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The follow<strong>in</strong>g photos depict three broadly health-related projects. The<br />
first represents an advisory service for the education of children and young<br />
people with <strong>in</strong>tellectual disabilities, offered by a welfare society for young<br />
people with <strong>in</strong>tellectual or psychological disabilities and also founded <strong>in</strong> the<br />
1920s (figure 33). The next one shows a scene at a social service <strong>in</strong> a hospital.<br />
Based on the U.S. model, this was started <strong>in</strong> 1913/14 (figure 34). The last one<br />
depicts Dr. Neumann‘s K<strong>in</strong>derhaus, the earliest hospital for children and <strong>in</strong>fants<br />
<strong>in</strong> Berl<strong>in</strong>, founded <strong>in</strong> 1896 (figure 35).<br />
In the follow<strong>in</strong>g I give a summary of the second part of the photo album:<br />
At the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g there are five photos of the oldest projects of modern<br />
professional social work <strong>in</strong> Germany, these are followed by pictures of newer<br />
projects which were founded or established around the time of World War I<br />
and <strong>in</strong> the years of the Weimar Republic, and f<strong>in</strong>ally we are shown another<br />
early project. Each of these can be characterised as a pioneer project <strong>in</strong> its field,<br />
which means that they were important for the development of social work<br />
<strong>in</strong> two senses: first through their practice and secondly by their tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g of<br />
students for social work. On the other hand – and this is especially <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g<br />
for the early years – these projects were <strong>in</strong>fluenced and developed by women<br />
who were study<strong>in</strong>g social work or had studied it – often at the school of Alice<br />
Salomon.<br />
To put it <strong>in</strong> concrete terms: the founder and chairwoman of the Welfare<br />
Society for Young Psychopaths (Vere<strong>in</strong> zur Fürsorge für jugendliche Psychopathen)<br />
was Ruth Ida von der Leyen (1888–1935). She had attended the<br />
Soziale Frauenschule <strong>in</strong> 1912/13, was subsequently tra<strong>in</strong>ed by Frieda Duens<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong> youth welfare, and then she herself tra<strong>in</strong>ed students of the school, also later<br />
lectur<strong>in</strong>g at the school. She wrote the text for the album (figure 36). 9 Heide<br />
9<br />
“The consult<strong>in</strong>g centre for remedial education of the German Welfare Society for Young Psychopaths served as<br />
a tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g centre for the <strong>in</strong>troduction of students of the welfare school [i.e. the Soziale Frauenschule] to the work<br />
with psychopathic children. In this special branch of youth welfare, they should learn: the importance, <strong>in</strong> the case of<br />
every s<strong>in</strong>gle child, of tak<strong>in</strong>g his or her personality, education and the environment <strong>in</strong>to consideration; the manner <strong>in</strong><br />
which abnormal traits become apparent <strong>in</strong> a child’s behaviour; and how all these aspects are to be taken <strong>in</strong>to consideration<br />
for any suitable educational measure. – In practice, the students, apart from their participat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> consultation<br />
hours and subsequent care, were tra<strong>in</strong>ed dur<strong>in</strong>g ‘play afternoons’ to observe psychopathic children, to deal with them<br />
and to understand the difficulties to which a psychopathic child is exposed <strong>in</strong> the community. Ruth Ida v.d. Leyen”.<br />
Wronsky, „Alice Salomon“, 16.<br />
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