The Alice-Salomon-Archives in Berlin

Abstract

The Alice-Salomon-Archives started with the administrative archives of the Soziale Frauenschule founded in 1908 by Alice Salomon (1872–1948). Predecessors of the two-year courses at the school for social work were the one year social training courses for women that had begun in 1899. The Alice-Salomon-School is the oldest school for social work in Germany. It developed into a center of the social engagement of the women’s movement and was the cradle of professional social work. It was here that the German Academy for Social and Educational Women’s Work was founded in 1925, dissolved in 1933, and where women were qualified for social leadership and teaching positions and where a center for family research was founded. Here finally was the bureau of the German Conference of Schools for Social Work (since 1917) and the International Association of Schools for Social Work (since 1929). In the Alice-Salomon-Archives you can find:

• files, documents and other material of the Soziale Frauenschule since 1900

• papers of the Conference of German Schools for Social Work since 1917

• papers of the International Association of Schools for Social Work since 1929

• files of the German Academy for Social and Educational Women’s Work, 1925–1933

• students’ lists of the schools of Anna v. Gierke, 1898–1934.