Education

Question 1

What type of education existed pre-WW1 Germany?

Answer 1

• Lander provided kindergarten care for children 3-5.
• Working class went to Volkesschule.
• Most schools went to confessional schools.
• Social mobility was difficult.
• Had to pay for education after 14.

Question 2

What types of schools were set up under the Weimar Republic?

Answer 2

• Compulsory Grandschule for children 6-10 (run by the Lander)
• Common schools- took children of various faiths and taught them religion separately
• Confessional schools-faith schools- became free paying
• Secular schools- had no religious education

Question 3

What were the education articles?

Answer 3

Kept compulsory Grundschule but also kept religion and faith schools

Question 4

What did the government fail to introduce?

Answer 4

A Federal school law in 1925- Reichstag would not agree

Question 5

Who supported the ideas proposed in the Federal School law of having both secular and faith schools?

Answer 5

Reich Parents League

Question 6

Who opposed the ideas proposed in the Federal School law of having both secular and faith schools?

Answer 6

The Volkskirche Association for evangelical freedom

Question 7

How did education remain under the W. Republic?

Answer 7

Remained diverse: (in 1931)
•29,000 Protestant schools
•Just over 15,000 Catholic schools
•97 Jewish schools
•Over 8,000 common schools
•295 secular schools

Question 8

What education existed beyond the age of 10?

Answer 8

Fee-paying
•Hauptschule: went into trade/apprenticeships
•Realschule: business or technical training
•Gymnasium: went to university

Question 9

What exam did you have to pass to go to university?

Answer 9

Abitur exam

Question 10

What corporations existed in unis?

Answer 10

• Duelling corporations

* Non-duelling corporations

Question 11

Did W. Republic encourage the working class to go to university?

Answer 11

They wanted to but only 2.3% of students who went to university had middle class parents