Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland
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Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland | |
Abbreviation | ASB |
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Formation | 1888 |
Headquarters | Cologne |
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Services | First aid, First aid training, Elderly care, Emergency medical services, and Social work |
Membership | 1.1 million |
President | Franz Müntefering |
Federal President | Knut Fleckenstein |
Federal Minister | Georg Scholz |
Staff | 33,000 |
Volunteers | 16,000 |
Website | www |
Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland or ASB (English: Workers' Samaritan Foundation Germany) is a German charitable aid agency founded in 1888.[1]
History
The
In the summer of 1881, the German surgeon Friedrich von Esmarch (1823-1908) met St John's Ambulance Association leadership in London and founded a Samaritan school on his return to Germany. Numerous notes from the German-Samaritan-Federation were subsequently issued; however, they were directed primarily to senior health officials and were inclusive of the broad mass of workers.
In 1888, six carpenters in Berlin took the initiative and set up the first course on the First Aid in the event of a disaster on 29 November 1888, and founded the first column of what would become the Workers' Samaritan Federation Germany. Soon these courses became a regular commitment of the association, which changed its name in 1895 to "Samariterkursus für Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen" (Samaritan courses for workers).
In 1909, 11 Samaritan workers columns joined forces to form the Workers' Samaritan League at a founding meeting in Magdeburg. The first seat of the federation was Berlin. In 1923, two chemist Samaritans, Theodor Kretzschmar and Eugen Richter, were elected as Federal Councilor and Federal Treasurer of the ASB. This meant the relocation of the ASB's headquarters to Chemnitz. In Herchen, the ASB operated a recreation centre during this period. In 1933 about 48,000 members of the ASB were active in 1,510 columns.[2][3]
After the
After 1945, in the
See also
References
- ^ "Short History ASB Germany". ASB Office for South Eastern Europe. Archived from the original on 29 January 2015.
- ISBN 978-0-87322-874-9
- ^ Beckmanns Sportlexikon. A-Z. Otto Beckmann, Vienna 1933, column 164 f.
- ^ V, ASB Landesverband Berlin e. "Die Wiedergründung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg". ASB Berlin :| (in German). Retrieved 22 August 2022.