Mehrgenerationenhaus in der AWOthek

The Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) is a welfare organisation with a special character among the associations of independent welfare work due to its history and its socio-political self-image.

It was founded in 1919 by Maria Juchacz, an SPD member of the Reichstag, as the main committee for workers' welfare within the Social Democratic Party. As part of the workers' movement, it was banned by the Nazis in 1933, their functionaries were persecuted and arrested. After the war it was refounded as an independent association.