Education in the Weimar Republic Flashcards
What was the aim of post war education under the socialists?
- Wanted a newer and fairer education system
- A mixture of state schools, a non-confessional intake and no religious education
What was the compulsory Grundschule set up for kids aged 6-10, who approved and who disapproved?
- School without clerical inspection and where parents could remove kids from religious education
- Northern Länder approved
- Southern Länder disapproved
What party caused lots of disagreements surrounding education?
- The Centre Party
- They wished to retain religious education and others did not
- Länder allowed them to run it locally
What bill was proposed in 1927 and who opposed and who supported it?
- A bill proposed that confessional, common and secular schools should be set up on equal footing if requested by at least 40 parents
- Had support from the Reichs parents league
- Opposition from the Volkskirche association for evangelical freedom
- Bill was never passed
How did compulsory education remain diverse in Weimar? GIVE STATS
1931
- 29,000 professional schools
- Over 15,000 Catholic Schools
- 97 Jewish Schools
- 8921 Common schools
- 295 Secular Schools
Beyond the age of 10 children had to in paid education, what is a Haptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium?
- Haptschule, 5 years schooling followed by entering a trade/apprenticeship
- Realschule, 6 years schooling followed by entering business/technical training
- Gymnasium, 9 years schooling, followed by university
CAREER DECIDED AT AGE 10
What did the 1928 survey of the fathers of uni students reveal?
- 45% were civil servants, 21% of whom were university educated
- Only 2.3% were working class
- ONLY the rich could access university
What did Weimar’s constitutional principle of freedom result in universities having?
- ‘Corporations’ which formed nationwide associations
What university corporation was popular amongst the wealthy?
- ‘Duelling’ Corporations where differences were settled by a sword fight and were popular w sons of wealthy landowners
- Non-duelling corporations were seen as inferior
How many university students were a part of a corporation and why?
- 1928, 56% of students were a part of a corporation
- Membership was important as this could affect career prospects
What was the name of a racial exclusive corporation?
- the German-Aryan Chambers
- Some were exclusive cause of race and social class
