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The Friends of Waldorf Education (''Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners e. V.''), referred to as the “Friends” below, is an charity association founded in 1971 registered in Stuttgart, Germany. The Association fosters initiatives all over the world for a free education and organisations that work on the basis of Waldorf education. As umbrella organisation for the German government-sponsored Voluntary Services, the Association places approximately 1000 volunteers per year both inside Germany and internationally. The branch “Crisis or Emergency Education” of the Friends of Waldorf Education carries out international War and Catastrophe assistance for traumatised children and young people since 2006. ==History== in 1969, Waldorf education celebrated the 50th anniversary of its establishment and was expanding increasingly throughout the world. In order to bring together a group of people who would support the growing school movement both ideally and financially, Ernst Weissert founded the Friends of Waldorf Education on 10 October 1971. Ernst Weissert himself did not stand for membership of the Executive, leaving this task to his closest assistant and second member, Dr. Manfred Leist. Other members of the Executive were Günter Ziegenbein (member of the Board of the Waldorf school in the Kräherwald, Stuttgart), and Armin Scholter, the administrator of the same school. This guaranteed a secure existence for the Association. Many former students of the Waldorf school, Uhlandshöhe became members and have, to a great extent, remained so until today. Both Ernst Weissert and Manfred Leist had, however, other pressing tasks in building up the German school’s movement and within the leadership of the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen, so that there was little time left over for this Association. In 1976, certain former Waldorf students had the idea of founding a Worldwide School’s Association. Ernst Weissert took up this intention and offered them the Association Friends of Waldorf Education as a legal entity. Andreas Büttner, Nana Göbel and Justus Wittich were elected onto the Executive in November 1978, Günther Ziegenbein and Armin Scholter withdrew. The Association was renamed “Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners” (Friends of the Art of Education of Rudolf Steiner). Under the guidance of the new Executive, the international support and networking activity was built up, amongst others with the newly founded International Aid Fund. In 1994 the Friends were invited by UNESCO to attend the International Education Conference in Geneva in order to present Waldorf Education before an international public. This co-work with UNESCO continued and in May 2001 the Friends of Waldorf Education established official relations with UNESCO.〔Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners (Hrsg.): ''Waldorfpädagogik weltweit.'' Berlin, 2001, S. 12–17.〕 Today the Association employs about 90 co-workers and has two branches, one in Berlin and another in Karlsruhe In the Executive of the Association are Nana Göbel, Bernd Ruf, Henning Kullak-Ublick and Andreas Schubert. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friends of Waldorf Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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