Online catalog for the exhibition 75 Years of Social Work in Dortmund
The exhibition "75 Years of Social Work in Dortmund" focuses on the professionalization and academization of social work over the last 75 years. It spans an arc from the founding of the Youth Welfare School for Men and the Higher Technical School for Youth Leaders and their pioneering roles in the immediate post-war period, through the integration of both technical schools into the newly founded Fachhochschule Dortmund in 1970/1972, to the study situation in the field of social work at the Fachhochschule Dortmund today. What was the social background, how has education changed and what has shaped student life over the last 75 years?
A project with students from Fachhochschule Dortmund by Claudia Streblow-Poser(Opens in a new tab) and Stefan Poser(Opens in a new tab)
Speech by the founding director of the Social Pedagogical Seminary
From a speech by the founding director of the Social Pedagogical Seminar (1952) and the Youth Welfare School for Men (1948), Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, on the institution's tenth anniversary:
"Dortmund's social welfare office, to which the youth welfare office was affiliated, had ... only two employees [out of 400 employees] [with] a background in social education in 1947."
"In view of this [post-war] situation, I recognized it as one of the most urgent needs to train young social pedagogues who had the inner ability to work on the hugely increased tasks."
"In order ... to be able to start work in a large working-class district, I decided on the Ruhr area and especially Dortmund ... [which] was closest to the University of Münster ... In my preparations, I found the active support of the city administration of Dortmund, which at that time was focused on making the city a center of social endeavors."
Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze: Ten years ago. A reminiscence of the time when the Social Pedagogical Seminar was founded. In: Das Seminar, No. 4, October 1958: 1-7, 2.
Exhibition project 75 years of social work in Dortmund
We would like to thank graduates, teachers and colleagues for interviews and support:Tahereh Agha, Marie-Luise Bergmann, Franz Bergschneider, Angelika Cottmann, Silvia Denner, Georg Deventer, Richard Günder, Peter Kirchhoff, Uli Kowol, Markus Kreis, Helmut Linnenbank, Lilli Neumann, Frank Maier, Barbara Morgenthaler, Katja Nowacki, Melanie Oechler, Manuela Ovoz, Thurid Pörksen, Wilhelm Seehase, Baldur Schruba, Christine Spiegel, Johannes Weissinger, Annika Zemke
Design of the exhibition: Christof Becker(Opens in a new tab)
Internet presentation: Michel Boße(Opens in a new tab)
Student assistants: Ramadan Alkhalaf, Sabrina Blendermann, Raphael Blömers, Helin Düsünmez, Felix Frenz, Marios Miaris, Sabine Mürköster, Emma Neff, Emilia Patron, Jan-Christoph Waibel
Project management: Stefan Poser and Claudia Streblow-Poser
