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Welfare service of the Protestant Church in Germany26
• Members are the social welfare organizations maintained by the 24 United Prot-
estant, Reformed and Lutheran state churches, members of the Protestant Church
in Germany, 9 free churches with their social welfare facilities and a variety of
some 90 professional associations.
• Together they represent 27.300 independent establishments with more than 1
million places.
• 452.200 employees (full- or part-time).
Association of Non-affiliated Charities
DER PARITÀTISCHE
Gesamtverband
• This organization is grouping independent organizations, establishments and
bodies active in social work. It supports and represents 10.000 member organiza-
tions in 15 regional associations and over 280 district offices.27
• 169.900 employees are working in 24.000 establishments.28
⅝y⅜√y Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle
Central Welfare Agency of the Jews in Germany29 ιwsr der juden ⅛ Dwtκh∣α∏d
100.000 members in 17 Jewish regional associations, 6 independent Jewish local con-
gregations with 100 Jewish communities (2008: appr. 108.000 members) and the Jewish
Womens Association (1000 members). 50 employees.
The central organizations of Voluntary Welfare are organized in a peak association and
work together within the framework of the Federal Association or Consortium of Vol-
untary Welfare (Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege - BAGFW).
These organizations were founded in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and
look back over a long tradition.30
• 1848: Appeal to create the Central Committee for the Home Missions of the
German Protestant Church, the precursor of todays welfare services.
• 1866: Creation of the Patriotic Ladies' associations of the Red Cross, the precur-
sors of the German Red Cross.
• 1897: Creation of the Caritas Association for Catholic Germany.
• 1917: Creation of the Central Welfare Agency of the German Jews.
• 1919 : Creation of the Workers' Welfare Service.
26 State: 2002: Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft 2004: 9.
27 State:2009: Paritatischer Wohlfahrtsverband 2009.
28 State: 2002: Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft 2004: 9.
29 ZWST 2009.
30 BAGFW 2003: 25.