Die Fürsorge
Die Fürsorge Berlin 1. 1924 – 2. 1925
Zeitschrift für alle Zweige der öffentlichen und freien Wohlfahrtspflege
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wohlfahrtspflege 1. 1925/26, April – 20. 1944/45
Supplement: Das Fürsorgerecht. 1. 1932/33
(Social Welfare; 6)
12,570 pages on 146 microfiches
2005, ISBN 3-89131-469-8
Diazo negative: EUR 880.– / Silver negative: EUR 1065.–
In 1924 the Weimar Republic placed the public and independent welfare onto a new and solid legal footing with the Reichsjugendwohlfahrtsgesetz (National Youth Welfare Law) and the Fürsorgepflicht-Verordnung (Obligatory Welfare Regulation). This led to the publication of the journal Die Fürsorge, to which prominent social workers contributed articles on all branches of public and non-statutory welfare. This professional journal only appeared from May 1924 until December 1925 when it was absorbed by the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wohlfahrtspflege which was established in April 1925. In the first years, the editors were Dr. Oskar Karstedt (senior officer in the National Ministry of Internal Affairs) and Siddy Wronsky (Director Archiv für Wohlfahrtspflege, the predecessor of the Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen), who had already previously published in the Fürsorge.
In his introduction to the new journal Karstedt explained that after the discontinuations of the journal Concordia and the Zeitschrift für Armenwesen (Journal for Poor Relief) it was fundamentally necessary to establish a large and totally independent journal for welfare work. Regarding to this foreword, the main aim readership were not only the people practically engaged in this area, but also the trainees, of whom more and more found their way to social work during the Weimar Republic.
The structure of this journal, which appeared up till autumn 1944, matched the concept for the Fürsorge. Several articles on the fields of public and non-statutory welfare were followed by an overview with longer and shorter reports from areas of practical experience (general, health care, care for the morally endangered, workers and company welfare), an events diary, a bibliography of journals, book reviews and legal explanations to simplify the implementation of new legal principles.
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Wohlfahrtspflege was a well founded platform for professional, academic, practical and theoretical discussion by 1933. The independence in word and print written large on the publisher’s banner was lost however through the seize of power by the National Socialists. Wronsky was removed from her functions as Manager of the Archive for Welfare and as editor. Shortly after this she emigrated to Palestine. Her successor Dr. Sophie Quast had her joint editorship of the journal withdrawn by the Ministry responsible already in October 1934. The editorship was exercised by the Office for National Welfare at the Reichs Leadership of the NSDAP, the Reichs Ministry of the Interior and the Deutcher Gemeindetag. (German Council of Local Authorities). As a semi-official organ the journal continued to exist till shortly before the end of the war and documented the radicalising, authoritarian view of völkisch social care.