Education Weimar Republic

Question 1

What type of schools were set up under the WR?

Answer 1

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 fee paying.
Secular schools-had no religious education

Question 2

What were the education articles

Answer 2

Kept compulsory Grandschule but also kept religion and faith schools

Question 3

What did the government fail to introduce

Answer 3

A federal law in 1925-Reichstag would not agree

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Reich Parents League

Question 5

How did education remain under the WG

Answer 5

Remained diverse 29’000 Protestant schools, just over 15’000 Catholic schools, 97 Jewish schools, over 8’000 common schools and 295 secular schools in 1931

Question 6

What education existed beyond the age of 10

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What exam did you have to pass to go university

Answer 7

Abitur Exam

Question 8

What corporations existed in universities

Answer 8

Duelling corporations

non-duelling corporations

Question 9

Did WR encourage more w/c to go to university

Answer 9

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