Alice Salomon University
The Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin (ASH, formerly Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences for Social Work and Social Berlin ) is a University of Applied Sciences in Berlin- Heller village with a focus on social work and health and care management. In these areas, four undergraduate and 12 master's degree programs are offered.
Past and present
The ASH was founded in 1908 by the scholar and women's rights activist Alice Salomon as a Social Women's School in Berlin- Schöneberg. She became the " prototype for all welfare schools, up to the present. " (Hering 2005, p 22)
The teaching began on 15 October 1908, 82 students at the age of 18 by the end of 30 years. There were 213 so-called Hospitantinnen ', the participating only in individual events. As a motto of the educational institution the founder had selected the set of the English essayist Thomas Carlyle: " Blessed is he who found his work. '" About Aim and purpose of the training center she said in her keynote opening address:
"The purpose and goal of the school: Because this was created and intended to serve the function of giving the girls and women of our city, our country work. Work, that does not mean employment, not a pastime, but an activity that not only their time - takes but also their thoughts, their interest in claim; the first is to make the content of their lives for a few years, around only other thing that life offers them to pleasures, pleasures, suggestions, only - as it were as a decorative arabesque - grouped as accessories. Work that they not only met once classified as students come and go in this house; but work that they also also take, when they leave school, as a part of their lives that can not perish which belongs to them that determines their approach to life and their actions, where the fate lead them also which place them once may be intended for later "
The newly founded institution was the first inter-denominational school with a two-year training of welfare nurses, where " poor care, child care and workers' welfare were taught on the upper course specifically as vocational training, while the lower course a more practical work in the nursery and kindergarten demanded " (castle home 2002, pp. 12 ff.) The newly established educational institution could rely on a training concept which had already in a 15 -year-old experimental and pilot phase since 1893 "Girls and women's groups for social relief work", directed by Jeanette Schwerin, 1899 by Alice Salomon developed in the. For the founder of the social training facility was ostensibly a place of modern education ', where the female youth for the " Harnessing the duties and rights is educated, who had won the women's movement for them " (Solomon 1908, p 42). The success of the Social Women's School was enormous:
" While the Social Women's School took their inward form in the early years, it developed very well externally. The number of students rose continuously. In the year 1913/14, visited 33 pupils the lower level, 60 the upper (30 more applicants were turned away due to overcrowding ), and 30 students participated in training courses ( a so-called third class, which was established in the first year of the existence of the Social Women's School ) part. Furthermore, there was a Hospitantenkursus with an average of 58 listeners and one of 43 students attended an evening course. It made sense that the spaces provided by the Pestalozzi- Froebel House no longer sufficient "
Notable people from politics, economics, philosophy, social work, etc. taught at the private social training center. These included Alice Salomon Clara Richter, Lili Droescher, Frieda Duensing, Gertrud Bäumer, Margarete Treuge, Emil Münsterberg, Friedrich Naumann, Ruth von der Leyen, Idamarie Solltmann, and Albert Levy.
On October 1, 1914 a new school building was purchased, financed in large part by Alice Salomon from private funds. 1932, the 60th anniversary of the school founder, the School Alice Salomon could call School of Social Work.
During the period of National Socialism, the educational institution has been preserved, but all Jewish teachers were dismissed and after 1934 were no Jewish students late to be included. Applicants had to submit the following proof of both their " Aryan descent " as well as membership in the BDM or any other Nazi organization. Alice Salomon was banned and was forced to emigrate. Her successor Charlotte Dietrich was already 1933, the NSDAP (member number: 5916653 ) occurred, to save the training center. She had the " National Socialist seizure of power as a New beginning ', a restoration of the beginnings, support " ( Feustel / Koch 2008, S, 85). As a result, teaching and learning materials had to be oriented to the Nazi ideology. The Social Women's School was renamed the School of Social Welfare.
After the collapse of the Third Reich, the school, from 1952 (but only for a short time ) was called after its founder, albeit reluctantly, the democratic approach of social work, according to the " re-education " program of the U.S. military government opened. And male applicants were admitted then on. Soon, new subjects were added: Social case work, social group work, community work and social care youth / youth services (see Castle Home 2002, pp. 127 ff.) In 1971 the meantime, Higher College was "rededicated to the college, which again bears the name Alice Salomon since 1991. 1998 pulled the Fachhochschule in a new building at the former Berlin district Heller village (now borough of Marzahn - Heller village ) around. The move to the eastern outskirts of Berlin was controversial: The Senate of Berlin had decided it was a carrier of the device against the will of the ASH. At the historic site is still the archives for the University.
In the winter semester 2007/2008 some 1,900 students were enrolled at the ASH, the faculty consisted of 40 professors, six honorary professors and 120 additional faculty or teaching assistant. Research is carried out application-oriented, focus is the development and scientific monitoring of new offerings in the social and health-oriented practice.
Since the winter semester 2006/2007 assigns the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences to Poetics price, connected to a same lectureship. The first prize winners were Michael Roes (2006 ) and Gerhard Ruhm (2007). In addition, the ASH gives the Alice Salomon Award. This prize is awarded to women who continue under present conditions and strengthen figuratively the life work of Alice Salomon. So far were honored: Alice Shalvi (2001), Fadela Amara (2004 ), Barbara Lochbihler (2008) and Rugiatu Turay (2010).
In the entrance area of today's ASH remember two commemorative plaque engraved with the text on the life and work of Alice Salomon, which were unveiled on 16 April 2008, the school founder.
Alice Salomon Archive
In 2000 the archive in Berlin Schöneberg was founded, after leaving the University of Schöneberg. It is a reminder of Alice Salomon and her life's work in this historic place, since 1908, the university was founded as a Social Women's School in Berlin Schöneberg. The archive documents at the same time these beginnings and the development of professionalism in social work, at the Alice Salomon Hochschule in particular the professionalism of the social female occupations.
School management / Directorate / Rector
Graduates / graduates / lecturers (selection)
- Marie Bloch (1871-1943), German - Jewish educator
- Ruth von der Leyen (1888-1935), German social worker
- Dora Peyser (1904-1970), German - Jewish social worker
- Kate Rosenheim (1892-1979), German - Jewish - American social
- Idamarie Solltmann (1889-1980), in 1927 lecturer at the Women's School, worked in the care prostitutes in Berlin, headed the Catholic Welfare School in Münster
- Gabriele tergite (1894-1982), German writer
- Elisabeth von Thadden (1890-1944), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Dorothee von Velsen (1883-1970), German writer and women's rights activist
- Hedwig Home Guard (1891-1969), German social reformer and historian
Memberships
- Student Darlehnskasse e.V.