Society for Social Progress (German)

Translated from an original article in the German language Wikipedia.

The Society for Social Progress e. V. is a German membership organization based in Cologne that grew out of the earlier Society for Social Reform. Hans Mermann Freiherr von Verlepsch, Theodor Lohmann and Robert Bosse were all members, and Verlepsch was a founder. This association was founded in 1901, and was an important and influential social reform organization during the German Empire (which ended in 1918 with the abdication of the Emperor) and the Weimar Republic (1918-1932). Today, the society presents itself as a forum for open, independent discussion of private charity in the field of social policy. Its addresses all areas of social policy and social change including labor markets, social security systems, and more recently European integration.[1] Membership of the society consists of a diverse group from BDA, DGB, associations of voluntary welfare, the German federal states, national government ministries, social security agencies, companies and individual members. The society holds public conferences and runs working groups for its members. In Cologne, its offices are located on the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau.

History

The origins of the Society lie in the time of Bismarck and in the union of social reformers around the Prussian trade minister Hans Freiherr von Berlepsch, who resigned from the government in 1896 in a dispute over policy. As an outlet for their ideas, this group took over the journal Soziale Praxis (Social Practice)/i> in 1897 . The focus of these and other German social reformers at that time was strongly on workers 'protection and workers' rights. In 1901 the " International Association for Statutory Workers Protection " was founded in Paris (among others by von Berlepsch, Gustav Schmoller and Werner Sombart). That same year the newly founded international organization set up the International Labor Office in Basel, Switzerland. In a later reorganization, the group became the [[International Labor Organization] (ILO), headquartered in Geneva.