You can find more information about the individual lectures here.
08.10.2025
Social work and National Socialism - Findings and perspectives of research
Prof.ìn Dr.ìn Carola Kuhlmann, Prof. Dr Ralph-Christian Amthor (Mönchengladbach)
Location: The Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach + online
15.10.2025
Ideology of the national community. On the social history of National Socialism
Prof. Dr em. Heinz Sünker (Wuppertal/Brighton)
Location: The Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach + online
CHANGE: The lecture will only take place online via Zoom.
22.10.2025
Implementation of social racist ideology in everyday care practice using the example of the Berlin care offices in the field of care for the vulnerable
Prof.'in Dr Esther Lehnert (Berlin)
Location: Alice Salomon University + online
29.10.2025
Youth welfare under National Socialism - social-racist interpretations of behavioural problems and their effects on the practical application of home education
Prof. Dr Carola Kuhlmann (Bochum)
Location: Protestant University Bochum + online
05.11.2025
Nazi psychiatric crimes and their relevance today
Prof. Dr Franz Werner Kersting (Münster)
Location: The Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach + online
12.11.2025
Forced sterilisation under National Socialism - the example of Mönchengladbach
Karl Boland (Mönchengladbach History Workshop)
Location: The Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach + online
19.11.2025
"Preservation" in the Nazi state - continuities of legal endeavours and practical applications of welfare "preservation" (Weimar - Nazi - FRG)
Prof. Dr Christa Paul (Hamburg)
Location: Alice Salomon University Berlin + online
26.11.2025
Jewish welfare and Jewish social work under conditions of societal and social exclusion - the Nazi era
Prof Dr Gerd Stecklina (Munich)
online event
03.12.2025
"Ethnic. Catholic. Anti-Nazi?" On the apprenticeship of social workers in the Nazi state using the example of the Social Women's School Aachen
Tim Ernst, M.A. (Aachen)
Location: The Hochschule Niederrhein Mönchengladbach + online
10.12.2025
Remembrance work on National Socialism in social work from 1945 to the present, perspectives on the future
Event as part of the 12th Human Rights Week Würzburg University of Applied Sciences
Reception of Nazi history in social work
Keynote speech by Thure Alting/Benny Momper (Spiegelbild e.V., Wiesbaden)
Followed by a panel discussion with the following guests:
Thure Alting and Benny Momper (Wiesbaden)
Prof.'in Dr Heike Radvan (Tübingen)
Prof.'in Dr Annette Eberle (Munich)
Prof.'in Dr Gabriele Fischer (Munich)
Dr Thomas Roth (Cologne)
Location: Würzburg University of Applied Sciences + online
17.12.2025
Social pedagogues and National Socialism: points of contact, lines of (dis)continuity, patterns of legitimisation
Prof. Dr em. Stefan Schnurr (Basel/Bielefeld)
online event
07.01.2026
"We are many and we were many. Resistance was not our thing" - on the role of professional organisations during National Socialism and the denazification of social work after 1945
Prof. Dr Christa Paulini (Würzburg)
Location: Würzburg University of Applied Sciences + online
14.01.2026
"We should have protested and revolted!" - Open questions and critical perspectives from socio-historical remembrance projects on resistance in social work
Prof. Dr Ralph-Christian Amthor (Würzburg)
Location: Würzburg University of Applied Sciences + online
21.01.2026
Learning/teaching education from history?
Prof. Dr Manfred Kappeler (Berlin)
Location: Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin + online
