Soziale Frauenschule

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Soziale Frauenschule was the name given to certain educational institutions that emerged in Germany between the turn of the century and the beginning of the 1920s.

In the course of the women's movement, they pursued the goal of vocational training for women in the welfare care sector. Another aim was to overcome the hardship of the First World War, which particularly affected women, who were to be supported by qualified female staff. [1] The first Sociale Frauenschule (Social Women's School) was established as a further development of a training school for kindergarten teachers in Berlin in 1908, founded by Alice Salomon, who also directed the school. [2] It offered a broad two-year training with theoretical and practical parts side by side. The teachers came from the environment of the health department and welfare office and initially taught voluntarily. By the First World War, there were 14 women's social schools in Germany. [3]

Examples of such facilities:

Current name of the schoolPlaceDate of foundationFounder
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin Berlin-Schöneberg, later Berlin-Hellersdorf 15 October 1908 [4] Alice Salomon [5]
Friedrich-Fröbel-Schule
Fachschule für Sozialpädagogik
Mannheim1916 [6] Marie Bernays
Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner
Alice Bensheimer
Julie Bassermann
Sozialpädagogisches Institut der Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg Hamburg1917 Gertrud Bäumer and Marie Baum [7]
Munich University of Applied Sciences
formerly Soziale Frauenschule München
Fachschule für Sozialpädagogik
München1919 Frieda Duensing
Anna Heim-Pohlmann from 1921
Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen  [ de ]
Abteilung Aachen
Köln
later Aachen [8]
8 November 1916 Katholischer Deutscher Frauenbund durch Hedwig Dransfeld [9] and Helene Weber

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  4. Rede von Alice Salomon zur Eröffnung der Sozialen Frauenschule (PDF kB)
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