Soziale Frauenschule was the name given to certain educational institutions that emerged in Germany between the turn of the century and the beginning of the 1920s. In the course of the

women's movement The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement, or feminism) refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by the inequality between men and women. Such is ...

, they pursued the goal of vocational training for women in the welfare care sector. Another aim was to overcome the hardship of the First World War, which particularly affected women, who were to be supported by qualified female staff.Klaus Burger: ''Prüfende Strenge statt blinder Weichherzigkeit. On the history of poverty and social institutions in Freiburg'' in Heiko Haumann, Hans Schadek (eds.): ''Geschichte der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau,'' vol. 3, Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, , The first Sociale Frauenschule (Social Women's School) was established as a further development of a training school for kindergarten teachers in Berlin in 1908, founded by

Alice Salomon Alice Salomon (19 April 1872, in Berlin – 30 August 1948, in New York City) was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the ''Deutsche Bundespost'' (G ...

, who also directed the school. It offered a broad two-year training with theoretical and practical parts side by side. The teachers came from the environment of the health department and welfare office and initially taught voluntarily. By the First World War, there were 14 women's social schools in Germany.Peter Hammerschmidt (et al.): ''Der Weg zur Sozialarbeit: Von der Armenpflege bis zur Konstituierung des Wohlfahrtsstaates in der Weimarer Republik''. In Werner Thole (ed.)''Grundriss Soziale Arbeit. Ein einführendes Handbuch'', p. 1033, p. 80 Examples of such facilities:

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