Objectives and tasks

The members of the Association of German Family Organisations (AGF) e.V. are The AGF campaigns for the rights and interests of families in politics and society. It promotes dialog between the associations and the special-interest groups of the family and those responsible in family policy. In addition, the AGF supports the cooperation of the family-policy active organizations on a national […]

AGF members

The members of the Association of German Family Organisations (AGF) e.V. are

Deutscher Familienverband

Deutscher Familienverband (German Family Association)

The German Family Association (DFV) is a national alliance of families, whose interests it represents on the communal, i.e. national and federal level. It is non partisan and not tied to any religion and membership is open to all families in Germany and all those interested in the welfare of the family. It was founded in 1922 as the first […]

evangelische arbeitsgemeinschaft familie

evangelische arbeitsgemeinschaft familie (eaf) (Protestant Working Group Family)

The Protestant Working Group Family (eaf) is a collaboration of protestant social institutions, associations and national working groups, who engage themselves with the concerns and requirements of families. The purpose of this collaboration is the collective advising and representation of social, economical, legal, pedagogic and ethical questions in family policy as well as the furtherance of family advice, education and […]

Logo Familienbund der Katholiken

Familienbund der Katholiken (FDK) (The Catholic Family Association)

In 1953, nationwide more than a half a million catholic families collaborated to form an interest and action committee: The Catholic Family Association (FDK). The ideal behind this collaboration was and remains today the conviction that in society families can and must actively participate and undertake responsibility, in order to receive the necessary ideals and material recognition. The Catholic Family […]

Verband alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter

Verband alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter (VAMV) (Association for Single Parents)

The Association for Single Parents (VAMV) was founded in 1967, in the schwabian Herrenberg, by Luise Schöffel as an association of single mothers. Today approximately 9.000 members nationwide promote the interests of over 2 million single parent families, from families therefore, in which, single, separated, divorced or widowed parents live with their children. It also deals with the claims of […]

Zukunftsforum Familie

Zukunftsforum Familie (ZFF) (Forum for Progressive Family Policy)

The Zukunftsforum Familie e.V. / Forum for Progressive Family Policy (ZFF) was founded in 2002 on the initiative of the Workers’ Welfare Association (AWO) as a family policy association. Since then, the ZFF has been working on behalf of our members to ensure that family policy is oriented toward solidarity-based and democratic goals and does justice to all generations, population […]