Migrant workplace
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a migrant workplace was an institution for migrating homeless people, in which they were cared for and housed in return for work.
background
These communal and ecclesiastical institutions (the latter were mostly called "Herbergen zur Heimat") gave homeless people the opportunity to move around and to enjoy secure care in return for work. In return, begging bans and other laws against vagrancy continued to exist, prohibiting the homeless from begging or loitering in the towns. On June 29, 1907, Prussia passed its own migrant workplaces law, in which city and rural districts could be obliged to set up these workplaces.
“Migrant workplaces have the task of providing penniless, capable men who are looking for work outside of their place of residence, and of providing board and shelter in return for work. Rural and urban districts [...] can be obliged to set up migrant workplaces. [...] The municipalities are obliged to participate in the administration and to provide suitable premises for the migrant workplaces in return for appropriate compensation "
These were mostly institutions with poor working conditions that benefited from the use of migrants as workers. For example, in 1911 there was a migrant workplace in Göttingen on the property of the poor house in which 3,622 men were fed in the year it was founded. As a job, they had to chop wood for half a day.
In Hanover there was an "Association against House Begging" founded by Pastor Wilhelm Höpfner and some citizens since 1879, which operated a so-called "Migrant Workplace" in the middle of the city. This was the first facility in what was then the province of Prussia to provide a “Werkheim for those willing to work”.
See also
literature
- Carl Mauve, R. v. Groening: The Migrant Workplaces Act of June 29, 1907 . Heymann, Berlin January 1, 1909, OCLC 249898256 .
- Jürgen Scheffler (Ed.): Citizens & Beggars. Materials and documents on the history of non-sedentary help in der Diakonie , Vol. 1, 1854 to 1954, Bielefeld 1987.
Web links
- Migrant workplace on goettingensozial.wordpress.com
- The hostel at home on goettingensozial.wordpress.com
- From Eilbek to Humboldtstraße: The new beginning as a migrant workplace and home for travelers . (PDF; p. 23) bodelschwingh-haus-hamburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Help for people in need of housing. (No longer available online.) Esb-bottrop.de, archived from the original on January 31, 2015 ; Retrieved on August 17, 2015 (see “Workers Colonies” or “Herbergen zur Heimat”). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ On the criminal prosecution of beggars and vagabonds cf. Wolfgang Ayaß : The work house in Breitenau. Beggars, vagrants, prostitutes, pimps and welfare recipients in the correctional and rural poor institution in Breitenau (1874–1949). , Kassel 1992.
- ^ Friedrich von Bodelschwingh: The migrant workplaces law and two paragraphs of the German Reich law . Bethel b. Bielefeld January 1, 1907, OCLC 252341121 .
- ^ Robert cell, Kurt Gordan, Rudolf Korn, W. Lehmann: Handbook of the current public and civil law . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-662-40011-1 , p. 452 ( books.google.de ).
- ↑ Jürgen Schallmann: Arms and poverty in Göttingen 1860-1914 (= studies on the history of the city of Göttingen . Volume 25 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-647-85427-4 , p. 120 .
- ↑ The sponsoring association. (No longer available online.) In: whhannover.de. Werkheim Hannover, archived from the original on October 11, 2015 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
