Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein

What Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein does

Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein e.V. is a German non-profit youth education center (eingetragener Verein) founded in 1975 and operating from a heritage-protected 1907 building in Werneuchen, approximately 30 km northeast of Berlin. It functions as the federal education center (Bundesbildungsstätte) of the Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands – Die Falken (SJD – Die Falken) and delivers non-formal political education to children, adolescents, and young adults from Berlin and Brandenburg, as well as to international participants from European and Middle Eastern partner organizations. Service lines include week-long school seminars (grades 5–13 and vocational trainees), career orientation and application training (Praxis BO), international youth encounters and summer/winter schools, professional development for youth-work multipliers, and themed vacation programs (Rosa & Karl memorial weekend, Queer Easter, Kreativferien). The facility accommodates over 120 overnight guests and is also rented to external groups for their own events.

The core technology footprint is minimal: a public Drupal-based website (kurt-loewenstein.de) in German, English, Polish, and Easy German, plus a separate e-learning platform (elearning.kurt-loewenstein.de), a computer room, and a media lab (cameras, video editors) used for participant media production. There are no proprietary AI/ML systems, APIs, or software products; the externally provided services are website hosting (ALL-INKL.COM) and technical administration (chili interfaces, Berlin), with design by werk21. The organization does not sell software — it sells residential seminar capacity and educational programming.

The revenue model is a hybrid of program/participant fees and public grants. The center states that base funding (Grundfinanzierung) from the states of Berlin and Brandenburg is of particular significance, supplemented by project-based public and private grants and fees for seminars, accommodation, and facility rental. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; bookings are handled through a 'Belegungsanfrage' (occupancy inquiry) form. Distribution is primarily direct — long-standing school cooperations in Berlin and Brandenburg, international partner organizations, and the Falken movement network — with marketing via the website, Facebook, Instagram (two accounts), Twitter, and the AdB (Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten) publication network. The center employs 13 listed staff plus a freelance honorarium lecturer network and is led by Managing Director Christine Reich and Pedagogical Director Tim Scholz.

Name

Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein

Legal name

Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein e.V.

Website

https://kurt-loewenstein.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1975

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein is a German non-profit youth education center and the federal education facility of SJD – Die Falken, delivering political education seminars, career orientation, international youth exchanges, and vacation programs for students and apprentices from Berlin and Brandenburg.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Political Education Services

NAICS

All Other Schools and Instruction (61169), Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611), Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Third-Party Short-Term Academic Program Providers (Multi-Discipline) (EDAIAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Subject-Specific Short Courses & Academies (e.g., STEM, Business, Arts) (EDAIAIAC), Short-Term Student Housing (Summer/Intensive Programs) (EDAIALAF), Virtual/Hybrid International Short-Term Academic Programs (EDAIAIAL), Leadership, Debate & Model UN Camps (EDAMALAK), Student & Youth Educational Tours (THAKAGAA)

Keywords

• Political youth education
• Youth seminar services
• Career orientation seminars
• International youth exchange
• Non-formal education

Headquarters

HQ city

Werneuchen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Seminar and educational program fees: Revenue is generated through fees charged for seminars, educational programs, and overnight stays for groups using the facility. The organization offers both their own programs and rents the facility to external groups. As a nonprofit, they receive public funding subsidies.
2. Public funding and subsidies: Significant funding comes from public subsidies, particularly from the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, as well as other public and private funding bodies for specific educational projects. The organization states: 'We receive financial support from numerous public and non-public sources for our educational work. A special significance is the basic funding through the states of Berlin and Brandenburg.'

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein operates a youth education center (Bildungsstätte) offering week-long political education seminars for school students and apprentices from Berlin and Brandenburg, international youth encounters, professional development for youth workers, career orientation seminars, and vacation creative workshops for children and youth. The facility (accommodating over 120 overnight guests) is also available for rental to external groups running their own educational events.

Product overview

Jugendbildungsstätte Kurt Löwenstein operates as a federal education center (Bundesbildungsstätte) of the Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands – Die Falken, offering a comprehensive portfolio of non-formal political education services. The organization provides week-long seminars for students and apprentices from Berlin and Brandenburg, international youth exchanges with partner organizations across Europe and the Middle East, professional development trainings for youth workers, and vacation creative workshops for children and teenagers. Signature offerings include the annual Rosa & Karl commemorative weekend and Queer Easter seminar. The facility accommodates over 120 overnight guests and serves as both a provider of its own programs and a venue for external groups to conduct their own educational events.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wochenseminare mit Schüler*innen und Auszubildenden (Week-long seminars for students and apprentices) Week-long political education seminars for students and apprentices from Berlin and Brandenburg covering topics such as democracy and participation, media literacy, anti-prejudice education, gender roles, diversity, conflict resolution, and team development. Targeted at school classes and vocational training groups (Bildungsurlaub).
• Internationale Jugendbegegnungen (International youth encounters) International youth exchange programs (including summer and winter schools) with partner organizations from across Europe and the Middle East, enabling cross-cultural dialogue and political education. Approximately six international seminars are organized per year, bringing together more than 300 young people annually.
• Fortbildungen für Multiplikator*innen (Professional development for youth workers) Professional development trainings for youth workers, educators, and multipliers in youth organizations, covering topics such as global learning, conflict resolution, and pedagogical methods.
• Kreativferien / Ferienwerkstätten (Creative vacation programs) Vacation programs and creative workshops for children (ages 8-12) and youth (ages 13-18) during school holidays, including media camps, cultural summers, and themed creative workshops.
• Berufsorientierung und Bewerbungstrainings (Career orientation and application training) Career orientation seminars and application training programs for school students (e.g., 9th grade classes from Oberschule Premnitz and Oberschule Falkensee), helping them explore career paths and develop job-seeking skills.
• Schüler*innenvertretungs-Seminare (Student representative seminars) Training programs for student representatives (Schüler*innenvertretung) to develop leadership skills, democratic participation, and effective representation within schools.
• Medien-Seminare (Media seminars) Media literacy and digital education workshops teaching participants to create videos, podcasts, photography, and other media content using the on-site computer room, photography studio, and media production equipment.
• Rosa & Karl Gedenkwochenende (Rosa & Karl memorial weekend) Annual commemorative weekend honoring Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, featuring workshops on leftist movements and historical analysis. Held for 27 consecutive years.
• Queer Easter Seminar Annual queer liberation and working-class struggle seminar celebrating intersectionality and community building.
• Facility Rental for External Groups Rental of the heritage-protected education center (over 120 overnight beds, conference rooms, outdoor recreational facilities) to external groups — including youth organizations, school groups, choirs, orchestras, and other associations — for their own events and seminars.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 300 young people and young adults from Europe, Israel, and Palestine participate in international seminars annually
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• SJD – Die Falken (Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe organization is the federal education center (Bundesbildungsstätte) of the Socialist Youth Germany - Die Falken. This is the parent/organizing organization. The center conducts training for young volunteers, political events, and continuing education for full-time staff of youth associations under the Falken umbrella. The Falken movement's international network provides access to partner youth organizations across Europe and the Middle East.
• Schools in Berlin and BrandenburgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing cooperations with schools including Oberschule Falkensee, Oberschule Premnitz, Nibelungen Schule, Goetheoberschule Trebbin, Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Bad Freienwalde, Europaschule Werneuchen, and others. Programs include career orientation seminars (Praxis BO) and week-long school seminars.
• International Socialist and Social Democratic Youth OrganizationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with youth organizations from across Europe and the Middle East for international seminars, youth exchanges, and training programs. The center brings together over 300 young people annually from partner organizations in these regions for dialogue and political education.
• Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e.V. (AdB)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe organization is a member of the AdB (Working Group of German Educational Centers). Through this network, they participate in collaborative publications, annual reports (Politische Bildung stärkt die Demokratie!), and professional development. Christine Reich, the organization's managing director, serves on the AdB board.
• States of Berlin and BrandenburgcoreOthersPrimary public funders providing basic financing (Grundfinanzierung) for the organization's operations. The center also receives project funding from various other public and private funding bodies.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bundesarbeitskreis ARBEIT UND LEBEN: National association of political and vocational adult/youth education centers affiliated with the DGB; comparable as a multi-site provider of school seminars, Bildungsurlaub, and civic education programming.
• Europäische Akademie Berlin: Berlin-based education center focused on European political education, international youth encounters, and civic seminars; highly comparable in thematic focus and delivery format to Kurt Löwenstein's international seminar work.
• WannseeFORUM Berlin: Berlin-based political education center for youth and adults; directly comparable as an AdB member offering multi-day seminars, international encounters, and civic education programming in the same metro region.
• DGB Bildungswerk: Trade-union affiliated political and vocational education provider offering multi-day seminars and international youth encounters; overlaps with Kurt Löwenstein in target segments (apprentices, young workers, multipliers) and Bildungsurlaub offerings.
• IJAB – Fachstelle für Internationale Jugendarbeit: National coordinating body for international youth work in Germany; comparable in coordinating cross-border youth seminars, exchanges with European/Middle Eastern partners, and serving as a hub for the same international youth organizations.
• Bildungsstätte Schloss Rotenfels: Youth education center with accommodation facilities and seminar programming; comparable as a heritage-located Bildungsstätte running multi-day political/social education seminars for youth and school groups.
• Bildungswerk Hattingen: Non-formal political youth and adult education center and AdB member; closely comparable in mission, target groups (school classes, apprentices, multipliers), and seminar-based delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb): Federal agency for political education in Germany; a much larger incumbent that funds and sets standards for political youth education, with which Kurt Löwenstein competes and cooperates for project grants and curricular alignment.
• Politische Akademie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Social-democratic foundation's political education arm; operates at greater scale and broader geographic reach but with overlapping thematic focus on democratic participation, social democracy education, and youth programming.
• Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung – Bildungswerk: Green-affiliated political foundation with an education division; broader geographic footprint but overlapping mission in emancipatory civic education and youth engagement programming.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/JBSKurt
• Facebookfacebook.com/JBSKurtLoewenstein
• Instagraminstagram.com/jbs_kurtloewenstein
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jugendbildungsst-tte-kurt-l-wenstein

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Profiles10 records

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