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The History of Caritas in Germany
9 November 1897: Werthmann Founds the German Caritas Association In the 19th century, Catholic social political advocates who had been calling for a centralised Catholic welfare association finally found the dynamic personality to create such an organisation in the young priest Lorenz Werthmann.
Lorenz Werthmann - Wikipedia
Werthmann founded the Charitas-Comité (Charitas Committee) in Freiburg in 1895 and thus paved the way for the Charitasverband für das katholische Deutschland (Charitas Association for Catholic Germany), which he founded in Cologne on 9 November 1897. The new association soon began to offer help to many people in need: seasonal workers, sailors, vagabonds, alcoholics, people with physical and mental disabilities and people with sexually transmitted diseases.
It also provided childcare, corrective training for youths, protection for girls, nursing for the ill and women's services.