Vienna Settlement Association
The Vienna Settlement Association was a charity in Vienna in the 20th century.
On the one hand, the association was active in providing better care for the children of the poorer classes, especially street children , but also in further training for mothers, such as through popular scientific lectures or cultural events, in order to improve their professional opportunities. The aim was:
"... the initiation of friendly relations between the dispossessed and the possessing class and the raising of the mental, physical and moral level of the poor population ..., but excluding any political activity"
The children were cared for in family-like groups.
history
It was founded on February 8, 1901 on the initiative of Marie Lang , modeled on the Passmore Edwards Settlement in London . In addition to Lang, Else Federn , Marianne Hainisch , Clementine Wiener and Baroness Amelie Langenau were co-founders. Feder was director for many years. But other well-known women's rights activists, such as Friederikezeileis , Ernestine Federn , Karl Federn , Betty Kolm or Grete Löhr worked with the association.
In 1902 he joined the Federation of Austrian Women's Associations . As a result, they were able to win over many people from the bourgeois-liberal circle to work. Karl Renner acted as the former president . Moritz Kuffner , the owner of the Ottakringer Brewery, provided the association with a small workers' house in Friedrich Kaisergasse in Ottakring.
From 1918 the association was able to work in its own house. As a result of the Anschluss in 1938, the association was expropriated and dissolved.
Although the association resumed its work in 1945, the many Jewish employees who helped in the interwar period but who either emigrated or were murdered during the war were missing. It was not until 1950 that the association was able to move back into the building, which had been expropriated in 1938 but was completely empty.
The association disbanded in 2003.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Wendt: History of social work , page 389, ISBN 978-3-8282-0426-3
- ↑ Women on the move