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The second part of the album is headed Ausbildungsstätten. It shows the
social work projects and institutions that were used in the practical training of
students of the Alice Salomon School. Each of the following ten pages presents
one project or institution. At first you see a photo that may well be familiar,
as it has been reproduced in various publications (figure 25). It depicts the
first club of female workers, founded in Berlin in 1898. In contrast to the first
part of the album, the photos of the projects are commented upon and signed
(figure 26). 7 First the pages as a whole will be examined so that you can get an
overview. Then one of the photos will be elaborated upon.
On the second page you see a situation in the office of the Private Charity
Organisation Society (Zentrale für private Fürsorge). It is also a picture from the
1920s, albeit the society had been founded in 1893 under the name Gesellschaft
für Ethische Kultur (Society for Ethical Culture). It was one of the cradles of
social work in Germany. 8 Its director, until 1920, was Albert Levy, a lecturer
at the Soziale Frauenschule as we have already seen (figure 27). The next photo
also relates to this society and shows young women, perhaps students, studying
the files of the Welfare Archives (figure 28). Its longstanding chairwoman was
Siddy Wronsky, who was also a teacher at the Soziale Frauenschule (see figure
13).
The fourth project, the Verein Jugendheim Charlottenburg, a well-known
social education and training project, which had been founded in 1896 with
Anna von Gierke as its head, organised among other things the first social
services in public schools. The association was liquidated by the National
Socialists in 1934 (figure 29). The following photo shows the opening of a new
Fröbel Kindergarten in a working-class district in the eastern part of Berlin,
another institution where students were trained (figure 30).
Next we are shown a rather different type of institution, namely the
welfare service of the Central Youth Office of the Berlin Police Headquarters
(figure 31). The next photo was also taken of the police, the newly founded
female police force (figure 32).
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“The Club of Female Workers was one of the first places where socially active women came together with female
workers to celebrate and live together. Here the students could get an insight into the life of women of the working
classes, their joys and miseries, and learned to understand the nature of this life. Anna Misch“. S[idonie]Wronsky,
„Alice Salomon. Erinnerungsbuch im Auftrage einer Reihe von Mitarbeitern und Freunden,“ (annotated photo
album, 1929, Alice Salomon Archiv, Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin): 9
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Adriane Feustel and Heidi Koschwitz, „Die Zwillingswiege Sozialer Arbeit in Berlin“, Soziale Arbeit 57, no.10/11
(2008): 371-382.
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