Berno Foundation

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The Bernostiftung - Catholic Foundation for Schools and Education in Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein was established in 2006 as a church foundation under public law in the Archdiocese of Hamburg. The foundation supports all Catholic schools and their after-school care centers in the Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein region of the Archdiocese of Hamburg .

Purpose of the foundation and namesake

The purpose of the foundation is to promote the Catholic school system as well as the education and upbringing of children and adolescents in a Christian way of life and global responsibility on the basis of the Catholic faith. It achieves this purpose in particular through

  • Institution and sponsorship,
  • Administration and support as well
  • Promotion of Catholic schools and other educational institutions for children and young people in Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

The foundation is named after Bishop Berno († January 14, 1191), the first bishop in the Schwerin diocese . It regards the Christian image of the human being as the basis of the educational work of its institutions. In addition to qualified training, the personal development of children and young people is therefore equally important. The willingness to assume responsibility in society should be encouraged during school days. The foundation has been managed by the foundation director Thomas Weßler since it was founded. It is based in the state capital Schwerin .

history

The history of the schools in Mecklenburg was very eventful. In Mecklenburg, after the Reformation, it was foreigners and newcomers who wanted their children to have an education in their own confession. The first school was founded in Schwerin in 1735 and another in Ludwigslust in 1853 . Both schools were reluctantly tolerated by the majority society. In the Weimar democracy , the Catholic school system experienced a brief heyday , not least due to further new foundations in Neustrelitz in 1924 and Rostock in 1929. The National Socialists put an end to the promising development of the school system. All schools were banned by arbitrary acts in 1938/39 and had to stop operating. Even under the new rulers after the end of the war, attempts to reestablish themselves were prevented. It was only in 1994 that the long school tradition could be continued with the Niels Stensen School in Schwerin. The Don Bosco School in Rostock followed in 1998 and the Edith Stein School in Ludwigslust in 2007. The resumption of school operations initially took the form of a primary school with after-school care . The schools in Rostock and Schwerin were expanded to include regional schools and grammar schools in 2005 and 2006 , respectively.

There were also Catholic schools in Schleswig-Holstein, all of which were closed by the National Socialists. The Johannes Prassek School in Lübeck from 1850, which was reopened for the 2011/12 school year, was unlawfully closed by the National Socialists in 1938. The school building at the parade by the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was bombed and destroyed in 1942.

In June 2020, representatives of the Archdiocese of Hamburg announced that it would take over the schools of the Bernostiftung in Schwerin and Rostock on its own. The Board of Trustees opposed this.

Schools and after-school care centers

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bernostiftung press release: No reason to give up sponsorship , June 9, 2020, accessed on June 15, 2020.