Gesundheitsfürsorge
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Evangelischen Krankenhausverbandes 1. 1927 – 2. 1928,
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Gesundheitsfürsorge der Inneren Mission 2. 1928, 9/10 – 3. 1929
Gesundheitsfürsorge 4. 1930 – 12. 1938
Evangelische Gesundheitsfürsorge 13. 1939 – 15. 1941
(Social Welfare; 3)
4,790 pages on 76 microfiches
2004, ISBN 3-89131-457-4
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Journal of the Protestant Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Specialist journals came into being for each area of engagement with the creation of specialist organisations within protestant welfare work. The new laws on welfare work brought into being by the Weimar Republic gave a strong impulse to specialisation and the creation of organisations within the field of welfare work. Towards the end of the twenties more than one hundred national specialist organisations for the diverse areas within the protestant social and missionary work gathered together under the auspicious of the Central-Ausschuß für Innere Mission. Amongst the important organisations, the ones who strove upwards most strongly were the groups in the area of health care.
The organisations for work with the handicapped, youth care, old age care, hospitals and institutional mental health grouped together under the leadership of the German Protestant Hospital Association to form the General Organisation for Protestant Hospitals and Nursing Homes in 1928. The management was in the energetic hands of the head of the health care section of the Central-Ausschuß für Innere Mission, Hans Harmsen, the leading eugenicist and demograph working within the protestant church. Harmsen expanded the information sheet of the Hospital Organisation, which had been existence since 1927, into an organ for the General Organisation, which was an acknowledged specialist journal. According to the editor in 1936 the journal «discusses the protestant standpoint to general question of health care and question of all sorts concerning institutions, in particular the problems of patients, doctors, psychologists and nurses» .It also included reports about the organisations and their institutions.
Above all the journal documented the changes in eugenics and racial politics within German health care from the protestant viewpoint. Since the grouping together, in 1935, under the title Der öffentliche Gesundheitsdienst of diverse small non-denominational specialist journals, the Evangelische Gesundheitsfürsorge (the name imposed by the state since 1939) provided the general opposition to the party controlled specialist periodical. Like other church journals it was forced to cease publication in summer 1941.