Education Flashcards
School Law
1920
Ensured all Germans received a standard education for first 4 years
The Gymnasium
Most prestigious
Taught Latin, Greek and History
Realgymnasium
Curriculum merged gymnasia with subjects of the modern world
Oberrealschule
Focused on sciences, maths and modern languages
Aufbauschule
Provided gymnasium style education to poor children who can’t afford
Steiner schools
4 schools opened 1919-25
Teachers required to join Nationalist Socialist Teachers’ League
From 1933
Nazi teacher purges
20% of teachers in 1933
Adolf Hitler Schools
Enrolled largely working class and lower middle class
NAPOLAS
SS set up 39 NAPOLAS
educated future SS leadership
Proportion of school time devoted to PE
Increased 15%
Major Protestant youth groups merged with Nazi Organisations
1933
All non-Nazi organisations banned
1936
Membership of Nazi organisations made compulsory
1939
Membership of youth groups South vs North
South - less than half
North - 80%
Nazi legacy
Previous education geared towards indoctrination
Civil education made compulsory
1950
Teachers instructed to teach USSR and Nazi period
From 1962
US investment into re-education
$103 million 1945-48
$48 million 1948-52
Dusseldorf Agreement
1955
Deficiencies report
1978
Urged necessity of making education system more standardised
Number of comprehensive schools in Bavaria
1 by 1990
Number of comprehensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia
181 comprehensive
623 Gymnasia by 1990
Number of Unis emerged in FRG
1960s and 70s, 24
% of people who went Uni
7% in 1971
Increase in number of students in higher education
200,000 to 1.9 million 1960-92
Apprenticeships to Uni students
2:1
Enrolment increase 1977-92
75%
38% were women
