Volkshochschule Dortmund is the largest municipal training service provider in the Ruhr area and offers over 2,000 events per semester.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 48.2 ″ E