Walter Thorun

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Walter Thorun (born December 11, 1921 in Dortmund ; † March 12, 2010 in Hamburg ) was a German social worker.

Live and act

The son of a miner completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator after finishing primary school. After an accident at work, he trained as an industrial clerk. At the age of 18 he joined the NSDAP and was promoted to HJ Oberscharführer in 1941 . From 1941 to 1943 he managed an NSV convalescent home for working young people. He caught up with the secondary school entrance qualification and took a one-year special course to train as a public nurse and, after 1945, as a social worker; he received state recognition in 1950.

After the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship, Walter Thorun, who received the political exoneration certificate required for further professional activity from the responsible denazification chamber in June 1947 , played a decisive role in the restructuring of youth care and youth welfare in the Federal Republic. He was a youth carer in Kassel in order to build up regional youth work there, supported and promoted by the "German Youth Activities" campaign, furthermore managing director of the Kurhessischer Jugendring and secretary of the Mittelstelle of the Deutsches Jugendring. In 1953 Thorun was seconded to the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Bonn . He actually found his home in Hamburg. There he was the personal advisor to the Senator for Youth and Social Affairs , head of education and training, advisor for public relations and press spokesman for the Hamburg youth authority. In addition, he taught youth welfare / youth law at several socio-educational training centers in Hamburg. Finally, in the 1970s, a two-year teaching assignment from the University of Hamburg , Department of Education, was added. In 1982 he retired.

Thorun was involved in many professional and professional associations such as the German Association for Public and Private Welfare , Pestalozzi-Froebel Association, the Social Work Guild and the Patriotic Society of 1765 .

Fonts

  • Public relations in youth and social welfare. A plan for training and practice , Berlin 1970
  • Training entitlement of social workers / social pedagogues , in: Sozialpädagogische Blätter 1976, p. 93 ff
  • A 'home' for foster children , in: Sozialpädagogische Blätter 1978, p. 184 ff
  • 50 years ago - Helmut Hübener, a youth fate in the Third Reich : in: Our youth 1992, pp. 340–342.
  • Childhood and youth between coal and steel , Bochum 1996
  • 125 years of the Social Pedagogical Association , Hamburg 1998
  • Youth welfare in the defense struggle , in: Sozialmagazin 1998 / H. 11, p. 40 ff
  • Social Work Reform Project - 75 Years of the Social Work Guild , Münster 2000
  • German social pedagogues. You also wrote poems , Hamburg 2001
  • A look back at youth welfare and social work , Hamburg 2006

literature

  • Working group "Children and Youth Welfare" of the Patriotic Society (ed.): Public youth welfare in Hamburg. Four decades of construction and development after 1945 , Hamburg 1993, p. 396 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Thorun, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social work scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2010
Place of death Hamburg